Mr Lee Bates
@mrbates.bsky.social
Interested in learning
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New post - going back to the basics: Why cognitive science matters for teachers?
open.substack.com/pub/efratfur...
open.substack.com/pub/efratfur...
Why cognitive science matters in education: three reasons
My perspective on why the science of learning is important for teachers
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February 1, 2026 at 12:38 PM
New post - going back to the basics: Why cognitive science matters for teachers?
open.substack.com/pub/efratfur...
open.substack.com/pub/efratfur...
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Yes. Everyone whom talks about Dual Coding, I'd say, needs to read Paivio's Mental Representations. It covers the comparison between linear & non-linear thinking — & its intellectual history — as well embodied cognition. That's 30 years before Sweller.
January 28, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Yes. Everyone whom talks about Dual Coding, I'd say, needs to read Paivio's Mental Representations. It covers the comparison between linear & non-linear thinking — & its intellectual history — as well embodied cognition. That's 30 years before Sweller.
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New Blog Post 📝
I hate QLA.
Originally due to the time it sucked out of my PPA I now know that QLA documents do not provide the information we think they do.
I go over the justification for why I ditched QLA and the reasons why you should get rid of it too.
open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...
I hate QLA.
Originally due to the time it sucked out of my PPA I now know that QLA documents do not provide the information we think they do.
I go over the justification for why I ditched QLA and the reasons why you should get rid of it too.
open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...
Death to the Spreadsheet: Why I Finally Ditched QLA
Question Level Analysis (QLA) is a staple in many schools. It is designed to turn exam results into a roadmap for student progress. But does it actually lead us where we need to go?
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:27 PM
New Blog Post 📝
I hate QLA.
Originally due to the time it sucked out of my PPA I now know that QLA documents do not provide the information we think they do.
I go over the justification for why I ditched QLA and the reasons why you should get rid of it too.
open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...
I hate QLA.
Originally due to the time it sucked out of my PPA I now know that QLA documents do not provide the information we think they do.
I go over the justification for why I ditched QLA and the reasons why you should get rid of it too.
open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...
Understanding matters.
Intuition matters.
Intuition matters.
The Trouble with Thinking Fast and Slow: Why the standard dual process story undersells intuition carlhendrick.substack.com/p/rethinking...
Rethinking Fast and Slow
New evidence suggests the standard dual process story undersells intuition
carlhendrick.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Understanding matters.
Intuition matters.
Intuition matters.
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A major problem with the EduCognitivist revolution was trying to algorithmise teaching.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM
A major problem with the EduCognitivist revolution was trying to algorithmise teaching.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
Algorithms are such thin rules that they can only ever work in a tightly controlled environment (no exceptions).
Therefore, to allow their algorithms to work, they also had to homogenise students & classrooms.
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Finally locked into a title:
📗 Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough
Coming soon, it will explore teaching and learning according to *enactive* cognitive science.
#EduSky
📗 Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough
Coming soon, it will explore teaching and learning according to *enactive* cognitive science.
#EduSky
January 5, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Finally locked into a title:
📗 Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough
Coming soon, it will explore teaching and learning according to *enactive* cognitive science.
#EduSky
📗 Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough
Coming soon, it will explore teaching and learning according to *enactive* cognitive science.
#EduSky
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This is *exactly* the argument, and one that has propelled me forward to suggest different paradigms. And the purpose of my latest book. What if the paradigm is wrong? What if we shouldn't *hold* attention, but *prompt* attention. It certainly works better in my teaching.
January 5, 2026 at 8:15 AM
This is *exactly* the argument, and one that has propelled me forward to suggest different paradigms. And the purpose of my latest book. What if the paradigm is wrong? What if we shouldn't *hold* attention, but *prompt* attention. It certainly works better in my teaching.
I would say this helps pupils to associate knowledge by tapping into embodied and visuospatial cognition as well as using the medium of orality.
IMO it goes beyond pronunciation. Here's a lesson on coronary heart disease for Y10. There's a feedback loop (in turquoise), we would chant that while tracing fingers on diagrams:
I'll say "A blockage causes...?" They chant back "lower flow in coronary artery"
I'll say "A lower flow causes...?" Etc.
I'll say "A blockage causes...?" They chant back "lower flow in coronary artery"
I'll say "A lower flow causes...?" Etc.
