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Interesting flowchart on using Cognitive Load Theory from @Inner_Drive

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...and then the miracle happens. Welcome Liselotte Mara Femke 🥰

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Nothing to add 😂

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Nice, simple and informative graphic from @Inner_Drive on why interleaving works.

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Here's a set of simple tips to overcome cognitive overload in your students from @Inner_Drive ?

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Please tell me again how using cognitive psychology in teaching and learning isn’t learner centred and how it kills motivation and creativity...

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New working paper from @DTWillingham Gist: A knowledge-rich curriculum leads to better reading scores, but most importantly (for me) is that while the effect size was large for kids in high-income schools it was gigantic for kids in low-income schools!

A Kindergarten Lottery Evaluation of Core Knowledge Charter Schools: Should Building General...

The Core Knowledge curriculum is a K-8 curriculum focused on building students General Knowledge about the world they live in that is hypothesized to increase reading comprehension and Reading/Engl...

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The most successful teachers spend more time in guided practice, more time asking questions, more time checking for understanding, and more time correcting errors.

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Day 18 of #HowLearningHappensInFeb a chapter of 'How Learning Happens' each day in February. Today is chapter 18 'Direct instruction' Join in with your own reflections using the hashtag above. @P_A_Kirschner & @C_Hendrick

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Letter from 30 learning scientists: No evidence to back idea of learning styles

No evidence to back idea of learning styles | Letter

Letter: Neuromyths create a false impression of individuals’ abilities, leading to expectations and excuses that are detrimental to learning in general

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Real experiential learning 😝

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I like this one ⬇️

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Love this

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Yes, kids are learning less now, but maybe this adds just a little perspective to the moral panic being whipped up.

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Yesterday more than 1500 teachers and researchers, hungry for good teaching and learning converged in London to present and listen to +/-120 sessions. Here are my two presentations on How Learning Happens and Generative Learning Strategies

researchED 2022 London - kirschner-ED

Saturday, September 3 2022 was a day that 1500 teachers and researchers, hungry for good teaching, learning, and education converged on Parliament Hill School

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Another one bites the dust! New research comprehensively examined the brain development of young boys and girls and shows no gender difference in brain function or math ability. Open access to original article. "Science doesn't align with folk beliefs"

Brains of girls and boys are similar, producing equal math ability

New research comprehensively examined the brain development of young boys and girls. Their research shows no gender difference in brain function or math ability.

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A year in the making and it’s (our new book @C_Hendrick @HealJim & me, with illustrations by @olicav ) now out of our hands and in the publisher’s. Coming this spring: How Teaching Happens: Seminal Works in Teaching and Teacher Effectiveness and What They Mean in Practice

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This summary of How Learning Happens - @C_Hendrick @HealJim - was made by @helenrey - If you want to download it as a PDF you can find it here:

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How guidance works! One step at a time so as not to overload… Yes, learning in a sport and learning in an academic subject and learning to play a music instrument et cetera all follow the SAME general rules. Learning is learning.

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Technical detail looks like this!

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Incredible resource on: - knowledge-rich curriculum - teaching driven by content - forgetting as part of the learning process - working memory limits - practice makes permanent Curriculum Links Part 1: Underlying Principles

Curriculum Links Part 1: Underlying Principles

In this blog, we look over some useful reading to consider when planning out your curriculum – what are some of the underlying principles upon which we should start to build. This is partly in…

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The newest addition to the family is grandson Artur John Paul Kirschner. A few weeks early but doing great as are the parents. So tiny, so lovely 🎉🥰

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I don't post such things often (or at all for that matter), but I'm making an exception today as I'm feeling very sentimental and so much in love today: for 47 official years we are one.

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Surprise! Our article "Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work" is open access -

Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivi...

Evidence for the superiority of guided instruction is explained in the context of our knowledge of human cognitive architecture, expert–novice differences, and cognitive load. Although unguided or...

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Explicit teaching drives student motivation, engagement, and achievement in NSW public schools Yes, you read it correctly: Explicit instruction and success drive motivation and not the other way around!!

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I find it strange that doctors, engineers, ... don't experience being required to use/adhere to proven methods (either evidence-based or -informed) as violating their professional autonomy or undermining their professionalism but that teachers do.

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Zij staakten, gingen de barricades op, demonstreerden. Maar als de nood hoog is vangen ze de kinderen op, geven ze online les, stellen bange kinderen gerust... Docenten in NL, hoewel ondergewaardeerd, laten zien wat ze waard zijn. @MinOCW @arieslob onthoud dit als het voorbij is!

