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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 7m

Systematic review on Maths anxiety show what most teachers already know: being better at a thing makes you less anxious about the thing.
Forget about breathing exercises or mindfulness; confidence follows accuracy, not the other way round.
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Anna Stokke @rastokke.bsky.social · 1h

🚨New episode is amazing! Paul Kirschner, @carlhendrick.substack.com & Jim Heal unmask some instructional illustrations, from discovery learning to innovation fads, engagement & more. It's a great preview of their new book! Link to episode ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/0hIj...

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 20h

“It is powerful for a boy to see a grown man read. The lesson is best taught passively. My stepfather didn’t so much talk to me about books as demonstrate what it meant to have a relationship with them.” www.thefp.com/p/reading-sa...

Reading Books Made a Man Out of Me

Shiloh Brooks explains why he’s launching ‘Old School,’ a new podcast about great books and how they can make us better men.

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Anna Stokke @rastokke.bsky.social · 1d

New podcast episode coming tomorrow, October 10! Three guests who need no introduction. Be sure to tune in - it's an incredible episode!

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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 1d

"[T]he most dangerous ideas are often those than make us feel virtuous for believing them. When a theory aligns perfectly with our moral preferences, we should be *more* sceptical, not less."

Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 2d

Comfortable Fictions: The Myth of Multiple Intelligences carlhendrick.substack.com/p/comfortabl...

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Paul Cline @paulclinepsy.bsky.social · 2d

We run a psyc trip for y12 to a zoo where one of the seminars focuses a lot on MI. There's this really odd bit where they say "there's no empirical support, but maybe that doesn't matter" (at which point I want to scream to my students "yes it does!")

This will be useful to share with them, thanks!

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 2d

Comfortable Fictions: The Myth of Multiple Intelligences carlhendrick.substack.com/p/comfortabl...

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely! Back in the late 1990s, John Truscott kicked off a debate on low efficacy of explicit form focused corrective feedback on students' writing & speaking. Even though the lit reviews & evidence he presented were incontrovertible, the debate still continues to this day. Nothing has changed!

Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 3d

New meta-analysis finds AI feedback performs about as well as human feedback, but I think this is more to do with how poor human feedback has been is rather than how good AI feedback is. In other words, the bar is quite low here. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 2d

The Innovation Illusion: Most of what’s worth knowing in education isn’t new, and most of what’s new isn’t worth knowing.

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Gérald Tirot @tirotg.bsky.social · 3d

Les esprits, biologiques comme artificiels, atteignent leurs plus grandes intuitions non pas en se souvenant de tout, mais en sachant quoi oublier. Les limites ne sont pas l'ennemi de l' #apprentissage, elles en sont le moteur.
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#mémoire #oubli

The Memory Ceiling: What AI Teaches Us About Human Learning

How the hard limits of memory drive learning and deeper understanding

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 3d

New meta-analysis finds AI feedback performs about as well as human feedback, but I think this is more to do with how poor human feedback has been is rather than how good AI feedback is. In other words, the bar is quite low here. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Domingo Chica Pardo @dchicapardo.bsky.social · 6d

Releyendo a @paulkirschner.bsky.social y @carlhendrick.substack.com en #HLH, os comparto una infografía basada en el último capítulo de su libro sobre diez creencias populares en educación y cómo los autores las tratan.
Ya disponible en domingochica.com/recursos/
#EBT #CogSci

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Matt Van Dis @mvandis.bsky.social · 6d

“The job of teaching is not just to provide something worth noticing, but to protect students from everything that isn’t.”

Interesting article by @carlhendrick.substack.com

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Carl Hendrick (@carlhendrick)

Attention is a filter not a spotlight, and noisy classrooms assault that filter from every direction. Today's students rarely suffer from boredom or attention shortages, they suffer from attention sur...

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 6d

This passage from Skinner reminds of that old joke about the behaviourist who, after every romantic liaison, turns to their partner and says, "That was great for you, how was it for me?"

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 6d

This month in the science of learning... carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-resear...

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant again from @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social. The circumstances restrain rage against even these disordered parents. But the mother is a public menace & must surely risk crossing the line of legal sanction
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The struggle to protect children from conspiracy theorist parents

The inquest following the death of Paloma Shemirani raises the question of how to prevent young people from health misinformation

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 8d

We really could do with a proper science of implementation in education: millions spent identifying ‘what works’, but little spent on how to make it work.
This paper from Fixsen is good: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39478746/

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 9d

Fool me once Francis... english.elpais.com/culture/2022...

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

The political scientist, who at the beginning of the 1990s declared ‘the end of history,’ returns with a new book where he identifies the threats to classical liberalism: runaway capitalism and too mu...

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 9d

What's new in the science of learning?
Your monthly round-up with new studies on retrieval practice, explicit instruction, interleaving, sleep, erroneous examples, AI, worked examples, print vs digital, adaptive learning.
👉 carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-resear...

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 11d

"You want a perfect example of a post-literate moment? Ponder the UN speech by President Trump this week." substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12d

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew."

"Commentator of the Year"

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 12d

No-one is surprised, Matthew. Absolutely no-one.

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 11d

Is a Noisy Classroom a Thinking Classroom? open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 13d

“We need classrooms that can move fluidly between modes: collaborative when ideas need to be shared and tested, quiet when concepts need to be grasped and consolidated.”

‘Is a noisy classroom a thinking classroom’ by @carlhendrick.substack.com

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Is a Noisy Classroom a Thinking Classroom?

New Study Makes Surprising Finding On the Hidden Costs of Classroom Chatter on Thinking

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 17d

Does Tylenol Cause Autism? Of course not.

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 17d

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