Curriculum Is a Localist Model of a Distributed Mind The problem with dividing knowledge into pieces

New on Substack: New post: Why does dividing curriculum into knowledge components feel so unstable? Because we're imposing localist structure on a distributed system. The brain doesn't store knowledge in pieces. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/curriculum...

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IES is the federal agency with the second largest reduction in staff this year, narrowly behind USAID

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The Long-Term Memory Problem: Why Teaching and Learning Policies Fail Schools are very good at writing policies about in-the-moment teaching. They are much worse at strategising for long-term memory and learning.

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Schools rightly spend a lot of time thinking about classroom teaching and in-the-moment learning and lesson structure. But without a plan for long-term memory, we are probably wasting our time.

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There is a map on GIAS for every trust - usually more reliable

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