How to design learning to boost engagement in 8 simple steps
It is around this time of year that many academic departments will be looking ahead in terms of curriculum development.
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Hexis21
- Nov 10, 2021
- 5 min
Traditional school reports are dead
Why progressive reporting offers meaning, direction and iteration As a senior school teacher, I have written thousands of end of...
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Hexis21
- Aug 21, 2021
- 2 min
1 simple & helpful strategy to teach reading for understanding
reading for understanding is so central to learning and meaning making that its importance cannot be overstated
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Hexis21
- Aug 21, 2021
- 8 min
The 8 minutes it will take you to read this will improve your teaching forever.
The interconnected nature of learning, memory, brain function, stress and teaching using research about the science of learning
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Hexis21
- Jul 9, 2021
- 3 min
How do people actually learn?
Do your teaching resources take into account the science of learning? If they don't you may be cognitively overwhelming your students
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Hexis21
- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
Using systems thinking to uncover connections
Each week I run a discussion group called the Politics and International Relations Society. It is open to pupils aged 12-18 and each week...
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Hexis21
- Apr 2, 2021
- 2 min
Creativity Tip #5: How to integrate creative thinking & problem solving into the classroom.
Today marks the final creativity tip in a series of five and this one is one of my favourites as it offers challenge, thinking time
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Hexis21
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
Creativity Tip #3: How to integrate creative thinking & problem solving into the classroom.
Today's creativity tip revolves around the idea of transformation. Thinking in terms of transformation will allow your students to consider
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Hexis21
- Mar 30, 2021
- 2 min
Creativity Tip #2: How to integrate creative thinking & problem solving into the classroom.
There is a misconception that constraints are inherently negative and any solution that is created within them is going to fall short
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Hexis21
- Mar 26, 2021
- 2 min
How to supercharge your thinking skills
I’ve been sharing a lot of information about critical thinking and how we can use it as a problem-solving skill. The other strategy...
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Hexis21
- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
How to think as an innovator
If you want to develop your creative thinking and problem solving skills you need to practise them. Anyone can be creative and solve...
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Hexis21
- Mar 8, 2021
- 2 min
How to use an idea box to solve problems
The Idea Box is based on a theory of Dr Fritz Zwicky who was a Swiss astronomer. What Dr Zwicky found was that when you are faced with a...
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Hexis21
- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
SAM: The rapid fire model of instructional design
The Successive Approximation Model (SAM) of instructional design is the brainchild of entrepreneur, Michael Allen. It is characterised by...
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Hexis21
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min
Instructional Design: A Systems Approach Model
Dick, Carey, and Carey (2009) proposed 10 stages of learning in their model of instructional design. The model identifies a systems...
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Hexis21
- Feb 23, 2021
- 6 min
What is the instructional design model, ADDIE?
How do we go about planning online courses that meet the needs of all stakeholders using ADDIE?
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