A type of cognitive bias, the curse of knowledge is essentially characterised by omitting certain information when interacting with another because you assume that what
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Forget about creativity – mostly
The utopian dream of every student in education entering the workforce as a creative critical thinker is likely to never go away. The sentiment is
SHAKESPEARE and school age = cognitive overload
I love Shakespeare, and I have taught it lots. But my God it’s hard. On the whole, the language is so complex, the reality is
Rigour, Rites of passage, and Society
OLD SCHOOL Of course I am hypothesising, but it seems there may still be some higher educationalists who would have their students battle through an
DO WE NEED TO TEACH SELF-REGULATION?
Achieving independence and self-regulation in learning is the holy grail of education, but how to go about it is as equally mystical. Essential to the
Finding time for CREATIVITY
This is part 3 in a series of blogs on creativity in the classroom. The first is here, and the second here. As stated previously,
