Having taken part in Edinburgh University's EdcMooc on Coursera, I just thought I'd share my final artefact (sort of the exam piece) here:- Here are the peer reviews I received for this piece of work. They are anonymous, so I don't think it's an issue, and I felt they were valid in any criticism. Peer […]
I attended an online presentation the other day given by Clark Quinn, who put forward "slow learning" as "an alternative and more preferable pedagogical approach in today's world". Quin says: "Our formal learning approaches too often don't follow how our brains really work." I agree with the premise that formal learning needs a kick up […]
According to researchers at Princeton University, difficult-to-read fonts improve learning. In the study volunteers had to learn made-up information about different types of aliens - and found that those reading harder fonts recalled more when tested 15 minutes later. The idea is that schools could boost results by simply changing the font used in their […]
According to Cambridge academic, Professor Maria Nikolajeva, made-up words in books like Winnie the Pooh and Harry Potter 'can help children learn English'. The puns, linguistic inventions and fantastical names given to characters and places in fiction also allow children to understand the symbolic meaning of words. "The creative employment of language in children's books […]
Well according to a new book by sociologist, Malcolm Gladwell, yes it does. According to him, the best way to achieve international stardom is to spend 10,000 hours honing your skills. The greatest athletes, entrepreneurs, musicians and scientists emerge only after spending at least three hours a day for a decade mastering their chosen field. […]