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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · May 21
How exciting! The very first Latin American LCT Conference!
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · 7d
Next LCT Online Roundtable:

Carol Bertram
Workplace transitions: Using Semantics to map the knowledge practices of novice teachers

Thursday 16 Oct at 9am UK / 10am South Africa / 7pm Sydney
Zoom link: [email protected]
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · 21d
Next LCT Online Roundtable: "Turning practitioners into pedagogues with constellations" – Marcus Medeiros.

Thursday 2 October at 9am UK / 10am South Africa / 6pm Sydney .

Email [email protected] for Zoom link or join the email forum (see LCT website).
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Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) @cs4fn.bsky.social · Sep 5
Today I presented 2 posters on new strands of work using Maton's LCT @lctcentre.bsky.social at #UKICER2025. The first was on the problem of ensuring students understand the 'rules of the game' in learning to program are (code quality matters) using the epistemic plane.
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Foregrounding the `Rules’ of Learning to Program with the LCT Epistemic Plane | Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on UK and Ireland Computing Education Research
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Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) @cs4fn.bsky.social · Sep 5
My 2nd new strand of work using Maton's LCT @lctcentre.bsky.social presented at #UKICER2025 on the problem of teaching skills (graduate, workplace, practical) with theory, visualising using the semantic plane, suggests should integrate with waves between theory and skills
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Using the LCT Semantic Plane to Reflect on Teaching Programming | Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on UK and Ireland Computing Education Research
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · Aug 21
Next LCT Online Roundtable: 4 Sept, 9am UK, 10am South Africa, 6pm Sydney

Exploring Semantic Pathways: How students sharing can promote knowledge building – Daniel Portman and Orly Haim

For Zoom link and password, email: [email protected] or join the email forum: www.freelists.org/list/lct
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Ian Kinchin @profiankinchin.bsky.social · Aug 11
Designing learning paths using semantic waves.

An interesting paper about the relationship between theory and practice in chemistry education

Http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c00594

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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · Jul 25
The LCT Centre no longer recognises “Columbia University” as a university, because it has forfeited its institutional autonomy to become an arm of the US Justice Dept.
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Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) @cs4fn.bsky.social · Jun 25
After reading an intro like this it's also worth reading the original paper by Karl Maton that introduces Semantic Waves
legitimationcodetheory.com/wordpress/wp...
which is where I first found out about it and realised how well it helped me teach computing especially unplugged and using metaphors.
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · Jul 4
Check out the very exciting first ever LCT conference for Latin America! Website here:

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Primer Encuentro Latinoamericano LCT 2025
Bienvenidos al Primer Encuentro Latinoamericano LCT 2025
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · Jun 28
Didn’t Douglas Adams have the character Ford Prefect (who names himself after a car) think this decades ago?
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Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) @cs4fn.bsky.social · Jun 24
Yesterday I was having fun working with #DigitalSchoolhouse Lead Teachers demonstrating unplugged computing and talking about principles of doing it well based on research on @lctcentre.bsky.social Legitimation Code Theory Semantics and Autonomy... (teaching with Magic, Making Faces and Mayhem)
Three pictures from the session of making a robotic face from volunteers programmed to react to sounds and doing magic.
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Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) @cs4fn.bsky.social · Jun 24
Big Book of Computing Pedagogy: lots of good pedagogy includes @lctcentre.bsky.social semantic waves (one thing I talked about at the #PlayfulComputingConference) Also talks about unplugged computing, and Playful computing and more
www.raspberrypi.org/hello-world/... @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social
Issue the-big-book-of-computing-pedagogy | Hello World | Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · Jun 17
These parents waited all day as rescuers dug through the rubble after the Russian strike in Kyiv.

Their son’s body was just found.
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Still We Rise @lindsaymeyerharley.bsky.social · Jun 18
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · May 27
LAST of season 1! – LCT Online Roundtable: Tues 3 June (9am UK, 10am S Africa, 6pm Sydney)

What shapes students’ understanding of critical thinking?
An axiological cosmologies analysis of student texts, and educational discourses – Laetitia Monbec

Zoom - link from [email protected]
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · May 21
Que emocionante! A primeira Conferência LCT Latino-Americana!
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · May 21
¡Qué emocionante! ¡La primera Conferencia Latinoamericana de LCT!
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · May 21
How exciting! The very first Latin American LCT Conference!
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · May 13
Next LCT talk!! Tues 27 May at 9am UK / 10am S Africa / 6pm Sydney.

"Reflection for reflection’s sake or for knowledge-building? Using LCT semantic waves at all levels of designing and teaching a course" - Nóra Wünsch-Nagy

Email: [email protected] for zoom link
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · May 8
LCT talk!
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · Apr 29
Next LCT Online Roundtable!
Tues 13 May, 9am UK / 10am SA / 6pm Sydney

Harnessing Wave Power: Demystifying Reflective Writing with Semantic Gravity

Steve Kirk

Email for zoom link: [email protected]
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · May 6
Prof Paul Curzon writes about perservering with theory in education research and practice.
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Persevering with Theory
by Paul Curzon
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Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) @cs4fn.bsky.social · May 5
More impact of CS4FN as we come up to our anniversary.
Our research applying Maton's sociology theory about knowledge practice, LCT, to computing education, based on our public engagement work, led to it being adopted nationally (as recommended by the NCCE and OFSTED)

cs4fn.blog/impact/
A semantic wave from hard to understand to easy and back to hard based on context and conceptual complexity
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · Apr 29
Next LCT Online Roundtable!
Tues 13 May, 9am UK / 10am SA / 6pm Sydney

Harnessing Wave Power: Demystifying Reflective Writing with Semantic Gravity

Steve Kirk

Email for zoom link: [email protected]
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · Apr 22
"What is 'critical' in 'critical reflection'? A specialization analysis of social work" – Sharon Aris

LCT Online Roundtable – Tuesday 29 April at 9am UK time / 10am South Africa time / 6pm Sydney time.

Email: [email protected] for link
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · Apr 18
22 April! See post below. Exciting discussion!
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The LCT Centre @lctcentre.bsky.social · Apr 15
RESCHEDULED due to illness. Now 22 April
"Feeling frustrated or threatened by ChatGPT? Using LCT translation devices to design AI agents" – Lucy Macnaught

Next Online Roundtable Seminar
Tuesday 22 April at 9am UK / 10am South Africa / 6pm Sydney

ZOOM link from: [email protected]