My book, Seven Myths about Education, was published on 18th June.
It’s available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store – click here to buy it if you are in the UK, and click here to buy it if you are in the US.
There’s a nice review of it here by Joe Kirby.
Before publication I wrote a short summary of each chapter. Here they are.
- Introduction
- Facts prevent understanding
- Teacher-led instruction is passive
- The 21st century fundamentally changes everything
- You can always just look it up
- We should teach transferable skills
- Projects and activities are the best way to learn
- Teaching knowledge is indoctrination
Enjoy!
Very timely, as just days before this book was launched, the Observer published an article by acclaimed educationalist, Professor Sugata Mitra, which appears to espouse all seven myths.
Article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/15/schools-teaching-curriculum-education-google#start-of-comments