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Want kids to think critically? First, make sure that they have fundamental content knowledge! Why Content Knowledge is Crucial to Effective Critical Thinking

Why Content Knowledge is Crucial to Effective Critical Thinking | KQED

Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends.

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CLT according to the KISS-principle @BradleyKBusch @Inner_Drive

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The last day of #HowLearningHappensInFeb a chapter of 'How Learning Happens' each day in February. Today is chapter 29 'The ten deadly sins in education' Join in with your own reflections using the hashtag above. See you next leap year! @P_A_Kirschner & @C_Hendrick

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If you think Vygotsky was a constructivist, you probably never read him (I did). Here's how important he found good instruction to be. Vygotsky's Doctrine of Scientific Concepts: Its Role for Contemporary Education in Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context

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Taking notes doesn't come naturally so don't take it for granted in your students (of all ages). We need to teach them how to do it properly, (just like how to summarise, outline, highlight, etc.). That's called good instruction!

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For all researchers whose articles are rejected - oft for the strangest reasons and I can attest to this - keep going! Here's the rejection letter from Nature for the work that won this year's Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine

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Surprise (NOT): Worked examples work!

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As of today, I'm Professor Emeritus at the @OU_Nederland . I'm not stopping my work on how to we can best achieve and ensure effective, efficient, & enjoyable teaching/learning; it's just that the uni's no longer paying me :-) You're not rid of me yet; not by a long shot!

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People generally have a poor understanding of how they learn and remember. John Dunlosky discusses some evidence-based learning strategies that boost learning and memory incl. the effects of small vs. large classes, (poor) teacher training...

Episode 5 − Learning to Learn: Uncut conversation with John Dunlosky

Improving everyday thinking also involves improving the way we learn and retain information. Unfortunately, people generally have a poor understanding of how...

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Cognitive Load Theory: An Applied Reintroduction for Special and General Educators A key reason why students with disabilities struggle in school is that professionals may not pay enough attention to students’ overwhelmed cognitive capacity.

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Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Teaching via @C_Hendrick

Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Teaching

1. Motivation doesn’t always lead to achievement, but achievement often leads to motivation. While there is a strong correlation between self perception and achievement and we tend to think o…

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In one simple paragraph @greg_ashman blows up all the BS about how math needs to be 'realistic' and 'immediately relevant' for learners in his blog

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What comes first: #motivation or #learning ? Research suggests that learning leads to motivation and not the other way around, says @EnserMark . So why do teachers spend so much time trying to motivate pupils?

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How much more proof do we need to stop hands-on, #inquiry_based , #constructivist #education madness and get back to real effective #teaching via #direct_instruction ?

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Punctuation (commas) are really important 😂 Teach it and use it wisely!

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For anyone who is thinking of setting up a reading/discussion group for How Learning Happens, here's something that @C_Hendrick and I whipped up a little while ago

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This summary of How Learning Happens - @C_Hendrick @HealJim - was made by @helenrey - If you want to download it as a PDF you can find it here:

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To mark the release of our new book, @C_Hendrick , @HealJim , and I am giving away three pairs of both books. Retweet to be included in the draw.

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Oops! There goes the #mindset hype - Two large metastudies show 'growth mindset' educational interventions not effective: overall correlation between growth mindset and academic #achievement is weak at best

A new study found that 'growth mindset interventions,' or programs that teach students they can improve their intelligence with effort -- and therefore improve grades and test scores -- don't work...

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1 year

Nine questions to improve metacognition (actually to help you learn better) from @Inner_Drive

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From Cognitive Load Theory to Collaborative Cognitive Load Theory - An expansion of CLT for designing and implementing collaborative learning is available open access -

From Cognitive Load Theory to Collaborative Cognitive Load Theory

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - Cognitive load theory has traditionally been associated with individual learning. Based on evolutionary educational psychology...

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Prepare to be blown away (again) by @adamboxer1

Challenge beyond Bloom’s

What makes one question hard and another one easy? When I trained, Bloom’s taxonomy was everywhere. Personally, I haven’t really paid it much attention in quite a while, but I was remin…

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Very interesting and useful blog here:

Cornell versus Ebbinghaus

Most of us are only too familiar with the mordant truth of Shakespeare’s observation that “Old men forget, yet all shall be forgot”. In fact, things are generally even worse than …

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Whoever thinks that direct instruction is monotonous, dull, and/or child-unfriendly either doesn't understand or doesn't know what direct instruction is! Thanks, @teacherhead for your Rainforest.

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Interesting blog on how classroom displays can distract. Children were more distracted by the visual environment, spent more time off task, and demonstrated smaller learning gains when the walls were highly decorated than when the decorations were removed.

