@lctcentre.bsky.social
Independent research centre supporting the global LCT community. This theory kills fascists.
LCT conferences ARE the best. Everything is carefully designed to make it a total experience. The first Call for Papers is now out for LCT6 in Nov 2026! #LCT6
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Exciting to see the first Latin American LCT conference!
25.10.2025 02:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Last LCT Centre Online Roundtable of 2025: 30 Oct, 8am UK, 10am South Africa, 7pm Sydney
How does feedback work? Using Semantics to make writing support visible
Andrew Scott
Zoom link from: lctcentreglobal@gmail.com
The “University of Virginia” is no longer recognised by the LCT Centre as a university after selling academic freedom to an authoritarian.
23.10.2025 11:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The LCT Centre says: No Kings. LCT is empowering, so against authoritarianism.
18.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next LCT Centre Online Roundtable: 30 October 2025, 8am UK, 10am South Africa, 7pm Sydney
How does feedback work? Using Semantics to make writing support visible
Andrew Scott
Email: lctcentreglobal@gmail.com
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: lctcentreglobal@gmail.com
#LCTheory
Next LCT Online Roundtable: "Turning practitioners into pedagogues with constellations" – Marcus Medeiros.
Thursday 2 October at 9am UK / 10am South Africa / 6pm Sydney .
Email lctcentreglobal@gmail.com for Zoom link or join the email forum (see LCT website).
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.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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: lctcentreglobal@gmail.com or join the email forum: www.freelists.org/list/lct
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 no longer recognises “Columbia University” as a university, because it has forfeited its institutional autonomy to become an arm of the US Justice Dept.
25.07.2025 02:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0After 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.
Check out the very exciting first ever LCT conference for Latin America! Website here:
sites.google.com/utp.edu.co/l...
Didn’t Douglas Adams have the character Ford Prefect (who names himself after a car) think this decades ago?
28.06.2025 05:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three pictures from the session of making a robotic face from volunteers programmed to react to sounds and doing magic.
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)
24.06.2025 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
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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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 lctcentreglobal@gmail.com
Que emocionante! A primeira Conferência LCT Latino-Americana!
21.05.2025 05:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
¡Qué emocionante! ¡La primera Conferencia Latinoamericana de LCT!
21.05.2025 05:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How exciting! The very first Latin American LCT Conference!
21.05.2025 05:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next 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: lctcentreglobal@gmail.com for zoom link
LCT talk!
08.05.2025 03:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prof Paul Curzon writes about perservering with theory in education research and practice.
theory-into-practice.weebly.com/tip-blog/per...
A semantic wave from hard to understand to easy and back to hard based on context and conceptual complexity
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/
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: lctcentreglobal@gmail.com
"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: lctcentreglobal@gmail.com for link
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