Great post Ben. I'm a huge Dan Willingham and Oli Caviglioli fan. (I'm not familiar with Frederick Reif - I'll have to look him up).
I especially appreciated the metaphor of ideas being like objects, which can be manipulated, categorised, and connected purposefully. This is immensely helpful for 'grown ups' too. I'm thinking of the teachers I work with and the importance of modelling how to 'organise' ideas both when I work with them and as a teaching practice I want to encourage in classrooms.
Amazing that anyone learned anything prior to the learning sciences. Poor Aristotle. Sad for Socrates. And what about millions of indigenous children roaming aimlessly, staring at their bare feet and wondering why they can’t ‘chunk’?
Love this post. ❤️
Great post Ben. I'm a huge Dan Willingham and Oli Caviglioli fan. (I'm not familiar with Frederick Reif - I'll have to look him up).
I especially appreciated the metaphor of ideas being like objects, which can be manipulated, categorised, and connected purposefully. This is immensely helpful for 'grown ups' too. I'm thinking of the teachers I work with and the importance of modelling how to 'organise' ideas both when I work with them and as a teaching practice I want to encourage in classrooms.
Thanks so much! Again, a lot of what i write is built in the Organise Ideas book.
Amazing that anyone learned anything prior to the learning sciences. Poor Aristotle. Sad for Socrates. And what about millions of indigenous children roaming aimlessly, staring at their bare feet and wondering why they can’t ‘chunk’?