Laurie Smith
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King's College London. https://t.co/Wu80AVayQY Agrees with Willingham's " Memory is the residue of thought", so learning is done by thinking.
London, England
Joined May 2012
At this time of horrific conflict in Israel and Gaza, it's worth remembering that Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment hugely raised the attainment of Arabic-speaking Jews in the 1950s to 70s, and led to a successful programme in England - Happier times.
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@NickGibbUK @lehain So when does one have enough knowledge to start thinking critically? 11, 16, 18, undergraduate level? It seems more likely that one can start - just start - thinking critically with relatively little knowledge, so long as one has some.
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@pfuller21 @tombennett71 School leaders are more likely to say behaviour is good or very good because they need to sell the school to prospective parents and the loocal community. Teachers experience the reality.
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RT @magmapoetry: TOMORROW Thu 1 Jun 7pm. Join us to hear some outstanding poetry reading from the winners of this year's Magma Poetry Compe…
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@tyronewarren819 @magmapoetry @AHicksonLovence @fortislibbie Magma's next submission is July. The theme is Underground.
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@JMPSimor It would be an easy win for Keir Starmer to promise to abolish resignation honours. Blair and Brown didn't use them. It's an invitation to corruption, rewarding one's cronies. Admittedly Starmer says he'll abolish the Lords, but this will still leave the knighthoods, etc.
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Magma 85 Poems for schools is now live, arguing we need more diverse poems in schools which are taught in ways more open to the feelings they express. Great articles by Barbara Bleiman and Molly Naylor. Great poems for teaching in schools -
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@cbokhove Christian is clearly right - educational developments can't be tested once they become popular because unaffected schools aren't available as controls. Is this the death-knell of evidence-based educational research when new ideas spread quickly through social media, etc?
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RT @BarbaraBleiman: Well, I've just had a quick skim of the Secondary English one and, to my mind, it's a very odd mix. Some things one loo…
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@TeachFirst Investigate Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment and its successor Cognitive Acceleration - the only two programmes robustly proven to raise attainment by disadvantaged children.
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@AndrewEMC @hehirsarah @BarbaraBleiman @PoetryVal @InuaEllams This looks great - I'll certainly be getting it. As it happens, Magma poetry magazine is looking for new poems for teachers to use in schools, also (non-anthology) poems they and their students have enjoyed -
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@greg_ashman And the RAND Corporation reports that between 1975 and 2018, $47 trillion (yes, trillion) was transferred from the bottom 90 per cent to the top 1 per cent in the USA -
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@dylanwiliam @tombennett71 @effortfuleduktr Yes, most teacher education programmes don't include the two basic processes - deduction and induction - of which most reasoning consists. So teachers tend not to know why open questions, requiring induction, lead to better understanding and therefore memory than closed ones.
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@RoryStewartUK @ZelenskyyUa A great speech, but how do we respond when he is gunned down or poisoned by Putin's people? After this, there won't even be a 'trial' on false charges.
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RT @BarristerSecret: NEW BLOGPOST: Do the verdicts in the trial of the Colston 4 signal something wrong with our jury system? 10 things you…
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@DTWillingham As an example of workaday cognition, the Wright Brothers created the first successful aeroplane (against many better-funded competitors) because, as bicycle sellers, they inferred that control was as important as power and lift. 3/3
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@DTWillingham All cognition is improved with practice, like everything else. And certainly crreativity isn't based on hierarchy. What decision-making and problem-solving did Shakespeare have to complete before starting writing Hamlet? 2/3
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@DTWillingham Alas, high-level cognition doesn't exist, otherwise there would be low- and medium-level and boundaries between them which no-one has found. All cognition works the same way - deduction and induction based on knowledge and assisted by comparison (analogy) and exemplification. 1/3
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RT @think_talk_org: *NEW* blog on teaching @LetsThinkForum English in a pandemic @mikefnw75 @Miff__ @Mat_at_Brookes @jdurran @BobCox_SFE @A…
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