Any one who has studied how we learn for any length of time will probably agree on a few things: We know a lot about how the brain learns There is far more we don’t know about the how the brain learns than we do know (known unknowns are greater than the known knowns) A… Read More Learning: It’s complicated and we know next to nothing about it
Lots of news this morning about moving exams to computers and away from pen and paper, on the web, radio and in the papers. I have to say that the sense of deja-vu is overwhelming, and those who went through the joys of Online KS3 Testing will probably be running for the hills already (sorry… Read More Ending paper exams – its about more than exams
This article by John T. E. Richardson (Educational Psychology, Vol 25, No 6 December 2005, pp. 673-680) looks at some the research in these two areas over the past 25 years. Starting from the idea that students adopt different learning strategies depending on “the content, context and demands of a particular task” a number of… Read More Students’ Approaches to Learning and Teachers’ Approaches to Teaching in Higher Education
Distant Ramblings on the Horizon 