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Does awareness of intuition's fallibility help people avoid faulty intuitions?

#Teaching students #DualProcessTheory didn't help them avoid faulty intuitions about #physics problems.

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#edu #cogSci #bias #debiasing #psychology #epistemology #rationality

Learning Styles won't die How education's most persistent theory reveals its deepest conflicts

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Five Ways: Tackling Common Learning Barriers. There are SO MANY issues that teachers have to think about every lesson just to run the room and work through the curriculum – and there are SO MANY concepts and ideas from research and the w…

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You're Not Lazy: The Neuroscience of Motivation Here’s the wrong way to think about motivation: we muster up all of our motivation before we leave the house, then go out and spend that finite amount on our most important activities. That’s wrong, a...

Set manageable milestones toward the larger task and prioritise easy ones first!
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Can a daily nap do more harm than good? A sleep researcher explains To nap effectively, both the timing and environment matter.

Can a daily nap do more harm than good? A sleep researcher explains
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The Seductive Appeal of Discovery Learning I'm often asked why, if discovery learning doesn't work, it's so popular.

Well said! Most students aren’t experts! They can only learn science … can’t do science!
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There are no digital natives. Kids will use technology to learn what they like not what they need. That is why educators, to do their job, need to learn and understand tech including AI #EdChat #Edusky

Causal Inference: What If (the book) — Miguel Hernán "What If" is a book for anyone interested in causal inference. Learn about counterfactuals, directed acyclic graphs, randomized experiments, observational studies, confounding, selection bias, inverse probability weighting, g-estimation, g-formula, instrumental variables, survival analysis, target trial emulation, and much more.

Want to better understand science? Here’s a #free #book to get you started: miguelhernan.org/wha...

The 1st section could be comprehensible to people who haven’t taken grad. #stats.

The 2nd and 3rd sections may be more for nerds and aspiring scientists. 🤓

#edu #STEM #literacy

Evolution Led Humans into a Trap The cultural forces that fueled our success now threaten to end it.

One of the common factors that determines whether we will succeed at solving environmental challenges is scale. The resource in question has to be available at a scale where a group of humans can manage it. If it’s too big, we fail.
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#climate #environment #globalwarming

Trust No One, Believe Everything: Does Common Sense Have a Future? For as long as I can remember, espionage has fascinated me. Over the years, I’ve developed a certain expertise—at least in the pop culture sense—interviewing former spies for publications ranging from...

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Well said…
«We like to think of Google, X, Facebook, and even ChatGPT as neutral tools, but neutrality is an illusion. These platforms, intentionally or not, prioritize engagement over accuracy, outrage over nuance, and emotional provocation over intellectual depth»

A sign of intellect is the ability to change your mind in the face of new facts.

A mark of wisdom is refusing to let the fear of admitting you were wrong stop you from getting it right.

The joy of learning something new eventually exceeds the pain of unlearning something old.

Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching This book reaffirms the enduring importance of effective explanations at a time when "teacher talk" is often undervalued. Drawing on the science of learning, Zach Groshell explores essential technique...

Humans are (almost) unique among animal sorts in that they are capable of communicating what they have learnt to others who haven’t yet learnt it. To neglect or deny this, denies our uniqueness as species and hampers our teaching and learning. #EduSky

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The Science of Teaching Critical Thinking - kirschner-ED To truly prepare students for the complexities of modern life, we must move beyond superficial exercises in logic and debate. A well-designed curriculum offers the best chance of equipping students wi...

To truly prepare students for the complexities of modern life, we must move beyond superficial exercises in logic and debate. A well-designed curriculum offers the best chance of equipping students with the critical thinking abilities they need. #EduSky
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The psychology of scarcity Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir explores how deprivation wreaks havoc on cognition and decision-making.

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Conversations are more helpful when they're more reflective and less dichotomous.

Thanks to @dylanwiliam.bsky.social, @olicav.bsky.social, @drchendrick.bsky.social, & @cbokhove.bsky.social for joining me for this lovely chat on Cognitive Load Theory!

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What are the effects of smartphone bans in schools? Well, don’t get your hope up too high. Yesterday Wouter Duyck already shared this study on Twitter. In a first study, the researchers discovered that restrictive school policies don’t lead to lower phone and social media use or be…

What are the effects of smartphone bans in schools? Well, don't get your hopes up too high. theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/02/07/w...

16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks:

(all open source 🔓)

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Cognitive Load Theory: A Reflective Conversation - The ThoughtStretchers Podcast https://pca.st/episode/c06e61f7-088b-439c-b152-63563fb6ac4e

This sounds almost too good to be true: Innovative one-minute video game boasts 80% success rate in diagnosing autism? I read press releases of studies daily, and I know how a communication office of a university can boost a study to enormous proportions, but this press release doesn’t hold back at all: A new…

This sounds almost too good to be true: Innovative one-minute video game boasts 80% success rate in diagnosing autism? theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/01/29/t...

3 brilliant critical thinking tools used by Daniel Dennett The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.

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"To keep an adjunct to remember thee / Were to impart forgetfulness in me." (Sonnet 122)

But my students like written comments... Feedback that is accurate, helpful, and doesn't ruin your Sunday evening

Some appropriate reading for a Sunday afternoon - how to reclaim your Sunday afternoons from marking.

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It’s our nature to try to make things easier for others. As parents, we want to make things easier for our children than they were for us. And as teachers, we’re taught that it’s our job to make learning as easy and effortless as possible. #EduSky
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