Tralee Webinar: Cognitive Science in English
Here are the links and ‘shownotes’ for my webinar ‘An Introduction to Cognitive Science for English Teachers’, via Tralee Education Support Centre, Monday 15th January 2024.
Note that this is primarily directed at English teachers in Ireland, and is certainly an ‘introduction’, mostly serving as a quick overview of the topic, and pointing the way to further information.
Slides from the presentation.
Professor Barbara Oakley’s website.
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn.
Coursera’s free course ‘Learning How to Learn’ with Terrence Sejnowski. Further courses via her site.
Professor Daniel Willingham’s website.
The American Educator 2009 article.
On the Learning Styles myth, with Cedar Reiner.
The Learning Scientists website, including videos for students, downloadable posters, podcasts and more.
Website of Pooja K. Agarwal, Retrieval Practice.
Sarah Cottingham’s LitDrive 20-minute talk on ‘Key Principles of cognitive science that all English teachers should consider.’
Website of Efrat Furst, ‘Bridging Cognitive Science & Education.’
Professor Maryanne Wolf: Reader, Come Home - the reading brain in a digital world. My review, on her idea of ‘cognitive patience.’
Oliver Caviglioli’s website: ‘Visual Clarity’.
Brian Klaas, The Garden of Forking Paths: ‘We are different from all other humans in history.’
My Macbeth quotation retrieval grids: thinking exercises (with links to Hamlet, King Lear and Othello).
Hamlet quotation Quizlets for retrieval practice. Also available on the other main tragedies.
‘Make flashcards more powerful’ by Pooja K. Agarwal.
Comments on the book Cognitive Load Theory by Greg Ashman.
My post on Using a Visualiser in the English Classroom.
My review of the excellent iOS app Notability, particularly good for annotation and modelling.
Jennifer Webb and Marcello Giovanelli: Essential Grammar: the resource book every English teacher will need.
My post on using a visualiser in an English classroom.
Christopher Youles: Sentence Models for creative writing: a practical resource for teaching writing.
The persistent and stubborn Learning Styles myth, and why it can be damaging. Video on ‘The Biggest Myth in Education’.
Ethan Mollick thread on teachers believing ‘learning styles’
The researchED Guide to Cognitive Science, edited by Kate Jones.
Tom Sherrington on Rosenshine’s Principles, and a blog-post called ‘Exploring Barak Rosenshine’s seminal Principles of Instruction: Why it is the must-read for all teachers.’
Barak Rosenshine’s original paper.
Alex Quigley’s website ‘The Confident Teacher’ and my comments on his books Closing the Reading Gap and Closing the Writing Gap.
Two recommended newsletters (both crisp, clear, actionable): Peps Mccrea’s Evidence Snacks and Jonathan Firth’s Memory and Metacognition Updates.
Jamie Clark’s posters can be downloaded from his website, and his book Teaching One-Pagers comes out soon.
English Meet at Bandon Grammar School, Thursday 25th. And the Dublin one at my school will again take place in May (date to be decided): get in touch if interested.