Deze blog verscheen in ingekorte versie in het januari-/februarinummer van Didactief. Als ik een lezing aan docenten of bestuurders over Op de Schouders van Reuzen

Reblogged from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Some poor fool, thinking either that he was being funny OR that he was being really profound posted

In the Netherlands, we have a saying which was once a TV commercial for a toilet bowl cleaner. It goes like this: We from WC-duck

Dr. Will Thalheimer, President of Work-Learning Research, Inc., announces the winner of the 2020 Neon Elephant Award, given to Mirjam Neelen and Paul Kirschner for

Not unexpected, those who are bilingual experience a switching (one of the best known executive functions) advantage, but this was not the case for other

De resultaten van een onderzoek aan de Oxford University na het analyseren van toetsresultaten van leerlingen van circa 15 procent van de Nederlandse basisscholen laten

Robert (Bob) Slavin begins this way: A decade ago when a surge of interest in placing computers in classrooms was joined to available public and

Although experts say using electronic media while doing schoolwork negatively impacts learning, many students believe they’re immune to any ill effects because they’re good multitaskers,

Humans’ spatial recall makes mental notes about the location of high-calorie foods Yes, there is biologically primary and biologically secondary knowledge and learning. No, our

Humans’ spatial recall makes mental notes about the location of high-calorie foods In the newest Scientific American there’s a nice article about certain types of

Robert Slavin just published this blog about problems with meta-analyses. He writes: One of the best things about living in Baltimore is eating steamed hard

Reblog 2 Some research that Mike Hobbis found on how attention in the class can be distracted and what you can do about it as

Rob concludes: Maybe we should just admit that far transfer isn’t likely to happen, and focus on helping students get the specific, contextual training they

Pedro wrote this for his Dutch readership, but it’s worth spreading to English speakers. He wrote: For Corona, one of my most read and shared

Hier kunnen wij in NL een lesje van leren. Andrew Old schreef deze blog over een ‘onderwijsvernieuwing’ die heel veel beloofde maar, zoals in NL

Larry Cuban discusses making tech predictions. Mirjam Neelen and I discussed this earlier in our blog “Predicting tech trends in education is hard, especially in

Derek writes: How Learning Happens selects 28 key works of research in educational psychology from 1960 to 2013. Each work gets a chapter in which

Lecturing and questioning have persisted as pedagogical tools because they are flexible and adaptable teaching techniques.

Note: While the results are promising, it’s important to realise here that the ultimate goal of providing and using such tools for self-regulated learning is

Our new book ‘More Urban Myths About Learning and Education: Challenging Eduquacks, Extraordinary Claims, and Alternative Facts’ will be available in less than a month!

I once read a proposition in a thesis to the effect that newborn children of parents with a Facebook account should immediately be given their

Every once and a while I feel the urge to blog about something, but what I want to say has nothing to do with education