The way I see it, the need for inspiration inverts the learning process: instead of starting with the building blocks and moving toward curiosity, students start with curiosity and move towards the building blocks. However, there is a reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs, or paradigms, which some scholars have critiqued as rooted in the scientific management and neo-managerial norms that seek to disseminate knowledge in formalized, routine, and procedural ways that lack appropriate grounding in the science of learning ( Myran and Sutherland, 2019). The six chapters in Part 4 dwell on the role of teachers and give some tips to help them live up to their positive influence potential, involving simple-to-complex elaboration, explicit instructional guidance, and effective feedback. Kirschner and Hendrick set out their rationale to take “the often implicit knowledge that [teachers] have about our profession and make it explicit”, with the understanding that “good teaching is an art informed by science”. The book brings everything into one place with many signposts to further reading, referencing and QR codes to video links.

Likewise, inspiration doesn’t guarantee knowledge, but it moves the people who pursue it relentlessly. The information offered alongside each seminal article, with ready links to external resources, does a wonderful job of providing practical guidance on how these well-established findings might be used to inform teaching practice and design and develop the best learning experiences for students.Part 5 elaborates on different social influences on learning, comprising situated cognition, cognitive apprenticeship, and communities of practice. As the sparkle of inspiration enters our bodies, we are animated with a video game style turbo-boost. It not only keeps up with the latest findings, but also seeks sincere, authentic dialogue with the seminal works.

The assumption might be that children are digital natives and they have super typing skills, but this "deady sin" hypothesis is dealt with on pages 298-99.A few weeks ago, Paul Kirschner contacted us and said that he co-wrote a new book with Carl Hendrick and wondered whether we would be interested in reviewing it in form of a blog post.

Since entertainment means something different to every person, let’s start with a definition: to engage a person’s attention in a way that makes the time pass pleasantly. As for books, he is co-author of How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology, Evidence Informed Learning Design, Urban Myths about Learning and Education and More Urban Myths about Learning and Education as well as of the highly successful book Ten Steps to Complex Learning, and editor of two other books (Visualizing Argumentation and What we know about CSCL).This Renaissance has been accompanied by an evolution, as teachers and academics reach out to one another and seek sincere, authentic dialogue. I will definitely add this book to the reading list for my Service Learning module – where students learn about different learning strategies and then create and deliver How-To-Study tutorials in local schools. Exploring 28 key works on learning and teaching, chosen from the fields of educational psychology and cognitive psychology, the book offers a roadmap of the most important discoveries in how learning happens.