….. and they’re not in receipt of lessons paid for by the public purse! Why? To optimise motor control in the face of ageing and injury, according to an article on Science Daily.
What was interesting from the point of view of music cognition is the idea that the birds, like most of us, require audio […]

Passing the towering bookshelves at home it often strikes me that there is more reading matter there than I have hours left on Earth. The sands of time continue to flow while I visit websites and blogs. Why then do I compromise further by dallying with websites boasting massive archives? To paraphrase the ego-centric shampoo […]

I’ve long been convinced of the benefits of connectivity in learning. Musical concepts can occasionally seem nebulous and resonance with any element of pupils’ more concrete subjects is a great ally. Comparisons between technique and PE or phrasing and language are usually embraced willingly.
Those involving Maths & Physics can tend to produce more glazing than […]

If you allowed your pupils to rove freely round the classroom, how difficult would it be to keep track of where they were? Imagine that at the end of a few seconds, they were converted into identical, featureless statues. How many of them could you name?
A recent article in the New Scientist Latest Headlines Blog […]

Today I received an email from the RSA alerting me to an interesting event which I simply can’t attend. Why do I enlist for newletters from organisations 400 miles away? The main reason is to remind me to keep in touch with what these interesting organisations are doing. By visiting the Index of audio lectures […]

There appear to me to be three types of reading – or should I say layout:

printed, linear text
printed text - largely linear but featuring distracting insets, “emboldened extracts…” and photos/diagrams bearing descriptive information – frequently found in Sunday supplement features and New Scientist articles. Enticing as they are these distractions are to narrative flow what […]

Sergio Della Sala’s one minute summing up of his talk at the Scottish Learning Festival.
You can listen to more detail about Della Sala’s research in LTS’s new Learning About Learning video-based website.