Given what I have learnt this week about about the importance of sleep to learning, to our well-being, it’s omission from past revision sessions and assemblies as a key strategy was a mistake. Here is why. The World Health Organisation …
Consolidation of learning this week. First up, a discussion of long term retrieval. Working memory networks activated…”check.” Students engaged… “check.” Learning is happening, however, as we have learnt, our working memory networks are limited and the information held here is …
I am trying very hard to keep pace. I am not sure 9pm is the best time to start studying? Week 3 is all about building of knowledge and understanding. We know that anxiety prevents our frontal cortex from being able …
So we are onto Week 2 of this FutureLearn course. Week 2: Engagement for learning Before we start this weeks tasks, I want to propose that students can be engaged in the task or activity, that does not ensure that …
FutureLearn aims to help everyone fulfil their potential in a changing world, by transforming access to education. FutureLearn is an amazing learning repository. Built upon a beautifully clean, beautifully simple learning platform, FutureLearn presents high quality content and discussion to facilitate learning, …
Cognitive load theory was recently described by British educationalist Dylan Wiliam as ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’ (Wiliam 2017). My longest ever blog post title is not a professed assertion, rather a quote from Dylan Wiliam. …
I don’t wish to waste your time. My Linkedin profile provides a professional overview: experience, qualifications, honours, awards and endorsements. Furthermore, this blog provides a record of my teaching and education leadership thinking since 2007 (and a few minor explorations). …
Teens wearing a single ear bud, teens sharing ear buds, using both ear buds… simply the prevalence of teens listening to something, whilst doing something else, is now culture. It is why quite a few teens and pupils generally, are …
