@gregashman.bsky.social
School leader who teaches a bit. PhD in Instructional Design. Writer. Podcasted for a bit. Honorary Fellow. Views entirely my own. Ballarat. fillingthepail.substack.com
NEW CURIOS Free preview includes some helpful words of advice from an academic to AERO
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NEW FREE POST Something changed
A day at the Australian School Improvement Summit
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NEW CURIOS Free preview section includes a brave intervention and some potential legal action
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NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching
#4 Explicit teaching takes no account of student differences
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NEW CURIOS Free section includes a Southern Surge and some cognitive overload
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NEW FREE POST Freddie deBoer’s act of intellectual fraud
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NEW FREE POST Part three of my series on arguments against explicit teaching
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ANNOUNCING Brendan Lee
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses an instructional hierarchy and a demon headteacher
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ANNOUNCING Bruno Reddy
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ANNOUNCING Natalie Wexler and Pamela Snow
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the work of Roland Fryer
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ANNOUNCING Natalie Wexler and Pamela Snow
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NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching
#2 Creativity and other higher order skills
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"I utterly reject this depressing idea of science education". I agree. It is also depressing to see the hubris inherent in this attitude.
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the suggestion that the goal of science education should be to develop ‘informed agency’
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NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching
#1 Rote memorisation versus deeper understanding
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NEW CURIOS Free preview includes a discussion of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the implications for free speech.
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NEW CURIOS In the free preview, I discuss Australia’s proposed Teaching and Learning Commission. I also tackle discovery learning in California, the mechanism behind spaced practice and more.
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Come and join me at the upcoming ResearchED Sydney conference. NOV 1st. Grab your ticket
10.09.2025 03:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
researchED Sydney is go!
What better way to spend Saturday 1 November
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NEW FREE POST Behaviourism the Bogeyman
Consequences are a fact of social life
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NEW CURIOS Everything you need to know about education right now and includes a free preview section.
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NEW FREE POST No, teaching is not always political
That's just a pose
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My new principle
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses special versus general education researchers.
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The newest 'hype' (or not): Predictive processing
Here an analysis by @gregashman.bsky.social
#EduSky
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses a recent youcubed video about teaching mathematics.
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NEW FREE POST The pseudoscience of learning
How to spot it in the education debate
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