Christian is one of the only teachers who is providing a totally different way of thinking about teaching.

It is a much needed alternative perspective that focuses on the meaning making that happens between the individuals in the classroom and the teacher.

I am very grateful for his voice.

Thanks Lee :D

The book cover for Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough.

Release day! The ebook & hardback are live.

The first book for teachers based on *enactive* cognitive science, please consider leaving a review when you're done (it really helps).

(Paperback readers: Amazon is having a glitch, so it's slightly delayed.)

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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

Sending to the eReader

Thanks!

Sending to the eReader:

"Beyond Control: Finding the Purpose of Enactive Cognitive Science" by @kathrynnave.eurosky.social

(Open Access)

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Very pleased to see phones in school will now be banned by law.

This creates a very clear position from which schools can discuss this issue with parents, lessening any potential diminishing of relationship between school and home.

Congrats Matt :D

I’ve published a new book! 🥳

It is pitched at new teachers. Short. Easy reading. Helps make sense of what goes on in schools.

Check it out.

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Oh, huge thanks Christian! We're also awaiting the hardback :)

We hope the paperback will be available next week, and then I have a nice newsletter to share about it. The hardback is easily the best to own, though :)

I felt bad not listing others, but decided to keep it to the essential names that I think really shaped my thinking, lest the list become too long.

Thanks Christian! It's my best work, with this in the notes:

So being swamped with slop will eventually lead to a reaction:

Revitalisation of live performance in music, theatre, even art.

Redesign of recruitment and management practices to focus on cutting through bullsh¡t.

Education built on human interaction.

Maybe. As a luxury for the privileged.

It started, long ago, with the idea that blog and (social media) posts must have an image.

Then AI images came, and feeds are filled with meaningless images to accompany posts.

Maybe soon, it will reverse: posts must have meaningful text (forget the image, we're swamped in crap).

Oh no, my Kindle Oasis might be dying. The device upon which all my three books were built (via reading many, many PDFs).

Looks like I might switch to Kobo now.

AI is homogenising LinkedIn. All the posts read in the same style. Short overly-punchy sentences are everywhere.

Book cover on teaching the climate emergency

I'd seen it, then forgotten! Thanks for the reminder. I have my own co-authored book coming out this autumn on Teaching the Climate Emergency in Primary Schools!

Have you seen this Doccy?

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LinkedIn is mainly setting out your shop window display every day. The framework, algorithm (and therefore, culture) isn't drive towards conversation, but showing and telling.

a man with gray hair is standing next to a train and holding a handle . ALT: a man with gray hair is standing next to a train and holding a handle .

Hi lovely people. I am hoping to get some teachers of GCSE American West units to complete a short survey. It will help with my PhD research into pupil metanarratives about Indigenous peoples and C19th US expansion.

You can access the survey here: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#historyteacher

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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She should come to Bluesky!

A joke.

This is typical of Western thinking. It's a linear model of education → democratic values.

I think there is an argument for more philosophy, and less content-cram, in schools. But the world is a very complex ever-evolving place.

Good news at last!

Basing assumptions on classical cognitivism is the move most people don't notice they're making. The idea that cognition is computation on representations is so embedded in the culture that it feels like common sense. It's not. It's a theory. And it has competitors.

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Yeah, I had a quick look at Ghost. I want to prioritise my own site, which I'm paying only a few quid a month for. So, for a temporary (or not) measure, I just wanted a subscription service, which BeeHiiv offers free up to 2500 subscribers. We'll see how it goes.