It’s time to switch off my computer for a while and to spend some time with my family. It has been a strange year again with luckily a lot of music, meeting interesting people (mostly online) and doing a lot of research. And… preparing the July launch of our new book.

These are the five most-read posts of 2021:

• Written in 2021:
  • One of the oldest tricks in the education book still works: storytelling (btw, great research-design)
  • New review discusses the complex reciprocal relation between learning and motivation
  • Nice poster: Data Fallacies to Avoid
  • This is really, really bad: papers that cannot be replicated are cited 153 times more because their findings are interesting
  • This report will stir some discussion, I guess: Why Inquiry-based Approaches Harm Students’ Learning
• Written before 2021, aka The Classics:
  • The updated list of effect sizes by John Hattie, but…
  • The difference between data, information, knowledge and wisdom
  • Famous psychology study ‘killed by replication’: does a pencil in your mouth make you feel happy?
  • A longer piece on the taxonomy of Bloom
  • Didactics versus pedagogy, a personal note

Take good care of each other and yourself and see you next year.

P.S.: This song sums up nicely the current mood: