@VinceBoley Because they were philiosophically romanced by the apt titled ‘Romantic Movement’ in Ed. This is often closely tied to teachers’ personal identities & they hold on to evidence that it worked (for some)
A comprehensive explainer into Desirable Difficulties. It’s not about making lessons challenging. It’s about making retrieval challenging. The content needs to have already been taught and we’re after learning, not performance.
https://t.co/tOYjIJUfdn
@AnjanetteMcNee2@P_A_Kirschner It’s a profession whose cornerstones are staff who overextend due to systems, passion and circumstances - needs systemic change. Younger generations may be more suited to being steadfast than my compliant generation. Hopefully.
@dylanwiliam@P_A_Kirschner And is there anything wrong with any of these options? Career teachers are leaving the profession in droves. Class size reduction doesn’t need to be driven by academic data alone, burnout rate data more so
@AFLFantasy Unlimited trades all throughout the season? Something that shakes it up. The game needs more avenues for independent thinking. It’s at risk of just lemmings following The Traders which is becoming a sorefest
The best way to teach children how to be critical thinkers about social media (or any new information) is for schools to:
1. Make sure they know lots of core knowledge about science, history, language, etc so that false information is easier to challenge, and they possess robust frameworks of existing information
2. Teach them how to formulate logical arguments and syllogisms, and identify faulty reasoning.
A few assemblies on fake news won’t cut it. The best way to nurture generations of informed critical thinkers, is by teaching them acres of knowledge-rich domain content, and how reasoning works. Critical thinking isn’t a skill separate from these things; it is composed of them.