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Conversation with Doug Lemov Last week I had the good fortune to speak to Doug Lemov about reading habits, Keats, phones, memory, learning, creativity, music and more. You can listen to the conversation here
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One of the most damaging things I heard in my first few years of teaching was the notion that if they kids were misbehaving in a lesson then it was my fault as I hadn’t planned my lessons to properly engage them. Advice offered to me at the time (2006) was not to outline some…
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Please join us on Thursday 3 Jun, 16:30 – 18:00 (BST) where Paul and I will be giving a webinar on the first section of our book. Find out more here. How Learning Happens: How Does Our Brain Work? Thu 3 Jun 2021 16:30 – 18:00 (BST) Professor Paul A. Kirschner Dr. Carl Hendrick Online…
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One of the difficulties with determining what is effective in a classroom is that very often, what looks like it should work does not and vice versa. Take, for example, the notion of engagement. On the surface, this would seem like a necessary condition for learning. However, there is some evidence that it may not…
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Originally posted on Exploring Education: This is a satisfyingly thick book with short chapters allowing one to dip in and out without losing track. The title is rather cool, and I can imagine producing it with a flourish in the staff room to impress colleagues. Sadly though, in my experience most will not be particularly…
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Paul and I were recently interviewed by Ulrich Boser from the Learning Agency. You can read the full interview here: https://www.the-learning-agency-lab.com/the-learning-curve/how-learning-happens
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Originally posted on How then should we teach?: Sometimes you read books that change things. This book about seminal works is seminal in itself. It might be assumed it is just no more than a summary of important psychological research for teachers organised nicely and illustrated in a sophisticated way. It would be good and…
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Almost two years ago, I was asked by Professor Paul Kirschner to write a book with him. The original title was ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’ and the basic premise was to discuss what we felt were the most foundational works in education psychology and present them to educators in a way that would…
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Delighted to announce that the American edition of ‘What Does This Look Like in the Classroom?’ has been released this week with a new foreword by Dylan Wiliam which you can read here. The book is the third volume in @Learn_Sci‘s Dylan Wiliam Center Collection In 1999, Paul Black and I were working with a group of…
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