One of the handy things one has as a scientist is that there are tools that warn you if one of your works has been cited. This helps you to discover new studies that build further on what you are doing. This is how I discovered this new mixed-methods study by John Rogers and Anise… Read More “Are University Faculty to Blame for the Prevalence of Educational Myths?”
My friend and co-author Casper Hulshof sent me this one: So pleased to have had my article published toady (and thanks to @Keith_Turvey for the stimulating discussion leading to it). Perhaps we shouldn't be so quick to completely dismiss 'old' theories or myths but instead see what they can still offer. #LearningStyles pic.twitter.com/0LvJWZZYe5 — Sir… Read More Funny on Friday April 1st: this is the best joke I received today and it’s about learning styles!
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)
I do hope that I’m not sharing false information, but I’m pretty sure I’m not: In this episode 29 of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest our presenters Ginny Smith and Jon Sutton explore the psychology of misinformation. They hear about the factors that make people more or less likely to share misinformation,… Read More BPS Podcast: Why do people share false information?
We’ve written extensively about this topic in More Myths about Learning and Education, our second myth book, but a new working paper by Vladimir Kogan, Brandon Genetin, Joyce Chen and Alan Kalishagain confirms again: student surveys don’t measure what you think they measure. Grades seem to be the biggest influence in this case – we… Read More Again: teacher and course evaluations don’t tell you what you think they tell you
The podcast version https://media.blubrry.com/homeroom_with_sal_khan/p/content.blubrry.com/homeroom_with_sal_khan/211111_Pedro_De_Bruyckere.mp3 The YouTube version:
I know some fellows who wrote a highly cited article and ditto book about this topic…
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’!
From experience to meaning... 