Book Review: “Mental Models” and “Just Tell Them” – Education & Teacher Conferences

Proud to review two great books for the Learning & the Brain blog - J. Heal and R. Berlin's "Mental Models" and Zach Groshell's "Just Tell Them." Thanks for the opportunity, @andrewwatsonttb.bsky.social !

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Geriatric Psychiatry Neuroimaging GPN Research Newsletter Fall 2025 Issue In this Issue: Rock with a PostDoc Interview with Jacinta Dickens Research Profile: Jeff Krystek Senior Systems Analyst A Case of the Senior Sorrows Depression in Older Adults

We'd like to share the Fall issue of our newsletter! 🍂 Read up on updates in geriatric psychiatry, what it's like working in research, depression in older adults, and more!
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A model for the learning process. And why it helps to have one. One of the most powerful ideas I’ve engaged with recently is using a diagram to visualise a shared model of the learning process; using it to get a feel for how learning works in general but …

Admin/teacher friends: this is a great read! Having a shared model of learning can be a huge advtange for groups of teachers/schools/districts

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Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

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‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

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"They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years... to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies...:"

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How do we learn*? If you like to watch a video, watch the video. If you like to read, here’s the same information**: 1. Learning is a change to your long-term memory (LTM)1. This is key, and this is how learni…

Admin/Teacher friends: great 5 minute video about how humans learn!

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A row of chemistry glassware containing blue liquid, flipped and reflected.

@sci-drscott.bsky.social shares @cerp.rsc.org research on scaffolded approaches, such as the 3-2-1 Bridge and the One-minute paper, to develop metacognitive awareness. Read more ⬇️ edu.rsc.org/education-re...
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I'm at #rEDDenver2025 - excited to learn from these folks!
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Sharing my notes in case it's useful for anyone: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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so has anyone every written it thought about how best to apply rosenshine’s principles to high ed? #CogSciSci #Pedagogy

This puzzle game shows kids how they’re smarter than AI University of Washington researchers developed the game AI Puzzlers to show kids an area where AI systems still typically and blatantly fail: solving certain reasoning puzzles. In the game, users get....

Neat!

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Capturing Session-to-Session Dynamics of Learning and Forgetting: Testing the Limits of Knowledge Tracing Models - International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education The development of intelligent tutoring systems and other educational technology necessitated the implementation and development of computational models of student learning. At the foundation of these...

Thanks
@carlhendrick.substack.com for shining a light on something that has bothered me about the 'mastery' model assessment.

It has to factor in forgetting...

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I'm excited to present at the ResearchED conf.! I admire the heck out of this organization!

Please share this w/teachers in the Denver area! It's gonna be a great day of conversations about teaching/ learning!

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researchED | Denver Museum of Nature & Science Join us for this year's researchED | Denver Museum of Nature & Science!

Super excited to be about metacognition in 3 weeks!!

Tickets here- $85 for a jam-packed day of amazing professional development, and ideas that you can use on Monday!
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Bring Hess’s cycles to life Demystify this abstract concept for your learners in a few steps - literally

If you teach post-16 chemistry, you’ll know learners can struggle with Hess’s cycles. Which is why teacher Faisal developed this approach with chalk and shaving foam
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Teaching Hess’s cycles? Follow these steps to success – literally!
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Great point, @jeffgreene.bsky.social ! Related thoughts and a blog post about "cognitive offloading" and implications for AI/LLM use: robmcentarffer.net/uncategorize...

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Why cognitive science? What are you doing? Let’s step back a moment. What’s the point?What are you trying to do?What is the goal that you want for your students? My goal is that the students ‘see it lik…

As term starts you might be thinking of including more cogsci type things in your classroom... but what does that actually mean?

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Here's my take on it...
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An illustration of of a key unlocking a head with aluminium and gold and their everyday uses.

Unlock your students’ intellectual curiosity and engage them in chemistry lessons with cognitive interest cues
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Cogsci Book Summaries Here is a reading list of 65 books about cognitive science and its application to the classroom. 2. Here are my summaries of a selection of these books. For each book there is a pdf of my summary a…

My book summaries are now in one place! Yay! Together with the cogsci reading list of 63 books!

And which books, or series, would it be useful to do next?

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GPN Newsletter Cover, highlighting some articles in the issue such as celebrating our 2025 graduates and information about NAMIWalks

Hope you're having a great summer! We'd like to share our latest newsletter from our lab, highlighting some extraordinary work from our student researchers and events in our community.

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#science #MRI #CogSciSci #Alzheimers #BrainHealth

Teacher wearing FFP3 mask and marking papers.

Students can access the mark schemes themselves. It doesn't mean they will!

Proponents of #CogSci and #CogSciSci could keep up-to-date with research. It doesn't mean they will!

Advocates for CLT argue that their evidence base is broad and robust. It is neither. Research findings are “cherry-picked” to support particular beliefs about the correct way to teach.

#CogSci #CogSciSci #CognitiveLoadTheory #WorkingMemory #WM #LTM

Your 14–16 learners will soon know their protons from their neutrons with this poster and fact sheet by @nikika.bsky.social
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Everything you need to teach the structure of the atom With this poster and fact sheet, your 14-16 learners will soon know their electrons from their protons

Download the atomic structure poster and fact sheet by @nikika.bsky.social, covering:
⚛️ Subatomic particles
⚛️ Electron shells
⚛️ Mass number
⚛️ Atomic number
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Everything you need to teach the structure of the atom With this poster and fact sheet, your 14-16 learners will soon know their electrons from their protons

Get everything you need for lessons on atomic structure at 14–16
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In my #CogSciSci keynote I explained how memory is problematic in generating general principles. Something I didn't have time for was to discuss how explanations of phenomenon emerge from the specific experiments carried out. A good example of this is the concept of working memory 1/2

I'm my recent #CogSciSci talk, I went a step further and suggested that you start with recognition tasks and gradually change to questions with less cues.

This might be of interest to anyone who was at @nikika.bsky.social’s #CogSciSci talk.

At #CogSciSci I said we are becoming overly focused by activities in the classroom. I'm my latest paper I make a call for research into how things like retrieval practice interact with other things we do in the classroom 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Man wearing black CAN99 mask, tie-dye shirt and holding Fender Stratocaster guitar.

Anyone who has a genuine interest in memory, cognition and the brain should have an interest in what COVID does to the brains of teachers and students.

#CogSci #CogSciSci #WorkingMemory #WM #LTM #ClassicRock #CognitivePsychology #CogPsy

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