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AI can answer questions, but can it teach? Discover why SideCog puts pedagogy, adaptive teaching and lasting learning at the heart of educational AI.
Julian Dance
As AI becomes increasingly common in education, an important question remains: what actually helps students learn? This article explores why guided learning, scaffolding and active thinking matter more than simply giving learners answers.
A clear, practical reflection on the book 'Making Every Lesson Count' by Shaun Allison and Andy Tharby, and how challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning improve science learning.
Practical work is central to science teaching, but experiments alone don’t guarantee understanding. Julian explores what research says about effective science learning.