Dynamic Learning: Active Learning and Cornell Notes
The third Dynamic Learning film introduces students to the Cornell Method and suggests ways it can help them improve the quality of their note-taking.
Dynamic Learning: Active Learning and Cornell Notes
Most students write simple linear notes. But there is a way to improve the quality of note-taking that makes it more active, inquiring and revision-friendly, without radically changing how they take notes. It’s called the Cornell Method and it’s been helping to improve academic performance for over 50 years. This short film takes students through […]
Dynamic Learning: Sleep and Memory
The second film in the Dynamic Learning series looks at the relationship between sleep and memory and shows students how to apply the knowledge of this relationship to their studies.
Dynamic Learning: Sleep and Memory
Recent scientific research has shown us the benefits of sleep. And we’re increasingly aware that good sleep is crucial to memory and learning. Of course, just getting lots of sleep isn’t going to get you good grades. You need to understand how to use a knowledge of sleep to your advantage and this short film […]
Dynamic Learning: The Power of Habits
The first film in our new Dynamic Learning series of Metacognition films shows students how to develop positive study habits.
Dynamic Learning: The Power of Habits
The first film in our new Dynamic Learning series of Metacognition films shows students how to develop positive study habits.
Collections 3 | Simulations
All of the Sims on the site handily gathered together in one place.
Collections 2 | Revision
This latest Collection gathers all our Revsion process posts into one handy place.
Learning Mat: Paragraph Practice
A Learning Mat designed to help students practice low-stakes paragraph writing in any subject that involves any kind of extended writing.
Creating Curious Presentations: the medium is not the message
Added a short Update to the original “Curiosity” Post relating to how this can encourage students to create better memories.
Collections 1 | Learning Mats
A Collection of Learning Mat posts that makes it easier for you to find whatever it is you may be looking for (as long as, in this instance, it’s some variation of Learning Mats).
Social Inequality and The Sunday Times Rich List
Recent (2023) analysis of Sunday Times Rich List provides a lot of student-friendly data about both wealth and social inequality in the UK.
The Dead Grandmother Problem | 2: Some Lessons
A few years ago (4 to be precise) I did a post on Mike Adams’ “Dead Grandmother Problem” and I’ve finally got around to updating it with some Methods-related suggestions about how you could use “The Problem” in the classroom.
Psychology Learning Tables | 9
The ninth (and final!) set of A-level Psychology Knowledge Organisers covers the letters P (for Parasocial Relationships) to W (Working Memory Model).
Food For Thought?
In what is, I must admit, a first for me I came across this Recipe Booklet on a school web site when looking for the source of a GCSE to A-level Revision Booklet that features in a recent post about Summer Transition materials. It was filed under Revision for the not implausible reason that what you eat can impact on academic performance.