Originally posted on 3-Star learning experiences:
Translated by Mirjam Neelen & Paul A. Kirschner This article was originally published in Dutch by Tim Surma, Paul Kirschner, and Daniel Muijs on the ExCEL website on 30 August 2020. ExCEL is the Centre of Expertise for Effective Learning of Thomas More Hogeschool België, which helps to build…
With a lot of research looking at all things covid, sometimes it’s fun to read something completely different, such as this study that links school gardens and related cooking classes to children eating more vegetables. From the press release: Getting children to eat their vegetables can seem like an insurmountable task, but nutrition researchers at… Read More Can school gardens teach kids to eat more vegetables?
This is a new study by Bekkering et al. I had the honor and pleasure to be part of the multidisciplinary team on this very hot topic: should schools remain open or closed during the pandemic. Abstract of the study (open access): Background In Belgium, schools closed during the first lockdown in March 2020, with a… Read More New article: Closing schools for SARS-CoV-2: a pragmatic rapid recommendation
Originally posted on 3-Star learning experiences:
Paul A. Kirschner In 2017, Mirjam Neelen and I wrote a blog entitled Truth or Truthiness in which we discussed whether a study is trustworthy or whether it only seems to be trustworthy. We used the term truthiness to describe the latter. Truthiness is a word that Stephen Colbert…
Originally posted on Research Digest:
By Emma Young Mozart famously started playing the piano and composing while still a young child. But if he hadn’t started musical practice then, would his future achievements have been as impressive? Is there, in other words, a “sensitive period” in which the brain is especially susceptible to musical stimulation, and…
More cartoons on the ‘new normal’, check this post by Larry Cuban.
We’ve seen a lot of studies that linked online classes during lockdown in this Covid-pandemic to bigger differences between pupils, e.g. here and here. This new study describes a similar trend in higher education – in line with earlier pre-covid research we discuss in our second Urban Myth book. From the press release: With the… Read More Gifted students improve their grades when they take online courses, whereas students in difficulty do not.
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Over the years, readers and students have asked me about the work I have done on school reform and especially reform-laden technologies. I answer some of them in this post. But first some background. I began doing research and writing on teacher and student…
I was pretty convinced that I already had shared this study, but maybe I just read the study in November and talked about it to my students. I couldn’t find the post, so here you are. A study conducted by the University of Zurich’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics has revealed that not only… Read More New study shows how fellow students can improve your own grades
