THE LEARNING LAB
Ideas to help you learn better.
Research, methods and fresh perspectives to understand learning, build autonomy and help education evolve.
Published articles
You Were Never Taught How to Learn: The Missing Subject in Modern Education
An evidence-informed critical essay on the hidden curriculum of effective learning, examining Learning Coach Editions' You Were Never Taught How to Learn alongside research on retrieval, metacognition, equity, and AI.
Stop Teaching Start Coaching: A Book That Challenges What Schools Are For
A critical essay on Learning Coach's Stop Teaching. Start Coaching.: what the book gets right about learning, what explicit instruction still requires, and where autonomy, equity and AI complicate the case.
The Thinking We Outsource: What AI Changes About the Act of Learning
A research-grounded editorial debate on cognitive offloading, AI tutoring, independent learning, assessment and the difference between accelerating a task and building lasting skill.