Lemov, Pondiscio and the closing of the academic mind 1. There was an interesting article in the Athletic recently about how Michigan Basketball coach, Dusty May, had been learning from Doug Lemov.

Lemov, Pondiscio and the closing of the academic mind

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Oh that's very interesting!

Lemov, Pondiscio and the closing of the academic mind 1. There was an interesting article in the Athletic recently about how Michigan Basketball coach, Dusty May, had been learning from Doug Lemov.

Lemov, Pondiscio and the closing of the academic mind

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Learning is not invisible The idea that ‘learning is invisible’ is a lazy and sloppy dogma which we should probably reject.

The phrase ‘learning is invisible’ is a lazy and sloppy cliche which we should probably stop using.

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...but I really should read more V. I think there's a lot of overlap. Looking at what he said about patterns and tools of thinking, for example.

That's interesting. I wonder whether the difference between a Wittgensteinian and a Vyvotskian approach is that W might refer to context and ask 'what is it that we call "learning"?' whereas V might say 'what is it that causes
"Learning"?' ...

Warum "Lernen ist unsichtbar" eine beliebte, aber an sich wenig sinnvolle Phrase ist. @bernardandrews.bsky.social
#Lernen 👇

Yes that's exactly the view I'm arguing against in the post.

"Others might bring up that abomination of a sentence, ‘learning is change in long-term memory’, which just ignores most of the ways in which we use the word..."

I enjoyed this very thorough exploration of the visibility of learning, from @bernardandrews.bsky.social

This is very interesting indeed. Unfortunately I think the idea that learning can only be made 'visible' by testing a learner's memory has got embedded in our education and accountability systems.

Learning is not invisible The idea that ‘learning is invisible’ is a lazy and sloppy dogma which we should probably reject.

The phrase ‘learning is invisible’ is a lazy and sloppy cliche which we should probably stop using.

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Does “checking for listening” help learning? – Christian Moore Anderson I’ve attended a couple of training sessions as a teacher in which the trainer would ask “check for listening” questions. They’d tell us things and then ask a qu

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● Does "checking for listening really help learning"?

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Teaching tricks, fidelity, and the illusion of “best bets” – Christian Moore Anderson Recently, a claim has emerged: if leaders are frustrated with teaching outcomes, the fault isn't the teacher, but the specific techniques (like turn and talk) t

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● Teaching tricks, fidelity, and the illusion of "best bets"

#UKEd #EduSky

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Evan Thompson on how "controlled hallucination" and "Predictive Processing" are wrong.

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Thanks James!

Efficiency is an educational vice How ‘efficiency’ derailed education

This is such an important perspective, which is so often missing from discussions of "what works" in education. From @bernardandrews.bsky.social
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Efficiency is an educational vice How ‘efficiency’ derailed education

Fantastic read for a Saturday morning:
by @bernardandrews.bsky.social

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This is an important and good interview, regardless of one's opinions on what the prof says.

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

"I’ve been quite swept up by the autism spectrum idea, and it’s only in the past 10 years or so that I have felt things have gone too far, and very slowly I have come to say, 'No, this is not right'"

Autism expert professor Uta Frith talks to @helen-amass.bsky.social
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The most important part of the White Paper will be *how* decisions are going to be made about which support is effective and who should get it. In the end, that’s the crux of any SEND reform.

The other day, @agittner.bsky.social prompted me to describe how I would teach a concept.

I found it almost impossible.

And, it had me wondering why, a full time biology teacher, head of biology, & someone who has written so much on biology education, couldn't do it easily.

Here's my answer 🧵

Yes, I can see that. I was discussing Simone Weil's view of education with @bennewmark.bsky.social recently and that's basically the method she suggests for learning. Being patient and humble enough to simply reject the wrong answer.

Chapter 1: Happiness and life-goals Those who know me, might well laugh at the idea that I might try to write something about ‘a good life’.

Happiness and life-goals
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Chapter 1: Happiness and life-goals Those who know me, might well laugh at the idea that I might try to write something about ‘a good life’.

Happiness and life-goals
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A tough but incredibly rewarding book for me is Maturana's The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love.

It paints a very different picture from this. Humans are a loving species who get physically ill when deprived of it.

I declare this book finished.

It's been intense. So much editing. This is the most important work I've written.
As far as I'm aware, the first book for general teachers that's deeply rooted in *enactive* cognitive science.

Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough

Out soon!

Thank you!

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Bei @bernardandrews.bsky.social gibt es immer Interessantes zu lesen. Ein "Bookmark" für seine Seite wäre meine Empfehlung:

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Und ja, Bildung braucht die Philosophie ganz dringend.

"Predictive Processing" is a zombie-ant fungus (This post is written in response to Adam Wray who argued here that Predictive Processing could explain the difficulties with Engelmann’s theories of instruction.)

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Beide Artikel zeigen, inwiefern die "Cognitive Sciences" einem Szientismus verfallen, wenn sie meinen, die Grenzen ihres Gegenstandes überschreiten zu müssen (etwas vereinfacht gesagt...). 2/2

Interessanter Artikel von @bernardandrews.bsky.social zum Problem mit Modellen wie "Predicitve Processing", der auf einem anderen Artiekl aufbau, nämlich... 1/2