{"id":1035,"date":"2020-03-06T16:14:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/quizzing\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T08:12:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T08:12:37","slug":"quizzing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/quizzing\/","title":{"rendered":"Quizzing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishandmedia.co.uk\/blog\/the-importance-of-making-english-an-open-subject\">John Hodgson explores \u201crange\u201d and \u201copen\u201d English classrooms. He makes a valid point about \u201cquizzing\u201d:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a vogue for quizzing in all subjects at the moment. Quizzing might be of some use in embedding simple information that helps with learning, but it very much conforms to notions of \u2018kind\u2019 learning and \u2018closed\u2019 skills. Real learning, difficult learning, requires \u2018generative\u2019 forms of learning. Quizzing is not a desirable difficulty, even if it relates to a difficult text. Indeed, the \u2018desirable difficulties\u2019 in English that help generate new knowledge would most likely not link to \u2018difficult\u2019 texts per se, or writing in \u2018difficult\u2019 forms. Instead, they would involve students grappling with age-appropriate literature to come up with their own responses, and working out how to structure their writing and populate it with content for themselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hodgson explores \u201crange\u201d and \u201copen\u201d English classrooms. He makes a valid point about \u201cquizzing\u201d: There\u2019s a vogue for quizzing in all subjects at the moment. Quizzing might be of some use in embedding simple information that helps with learning, but it very much conforms to notions of \u2018kind\u2019 learning and \u2018closed\u2019 skills. Real learning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}