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Introducing… the Learning Dispatch In the last few years I’ve been posting across a range of places and wanted to consolidate so I’ve decided to move all my writings to one place. Welcome to The Learning Dispatch a regular deep dive into how learning happens—and how we can make it work where it matters. Drawing from
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I have spent much of the last year working on an e-learning course taking the work we did on our books and trying to make it useful for educators and school leaders. The course features videos, guides and a wide range of resources. We will also update the platform monthly with new content including interviews
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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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