Tag: 4.1
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Learning is strictly making mistakes
The work of Jo Boaler (Boaler 2013) and Carol Dweck (Dweck 2006) shows us that the main hinderance to students learning maths is the belief that they cannot do it (i.e. an emotional response). This concept was introduced to me through the TED talk ‘How you can be good at maths, and other surprising facts about learning’ […]
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I feel, therefore I learn
As a scientist, I love hard evidence. I love to actually see the ‘this, therefore maybe that’ process in action, as a scan or a measurement or a double-blind experiment for instance. In fact one of the first obstacles I had to overcome in studying an Arts Masters (teaching) after having completed a Science Bachelor was bringing […]
Lauren Swann 