December 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I would say this helps pupils to associate knowledge by tapping into embodied and visuospatial cognition as well as using the medium of orality.
Have you looked at any of Lynne Kelly’s work on indigenous memory Theo.
It is fascinating and revealing about ways in which people effectively dealt with the transient effect before being able to manipulate the external memory field (reference to Merlin Donald)
It is fascinating and revealing about ways in which people effectively dealt with the transient effect before being able to manipulate the external memory field (reference to Merlin Donald)
Interesting, I can agree with Sue when its done in an inflexible and tortuous way, yours sounds more like call and response. I recall enjoying it in primary,A technique used by cultures in music and storytellling for aeons. The Cab Calloway clip in this clip is ace! youtu.be/PmjuKRvdEM8?...
Evolution of Call and Response - A West African Tradition
YouTube video by Sara's Moniker
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Have you looked at any of Lynne Kelly’s work on indigenous memory Theo.
It is fascinating and revealing about ways in which people effectively dealt with the transient effect before being able to manipulate the external memory field (reference to Merlin Donald)
It is fascinating and revealing about ways in which people effectively dealt with the transient effect before being able to manipulate the external memory field (reference to Merlin Donald)
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Interesting, I can agree with Sue when its done in an inflexible and tortuous way, yours sounds more like call and response. I recall enjoying it in primary,A technique used by cultures in music and storytellling for aeons. The Cab Calloway clip in this clip is ace! youtu.be/PmjuKRvdEM8?...
Evolution of Call and Response - A West African Tradition
YouTube video by Sara's Moniker
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Interesting, I can agree with Sue when its done in an inflexible and tortuous way, yours sounds more like call and response. I recall enjoying it in primary,A technique used by cultures in music and storytellling for aeons. The Cab Calloway clip in this clip is ace! youtu.be/PmjuKRvdEM8?...
@psteidinger.bsky.social what has captured your interest recently Peter?
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
@psteidinger.bsky.social what has captured your interest recently Peter?
If everyone agrees exposing prior knowledge/models of understanding is super important for learning, then please someone tell me how we can do that without first asking the pupils to do some kind of ‘inquiry’ tasks?
Great to see more supportive research of Problem-Solving-Before-Instruction being shared.
Do you remember when EduCognitivism denied it could ever work?
I remember blogging about it in biology teaching and CogSciSciers telling me it was absolutely wrong.
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-resear...
Do you remember when EduCognitivism denied it could ever work?
I remember blogging about it in biology teaching and CogSciSciers telling me it was absolutely wrong.
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-resear...
December 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If everyone agrees exposing prior knowledge/models of understanding is super important for learning, then please someone tell me how we can do that without first asking the pupils to do some kind of ‘inquiry’ tasks?
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For all those teachers and speakers who use slides (all, thus, except John Sweller😂) I give you the 'Oli-Filter' . Please use it!
@olicav.bsky.social
@olicav.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
For all those teachers and speakers who use slides (all, thus, except John Sweller😂) I give you the 'Oli-Filter' . Please use it!
@olicav.bsky.social
@olicav.bsky.social
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Mini Whiteboards
Knowledge-Building for Teachers Series
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December 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We all agree teacher explanations are important.
We all agree pupil thinking is important.
How do you maximise the thinking pupils are doing whilst you are explaining?
We all agree pupil thinking is important.
How do you maximise the thinking pupils are doing whilst you are explaining?
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We all agree teacher explanations are important.
We all agree pupil thinking is important.
How do you maximise the thinking pupils are doing whilst you are explaining?
We all agree pupil thinking is important.
How do you maximise the thinking pupils are doing whilst you are explaining?
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No, movement doesn't replace thinking. But it can hold information at no cognitive cost and to the benefit of retrieval.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
No, movement doesn't replace thinking. But it can hold information at no cognitive cost and to the benefit of retrieval.
When AI tutors become ridiculously amazing at supporting and matching the content and choice of activity to each particular tutee, I wonder what people will say if we will start to see an indisputable emergence of learning styles 🤔
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
When AI tutors become ridiculously amazing at supporting and matching the content and choice of activity to each particular tutee, I wonder what people will say if we will start to see an indisputable emergence of learning styles 🤔
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Cybernetics is not the Banana (Part 2) with Benjamin P. Taylor @antlerboy.com is now on YouTube: youtu.be/0IBjnZlcdfQ
Cybernetics is not the Banana: Benjamin Taylor (Part 2)
YouTube video by Laksh Raghavan
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Cybernetics is not the Banana (Part 2) with Benjamin P. Taylor @antlerboy.com is now on YouTube: youtu.be/0IBjnZlcdfQ
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This summer I started working on a new book for a general audience and really enjoying it. Working title so far:
▸Six Premises to Reframe the Art of Teaching.
