Alex Black

I have used notebooklm to create an easy to listen and read summary pod cast and briefing document. A must read for anyone interested in reasoning and nature of science www.abceducation.ch/blog/2025/08...

I have used notebooklm to create an easy to listen and read summary pod cast and briefing document. A must read for anyone interested in reasoning and nature of science www.abceducation.ch/blog/2025/08...

(PDF) Styles of Scientific Reasoning: A Cultural Rationale for Science Education? PDF | In this paper, we contend that what to teach about scientific reasoning has been bedeviled by a lack of clarity about the construct. Drawing on... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

Jonathan Osborne and Per Kind published

Styles of Scientific Reasoning: A Cultural Rationale for Science Education?
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Semmelweiss story was a great TOK activity

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Totally agree and here is an example of how it is being done in some schools near Cambridge www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...

Whereas Enactive, embodied schema in your sense are the vehicle for generally applicable actions and organisational operations as opposed to specific knowledge connections. Hence the dogma of you cannot teach general "skils" coming from some quarters.

What you say about schema in early years fits more with my understanding from Piaget and others. Opposed to this Rosenshine chunk by chunk building of Knowledge schema that so many talk about.

That is very interesting. Start reading some of the work of Tamir Amin www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... he traces out the links between embodied schema conceptual metaphor and how it can play out in secondary science learning.

Agree totally. The ideas about working memory were discussed immensely in the 70s through into 2000s by Neo-Piagetians e.g Michael Shayer, Philip Adey, Andreas Demetriou, Robbie Case,Juan Pascual-Leone and many more.

Writings www.actionresearch.net/writings/wri...

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Living Educational Theory Research | Jack Whitehead | TEDxUniversityofBoltonSalon

Or by people like Jack Whitehead www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myl_...

www.abceducation.ch/blog/2025/04...

General and specific thinking skills and schooling: Preparing the mind to new learning Enhancing thinking skills is an important goal of formal education. It is often embedded in national curricula, which, however, are seldom based on th…

Excellent analysis of making the fruits of education knowable. Fits in with the idea of preparing the mind as analysed by www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and also the goal of long and far transfer we at Lets Think Forum letsthink.org.uk aim for

Predicting as a learning strategy - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review This article attempts to delineate the procedural and mechanistic characteristics of predicting as a learning strategy. While asking students to generate a prediction before presenting the correct ans...

Maybe also of interest link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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The data discussed here www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/Link... probably could explain some of this

ASE 2025 Annual Conference: Enabling learners to think about their t... View more about this event at ASE 2025 Annual Conference

Looking forward to presenting with Natasha Serret at ASE 2025 in Nottingham next month on metacognition. 2025aseannualconf.sched.com/event/1gerd/...

Also how the commercial Smart Import from h5p.com. You can read about it and try the AI prompts for yourself. abc-learning.org/wordpress/h5p/

Having used H5P h5p.org for some time I have been experimenting with using ChatGPT to quickly create a variety of web based interactive learning/self testing activities. Examples are Multiple choice, drag the words, mark the words and create a summary.

.. Of course, it depends on what is being learned, which in our case is essentially the four aspects of leadership discussed earlier."

..Such learning can be valuable for further development, but it is not the kind of applied learning that makes a difference. Learning in context has the greatest potential payoff because it is more specific, situational and social (it develops shared and collective knowledge and commitments).

"Recruiting top-performing principals is important, but not as important as systematically learning on the job. Learning in context occurs when people interact to learn and solve problems they face. Learning out of context takes
place when principals go to a workshop or conference.

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He also added that one heard the vast majority of the staff talking about the details of learning. He speculated that leadership had allowed time, energy and space for this to happen with an absence of things not associated with whatever the strong moral purpose was

I heard Michael Fullan several times some 20 years ago.https://michaelfullan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/13396048660.pdf He claimed that from the many hundreds of schools he saw as successful some central moral purpose was evident.

If you are interested in H5P and how AI can be used to quickly create interactive web conent then have a read at abc-learning.org/wordpress/h5p/

YouTube video by BBC Earth Science What Are Your Bones Made Of? | Bang Goes The Theory | Earth Science

Used H5P Smart Import to make an interactive study book using youtu.be/4kd2ctxZwlc?... Help youself at abceducation.h5p.com/content/1292... or if you have a Wordpress , Moodle etc download and re use

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5 minutes work to create 20 MQC any use for Science teachers out there?