Tony Sherborne

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Creative Director at Sheffield Hallam University

Education

My purpose is to re-imagine science education as it should be. Too often it resembles spoon-feeding a boring body of knowledge into an unwilling body of students. What was once just a conviction became a strategy, once cognitive science gave me the tools for making learning a whole lot better. My job is to try to bridge that gaping chasm between research and effective classroom practice. I am best known for trying to make every day lessons more motivating and meaningful for students, through ‘science upd8', which brought science from the news into the classroom in a week, and for a motivation-first 11-14 curriculum called ‘Wikid. My research is in developing and testing different models ...