Through this guest blog at the Learning Scientists, I found a subtle but clever addition to the memory model that Daniel Willingham, among others, made popular in a simplified form. This is the version by Daniel Willingham: This is obviously a lot older, going back to Atkinson & Shiffrin’s 1968 model, among others: I found… Read More A clever, subtle addition to the popular memory model
Finally, I was able to go through the new version of Visible Learning for the first time and: It’s again an enormous piece of work, but… I’m also left a little hungry, and I see a great danger popping up again and a new danger emerging. First, the good: Hattie addresses the various commentaries and… Read More A short review of Visible Learning, The Sequel by John Hattie
Bill Gates just wrote 7 pages worth of predictions about how AI will change our lives. I’m not an expert on AI, but if his predictions are as good as his educational knowledge, I’m not sure if all of this will happen. No, I’m not talking about all the failures of the Gates foundation in… Read More Just because you’re one of the wealthiest people on earth doesn’t mean you know your science (Bill Gates, learning styles and more)
An article published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International was written for a large part by ChatGTP and is all about describing the possibilities, pitfalls and dangers of working with AI in academia and higher education. Bonus points for the title: Chatting and cheating: Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT. Btw, this… Read More What if an academic paper was written with help from or even written by ChatGTP? This paper was.
This guest post by Jeroen Janssen (Utrecht University) was originally posted in Dutch here. Many elementary schools have high-ability pull-out classes for children who perform above average. A high-ability pull-out class is where high-achieving students spend several hours a week with others. In a new study in Contemporary Educational Psychology, Suzanne Gerritsen and colleague Lisette… Read More The influence of high-ability pull-out classes on the self-image of children
During ‘The Great Consciousness Debate’ at the 25th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) in Amsterdam, proponents of 4 theories of consciousness took center stage to discuss the ins-and-outs of their theories: Steve Fleming defending Higher Order Thought theory (HOT) Stanislas Dehaene defending Global Neuronal Workspace theory (GNWT) Victor Lamme… Read More A 2.5 hour debate on the different theories on consciousness
This study shares practical insights that sometimes have been known for a while in the science of science communication, such as the importance of language that is easier to process, which can encourage continued reading. But the study also adds some other elements that can help to keep reading: a language that evokes anxious, exciting,… Read More How language shapes attention
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Living in the heart of Silicon Valley–where bullet-proof coffee, gluten-free muffins, and traffic gridlock prevail–I am surrounded daily by unrelenting optimism about the promise of technology making our lives better. I would guess, then, that fellow Valley-ites, if given the above choices, would pick…
The Flynn effect is… …the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores that were measured in many parts of the world over the 20th century. (Wikipedia) But there is also such a thing as the reverse Flynn effect, which describes a decline in intelligence. And this seems to have been… Read More New data shows again the reverse Flynn-effect
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