On Thinking
What We Get Wrong About Mistakes
In most classrooms, a mistake is something to be erased. This is the deepest pedagogical error of our time. Mistakes are not where learning fails. They are where it begins.
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Insights
Insights
Essays on how children learn, how we teach, and what gets in the way of both. Written by Albert.
On Thinking
Why Your Child Is Good at Familiar Problems and Freezes on Unfamiliar Ones
Many capable students hit a wall in upper secondary — not because the material is too hard, but because they were trained for the wrong thing. This essay is about what was trained, why it stopped working, and what to do.
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On Thinking
Three Quiet Ways Adults Take Over a Child's Thinking
The most damaging interventions in a child's learning are rarely loud. They are quiet, well-meaning, and dressed up as help. Three of them, in particular, show up in almost every home and every classroom.
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