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Blog entry posted April 4th, 2011 by Dale Worsley

Last year I was meeting with Mr. O- in his classroom in a high school for emotionally disabled children, when Tyreek (not his real name) slipped in. A slender kid with a serious, intellectual demeanor, he approached me and asked if he could have a look at the ballpoint pen in my pocket. New at the school, I was still naïve about the ways of the students, and felt it could only be a decent gesture to trust him. Bad move. He sidled to the other side of the room, began dismantling the pen, and, when asked to return it by Mr. O-, made his escape to the...

Blog entry posted December 13th, 2010 by Dale Worsley

Have you ever seen the famous (or infamous, depending on your opinion of its validity) “Learning Pyramid”? Its basic claim is that as a learner you retain 5% of what you hear, 10% of what you read, 20% of what you both hear and see, 30% of what is demonstrated to you, 50% of what you discuss, 75% of what you practice by doing, and 90% of what you teach to others.

It is a too simplistic explanation of how humans learn, and its research origins are...

Blog entry posted April 21st, 2009 by Mike Staunton

Imagine a foot race, the starter is ready, pistol in hand, the words ‘on your marks, get set’ are said … trigger is pulled, the sharp cracking noise as the gunpowder explodes and … nothing! The runners are still there, watching, talking amongst themselves idling. Frustrated, the starter picks up a runner, carries him/her down the track, drops them over the finish line, races back up, picks up another, carries them down, etc.