Are classroom displays a distraction for students? | InnerDrive

Do classroom displays actually help students learn? Do they steal focus away from the teacher? Or could they have other, less quantifiable benefits?

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We should stop using the term 'social distancing'. The 1 thing we don't need to do is to socially distance ourselves from each other. What we need is physical distancing. We can and need to be very close to others even though we must physically distance ourselves from them.

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For all other language nerds who appreciate the Oxford comma (and for people who don't, this is why you should!)

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Didn't fit into a tweet, so here my FB post from yesterday evening.

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Goede morgen ⁦ @ionicasmeets ⁩

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Komt niet vaak voor, maar ik heb er geen woorden voor. Ik heb net de Fons van Wieringen prijs gekregen voor beste onderwijsblog 2019. Hier en hier

Iedereen Haat Directe Instructie (Maar het Werkt!)

Deze blog heeft de 2019 Fons van Wieringenprijs voor beste onderwijsblog gewonnen. In een blog van Robert Pondiscio (echt de moeite van het bezoeken waard), werkzaam aan de Thomas B. Fordham Instit…

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I wish you all a direct, explicit, eduquack-free 2019! May you all have an effective, efficient, and enjoyable (learning/teaching) year!

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" #Learning requires attention, focus and effort, not a good giggle. Only those who think that ‘Happy sheets’ are a true indicator of learning adhere to the nonsense that learning should be all fun" Read @DonaldClark 's 'Learning is not a circus and teachers are not clowns'

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There’s stronger brain activity after writing on paper than on a tablet or smartphone

There's stronger brain activity after writing on paper than on a tablet or smartphone - kirschner-ED

I've written a number of times about how reading from paper is better than reading from an electronic device (reader, tablet, computer screen, smartphone)

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Warning: Math nerd joke

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Neen @marielle_paul , u begrijpt er echt niets van! Lezen, schrijven en rekenen zijn voorwaardelijk voor o.a. digitale geletterdheid, burgerschap enz. Zonder geletterd te zijn kan je niet digitaal geletterd zijn! Stop met deze onzinnige initiatieven en zorg voor goed onderwijs!

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Leren om digitaal vaardig te zijn is minstens zo belangrijk als goed lezen, rekenen en schrijven. Het expertisepunt digitale geletterdheid is er voor leraren die hier in de klas mee aan de slag willen. Verbinden, inspireren en informeren op één plek. 👇

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Funny or sad? Geinig of triest?

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Why doesn't it surprise me that growth mindset lessons don't work? Maybe because it's BS? Professor Dweck admitted to Tes last week that she had not initially recognised the "complexity of the implementation" of growth mindset in classrooms. WTF?

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Direct instruction gets no respect (but it works!) - New blog w/ @MirjamN

Direct Instruction Gets No Respect (But It Works)

Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow and Vice President for External Affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in the US, recently published a blog (overall worth …

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Again backing for what I've been saying for years: Success/achievement leads to motivation to continue and not the other way around. Motivation can get you started, but success will keep you going!

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Attention ALL #students / #authors : Want to make my life (and all editor's, reviewer's, supervisor's) more pleasant, and improve your chances of success? Study and apply this

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OK - I give up; I've met my match. If you want to understand dual coding / cognitive theory of multimedia and what it means for teaching watch @adamboxer1 's incredible @researchEdhome presentation

researchEDHome 2020 Adam Boxer: Dual Coding for Teachers Who Can’t...

In this session, Adam will outline major findings from cognitive science including the Multimedia Effect, Redundancy and Split Attention – empirical findings...

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Want to use retrieval practice in your teaching but don't know how? Read this blog by @teacherhead

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Some time ago I made this slide for a presentation. I thought that in 2022 that the content wasn't necessary anymore. Boy did I have that wrong!

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When will schools wake up? A pre-published, groundbreaking study has found that for “deeper reading” there is a clear advantage to reading a text on paper, rather than on a screen, where “shallow reading was observed”.

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If it's online, then it must be true. Our new book ( @C_Hendrick and me), illustrated by @olicav ; I can almost feel it :-)

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Really nice infographic from @Catlin_Tucker on what good (direct) instruction is! Thanks Catlin.

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I've been waiting a while to post this and feel that now the time is right. Don't ask why!

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A spot-on commentary by @rpondiscio on why reading comprehension isn't a skill and the need for knowledge-rich curriculum.

Reading comprehension is not a “skill”

I became a disciple of E.D. Hirsch, Jr. early in my teaching career for one simple reason. His theories about reading comprehension—and his alone—described precisely what I witnessed every day in my...

