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Education: ideas and frameworks explained

A collection of ideas, frameworks and techniques related to Education, explained clearly so they are easy to understand and share.

What is the meaning of cognitive offloading? Shown by delegating our critical thinking to tools like calculators or AI chatbotsCognitive Offloading: Delegating Our ThinkingRose Thorn Bud reflection technique summary showing a rose with thorn and bud highlighting successes, challenges and potentialRose, Thorn, BudThe upward spiral from Stephen Covey illustration: showing a spiral growing from the bottom with Learn Commit Do repeating as it rises and someone reading a map, packing their gear and heading off determinedly on a trip illustrating each stepThe Upward SpiralThe Feynman Learning Technique illustration: a flow diagram of picking a topic, writing about it to explain to someone until it's clear and then simplifying and adding analogiesThe Feynman Learning TechniqueBrilliance bias: A group of people in a gallery of portraits of famous people lament that the brilliant women were forgotten againBrilliance biasBlooms Taxonomy explanation: A series of 6 building blocks are stacked on top of each other, decreasing in size as they go up, creating a pyramid-style construction. Each block represents one of 6 thinking skills. These skills become more sophisticated as the pyramid climbs and reminds us that the foundation of learning is knowledge. Bloom's TaxonomyThe Learning Pit illustration: a journey from left to right; an individual faces a learning challenge represented by a large pit they need to reach the other side of. Having fallen down into the pit, the challenge seems more difficult than first anticipated. As the picture becomes clearer they discover what they need to climb up the other side to a point where they can look back down at the pit having mastered the challenge. The Learning PitA fisherman illustrates the parable of the fishing net by concluding a minimum size of fish because they never see any smaller in their nets — you get what you measureYou get what you measureThe meaning of the third teacher as the environment from Reggio Emilia together with teachers/parents and peersThe Environment as the Third Teacher in Early Childhood and BeyondGoldilocks Tasks: a spectrum where the challenge is not too easy, not too hard, but just right for flow and masteryGoldilocks tasksZone of proximal developmentWhat gets measured gets betterChildhood is not a raceBabies learn control from the top down

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