Teaching Effectively

I've interested in the psychology of learning and evidence-based practice.  Here are links to suggestions to improve the effectiveness of lessons.

From Others

• What will improves a student's memory?
• Learning styles don't exist
• Teaching content is teaching reading
• Daniel Willingham's articles - a cognitive scientist tells us how students learn
• Summary of the key points from How People Learn
• Hattie's Effect Size list
• Daisy Christolodoulou's Seven Education Myths
• David Didau - The Learning Spy
• The Evidence-Based Teacher Network
• How to revise effectively
• Examining how parent and teacher enthusiasm influences motivation and achievement in STEM
• The medium will never influence learning
• The myths of the digital native and the multitasker
• Play the long game when learning to code
• How technology is changing our brains (my summary of The Shallows by Nicholas Carr)

My Own Thoughts

• What is progress?
• Challenge and repetition are better than fun
• No projects, please - we're computer scientists
• Who is an authority in Computing?