#EduSky #EruditePedagogy I have not spent a lot of time thinking about this yet, but recently put together this matrix and I'm curious what others think. As you can tell from the descriptors, I think effective teaching & learning happens in Quadrant D, but... (1/2)
#EduSky #EruditePedagogy I couldn't give up on the question, "Is "metaphor" a good metaphor for teaching?" Thanks in part to @manymindspod.bsky.social for inspiring the question. Check out my latest blog post: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/a-metaphor-for-teaching-and-learning
#EduSky #EruditePedagogy I just listened to this podcast (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) about metaphors and couldn't help but think about teaching & learning. To what extend is the concept of "metaphor" a metaphor for teaching and learning? 1/10
Maybe the best think on the web at the moment.
A brilliant conversation that makes many of the basics of enactive cognitive science accessible.
If you want a view of it is beyond EduCogSci, or cognitivism, check it out:
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A theory is a model with an interpretation included.
This is what much of the conspiracy-style discourse misses. "DI covered up, CLT hidden from trainees," etc.
People can accept the models, but not their interpretation.
▸Epistemology matters; it ain't just facts.
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The best definition of knowledge that is useful and operational for a teacher is Maturana's:
▸Knowledge is adequate action as defined by an observer.
When we seek what people know, we ask them a question. They act in response & we judge that response according to our own criteria.
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There is a lot of talk of what to teach and how to teach, and these are important but they are always at any moment, proceeded by a gestalt awareness of what is needed at that moment.
Where is the discussion of this gestalt perspectival awareness of what is needed at that moment?
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#EruditePedagogy Have not looked at the original research; curious about the thoughts of others. Seems to reinforce importance of responsive teaching / formative assessment... alignment of cognitive processes aided by teacher eliciting information about how the students are conceptualizing topic.
Please find my response ... i'm a bit prone to verbosity so had to do a blog!! #EruditePedagogy
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I'm excited to see what new ways of acting that the predictive processing model can provide us. Nevertheless, how much of the idea of prediction models was covered by Glasersfeld, and then by Varela, with the term viability?
This is from Difference Maker:
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Following Spencer-Brown, constructivists, and enactivists, a critical operation of the mind in bringing forth a world is the act of drawing distinctions. Does predictive processing discuss how distinctions are made or how teachers can provoke students to make them? #EruditePedagogy
#EruditePedagogy .. let's start... @cmooreanderson.bsky.social you felt there were some areas of variation theory that Predictive processing /active inference theory don't address/explain/support... What are your thoughts here? I like to understand and develop that thought.
I don't really use substack. Would you be willing to explore these ideas within the #EruditePedagogy feed I have on here? There will be others who will be interested in following and maybe joining in.
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Reading the EEF's updated report on metacognition (a real winner) and noticed this highlighted quote:
“It is impossible to be metacognitive without having different cognitive strategies to hand.”
Once again, we find that "variety" is the key aspect to learning & action.
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Maybe co-constructed diagrams is the optimum between 'learner generated' and 'instructor provided'
A good time to resurrect this blog post:
"Teachers can't be optimised"
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When we use "encoding" in teaching, instead of common words (learning, drawing a distinction, distinguishing, discerning, meaning making, sense making, inferring, practising), we bring forth an epistemology.
Encoding is a computational term, it isn't a distinction without baggage.
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If we substituted the word "encoding" for "learning" in many of the eduposts we see today, would it make a difference?
In other words, are people talking about the same idea and just using a different word?
What advantages does the term "encoding" bring?
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Interesting provocation.
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I think the biggest problem with the EduCogSci movement is its (almost sole) focus on empiricism.
It's produces a view of: data = knowledge = understanding.
So people only interact with research results.
They miss all the philosophy (of science) that gives it any meaning.
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... when I returned to the older song, I automatically and unconsciously played the new fingering, despite it being in the context of the other song.
What happened?
People talk of muscle memory in learning songs, but this clearly wasn't it.
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Exciting moment unboxing @paulclinepsy.bsky.social and my book!
Out on 23rd May 🥳🥳
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If you can't fit a bio lesson clearly on one A4, you're probably teaching too much and it's likely to go over students' heads.
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▸The fad's purpose is what it does◂
...and not what its authors thought it would do
Educational fads seen through systems theory (AKA cybernetics).
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