How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice

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As for books, he is co-author of How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology, Evidence Informed Learning Design, Urban Myths about Learning and Education and More Urban Myths about Learning and Education as well as of the highly successful book Ten Steps to Complex Learning, and editor of two other books (Visualizing Argumentation and What we know about CSCL).

A rather strange claim about the typing efficacy of children on page 27: "most kids today can type as fast as a teacher talks". The way I see it, the need for inspiration inverts the learning process: instead of starting with the building blocks and moving toward curiosity, students start with curiosity and move towards the building blocks. Blinded by age, we can turn to cold rationality, valuing only what we can define and prioritize only what we can measure. They fall in love with it by playing the game themselves, trading baseball cards, and seeing people talk about the game with glittering enthusiasm. The layout of How Learning Happens is very clever in that each section builds on the last to help the reader understand the what, the why and the how for each key reading.He has also published more than 350 scientific articles as well as many popular articles for teacher journals.

I strongly suggest reading it because it shows how many fashionable instruction practices have little scientific bases and efficacy. Since they were passed along in speech instead of writing, they had to be memorized and known by heart. Even the most inspired people can’t always define the edges of their own interests—let alone explain them to others. Not a general ignorance, but a specific one: ignorance of the evidence bases behind the claims made in education. Exploring 28 key works on learning and teaching, chosen from the fields of educational psychology and cognitive psychology, the book offers a roadmap of the most important discoveries in how learning happens.Plenty of examples are included and there is always a discussion of how the ideas from each chapter can be used in teaching. But because our school system undervalues the necessity of inspiration, students don’t learn as much as they could.

The sleep of reason has bred monsters of pedagogy, and they have been fattened and nurtured by the relative ignorance of the teaching profession.As the sparkle of inspiration enters our bodies, we are animated with a video game style turbo-boost. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice , Kirschner and Hendrick have done the hard work so that you don’t have to. However, there is a reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs, or paradigms, which some scholars have critiqued as rooted in the scientific management and neo-managerial norms that seek to disseminate knowledge in formalized, routine, and procedural ways that lack appropriate grounding in the science of learning ( Myran and Sutherland, 2019).

It’s in the nature of bureaucracies to focus so much on the process that they forget about the end result. Likewise, inspiration doesn’t guarantee knowledge, but it moves the people who pursue it relentlessly. Though we can use Hollywood techniques, we shouldn’t outsource inspiration to the industrial entertainment system. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He is a past President (2010-2011) of the International Society of the Learning Sciences and former member of the Dutch Educational Council and the Scientific Technical Council of the Foundation for University Computing Facilities (SURF WTR).

Even physics, which impacts every waking second of our lives, needs to be made relevant with stories, metaphors, and examples. Thus, if you want to learn more about – let’s say – feedback you can move to chapter 20 ( “Feed up, feedback, feed forward”) and understand it – without having read the preceding chapters. Well, as Kirschner and Hendrick explain, the misapplication of educational theory is unfortunately prevalent: one only has to think of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences as cases in point. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.