Rebecca your account of your recent learning experiences generated many insights into what Piaget (father of schema theory!) termed disequilibrium -- the phase of lifelong learning beyond assimilation and into the deeper tasks of accommodation.
How’s the thesis coming along? It sounds super interesting. Please keep us posted on your progress!
I agree totally with your views on Teacher Professional Learning and Adult Learning. We all learn with the same processes, and adults (sometimes) have more background knowledge to support their learning... The difference is that some learners take longer than others, irrespective of the learners' ages. The difference is often due to what the learners already know and can do... There is dated research from as long ago as the 1950's that supports this position. In line with this thinking, the KEY QUESTION is: Why has Teacher Professional Learning (with all those resources and time over all those years - how many???) NOT really made a lot of difference to what happens in many classrooms and how well students learn?
Very interesting and insightful piece Rebecca, I've found if I'm very curious and interested in something, I'm more able to learn and retain information.
Why are using a book based on SPSS when you yourself are not using SPSS?? What statistical software are you using instead?
I checked out the book on Amazon. The material about Null Hypothesis Significance Testing is not very good, and the author does not really understand some basic statistical concepts. Beware. Also beware of SEM -- it's basically statistical voodoo, and you can't get sanctimonious about p-hacking if you're using these sorts of methods.
Anyway, it's good to see you back here -- we've all been missing you.
This is superb Rebecca and busts many myths in such an eloquent way. Thank you.
Learning is churning.
......and rearranging!
Rebecca your account of your recent learning experiences generated many insights into what Piaget (father of schema theory!) termed disequilibrium -- the phase of lifelong learning beyond assimilation and into the deeper tasks of accommodation.
How’s the thesis coming along? It sounds super interesting. Please keep us posted on your progress!
Great article. Thanks for the read.
Btw you might want to take a quick look at the spelling in the title 😂
I agree totally with your views on Teacher Professional Learning and Adult Learning. We all learn with the same processes, and adults (sometimes) have more background knowledge to support their learning... The difference is that some learners take longer than others, irrespective of the learners' ages. The difference is often due to what the learners already know and can do... There is dated research from as long ago as the 1950's that supports this position. In line with this thinking, the KEY QUESTION is: Why has Teacher Professional Learning (with all those resources and time over all those years - how many???) NOT really made a lot of difference to what happens in many classrooms and how well students learn?
Very interesting and insightful piece Rebecca, I've found if I'm very curious and interested in something, I'm more able to learn and retain information.
Why are using a book based on SPSS when you yourself are not using SPSS?? What statistical software are you using instead?
I checked out the book on Amazon. The material about Null Hypothesis Significance Testing is not very good, and the author does not really understand some basic statistical concepts. Beware. Also beware of SEM -- it's basically statistical voodoo, and you can't get sanctimonious about p-hacking if you're using these sorts of methods.
Anyway, it's good to see you back here -- we've all been missing you.