It’s the last day of June. I still have a lot of work left to do, but it’s also getting high time to take a break. Therefore I won’t be posting anything on this blog until August. Have a great July and hope to see you all again. Btw, our new book will be published… Read More See you on the other side of summer!
We checked our final proofs, the book is almost ready to go to print, and the Dutch version has already sold thousands of copies. By the end of July you can read the book too in English! (check a.o. here, here, or even better: your local book store!) This is your essential teaching companion that… Read More Coming soon: The Psychology of Great Teaching (a bit more info)
We have been checking the final proofs of our forthcoming book. Some people are reading it at the moment. High time to book some talks in the near future. The first one will be at the Edufest at Le Rosey in Geneva: Erik Erikson once said that crisis means growth. If this is the case,… Read More On Friday, June 10th, I’ll be giving a first talk about our new book in Geneva!
emos observado que aún hay mucha proliferación en redes como linkedin, y otras, de teorías educativas que no cuentan con evidencia adecuada para ser promovidas en las escuelas. Y esto nos preocupa porque las implicancias de mitos como los estilos de aprendizaje o la pirámide de la experiencia son relevantes. Por ejemplo, decirle a un… Read More 12 Mitos Urbanos Sobre Aprendizaje Y Educación (2 posters in Spanish)
Yesterday I had the honour of being on the Ed Talks online show from the Khan Academy and I had a little scoop for them… The cover of our new book! The new book is coming Summer 2022 from Corwin Will be available for pre-order before the end of 2021 And this is the cover:… Read More The cover of our new book: The Psychology of Great Teaching
This is nice, our publisher Routledge gives a 20% discount on ‘More Urban Myths About Learning and Education: Challenging Eduquacks, Extraordinary Claims, and Alternative Facts’ by Paul Kirschner, Casper Hulshof and yours truly. Just go to http://routledge.com/9780815354581 (or the American equivalent) and enter the code FLR40 at checkout. More Urban Myths About Learning and Education:… Read More 20% discount on ‘More Urban Myths About Learning and Education’!
No, I will never get used to this. We first wrote our book in Dutch. This was followed by the extremely popular version in English (with still at least one copy sold every single day, imagine that), a version in Swedish and even a Chinese edition. And now the Spanish version has been published. Muchas… Read More Mitos urbanos sobre aprendizaje y educación (Our first Urban Myths about Learning and Education now available in Spanish)
Paul Kirschner just reminded me that a year ago we were able to announce our second book about Urban Myths about Learning and Education. Over 4000 copies have been sold already worldwide and counting! Check your local book store or buy the book online! If you want to read a free chapter, check this article… Read More One year today: More Urban Myths about Learning and Education announced
The new Spring edition of American Educator was published today, with a new article taken from our most recent book More Urban Myths about Learning and Education. You can read the article here for free and this is what it all is about: Transfer of learning is seen as the use of knowledge, skills, and/or… Read More A new article in American Educator by Paul, Casper & yours truly: If You Learn A, Will You Be Better Able to Learn B?
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