The Learning Dispatch
Making sense of how learning happens. https://www.carlhendrick.com/
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The Great Reading Recession (opens the original)
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This morning I read through the latest PISA results (an international test of 15 year olds in maths, reading and science) and it has to be said that the headline findings are grim. Especially for reading. The blame will inevitably fall on screens and the Pandemic but increasingly this doesn’t add up. If it were all down to the screens then you have to account for the fact that Singapore has among the highest smart-phone saturation in the world but also the highest reading scores. You also have t
New Research on Learning Science: The September Dispatch (opens the original)
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Retconning the Curriculum: Why The Science of Learning Has a Serious Design Problem (opens the original)
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Children of the Magenta Line (opens the original)
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In 1997, American Airlines captain Warren VanderBurgh gave a lecture warning about the dangers of autopilot. He titled it "children of the magenta line," after the magenta coloured course line the flight computer draws across a cockpit display. He noticed that pilots were so used to following that line, to managing the automation rather than actually flying the plane, that they lost their own skills to manually fly the plane. This wasn’t a problem until it was a problem. VanderBurgh’s concern wa
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