Curriculum Conversations: A Visual Approach Thoroughly grateful, as ever, to had have the opportunity to share some of my reading, my thinking and my work at the researchEd National Conference in London earlier this month! Thanks so much if you came along! I have been interested in visual (and other) approaches to solving problems since studying a module on group decision making in my degree, back in the early 2000’s! The knowledge and skills I developed at that time had laid somewhat dormant over the years that followed, but since I have more recently encountered further ideas and writing on dual coding, visual techniques and graphic organisation, I have begun to fuse together my interest and experience from the field of management with my improved understanding of the importance of visuals in communication and processing. Discovery of this very recent article from Csaszar, Hinrichs and Heshmati (2024) was very pleasing to me. They draw together findings from practitioners in the
Are there different types of misconception? Does thinking about this help us to better identify them, prevent them and address them? I am suggesting here that misconceptions may be classified into two types: - pre-existing misconceptions - instructional phase misconceptions (or ‘miscompletions’) If the student simply does not know something, this shall not be considered a misconception, but rather an ‘incompletion’. They have a gap, and it isn’t filled with something wrong, it’s just empty! This post is in response to a blog named ‘Misconception?’ from Ben Newmark, you can read it here ! Thanks, Ben!