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"The thing that surprised me most about my teacher prep program was that we never talked about how kids learn...I assumed that I would eventually learn how the brain worked because I thought that studying education meant studying how learning happens.

OPINION: It is time to pay attention to the science of learning - The Hechinger Report

Just as scientists have made great gains in understanding how students read, they have also made tremendous gains in understanding the science of learning. Although some educators are familiar with...

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Seven myths that undermine math learning: (1) conceptual then procedural understanding (2) teaching algorithms is harmful (3) inquiry learning is the best approach (4) productive struggle is important (5) growth mindset increases achievement

Maths teaching myths that undermine results

Myths about learning and teaching maths continue to plague classroom practice despite a lack of evidence for positive student outcomes.

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Thoughts for a lazy Monday morning

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Reading from paper leads to better integrative processing and comprehension (this time of text and illustration) than reading the same thing from a screen - open access -

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While a real leader, New Zealand PM Ardern, cancels her own wedding amid Omicron wave, Boris Johnson can’t even stop having drinks at number 10.

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The elements of great teaching:

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5 things @C_Hendrick wished he knew when he started teaching and that all teachers should know

Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Teaching

1. Motivation doesn’t always lead to achievement, but achievement often leads to motivation. While there is a strong correlation between self perception and achievement and we tend to think o…

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Vanaf heden ben ik officieel emeritus hoogleraar op de @OU_Nederland . Ik stop niet met mijn strijd voor effectief, efficiënt en bevredigend lesgeven/leren. Het enige verschil is dat de uni mij niet meer betaalt :-) Jullie zijn dus nog lang niet van mij af :P

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We've know since at least 1984 (Gabi Salomon) that letting learners do what they think is most efficacious just leads to them doing the thing that feels good and ultimately learning less.

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Food for thought

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Rosenshine's 10 principles applied to workplace learning and career and technical education (CTE) by @timsurma , @MirjamN , and me

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10-10=better teaching and learning [FYI: 10 principles minus 10 myths :-)]

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Make your slides available to students? “Researchers have done some global comparisons and the bulk of the news does not favor making slides available. Students with slides do worse on exams or show no improved learning over students without slides.”

Just Say No (To Providing Class Slides)?

“Please Sir, May I have some More?” Oliver Twist’s request for more porridge was denied with vehemence. Sometimes students’ requests for instructor lecture slides are treated similarly. Should...

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Six types of questions to ask your students if you want to help them to learn

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Schriftelijk gedeelte van het toelatingsexamen voor de 1e klasse van het Bilthovense lyceum (havo/vwo) in 1959 Hoofdrekenen: 18 minuten voor 20 vragen, kladpapier mag niet gebruikt worden. Soms zegt één foto meer dan duizend woorden!

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As if we needed to prove this again! Explicit instruction (with #phonics ) provides dramatic benefits in learning to #read above self- #discovery . Please retweet/spread the word to the so-called progressive non-believers!

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An interview with me in TES about direct instruction: An evidence-based and versatile instructional method that many teachers use without realizing it!

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Vocabulary knowledge matters for the effectiveness of instructing reading strategies, especially for weaker readers. The connection between learning to read and reading to learn is clear.

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How many of you knew this?

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When you hear things in education, remember: -Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Sagan's standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

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“Students universally need predictable environments that support their attempts to experience and develop competence at all school levels (e.g., Aelterman et al., 2019; Ryan & Deci, 2017; Skinner et al., 2008).”

Research Highlight 4: Structuring Classroom Learning for Student Success and Agency — Language &...

Thanks to a podcast, Emerging Research in Educational Psychology, from professor Jeff Greene speaking with professor Erika Patall about...

languageandliteracy.blog

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This has been getting some play recently. For you 'youngsters' out there: Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching

Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivi...

Evidence for the superiority of guided instruction is explained in the context of our knowledge of human cognitive architecture, expert–novice differences, and cognitive load. Although unguided or...

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6 years

Our article advancing cognitive load theory to collaborative learning "From Cognitive Load Theory to Collaborative CognitiveLoad Theory" is available and is open access!

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5 years

Finland: "The more that digital tools...the worse learning outcomes...in all areas of the Pisa measurements" Phenom-based learning "works for students who perform well in school...but less naturally-gifted students face the risk of being left behind"

Finland’s digital-based curriculum impedes learning, researcher finds

A Helsinki University researcher says Finland's current digital and 'phenomenon-based' learning methods used in schools may not be suitable for all students.

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Paul A. Kirschner

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2 years

Warning!!! Nerdy math comic ⬇️

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