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Creative Director at Sheffield Hallam University
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My purpose is to re-imagine science education as it should be. Too often it resembles spoon-feeding a boring body of knowledge into an unwilling body of students. What was once just a conviction became a strategy, once cognitive science gave me the tools for making learning a whole lot better. My job is to try to bridge that gaping chasm between research and effective classroom practice.
I am best known for trying to make every day lessons more motivating and meaningful for students, through ‘science upd8', which brought science from the news into the classroom in a week, and for a motivation-first 11-14 curriculum called ‘Wikid. My research is in developing and testing different models ...
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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom United Kingdom
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Creative Director at Sheffield Hallam University
Industry
Education
About
My purpose is to re-imagine science education as it should be. Too often it resembles spoon-feeding a boring body of knowledge into an unwilling body of students. What was once just a conviction became a strategy, once cognitive science gave me the tools for making learning a whole lot better. My job is to try to bridge that gaping chasm between research and effective classroom practice.
I am best known for trying to make every day lessons more motivating and meaningful for students, through ‘science upd8', which brought science from the news into the classroom in a week, and for a motivation-first 11-14 curriculum called ‘Wikid. My research is in developing and testing different models ...
Tags
electromancer
science gcse resources skills
a&e
knower
science curriculum
big ideas
blood
watcher
seeker
weaver
curriculum materials
christmas
5-year plan
science assessment gcse skills
gcse science skills
machines
climate change
physics
energy
renewable energy
ecosystems
interdependence
mastery learning
curriculum
upd8 crucial
science textbook wikid upd8
science k12 earthquakes upd8
upd8 earthquakes science gcse k12
therapy
See more