Apologies for irregularity and non-appearance over the past few weeks due to circumstances beyond my control. I hope to resume properly in the New Year. In the meantime—very best wishes for C...
EDUCATION FOCUS How Much Learning Can Occur in Safe Spaces? | Foundation for Economic Education Richard Feynman On Believing What Isn't True Feynman's famous address on Cargo Cult Sc...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/11/items-to-share-29-november-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS The Illusion of Knowing | David Didau: The Learning Spy 'Advanced Learning has commissioned me to write a piece about the uses and abuses of data in schools. My thesis, if that�...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/11/items-to-share-22-november-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Can Online Learning Ever Beat the Real Thing? | Big Think 'To most, the question of whether online learning can beat the real thing probably sounds rhetorical: Of course — one...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/11/items-to-share-15-november-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Using threshold concepts to think about curriculum design | David Didau: The Learning Spy 10 things you might have missed about the Green Paper - Wonkhe 'After letting the ini...
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Apologies: I wrote this a while ago, but somehow never posted it. Not many people will probably have heard BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme on 17 or 22 March, but it deserves a wide audienc...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/11/on-scalability.html
A fallow week this week! EDUCATION FOCUS Concept maps are rubbish | Filling the pail The title rather over-states the case, I think, because concept maps have broader applicability than for re...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/11/items-to-share-1-november-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Learning about Teaching from Tom Waits ' I would argue for the pursuit of experimentation and novelty and “not-yetness” in our teaching as an essential tool for a teacher...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/10/items-to-share-25-october-2015.html
Apologies for delayed posting. As the new academic year starts, I am at last in the position of having no formal academic obligations. No teaching. No funded projects ("research" as such was ne...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/10/on-being-well-out-of-it.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Lesson Study - The New Brain Gym? Probably not, but is scepticism becoming cynicism? ‘We need a cultural revolution’: Alan Tuckett�...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/10/items-to-share-18-october-2015.html
My 5+ year old "netbook" (remember them?) ran bargain-basement Windows 7. So much so that I couldn't change the wallpaper. But then there came the chance of a free up-grade to Windows 10. It work...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/10/off-topic-accolade-for-windows-10.html
EDUCATION FOCUS How to engage with sullen students | Times Higher Education 'Academics offer advice on how to turn glumness into enthusiasm' OECD Report: Puzzles To Solve (Part 2) | Larry Cub...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/10/items-to-share-11-october-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Taking the Tech Out of Technology 'Somewhere along the line, our excitement over the latest technological tools has started focusing on the wrong thing. The excitement ought to...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/10/items-to-share-4-october-2015.html
Sorry! An outlier. Nothing to report this week. Directly. From James' "While Looking for Something Else" blog.
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/09/items-to-share-27-september-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Why sacrificing chickens will not help us evaluate teachers’ performance | David Didau: The Learning Spy 'Intellectually, philosophically, morally, the argument over whether t...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/09/items-to-share-20-september-2015.html
It's the start of a new academic year, and for the first time in 48 years, I won't be there. I'm mopping up some assessment/progression business from last year, but I shan't be involved in starti...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/09/on-starting-again-and-1k-post.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Text Savvy: Concept Mapping vs. Retrieval Practice Donald Clark Plan B: Hattie: Visible learning - the naked teacher - a primer 'Almost every educational intervention has a po...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/09/items-to-share-13-september-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS What Success Looks Like — The Synapse — Medium 'Students either pass or fail; when they do the former, they succeed. That is generally the notion of success in education. D...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/09/items-to-share-6-august-2015.html
Bit later than usual but includes the Bank Holiday EDUCATION FOCUS Donald Clark Plan B: 10 bloody good reasons for using much-maligned text in online learning The sticky problem of threshold c...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/09/items-to-share-31-august-15.html
A sparse week as befits the time of year... OTHER BUSINESS: How Can I Know Anything at All? BBC Animations Feature the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Hume, Popper & More | Open Culture Edge Maste...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-sparse-week-as-befits-time-of-year.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Vocational education | @Bigkid4 | Labour Teachers On parity of esteem between vocational and "academic" education... Compliance by website Mary Beard on schools' response to th...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/08/items-to-share-16-august-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Growth Mindset Misconceptions and Missteps | Teaching: Leading Learning An interesting piece which digs down a bit into the mindset model and explores the practicalities of usin...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/08/items-to-share-9-august-2015.html
Apologies for running late! EDUCATION FOCUS Is ‘understanding’ a thing? | Clio et cetera 'I have no doubt at all that some will take issue with this, and it is not at all my intention to p...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/08/items-to-share-2-august-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS Memory is more than Ebbinghaus | Donald H Taylor Building a Better Discussion - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education ' 'Although fitness bands are cool tech tools, their...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/07/items-to-share-26-july-2015.html
EDUCATION FOCUS You can keep your magic beans, or why I got over SOLO | MrHistoire 'What is troubling is that zeal with which I and many others approached SOLO as some kind of structrual savi...
http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2015/07/items-to-share-19-july-2015.html