Last year I posted how I approached my GCSE Literature course design; it was one of my most read blogs (thank you to all). I
Category: aiding memory
NOT ACTUALLY LEARNING
Today I spent 7 hours on a mandatory course required to gain Teacher Registration in South Australia. For once, I was a student, and so
If You Don’t Model, Learning’s a Lottery
The video below is a perfect demonstration of why it’s so important to model learning for students. What it highlights is what most motivated people
MEMORABLE TEACHING – more important than we think?
A hypothesis: because of the relative ease of retrieval of episodic memory and its ability to facilitate elaborative retrieval of semantic knowledge, creating memorable episodic
What is ENGAGEMENT?
A GUIDE TO SUPPORT YOUR PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH The more we know about how information is encoded and then retrieved from our memories the more we
Is dual coding proof that learning styles exist?
It may seem untrue to a well-informed Twitter audience, but I believe there still exists lots of confusion around the idea of learning styles. And
