Richard Dare FCCT MA CTeach

The Monthly Dispatch - What's New in Learning Science? - March 2026 New studies on retrieval practice, seductive details, engagement myths, reading instruction, and the cognitive costs of modern technology

New studies on retrieval practice, seductive details, engagement myths, reading instruction, and the cognitive costs of modern technology. open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

Together Alliance Together is an alliance of hundreds of civil society organisations united against the far right.

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A picture of some of Don Steward's hand written tasks.

So yesterday I was lucky enough to spend some time looking through Don Steward's lifetime of tasks and notes stored at @lborodme.bsky.social

In case you're not aware (I wasn't!), these have all been digitised and are available here:

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Excellent!👍👍

Read Tade Thompson's books!

It's World Book Day.

Thank you to everyone who ever bought or read a book of mine, even if you hated it.

If you've never read a book of mine, but you've read A book, thank you too. A rising tide raises all ships. You're still enabling me 😁

The most important thing is: read more books!

It's very good in a disconcerting kind of way.

I really thought *had* read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", but reading it now, I don't remember any of it!

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.

New Practice Questions - Three Unknowns
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Yes. Sick people.

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation

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Amid rising alarm over suspected pollfraud, Reform leader says allowing non-British citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE that Reform UK was robbed of victory diary assertion in today's Mail on Sunday by foreign-born voters in last week's that 'Reform UK won the Gorton and Denton By Glen Owen Manchester by-election. by-election among British-born voters'. Amid mounting allegations that voter, fraud And he vowed that if he becomes Prime Pages 16-17 POLITICAL EDITOR and sectarianism contributed the Grecn

Truly, truly, truly disgusting.

Keep this Trumpist race baiting out of British politics.

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

Political storm in Wyoming as far-right activist caught handing checks to lawmakers Photograph shows conservative activist handing slip to Darin McCann and Marlene Brady holding a similar paper

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Political storm in Wyoming as far-right activist caught handing checks to lawmakers Photograph shows conservative activist handing slip to Darin McCann and Marlene Brady holding a similar paper

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Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.

Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

A slide showing different examples of making questions more engaging by re-wording the instructions for the task. For example, instead of "calculate the following", ask "which of these have the same answer?"

A slight change of wording is a quick win to ask more engaging questions.

Here are a few simple examples.

Good morning everyone. I'm at @researchedbrum.bsky.social today and looking forward to catching up with lots of people. If you make it to the end of the day I'll be talking about the benefits and trade offs of diagnoses to children.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

This is what they’re up to..We must stop them!

Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials Ranking members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a statement on the incident on Thursday.

This is how screwed up everything is. The DOD shot down a CBP drone which cause the FAA to shut down the airspace around El Paso. We have stupid idiots in all levels of all agencies thanks to this Regime.
If we go to war, GOD help us.
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Never heard of this law before right this second but holy fuck if it does not 100% check out

A Final Run With Jeff Galloway, the Man Who Helped Americans Finish Marathons - The New York Times share.google/q8pliBWuoT1m...

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

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Nearly blind refugee abandoned by US border patrol found dead in Buffalo Investigation under way after man was dropped off five miles from home but family wasn’t notified, officials say

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