We Need to Talk About Scaffolding
A new replication challenges the evidence behind one of education’s core ideas.| The Learning Dispatch
A new replication challenges the evidence behind one of education’s core ideas.| The Learning Dispatch
How the Zone of Proximal Development Became Education's Most Misunderstood Idea| carlhendrick.substack.com
Why moral certainty keeps bad ideas alive in our schools| The Learning Dispatch
New studies on retrieval practice, explicit instruction, interleaving, sleep, erroneous examples, AI, worked examples and more| The Learning Dispatch
New Study Makes Surprising Finding On the Hidden Costs of Classroom Chatter on Thinking| carlhendrick.substack.com
Or How to Plan Teaching That Works for All Students, Not Just the Strongest| The Learning Dispatch
New research evaluates nearly three decades of work on multimedia learning, and explores the boundary conditions of when it enhances or hinders learning.| The Learning Dispatch
How the hard limits of memory drive learning and deeper understanding| carlhendrick.substack.com
New research challenges the idea that spacing works through rest| The Learning Dispatch
Making AI Work for Learning, Not Just for Efficiency| The Learning Dispatch
A round-up of new evidence from cognitive science on learning, teaching and educational practice for educators| The Learning Dispatch
Borges, Bjork, and the science of memory, forgetting and learning| carlhendrick.substack.com
What Michelene Chi Taught Me About Misconceptions| carlhendrick.substack.com
Over 20 new studies on prior knowledge, feedback, spacing/retrieval, AI productivity myths, growth mindset failures, effort backfiring, phone bans, and teaching to the test| The Learning Dispatch
Evidence shows early access to smartphones is strongly associated with poorer mental health and wellbeing. But a lot of the evidence is correlational. What does that mean for schools and parents?| The Learning Dispatch
A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers, offers the most comprehensive picture yet of educational misconceptions in the wild.| carlhendrick.substack.com
How educational research creates unnecessary divisions through terminological confusion| The Learning Dispatch
The recent critique of the Australian Education Research Organisation mischaracterises both the nature of evidence-based practice and AERO’s role in supporting teachers with it.| The Learning Dispatch
Learning doesn't always happen when the student completes a task. It's what happens when the task causes the student to think.| carlhendrick.substack.com
How a Brief Quiz Reduced Anxiety and Boosted Performance| The Learning Dispatch
A new study shows how convenience learning offloading memory to AI erodes learning and why memorisation is still essential to thinking.| carlhendrick.substack.com
A reflection on the reading life. What formed it, what threatens it, and what remains.| carlhendrick.substack.com
