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.

Joined December 2017
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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
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In the Foreward to this OECD report  the complexity of effective teaching and learning is stressed.  abceducation.ch/blog/2025/04…

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3D Chess or appeasment What do you think Elon ?
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Looking forward to presenting with Natasha Serret at ASE 2025 in Nottingham next month on metacognition. 2025aseannualconf.sched.com/…

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Used H5P Smart Import to make an interactive study book using youtu.be/4kd2ctxZwlc?si=82QC… Help youself at abceducation.h5p.com/content… or if you have a Wordpress , Moodle etc download and re use
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If you are interested in H5P and how AI can be used to quickly create interactive web content then have a read at abc-learning.org/wordpress/h…

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Came across this h5p.org/using-ai-to-... and tried it out using the IB Biology spec with learning objectives document for section A.

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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,
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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 ..

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..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 ...
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..intervening in and accelerating development, not merely ‘facilitating’ it, otherwise why do we need schools? Education is a cultural process, not a biological one.”
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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.…

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I then used the translator into German which I speak reasonably fluently vimeo.com/manage/videos/8674… French which I hardly speak after 4 years at school vimeo.com/manage/videos/8674…

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Irish Gaelic cannot speak at all vimeo.com/manage/videos/8674… May be really useful for our work with video support for teachers in the future

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