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Words and Pictures Together, Not Decoration
I’ve sat through enough CPD sessions to know that when someone starts talking about “multimodal cognitive load theory,” they’re usually about to...
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Asking Why It Is True
I spent twenty minutes yesterday watching a CPD presenter explain “elaboration” using a slick, multi-coloured slide deck and terms like cognitive scaffolding...
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Explaining It to Yourself Out Loud
I remember standing at the front of a Year 9 classroom on a Tuesday afternoon, watching twenty-eight teenagers nod in unison while...
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Same Hours, Spread Out, Better Results
I was sitting in a middle leadership meeting three years ago, staring at a shiny new “Learning Science” toolkit that promised to...
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Testing Yourself Beats Rereading Every Time
I remember sitting in a windowless professional development suite five years ago, nodding politely while a consultant in a slim-fit suit explained...
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Forgetting Is Retrieval Failure, Not Erasure
I remember sitting in a windowless training room back in 2012, staring at a PowerPoint slide that promised a “revolutionary breakthrough” in...
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Experts Have Better Organised Knowledge, Not More
I remember sitting in a windowless training room ten years ago, nodding politely while a consultant in a slim-fit suit used a...
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Four Items and Then It Spills
I remember standing at the front of a Year 9 class on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, midway through what I thought was...
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Learning Is a Change in Long Term Memory
I was sitting in a middle leadership seminar last Tuesday—one of those “professional development” sessions that could have been a well-constructed email—listening...
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