Six chapters, exploring the consequences for (teaching and learning) of six fundamental principles. A *fresh* look at classroom practice.
▸Six Premises to Reframe the Art of Teaching.
Six chapters, exploring the consequences for (teaching and learning) of six fundamental principles. A *fresh* look at classroom practice.
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This summer I started working on a new book for a general audience and really enjoying it. Working title so far:
▸Six Premises to Reframe the Art of Teaching.
Six chapters, exploring the consequences for (teaching and learning) of six fundamental principles. A *fresh* look at classroom practice.
▸Six Premises to Reframe the Art of Teaching.
Six chapters, exploring the consequences for (teaching and learning) of six fundamental principles. A *fresh* look at classroom practice.
Transience is inevitable.
Working memory is the ability to resist transience.
We have tools and technologies to support our ability to resist transience.
We are in a constant stream of information, sometimes we are required to keep up with the stream, sometimes we need help.
Working memory is the ability to resist transience.
We have tools and technologies to support our ability to resist transience.
We are in a constant stream of information, sometimes we are required to keep up with the stream, sometimes we need help.
@mrbates.bsky.social
Look Lee! Donald Clark on transience.
I can't believe CLT authors & self-appointed authorities didn't & don't see this. Just the overly clever-clever bits — that are contentious anyway.
Look Lee! Donald Clark on transience.
I can't believe CLT authors & self-appointed authorities didn't & don't see this. Just the overly clever-clever bits — that are contentious anyway.
August 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Transience is inevitable.
Working memory is the ability to resist transience.
We have tools and technologies to support our ability to resist transience.
We are in a constant stream of information, sometimes we are required to keep up with the stream, sometimes we need help.
Working memory is the ability to resist transience.
We have tools and technologies to support our ability to resist transience.
We are in a constant stream of information, sometimes we are required to keep up with the stream, sometimes we need help.
Thread on
Value
Agency
Interest
Motivation
Simulation
&
Aims
VALUE
• action causes a change and the sum of the value of the change across multiple aspects is calculated as overall value of the action.
Value
Agency
Interest
Motivation
Simulation
&
Aims
VALUE
• action causes a change and the sum of the value of the change across multiple aspects is calculated as overall value of the action.
July 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Thread on
Value
Agency
Interest
Motivation
Simulation
&
Aims
VALUE
• action causes a change and the sum of the value of the change across multiple aspects is calculated as overall value of the action.
Value
Agency
Interest
Motivation
Simulation
&
Aims
VALUE
• action causes a change and the sum of the value of the change across multiple aspects is calculated as overall value of the action.
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I haven't written anything for a while...
Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication
What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty
#UKEd #EduSky
musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...
Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication
What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty
#UKEd #EduSky
musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...
What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty
Yesterday Claire Harley posted about sensemaking in schools, in which she poses some excellent reflective questions for leadership to consider, focussing on values and how they are communicated.&nb…
musingsofadr.wordpress.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I haven't written anything for a while...
Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication
What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty
#UKEd #EduSky
musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...
Here is something inspired by @claireharley.bsky.social's post from yesterday about values and clarity of communication
What Makes Great Leadership? Clarity of Communication & Reducing Uncertainty
#UKEd #EduSky
musingsofadr.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...
There is a lot of talk of what to teach and how to teach, and these are important but they are always at any moment, proceeded by a gestalt awareness of what is needed at that moment.
Where is the discussion of this gestalt perspectival awareness of what is needed at that moment?
#eruditepedagogy
Where is the discussion of this gestalt perspectival awareness of what is needed at that moment?
#eruditepedagogy
July 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
There is a lot of talk of what to teach and how to teach, and these are important but they are always at any moment, proceeded by a gestalt awareness of what is needed at that moment.
Where is the discussion of this gestalt perspectival awareness of what is needed at that moment?
#eruditepedagogy
Where is the discussion of this gestalt perspectival awareness of what is needed at that moment?
#eruditepedagogy