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With the volumes of information we have to digest every day, from the newspaper in the morning, to the long-winded emails from well-meaning colleagues, and all the reports, proposals, periodicals, and letters we are sent, reading is one of the most used skills we possess.

With the volumes of information we have to digest every day, from the newspaper in the morning, to the long-winded emails from well-meaning colleagues, and all the reports, proposals, periodicals, and letters we are sent, reading is one of the most used skills we possess.

In this lesson, we learn quick rules of getting the gist; or point of a sentence, paragraph and essay. This skill will improve your reading speed...

In this lesson, we learn quick rules of getting the gist; or point of a sentence, paragraph and essay. This skill will improve your reading speed...

Nice article on the myths of learning styles with plenty of links to further reading

Nice article on the myths of learning styles with plenty of links to further reading

Go on, ask yourself, ask other teachers, ask some students: what is learning? It’s a pretty big question isn’t it? One that I might have felt hopelessly unequal to answering before reading Graham Nuthall‘s The Hidden Lives of Learners. This book draws together one of the most impressive attempts to find out what goes on

I wrote a post a couple of years ago about learning and performance, inspired by David Didau’s own blog and a workshop I attended that really opened my eyes. This blog post was removed after …

I wrote a post a couple of years ago about learning and performance, inspired by David Didau’s own blog and a workshop I attended that really opened my eyes. This blog post was removed after …

A nice overview of Bloom - a bit of history to his taxonomies & how it can be used for writing outcomes and questions. Would definitely recommend a skim read through this.

Theories and Models of Learning for Educational Research and Practice. This knowledge base features learning theories and models that address how people learn. We have tried to summarize and discuss these theories in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand format. This site is a resource useful for scholars of various fields, including educational psychology, instructional design, and human-computer interaction.