Evidence-based education tends to be regarded in much the same way as Oscar Wilde viewed advice: useful for other people.
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Reflecting, by Terry Freedman
I don't agree with Cognitive Load Theory (CLT). Here's Why
A question: is Cognitive Load Theory another example of the emperor’s new clothes?
Read MoreSystemic Perspectives on New Alignments During COVID-19: Digital Challenges and Opportunities
A special edition of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology focuses on the impact of Covid19 on education systems.
Read MoreHow to use pupils to evaluate education technology resources
What people say, and what they do, can be two different things. I have had a situation in which pupils tell me materials are “boring”, having just spent 45 minutes working intensively with those materials without a break!
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Tiny Noticeable Things: The Secret Weapon to Making a Difference in Business
When my room was flooded at three in the morning while staying in a Marriott hotel in Los Angeles, an assistant helped me to relocate to a different – and drier! – room. As compensation for the inconvenience, she gave me a voucher for a free breakfast in the morning. Bleary-eyed, I accepted it. On waking…
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How digital technology can improve mental health and wellbeing
There has been quite a bit of research carried out concerning the effects of technology on health, mental health and wellbeing. Although the picture is not 100% positive, there seems to be more on the credit side of the balance sheet than on the debit side.
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Review: Understanding and Using Educational Theories
What can the writings of a long-dead theorist tell today's teachers?
Read MoreWhich online platform?
If you need to run webinars or video conference calls for your customers, or make recommendations regarding one for your schools, what are the options?
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Zoom meeting, by Terry Freedman
Hybrid Learning
The first thing that struck me when doing the research for this article is how often the terms “blended learning” and “hybrid learning” seem to be used to mean whatever the writer wants them to mean.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
Judge not -- again
In my experience, an expectation of compliance was baked in to the system, and that really does mitigate against innovation.
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Review of Science Fictions (Teach Secondary)
Even where there is no outright fraud involved, simple statistical errors, “publication bias” and perverse incentives can render “breakthroughs” less noteworthy when the studies reporting them are looked at more closely.
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Shopping mall, by Terry Freedman
11 edtech-related marketing trends in 2021
It’s difficult to predict the future, so please regard this article as a reflection of what may happen and probably should happen in the area of marketing in the coming year.
Read MoreReview of Science Fictions
This is an example of why hype can, in own way, be dangerous. It detracts time, energy and financial resources away from interventions that may be less exciting to look at but which actually work better.
Read MoreReflections on Technology in Schools in the time of Covid: Part 2
The potential for the education of blockchain technology is huge. It’s largely associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but it has far wider implications.
Read MoreTechnology and wellbeing
Can technology have a beneficial effect on mental health and wellbeing?
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Footprints -- Covid19, by Terry Freedman
Teachers' experiences in the time of Covid
What has been the experience of teachers during this pandemic? An interim report will be discussed in a couple of virtual symposia.
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Review: Learning Theories for Everyday Teaching
Is this book useful as a quick way in to educational research that’s relevant to classroom practice?
Read MoreReview: The Fourth Education Revolution
Will robots and AI take over from teachers?
Read MoreBook review: The Meritocracy Trap
I’ve gone slightly off-topic with this book review, but I thought it provided an interesting thesis which may be useful to consider as part of bigger picture than only technology.
Read MoreBook review: 50 Teaching and Learning Approaches
Can a book that summarises educational theories in a series of vignettes be a substitute for in-depth study?
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