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This is not the case and @tes I think an editorial comment should be added to make this clear. Cognitive science does not show that teacher-led learning is best. 1/
@tes I assume she is referring to the #cogsci models which are theories of information processing. The models themselves are silent on the question of how that information is provided and the context. 2/
@tes Many have extrapolated from the #cogsci models to claim that particular education techniques are based on science, but the evidence for this extrapolation is nothing like as strong as the basic model, as the EEF review by @TWPerry1&colleagues shows. 3/educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/new-what-…
This podcast is packed full of information, neuroscience and paradigm shifts. I’ll put a few thoughts below to whet your appetites. 1/
Mary Helen thinks we need a paradigm shift in education as fundamental as Copernicus - who first realised that the earth went around the sun and not vice versa. 2/
Early scientists looked up from the earth and tried to predict what was happening with the assumption that they were at the centre. It kind of worked, but there was lots that didn’t fit. 2/
Cultural capital and #cogsci. Cognitive scientists sometimes say that deprived children lack the background knowledge that other children acquire at home, and so the aim of education should be to even this out. 1/
One efficient way to do this, it’s said, is by explicitly teaching a body of facts which are said to make up the common knowledge that as as a culture we expect ‘well educated’ people to have. 2/
@DTWillingham suggests that this should be the back ground knowledge necessary to read a broadsheet newspaper or books written for the ‘intelligent layman’ on science or politics. This,he says, is the information which will have the greatest cognitive benefit.3/
The #EarlyCareerFramework and @EducEndowFoundn blog on Prior Knowledge and Misconceptions: a thread
@JustinDillonUoE @chrisharriKings @chemDrK @agittner @Alexbclearning @ViciaScience @NeedhamL56 @leighhoath @sci_challenge @RBrockPhysics @JamesSnook18 @HassunElZafar
@JustinDillonUoE @chrisharriKings @chemDrK @agittner @Alexbclearning @ViciaScience @NeedhamL56 @leighhoath @sci_challenge @RBrockPhysics @JamesSnook18 @HassunElZafar
@JaumeAmetller1 @ErduranSibel @jpscience @EdSacredProfane @AnttiLeht @hjwain @holman_john @ed_podesta @apf102
Great to see engagement with research evidence in the #EarlyCareerFramework #ECF and @EducEndowFoundn blog on Prior Knowledge and Misconceptions.
Our @EducEndowFoundn Cognitive Science in the Classroom Review is out! There is a full report and a shorter, more digestible summary report. Last week’s #CogSci preview talk from @TWPerry1 here: tinyurl.com/4bxu8tw5. I’ll attempt to summarise below... 🧵 (1/25)
Cognitive science is increasingly used to inform interventions, practice, and policy in education, and underpins many classroom practices (e.g. spaced practice, dual coding). It forms a key part of Ofsted’s Inspection Framework & often teacher training (2/25)
We & @EducEndowFoundn wanted to know whether #cogsci techniques work in real classrooms, across the curriculum, for diff pupil groups. We completed a systematic review of classroom trials & practice review (inc a teacher questionnaire & in-depth interviews) (3/25)
Booklets - a thread on my current process in designing them and using them.
I’ve just finished my most recent one, so time to reflect
I’ll probably blog this up eventually, initially I’d planned to talk at @TMHistoryIcons but I’m useless at sorting my life out 🤷♂️
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I’ve just finished my most recent one, so time to reflect
I’ll probably blog this up eventually, initially I’d planned to talk at @TMHistoryIcons but I’m useless at sorting my life out 🤷♂️
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Rationale -
I’ve a new Y9 cohort who are LPA, so I wanted to both make the course accessible but challenging and apply #cogsci principles
Also, something @MrSamPullan tweeted last year, “use the notes, don’t do the notes” struck with mea reduce time on heavy note making
I’ve a new Y9 cohort who are LPA, so I wanted to both make the course accessible but challenging and apply #cogsci principles
Also, something @MrSamPullan tweeted last year, “use the notes, don’t do the notes” struck with mea reduce time on heavy note making
All in one place
These booklets contain everything:
- Content
- Activities
- Assessment
- Feedback
- Retrieval Practice
- Homework
This means no printing or flapping about for sheets, resources etc and contents pages are SUPER useful and can be RAG’d for revision
These booklets contain everything:
- Content
- Activities
- Assessment
- Feedback
- Retrieval Practice
- Homework
This means no printing or flapping about for sheets, resources etc and contents pages are SUPER useful and can be RAG’d for revision
Just got refused a Canadian visa I needed to present my poster at #cogsci2019. I believe that not everybody fully realizes how much visa issues hurt diversity in academia. So here goes my thread on the topic.
Canadian, USA and UK visas are notoriously difficult to get for people from developing countries (especially for young women). If @cogsci_soc really cares about diversity as they claim, why not organise the next event somewhere else*?
* i.e. in a country that is not so paranoid about guileful female immigrants who don't know better than to write papers for major conferences just to penetrate its precious borders
