Remotely Shakespeare
A quick summary, a few ideas and the benefit of a testing some of these ideas with some of our fantastically committed students. I will try to be efficient with your time, if you want more detail, a quick DM …
A sense of ‘us’ and digital natives my arse
Remote or distance learning requires a little extra effort to create a sense of us. It also offers new opportunities. Essentially, when you boil it all down, I follow the same routine that I follow in the classroom. It is …
More Bard in Lockdown
Culture clearly takes a hit in lockdown. That said, many creatives, get creative in response. As far the Bard, the appetite is insatiable. There has been social media vodcasts, online productions and the release and re-release of various productions. In …
Live or pre-recorded lessons?
The debate is rife! The debate itself, is live and, at times, very public on social media and more privately, in teacher back channels and social media groups. What I found quite startling was the breadth of advice and recommendation, …
Learning accuracy and our judgements
As I have recently referenced, once through the voluminous research on Retrieval Practice and Successive Relearning, you find yourself skirting the boundaries of Cognitive Psychology and “Making Retrospective Confidence Judgments Improves Learners’ Ability to Decide What Not to Study,” Robey, Dougherty, & …
Resisting Neuroscience
Just a very short post – a marker. Once through the voluminous research on Retrieval Practice and Success Relearning, you find yourself skirting the boundaries of Cognitive Psychology. With little extra effort – you may find yourself tumbling down the …
Self-assessment – yes and…
It is rarely a good start when, in the opening ten minutes, you read “Without exception, reviews of self-assessment (Sargeant, 2008; Brown and Harris, 2013; Panadero et al., 2016a) call for clearer definitions: What is self-assessment, and what is not?” …
Seeking partnership
RememberMore is an agile, three part, integrated and adaptive Spaced Retrieval Practice learning system that uses cognitive science principles to accelerate the learners’ time to competency and knowledge mastery, and help learners retain that knowledge for longer. We are looking …