Alex Black
@alexbclearning.bsky.social
Teacher of Science (37 years), Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE) and TOK. Educational consultant. Member of Let's Think Forum Council. Inspired by ASE, Philosophy, Kayaks and Mountains. Epistemic Inquiry.
abceducation.ch
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I have used notebooklm to create an easy to listen and read summary pod cast and briefing document. A must read for anyone interested in reasoning and nature of science www.abceducation.ch/blog/2025/08...
Styles of Scientific Reasoning a better replacement for The Scientific Method | ABC-Learning
www.abceducation.ch
August 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I have used notebooklm to create an easy to listen and read summary pod cast and briefing document. A must read for anyone interested in reasoning and nature of science www.abceducation.ch/blog/2025/08...
I have used notebooklm to create an easy to listen and read summary pod cast and briefing document. A must read for anyone interested in reasoning and nature of science www.abceducation.ch/blog/2025/08...
Styles of Scientific Reasoning a better replacement for The Scientific Method | ABC-Learning
www.abceducation.ch
August 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I have used notebooklm to create an easy to listen and read summary pod cast and briefing document. A must read for anyone interested in reasoning and nature of science www.abceducation.ch/blog/2025/08...
Semmelweiss story was a great TOK activity
June 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Semmelweiss story was a great TOK activity
June 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Totally agree and here is an example of how it is being done in some schools near Cambridge www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...
Inquiring Science : Faculty of Education
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June 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Totally agree and here is an example of how it is being done in some schools near Cambridge www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...
Whereas Enactive, embodied schema in your sense are the vehicle for generally applicable actions and organisational operations as opposed to specific knowledge connections. Hence the dogma of you cannot teach general "skils" coming from some quarters.
May 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Whereas Enactive, embodied schema in your sense are the vehicle for generally applicable actions and organisational operations as opposed to specific knowledge connections. Hence the dogma of you cannot teach general "skils" coming from some quarters.
What you say about schema in early years fits more with my understanding from Piaget and others. Opposed to this Rosenshine chunk by chunk building of Knowledge schema that so many talk about.
May 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
What you say about schema in early years fits more with my understanding from Piaget and others. Opposed to this Rosenshine chunk by chunk building of Knowledge schema that so many talk about.
That is very interesting. Start reading some of the work of Tamir Amin www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... he traces out the links between embodied schema conceptual metaphor and how it can play out in secondary science learning.
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May 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
That is very interesting. Start reading some of the work of Tamir Amin www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... he traces out the links between embodied schema conceptual metaphor and how it can play out in secondary science learning.
Agree totally. The ideas about working memory were discussed immensely in the 70s through into 2000s by Neo-Piagetians e.g Michael Shayer, Philip Adey, Andreas Demetriou, Robbie Case,Juan Pascual-Leone and many more.
May 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Agree totally. The ideas about working memory were discussed immensely in the 70s through into 2000s by Neo-Piagetians e.g Michael Shayer, Philip Adey, Andreas Demetriou, Robbie Case,Juan Pascual-Leone and many more.
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May 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Or by people like Jack Whitehead www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myl_...
Living Educational Theory Research | Jack Whitehead | TEDxUniversityofBoltonSalon
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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May 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Or by people like Jack Whitehead www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myl_...
Excellent analysis of making the fruits of education knowable. Fits in with the idea of preparing the mind as analysed by www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and also the goal of long and far transfer we at Lets Think Forum letsthink.org.uk aim for
General and specific thinking skills and schooling: Preparing the mind to new learning
Enhancing thinking skills is an important goal of formal education. It is often embedded in national curricula, which, however, are seldom based on th…
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May 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Excellent analysis of making the fruits of education knowable. Fits in with the idea of preparing the mind as analysed by www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and also the goal of long and far transfer we at Lets Think Forum letsthink.org.uk aim for
Maybe also of interest link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Predicting as a learning strategy - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
This article attempts to delineate the procedural and mechanistic characteristics of predicting as a learning strategy. While asking students to generate a prediction before presenting the correct ans...
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February 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Maybe also of interest link.springer.com/article/10.3...
The data discussed here www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/Link... probably could explain some of this
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December 11, 2024 at 1:49 PM
The data discussed here www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/Link... probably could explain some of this
Also how the commercial Smart Import from h5p.com. You can read about it and try the AI prompts for yourself. abc-learning.org/wordpress/h5p/
H5P as a Service - H5P.com
h5p.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Also how the commercial Smart Import from h5p.com. You can read about it and try the AI prompts for yourself. abc-learning.org/wordpress/h5p/
.. Of course, it depends on what is being learned, which in our case is essentially the four aspects of leadership discussed earlier."
December 7, 2024 at 12:16 PM
.. Of course, it depends on what is being learned, which in our case is essentially the four aspects of leadership discussed earlier."
..Such learning can be valuable for further development, but it is not the kind of applied learning that makes a difference. Learning in context has the greatest potential payoff because it is more specific, situational and social (it develops shared and collective knowledge and commitments).
December 7, 2024 at 12:15 PM
..Such learning can be valuable for further development, but it is not the kind of applied learning that makes a difference. Learning in context has the greatest potential payoff because it is more specific, situational and social (it develops shared and collective knowledge and commitments).
"Recruiting top-performing principals is important, but not as important as systematically learning on the job. Learning in context occurs when people interact to learn and solve problems they face. Learning out of context takes
place when principals go to a workshop or conference.
place when principals go to a workshop or conference.
December 7, 2024 at 12:15 PM
"Recruiting top-performing principals is important, but not as important as systematically learning on the job. Learning in context occurs when people interact to learn and solve problems they face. Learning out of context takes
place when principals go to a workshop or conference.
place when principals go to a workshop or conference.
michaelfullan.ca
December 7, 2024 at 12:11 PM
He also added that one heard the vast majority of the staff talking about the details of learning. He speculated that leadership had allowed time, energy and space for this to happen with an absence of things not associated with whatever the strong moral purpose was
December 7, 2024 at 12:10 PM
He also added that one heard the vast majority of the staff talking about the details of learning. He speculated that leadership had allowed time, energy and space for this to happen with an absence of things not associated with whatever the strong moral purpose was