This, he explained, was the shape that learning takes ... and one kid noticed his diagram looked like a pit. Letting kids ...

It’s called the Learning Pit. If you haven’t heard the analogy about the Learning Pit you should check out this blog by Nottingham. In the blog, Nottingham writes, One of the frameworks I ...

“Your brain grows at the bottom,” he said. It’s a phrase that refers to the bottom of the learning pit, an imaginary place where students in Hunter’s class in Illinois have been taught to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We all think we understand the learning curve, but have you heard of the learning pit? More to the point ...

We watched as an English teacher put up a picture of something called the Learning Pit, which looked like a cartoon ditch with a kid at the bottom. This, he explained, was the shape that learning ...