Category:
Metacognition

This free to enrol UCL FutureLearn course, newly published this year aims to support teachers’ own innovations in teaching and learning online. It runs over three weeks and features the free online UCL Learning Designer tool. Supported by experts from the UCL Institute of Education including Professor Diana Laurillard, participants...

This report, Education in times of crisis: Effective approaches to distance learning, provides teachers and policymakers with an accessible resource on how to best support students through distance learning, with a particular focus on students where this may be most challenging – including students with SEND and younger students –...

Supporting metacognition in blended learning – Dawn Kennedy, Director of Science Dawn Kennedy is driector of science at Hazeley Academy, part of the 5 Dimensions Trust. In this video, Dawn explains how the Trust has developed its approach to promoting metacognition in online and blended lessons, and offers some strategies...

Over the past weeks and months we’ve touched on assessment and feedback regularly in our work with schools and teachers. As students of all ages return to school there is much talk about assessing learning loss and the need for recovery learning. Acknowledging once again teachers’ incredible response during the...

Design Thinking is a process for solving problems. Used widely by businesses, it is a way of working that has huge potential in the classroom. This course, from BlendEd’s sister organisation TechPathways, created by innovation consultant Sam Roots, acts as an introduction to the process, covering: When you would and...

De Expeditie 7 werelden van techniek is een produkt van Jet-Net&Technet om leerlingen een goed beeld te geven van de baan- en opleidingsmogelijkheden in de techniek. Om ze te helpen hebben we de diverse bèta en technieksector opgedeeld in 7 afgebakende domeinen: de 7 werelden van techniek. Aan de hand...

This report, Education in times of crisis: Effective approaches to distance learning, provides teachers and policymakers with an accessible resource on how to best support students through distance learning, with a particular focus on students where this may be most challenging – including students with SEND and younger students –...

Careful design is often crucial to the short term and longer term success of any learning and teachers through training and experience are often adept at undertaking this individually and collaboratively. During this time of rapid change for teachers, Mark Martin reflects on some of the key factors at play...