Teacher of Science (37 years), C.A.S.E and TOK. Educational consultant. Member of Let's Think Forum Council. Inspired by ASE, Philosophy, Kayaks and Mountains.
On my way to Nottingham for the superb Association of Science Education annual conference
Looking forward to presenting on Thursday about Epistemic Inquiry sched.co/26lpV and co presenting on CASE with Natasha Serret sched.co/26PUf
I have started building a network of people interested in Science Ed, Philosophy and anything related to Learning in general at Bluesky @alexbclearning.bsky.social. Will probably leave here soon when I have checked my contacts and importnat things we have shared and discussed,
Much talk about retrieval paractice. However the power of prediction has been know about for some time. This gives interesting insight link.springer.com/article/10…
Robin Alexander
eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/7632…
p 7
“Appending the word ‘development’ doesn’t help -‐ social development, emotional
development, oral development – because this very British sleight of hand suggests that the
teacher’s task is merely to support ..
..and where necessary remediate a natural process. But as Vygotsky famously asserted, and contrary to the misapplied legacy of Plowden and those
who still view teaching as no more than applied child development, education is about ...
..intervening in and accelerating development, not merely ‘facilitating’ it, otherwise why do we need schools? Education is a cultural process, not a biological one.”
Thinking about languages and translation I tried out an AI video translator app.rask.ai/ that allowed very short trial sections.
This is a summary of a presentation I was asked to do several years ago at London University
educationalneuroscience.org.…