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Jan Owen is CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians. In this very first episode of the ERRR we speak about FYA's article 'The New Basics', and how the FYA believes that 'enterprise skills' are no longer an educational bonus, but a necessity.

The Education Research Reading Room

ERRR #001. Jan Owen and The New Basics

Professor Stephen Dinham has had a long and illustrious career in education, from over a decade in the classroom to Associate Dean of The Melbourne Graduate School of Education. In this episode Dinham speaks about his paper' The Worst of Both Worlds' in which he details Australia's tendency to adopt edu policies from the U.S and U.K, even when they don't work.

ERRR #002. Stephen Dinham and The Worst of Both Worlds

Tom Bennett is the founder of researchED, a grass-roots organisation that seeks to raise research literacy in education. Tom's paper advocates for schools to allot time to teachers to explore research ed and how it applies in their school setting.

ERRR #003. Tom Bennett and The School Research Lead

Ollie talks about definitions of direct instruction from John Hattie, summarises some of Dylan Wiliam's key points from the Mr Barton Maths Podcast, and talks about what it takes to build habits. Show notes at www.ollielovell.com/totpodcast

Teacher Ollie's Takeaways

TOT #001. What is Direct Instruction? Dylan Wiliam takeaways, and Building Habits.

ERRR goes to Taiwan to speak with Professor Sharon Chen about different approaches to teaching Science by Inquiry in Taiwan, Germany, and Australia... What is teaching by inquiry anyway?

ERRR #011. Sharon Chen on International Comparisons of Inquiry Teaching

Ollie speaks with Dr. Judith Hochman speaks about 'The Writing Revolution', a structured, systematic, and highly effective approach to teaching writing, and to teaching content through language, across all subjects and year levels.

ERRR #029. Judith Hochman on How to Teach Students to Write

Neil and Ollie talk about the role of language in evolution, parallels between language and evolution, prejudices against group work, typologies of talk, groupthink, the conceptual space of a conversation and many more fascinating topics.

ERRR #030. Neil Mercer on Interthinking and Group Work

Oliver Caviglioli speaks about the principles of effective information design, and the connection between images, objects, and thoughts.

ERRR #042. Oliver Caviglioli on Information Design

Professor Alexander Renkl speaks about the self-explanation effect, that is, the crucial internal dialogues that successful students engage in when they learn from worked examples, solve problems, and engage in other learning activities.

ERRR #044. Alexander Renkl on Self-explanation

Ollie Lovell, passionate teacher in on the lands of the Kulin Nation in Western Melbourne, Australia. Loves learning and learning about learning. Get in touch with me at @ollie_lovell or at www.ollielovell.com