Christian Moore-Anderson
@cmooreanderson.bsky.social
Biology Teacher & Head of Bio (11–18)
📗Making Meaning (Forthcoming)
📘Difference Maker (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
📙Biology Made Real (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
Blog: rb.gy/dyi5a
#EnactiveCogSci
📗Making Meaning (Forthcoming)
📘Difference Maker (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
📙Biology Made Real (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
Blog: rb.gy/dyi5a
#EnactiveCogSci
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We had an excellent internal CPD a couple of weeks back revisiting lesson objectives/intentions and the staff with less years under their belt couldn't believe the examples of past practice that the CPD lead and a few of us longer-serving bods were rattling off. Different times indeed.
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We had an excellent internal CPD a couple of weeks back revisiting lesson objectives/intentions and the staff with less years under their belt couldn't believe the examples of past practice that the CPD lead and a few of us longer-serving bods were rattling off. Different times indeed.
Fantastic podcast on knowledge and its necessity in history teaching:
#EduSky #UKEd
wegrowteachers.com/thoughtstret...
#EduSky #UKEd
wegrowteachers.com/thoughtstret...
The ThoughtStretchers Podcast: Memorizing History Facts, So What?
Drew Perkins talks with Lauren Brown, Jonathan Dallimore, and Aaron Aastor about the role of facts and critical thinking in teaching history.
wegrowteachers.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Fantastic podcast on knowledge and its necessity in history teaching:
#EduSky #UKEd
wegrowteachers.com/thoughtstret...
#EduSky #UKEd
wegrowteachers.com/thoughtstret...
I like to call it the science of complex adaptive systems.
It explored many things, from adaptive machines, the nature of living organisms, to epistemology: the mind, communication, and reality.
All these things are complex adaptive systems.
Cybernetics discovered many new fundamentals of science.
It explored many things, from adaptive machines, the nature of living organisms, to epistemology: the mind, communication, and reality.
All these things are complex adaptive systems.
Cybernetics discovered many new fundamentals of science.
Yeah what’s cybernetics
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I like to call it the science of complex adaptive systems.
It explored many things, from adaptive machines, the nature of living organisms, to epistemology: the mind, communication, and reality.
All these things are complex adaptive systems.
Cybernetics discovered many new fundamentals of science.
It explored many things, from adaptive machines, the nature of living organisms, to epistemology: the mind, communication, and reality.
All these things are complex adaptive systems.
Cybernetics discovered many new fundamentals of science.
The great trumph of EduCognitivists has been convincing everyone that there is only one cognitive science in town.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The great trumph of EduCognitivists has been convincing everyone that there is only one cognitive science in town.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
Classical cognitive science may be all the talk in education, but it isn't in the field of cogsci.
Instead, teachers need to hear more about enactive cognitive science.
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Oldie but goodie. Heinz von Foerster and Humberto Maturana on understanding complexity with cybernetics (Part 1).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbl...
Understanding Complexity Cybernetic Approach Part 1 with Heinz von Foerster
YouTube video by Juan David Campolargo
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Oldie but goodie. Heinz von Foerster and Humberto Maturana on understanding complexity with cybernetics (Part 1).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbl...
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NEW short post on the teacher autonomy v. prescriptiveness debate, & the importance of #teaching_and_learning culture.
jamesdurran.blog/2025/11/22/t...
jamesdurran.blog/2025/11/22/t...
Teaching & learning: prescription versus autonomy
As schools develop their teaching and learning ‘strategies’, or ‘policies’, or ‘principles’, they have to grapple with the balancing of autonomy with consistency – of teacher or subject difference …
jamesdurran.blog
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
NEW short post on the teacher autonomy v. prescriptiveness debate, & the importance of #teaching_and_learning culture.
jamesdurran.blog/2025/11/22/t...
jamesdurran.blog/2025/11/22/t...
So sad... the world has fallen to grifters.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
So sad... the world has fallen to grifters.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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This is stunning on multiple levels:
**the fact that the climate crisis has made life in a major world capital and city of 10 million people unsustainable; and
**the fact that this is getting so little attention in the US press
Hard to imagine what an evacuation of this scale will entail
**the fact that the climate crisis has made life in a major world capital and city of 10 million people unsustainable; and
**the fact that this is getting so little attention in the US press
Hard to imagine what an evacuation of this scale will entail
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This is stunning on multiple levels:
**the fact that the climate crisis has made life in a major world capital and city of 10 million people unsustainable; and
**the fact that this is getting so little attention in the US press
Hard to imagine what an evacuation of this scale will entail
**the fact that the climate crisis has made life in a major world capital and city of 10 million people unsustainable; and
**the fact that this is getting so little attention in the US press
Hard to imagine what an evacuation of this scale will entail
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The systems view and degrowth meet in Neil Howe’s scheme of recursive cycles in history. If we are entering the final years of Crisis, a solstice era of both “maximum darkness” and “renascent community,” degrowth may be the concept needed to resolve our most stubborn socio-ecological challenges.
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The systems view and degrowth meet in Neil Howe’s scheme of recursive cycles in history. If we are entering the final years of Crisis, a solstice era of both “maximum darkness” and “renascent community,” degrowth may be the concept needed to resolve our most stubborn socio-ecological challenges.
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
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Another good read for any teacher wanting to move beyond "storage and retrieval" metaphors.
I blogged a more detailed review of this paper. Overall I like the approach, but the paper needs to take care not to oversell what it is currently capable of doing (it IS reformulating memory in an ecologically tractable way, but it is NOT currently a demonstrated viable alternative)
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Another good read for any teacher wanting to move beyond "storage and retrieval" metaphors.
