Interesting article by Abigail Marshall which explains that programmes based on comprehension strategies are much more effective than those which only focus on phonics. She looked at a recent meta-analysis by British researchers, Dominic Wyse and Alice Bradbury and concluded that“These researchers … recommend that phonics teaching should be “carefully connected with the reading of…
Category: Memory&learning
Improve Your Memory
After long but fascinating period of study, I have completed the Centre of Excellence Improve Your Memory Diploma. This started by looking at the main memory principles which fall into four categories: Make an effort to remember, understand and improve Control the type and amount of information that you need Spend time strengthening the neural…
New website
It has been a long week. My old website was infected with malware and I have had to migrate it to a new platform. My search history shows the difficulty that I had while talking to the hosting service. I understood their words but nothing made sense. What is an out-of-date PHP, how can my…
Educational Neuroscience
Lockdown has offered the perfect opportunity to study those things that I have wanted to explore for a while. I was sad to have completed the Educational Neuroscience programme as I was enjoying it so much but now have a deeper understanding of memory and how to use this for effective learning strategies.