Carl Hendrick
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Dad | Professor of applied sciences @AcademicaUoAS | Dubliner | PhD @KingsCollegeLon | Keats devotee | persecuted by an integer https://www.carlhendrick.com/
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🚨*FREE* webinars - How Teaching & Learning Happens course. Join me and @hugheshaili.bsky.social
▶️ 27/2 at 4pm GMT Retrieval Practice
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Comfortable Fictions: The Myth of Multiple Intelligences carlhendrick.substack.com/p/comfortabl...
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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!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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"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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"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"
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No-one is surprised, Matthew. Absolutely no-one.
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“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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"In other words, about a third of high school seniors basically can’t read prose text at all. They can (I hope) read signs and labels in stores and iMessage each other, but they cannot read a passage of text and understand what it’s saying." www.slowboring.com/p/american-s...
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A big reason we're seeing the problems we are today with reading and mental health can be explained by the fact that most 10-year-olds now own a smartphone.

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Key takeaways:
➡️ Instead of only testing “What is X?”, also ask “Which situation best illustrates X?” or “Where would this apply?”
➡️ Teachers should think of retrieval as “application rehearsal,” not just checking memory.
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New study: Retrieval practice doesn’t just boost memory, it helps learners notice when knowledge matters, making transfer more likely.
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In twenty years, sleeve tattoos will be the new tribal armband. Everyone got one thinking they looked cool, now everyone hides them under long sleeves at weddings.