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New article for SecEd Magazine. On edumyths - when they might not actually be edumyths.👇
#education #edusky #uked #edumyths
#education #edusky #uked #edumyths
Edumyths abound in #schools & #teaching, but how do we know what is debunked & what is simply disputed? Andrew Jones – @jonesedu.bsky.social – warns that while #teachers must challenge bad ideas, we must also embrace legitimate disagreement over classroom approaches: buff.ly/Yv1VOG1 #education
Edumyths: Are we too quick to debunk the disputed? - SecEd
Edumyths abound in schools, but how do teachers must embrace discussion about what is debunked and what is disputed
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New article for SecEd Magazine. On edumyths - when they might not actually be edumyths.👇
#education #edusky #uked #edumyths
#education #edusky #uked #edumyths
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This resonated with me a lot:
"...remembering is not retrieving an encoding from storage, but it is the reestablishment of a pattern of relations in the body-environment-brain system to one of the states that is an option for those system dynamics."
"...remembering is not retrieving an encoding from storage, but it is the reestablishment of a pattern of relations in the body-environment-brain system to one of the states that is an option for those system dynamics."
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This resonated with me a lot:
"...remembering is not retrieving an encoding from storage, but it is the reestablishment of a pattern of relations in the body-environment-brain system to one of the states that is an option for those system dynamics."
"...remembering is not retrieving an encoding from storage, but it is the reestablishment of a pattern of relations in the body-environment-brain system to one of the states that is an option for those system dynamics."
Another good read for any teacher wanting to move beyond "storage and retrieval" metaphors.
I blogged a more detailed review of this paper. Overall I like the approach, but the paper needs to take care not to oversell what it is currently capable of doing (it IS reformulating memory in an ecologically tractable way, but it is NOT currently a demonstrated viable alternative)
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Another good read for any teacher wanting to move beyond "storage and retrieval" metaphors.
Thanks for the post :)
Are the bits in yellow quotations or something you've added?
I really liked those examples.
Are the bits in yellow quotations or something you've added?
I really liked those examples.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Thanks for the post :)
Are the bits in yellow quotations or something you've added?
I really liked those examples.
Are the bits in yellow quotations or something you've added?
I really liked those examples.
Von Foerster distinguished between trivial (predictable) & nontrivial (unpredictable by constantly changing their internal configuration). But the nontrivial can become stable through recursion.
Are nontrivial LLMs heading towards predictability by feeding themselves with their own productions?
Are nontrivial LLMs heading towards predictability by feeding themselves with their own productions?
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Von Foerster distinguished between trivial (predictable) & nontrivial (unpredictable by constantly changing their internal configuration). But the nontrivial can become stable through recursion.
Are nontrivial LLMs heading towards predictability by feeding themselves with their own productions?
Are nontrivial LLMs heading towards predictability by feeding themselves with their own productions?
Be gone, computer metaphor.
My book "The Brain, in Theory" on the publisher's website (out in April 2026):
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The Brain, In Theory
Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition
press.princeton.edu
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Be gone, computer metaphor.
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To be Clark & Chalmers style offloading, the AI would have to be reliably achieving the same functionality. Otto’s notebook is more use
It's a wee bit unfortunate that the phrase "cognitive offloading" has become the go-to phrase for describing what AI does, including by those worried about its impact on education. I believe a more accurate term is cognitive *automation*, as Francois Chollet described years ago.
AI is cognitive automation, not cognitive autonomy
Like the rest of computer science, AI is about making computers do more, not replacing humans.
fchollet.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
To be Clark & Chalmers style offloading, the AI would have to be reliably achieving the same functionality. Otto’s notebook is more use
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Nora Bateson is a filmmaker, author and director of the Bateson Institute. In this conversation, Hans Busstra talks to Nora about her work and that of her father Gregory Bateson, who was one of the founding fathers of cybernetics.
www.essentiafoundation.org/why-we-need-...
www.essentiafoundation.org/why-we-need-...
Why we need to quit 'fixing' the world: A cybernetic approach to planetary challenges
Nora Bateson is a filmmaker, author and director of the Bateson Institute. In this conversation, Hans Busstra talks to Nora about her work and that of her father Gregory Bateson, who was one of the fo...
www.essentiafoundation.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Nora Bateson is a filmmaker, author and director of the Bateson Institute. In this conversation, Hans Busstra talks to Nora about her work and that of her father Gregory Bateson, who was one of the founding fathers of cybernetics.
www.essentiafoundation.org/why-we-need-...
www.essentiafoundation.org/why-we-need-...
Really happy with this model we coenacted today.
They spotted the positive feedback immediately.
#iTeachBio #SciTeachUk
They spotted the positive feedback immediately.
#iTeachBio #SciTeachUk
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Really happy with this model we coenacted today.
They spotted the positive feedback immediately.
#iTeachBio #SciTeachUk
They spotted the positive feedback immediately.
#iTeachBio #SciTeachUk
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I have previously described this idea this way (from cognitioninaction.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...)
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I have previously described this idea this way (from cognitioninaction.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...)
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It is really getting harder and harder to glibly dismiss the data centre driven growth of demand in the US, which is causing coal growth domestically and impacting the entire planet's emissions
Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics
Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics
Chinese and EU emissions were more or less flat in 2025 (Chinese emissions may have actually declined slightly, but its too early to know for sure: www.carbonbrief.org/...).
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It is really getting harder and harder to glibly dismiss the data centre driven growth of demand in the US, which is causing coal growth domestically and impacting the entire planet's emissions
Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics
Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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