Originally posted on Research Digest:
By Emma Young Like countless other parents across the UK, I’m finding it pretty hard to maintain enthusiasm for my kids’ home-schooling lessons. Or muster it, for that matter. Yet we all know that when an instructor is enthusiastic, those sessions are more enjoyable — and we remember more. While this…
It must have been 2012 when I first read Rousseau en ik (Rousseau and me) by Dutch philosopher Maarten Doorman. While it’s impossible to underestimate Jean Jacques Rousseau’s influence on our thinking about education and raising our children, I discovered that he was instead a jack of all trades but master of none. And then… Read More One of education’s fascinating dirty little secrets
Earlier this month a The World Federation of ADHD published an “International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder” to answer the many questions and claims that often surround ADHD. In short what do we know about ADHD? ADHD occurs in 5.9% of youth and 2.5% of adults. Most cases of ADHD are caused… Read More What do we know about ADHD?
This week I’ll only do live online classes with my students as they have asked our team several times to have as many live sessions as possible. Still, this new review study does show that prerecorded videos can help to learn. The researchers do plea for a combination of regular teaching and videos. Do note… Read More This review study gives a bit of hope – or depending on who your are some despair: prerecorded videos can help learning in higher education
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
When the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the nation in 2020, schools closed swiftly. Districts pivoted to remote instruction. Then inequalities showed up just as quickly, especially in big city schools and rural areas where the “digital divide” persisted. Stories surged in social and mainstream…
Originally posted on Paul's Random Thoughts / Gedachten:
Recently I came across this work from Koichi Sato at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (his coordinates are at the bottom). I found it so clear and helpful that I asked him if I could work it into a blog and I’m happy to say he agreed. I…
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…
