After trialling Anki App with four classes, I selected the Key Stage 3 English class as the experimental group. This case study shares the experience of using AI informed flashcards (Anki App) with a mixed prior attainment, all male, Key …
So I spent most of the Saturday learning how to build audio into my Anki Decks. Driven by thoughts of how to best support students with English as an additional language whilst also targeting students revising / learning and re-learning …
Here is a quick update and early reflections on the four mini Anki App memorisation projects. Year 11 Upgrade (1) Students had just sat their first English mock paper. On the back of that sobering experience, I chose to use …
We are entering a two mock cycle at our school. A full revision programme is underway; assemblies, revision packs, past papers, focused tutor groups delivering literacy and numeracy sessions*, revision planning sessions, post-it note mocks (live marking), walking-talking mocks, targeted …
It is a slow route to home-baking sourdough From what I have read and watched, let’s start with what has been most useful. Let’s start with the main differences between home-baked fast acting or commercial yeast bread and home-baked sourdough …
The case has been made for backwards planning, assessment biased, responsive teaching. Now for Successive Relearning. Why Successive Relearning? Why RememberMore? Learning is rarely a one-shot affair. Single, isolated experiences seldom give birth to learning. What creates or shapes learning, …
What came first? Motivation or Success? A debate most staff rooms have hosted on numerous occasions. For most of my career I believed that motivated students did well academically. Because they were motivated. And so, I sought out opportunities to …
Not that creative a post title I know however I have been reading and re-reading Yang et al., (2021) for the third time. It is a hefty piece of research. It draws together a number of components connected to the …
