Nov
5
5
Learning Styles: Saying Goodbye to a Shibboleth of Instructional Design
If you gave a prize for the most intuitively appealing idea in education, it would probably go to the theory of “learning styles.” The gist Read More →
Author: Gregg Collins
Nov
1
1
Failure-driven Learning versus “Coloring Inside the Lines”
In my last post, I talked about the most common challenge to the theory of failure-driven learning. In this post, I want to address another frequent challenge, Read More →
Oct
26
26
Failure-driven Learning versus “Success-driven learning”
The heart of our pedagogical approach is the theory of “failure-driven learning,” which says, in a nutshell, that learning happens only when the world does something different Read More →
Oct
19
19
Reading John Dewey
John Dewey is arguably the greatest philosopher of education the world has seen. Unfortunately, for most of us, his stilted, formal prose causes unpleasant flashbacks Read More →