How Learning Happens by Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick

This was a book I was very excited about. The back page has glowing commendations from Willingham, Wiliam and Sherrington. Hard to argue with that. It is beautiful looking with a clear structure and some lovely illustrations by Caviglioli. It contains 28 reviews of key research papers. For each it gives background, an abstract, aContinue reading “How Learning Happens by Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick”

More Urban Myths About Learning and Education by Pedro de Bruyckere, Paul Kirschner and Casper Hulshof

There are now a lot of educational myths books available and therefore much of what you read has been read before. In some ways it makes one an unfair judge as nothing in this book was new or came as a surprise and therefore it lacked a little impact. I therefore started to try andContinue reading “More Urban Myths About Learning and Education by Pedro de Bruyckere, Paul Kirschner and Casper Hulshof”