A quick thread on some interesting and useful research on the idea of "attention contagion": 🧵

1 How should we use Generative AI for Academic teaching? The answer, imo, is in cognitive science, as the human learning process is both the goal and the limiting factor in this journey. A🧵 #HigherED #GenAI #CogSci

This is an interesting paper by Kyle Mahowald and colleagues. 🧵1/6 Humans have separate neural circuits for formal linguistic competence and functional competence, while LLMs do not clearly separate these.

Fortnightly 166: Carol Atherton's 'Reading Lessons' | 'King Lear' Wexford Education Support Centre | Turning Heads National Gallery of Ireland | John Donne by Katherine Rundell & Simon Schama | AI & teaching from Efrat Furst & Daisy Christodoulou | Tom Sherrington on leading schools. And more. juliangirdham.com/blog/fortnight…

This, in essence, is the content of my #rEDDubai24 talk: CLT Reframed. While capturing thoughts on paper was the solution to the problem of transient speech, ignorance of graphic strategies turned it into a series of new problems to be solved. The Flow Spray is such one.

So having seen Adam Wray talk about this yesterday at #ResearchEdSW, I had to come straight back to it today to recap. It really is quite a comprehensive synthesis of a wide range of ideas, tied in to some practical take-aways for teachers. Splendid cogscisci.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/are…

Been speaking about the power of video for teacher PD for the last year. Here is a thread about my talk 👇🧵

Few people have asked me for a thread on my rEDSouthWest keynote on teacher retention. So here it is 🧵👇

New research 🧵 1. Mary Kennedy famously outlined the ‘parsing problem’. Teaching is complicated, meaning that teacher educators have always needed to:

I reference the amazing work of Efrat Furst and her pyramid model regularly and last week I was chatting with some teachers about the damage misconceptions can make! - shorturl.at/zyw0w

30 of the most interesting education research papers from the last 3 months: (all open source 🔓) ↓

How can cognitive science and good "old" pedagogy help us crack the challenge of integrating Generative AI in (higher) education? My attempt to answer this question, inspired by many discussions and questions... sites.google.com/view/efratfurs…

Summary of Jennifer Barker & my presentation at #EducationFest today: (Another beast of a thread) ↓

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How can cognitive science and good "old" pedagogy help us crack the challenge of integrating Generative AI in (higher) education? My attempt to answer this question, inspired by many discussions and questions... sites.google.com/view/efratfurs…

If you are using GenAI and in education - this is a must-read. Yes, AI is exciting, but as educators, our #1 goal is to use it responsibly, and responsibility starts by reading this:

In the past weeks, I've seen a number of people make snide remarks about researchEd and how its presenters and organisers don't produce research. People asking for the papers they've written and stuff like that. This is simultaneously stupid and a fantastic cause for hope. Read

Very excited to add Emily Hanford to the bill for this event: we’ll be interviewing former UK education minister Nick Gibb on what the US can learn from England’s experience implementing the “science of reading.” Join us!

Really interesting article on 'Untangling dyslexia myths and misconceptions' apa.org/monitor/2024/0…

'Means-ends conflation' is responsible for some of the biggest misconceptions (and rifts) in education. Let's unpack it: ↓