Evidence Talks

In this episode we do two things: Discuss a recent article about the prevalence of 'neuromyths' in education and the workplace Introduce an initiative we'll be running for the remainder of the year, where we'll be focusing on workplace assessment. Richard highlights recently came across this article in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2016/feb/24/four-neuromyths-still-prevalent-in-schools-debunked?CMP=share_btn_tw and thought it was a good example of how misunderstandings of science persist as beliefs despite a lack of evidence, for example 'we only use 10% of our brains' or 'learning styles'. It's easy to see how this popular shorthand of science becomes common knowledge, but we should be extremely wary about using these 'theories' as the basis for shaping policies, educational practices or learning and development. Pilar and Richard move on to discuss the Future Work Centre's upcoming initiative about workplace assessment. Used by many organisations across the world to h