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6 Cowan Identifies an activated subset of LTM (aLTM), a small part of which is in the focus of attention (FoA). Information is selected for and may be binded, and combined with activated representations while in the FoA. 🧠Memory is working without a "Working Memory"!

🚀New episode is here! Learn about Direct Instruction and how it outperformed all other methods in Project Follow Through—the largest educational experiment in history. Marcy Stein had a front row seat for PFT & she was an amazing guest. A must-listen! open.spotify.com/episode/56x5UR…

Truly enjoyed it and learned so much ⭐🙏

Hi internet: there are lots of folk who have said Pritesh's video sucks, and I'm interested in seeing the videos of their teaching that they've shared so I can see how it's supposed to be done. Please could you let me know where I can find those clips?

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Check for understanding what are your top tips for using this tool within the classroom? How is it done best? Would love to hear your thoughts. Retweets appreciated 🙏Brad Busch Efrat Furst Dr Haili Hughes FRSA Ian White Matt Stone Sam Crome Mike Downes (NPQLTD) David Goodwin

New paper asks why have the same major motivation theories (self-determination theory, expectancy-value theory, achievement goal theory, etc.) dominated educational psychology for decades with little change? ⬇️ 🧵

Efrat Furst Carl Hendrick Murayama has done some interesting work on motivation. He has a nice chapter titled, "Motivation resides only in our language, not in our mental processes": bit.ly/4bQToxn

Steve Allen Zeph Bennett Brad Busch Efrat Furst Ian White Matt Stone Sam Crome Mike Downes (NPQLTD) David Goodwin youtube.com/live/1nUrX66nM…

I often hear insights from professionals in education, that cognitive science principles are trivial and surprising at the same time. What is your best explanation? 💭

Efrat Furst More recently, Alvin Goldman pointed out problems with defining knowledge as justified-true-belief and has a rather nice formulation of knowing being the ability to distinguish between relevant alternative states of affairs (used by Messick in his 1989 chapter on validity).

Our blogger spends LOTS of time warning teachers not to overload #working_memory. So, why is he now contemplating that possibility? A recent study made him ponder... ow.ly/g90J50Vphu7

Everybody talks about innovating assessment in #higherEd in the era of GenAI? It's been (good) messy so far - but how should we proceed? Once again, cognitive science principles can support our thinking: sites.google.com/view/efratfurs…

When is pretesting a good strategy? I've been skeptical about this as I think there is a fine line between activating knowledge and just randomly guessing stuff but this new study gives some useful insights. So pretesting is most effective when the questions are related to

Teaching for more equitable outcomes: The missing ingredient open.substack.com/pub/scienceofl…

The largest education experiment ever run is one that most teachers and even many education professors do not know about. Why? It is an intriguing story 🧵