What can teachers learn from television box sets and spider webs?
The phrase 'knowledge rich' first emerged almost a decade ago and has really resonated with educators across England in the last three or four years...
Over the last couple of years, I have been using the analogy of a spider web when discussing knowledge acquisition. This is in regards to study skills, working memory and curriculum design.
A carefully, thought-out structure...
Every stage of the spiderweb is carefully planned, connecting each component to the other, linking to form the overall structure. If there is
The ‘box set curriculum’ is an analogy that Neil Almond developed in this blog and then worked up into a chapter for the ResearchED Guide to the Curriculum. I think it’s important to reference people for their ideas where possible.
https://nutsaboutteaching.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/ramble-9-teamboxset-warning-game-of-thrones-spoilers/
Absolutely. Thanks for the reference. I’ll claim the spider web analogy – developing a web of schematic connections – though before it appears in someone’s book 🙂
FYI = here’s one of the first (academic) references to “box set curriculum” in June 2017, although referenced as prescription and not for autonomy/developing schema: “teacher-centered methods prescribed by the district.” (pg101)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680939.2017.1341552