tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post5480380590690901488..comments2024-03-14T02:53:31.171+00:00Comments on Tom Bennett's School Report: The Intellectual Abyss in education: Suzanne Moore, and why everyone's an expertTom Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211959016018081924noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-86841205561716217732013-12-21T12:06:28.127+00:002013-12-21T12:06:28.127+00:00I'll answer it then (rather late, sorry). This...I'll answer it then (rather late, sorry). This is basically the fallacy of argument from ignorance. The fact is that VAK and group work and multiple intelligences etc have not been subject to rigorous testing (including RCTs). So why use them? Because a man with a clipboard said? <br /><br />Would you get your kids to rub their noses and ears if you were told it would improve their brains? Would you make them take special pills if it allegedly increases IQ? Would you wear a hat shaped like a banana if you were told that it improved learning? Anyone who can think straight would ask for some evidence that these measures were efficacious. To do otherwise is the educational version of Pascal's Wager.<br /><br />Criticising a flawed, broken system (ie educational treatments that have never been proven yet are sucked up by the establishment who are desperate for easy, quick fixes) does not require you to come up with alternatives. That's not how it works. <br /><br />And yes, 10 years of teaching is a superpower against those who have never been a teacher yet think that they know how to teach. It's fucking *Kryptonite*.<br />clivenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-6499182808123102912013-03-20T17:33:31.806+00:002013-03-20T17:33:31.806+00:00Curious why this question was never answered.
Th...Curious why this question was never answered. <br /><br />This blog has become predictable. I can count on you spewing your discontent in a rather dramatic and witty fashion, but without any alternatives or evidence of your own to offer. Go ahead and convince me that you know better than everyone else. Give me some proper reasons for why VAK limits learning (as your latest entry so boldly professes), or why I shouldn't bother with group work or cross-curricular links. Prove to me that you're right, since you love to criticise others for not doing a good enough job of it.<br /><br />I subscribed to this blog and bought several of your books, so clearly at one point I saw value in what you had to say. It saddens me that the reason for that currently eludes me. I'm hoping you can refresh my memory.Brynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01331398392683415023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-7024018671004293252013-02-03T20:02:48.159+00:002013-02-03T20:02:48.159+00:00You're right that research in social science i...You're right that research in social science is imperfect at best, but what makes you so sure your own experience trumps it? Do you have some kind of superpower?Brynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01331398392683415023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-43359634948749161992013-02-03T14:31:58.164+00:002013-02-03T14:31:58.164+00:00You're correct about dubious use of evidence. ...You're correct about dubious use of evidence. Toby Young attempted to refute Moore's evidence with, er, evidence. Pity that his evidence didn't stand much scrutiny.<br /><br />http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2013/02/sorry-toby-but-the-data-backs-suzanne/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-37275123707621358122013-02-01T19:23:10.321+00:002013-02-01T19:23:10.321+00:00I know this is true because quite a lot of people ...I know this is true because quite a lot of people I know online also know the author and agree with him. That's evidence, innit?<br />It's a tangled web and spinning it tends to make it tangle even further. I agree mainly with the stuff you write (and I've no problem at all with this piece) but I've taught in schools so far apart ideologically and social-intakely (did i just make that word up?) that the teachers in either would have NO IDEA of life in the other. This tends to skew their core beliefs (and how much extra work they're prepared to put with)and fuel dissent within the teachery establishment. It isn't cut of one cloth. My present school thinks Gove is spot-on, evn if they hide it behind the "Good God I'm a Tory!" bluster. If you think Justinium's handing in his GCSE coursework 3hrs late is a problem, then you aren't even in the same job as the teacher deciding if refusing to accept Kelseigh back into class after she spat at him for the 4th time is going to ruin her life if she can't get on the Animal Care course at at F(failed)E(education)college.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-64700130177093991532013-01-31T20:39:44.481+00:002013-01-31T20:39:44.481+00:00I see an agreement with one of Hattie's claims...I see an agreement with one of Hattie's claims. Teachers defend their preferred method of teaching like a zealot protects their religion! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sng4p3Vsu7Y&feature=player_embedded#at=309@cparkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16272099518360065089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-53140826177014456472013-01-31T14:25:15.540+00:002013-01-31T14:25:15.540+00:00"I know this is true, because there’s been a ..."I know this is true, because there’s been a lot of research done into cognitive bias." Love it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-59126935484679998252013-01-31T14:24:19.676+00:002013-01-31T14:24:19.676+00:00"I know this is true, because there’s been a ..."I know this is true, because there’s been a lot of research done into cognitive bias." Love it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-67492389278066351982013-01-31T12:44:06.830+00:002013-01-31T12:44:06.830+00:00Excellent stuff! A* Target for improvement: none i...Excellent stuff! A* Target for improvement: none in particular.Steve Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705858452229762903noreply@blogger.com