Communication: Easy to get Wrong!

15/04/201511/04/2015 by Andrew Marshall

Learning Strategies: What Does Work?

I am an avid reader of the New Scientist and have a continuous thirst for learning new things. Last week the New Scientist combined the two with an article on learning strategies. Yesterday, I highlighted some of the “most common methods to boost learning [which] are surprisingly useless”, as noted by the New Scientist (2015,… Read More

14/04/201511/04/2015 by Andrew Marshall

Learning Strategies: What Doesn’t Work?

I am an avid reader of the New Scientist and have a continuous thirst for learning new things. Last week the New Scientist combined the two with an article on learning strategies. So, as highlighted in the New Scientist (2015, p.32), the “most common methods to boost learning [which] are surprisingly useless”, include: Highlighting and… Read More

09/01/2015 by Andrew Marshall

Skills & Context…

“In the city there are many clerks, administrators, organisers. Without them Drenan would cease to run. They are valued men. But place them in these mountains and they would starve to death while surrounded by game and edible roots. You understand? The degree of a man’s skill is relative to his surroundings, or the challenges… Read More