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George Panagiotakopoulos
@physiart.bsky.social
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Teacher of physics, writer, lecturer.
Passionate to find out how learning works!
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April 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Does awareness of intuition's fallibility help people avoid faulty intuitions?

#Teaching students #DualProcessTheory didn't help them avoid faulty intuitions about #physics problems.

doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

#edu #cogSci #bias #debiasing #psychology #epistemology #rationality
Methods Results
April 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Learning Styles won't die
How education's most persistent theory reveals its deepest conflicts
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April 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Five Ways: Tackling Common Learning Barriers.
There are SO MANY issues that teachers have to think about every lesson just to run the room and work through the curriculum – and there are SO MANY concepts and ideas from research and the w…
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April 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
physiart.bsky.social
Set manageable milestones toward the larger task and prioritise easy ones first!
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You're Not Lazy: The Neuroscience of Motivation
Here’s the wrong way to think about motivation: we muster up all of our motivation before we leave the house, then go out and spend that finite amount on our most important activities. That’s wrong, a...
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April 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
physiart.bsky.social
Can a daily nap do more harm than good? A sleep researcher explains
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Can a daily nap do more harm than good? A sleep researcher explains
To nap effectively, both the timing and environment matter.
theconversation.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
physiart.bsky.social
Well said! Most students aren’t experts! They can only learn science … can’t do science!
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The Seductive Appeal of Discovery Learning
I'm often asked why, if discovery learning doesn't work, it's so popular.
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March 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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There are no digital natives. Kids will use technology to learn what they like not what they need. That is why educators, to do their job, need to learn and understand tech including AI #EdChat #Edusky
March 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Want to better understand science? Here’s a #free #book to get you started: miguelhernan.org/wha...

The 1st section could be comprehensible to people who haven’t taken grad. #stats.

The 2nd and 3rd sections may be more for nerds and aspiring scientists. 🤓

#edu #STEM #literacy
Causal Inference: What If (the book) — Miguel Hernán
"What If" is a book for anyone interested in causal inference. Learn about counterfactuals, directed acyclic graphs, randomized experiments, observational studies, confounding, selection bias, inverse probability weighting, g-estimation, g-formula, instrumental variables, survival analysis, target trial emulation, and much more.
miguelhernan.org
March 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
physiart.bsky.social
One of the common factors that determines whether we will succeed at solving environmental challenges is scale. The resource in question has to be available at a scale where a group of humans can manage it. If it’s too big, we fail.
nautil.us/evolution-le...
#climate #environment #globalwarming
Evolution Led Humans into a Trap
The cultural forces that fueled our success now threaten to end it.
nautil.us
March 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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www.skeptic.com/article/the-...
Well said…
«We like to think of Google, X, Facebook, and even ChatGPT as neutral tools, but neutrality is an illusion. These platforms, intentionally or not, prioritize engagement over accuracy, outrage over nuance, and emotional provocation over intellectual depth»
Trust No One, Believe Everything: Does Common Sense Have a Future?
For as long as I can remember, espionage has fascinated me. Over the years, I’ve developed a certain expertise—at least in the pop culture sense—interviewing former spies for publications ranging from...
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March 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A sign of intellect is the ability to change your mind in the face of new facts.

A mark of wisdom is refusing to let the fear of admitting you were wrong stop you from getting it right.

The joy of learning something new eventually exceeds the pain of unlearning something old.
February 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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paulkirschner.bsky.social
Humans are (almost) unique among animal sorts in that they are capable of communicating what they have learnt to others who haven’t yet learnt it. To neglect or deny this, denies our uniqueness as species and hampers our teaching and learning. #EduSky

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Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching
This book reaffirms the enduring importance of effective explanations at a time when "teacher talk" is often undervalued. Drawing on the science of learning, Zach Groshell explores essential technique...
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February 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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paulkirschner.bsky.social
To truly prepare students for the complexities of modern life, we must move beyond superficial exercises in logic and debate. A well-designed curriculum offers the best chance of equipping students with the critical thinking abilities they need. #EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/02/23/t...
The Science of Teaching Critical Thinking - kirschner-ED
To truly prepare students for the complexities of modern life, we must move beyond superficial exercises in logic and debate. A well-designed curriculum offers the best chance of equipping students wi...
www.kirschnered.nl
February 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The psychology of scarcity
Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir explores how deprivation wreaks havoc on cognition and decision-making.
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February 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Conversations are more helpful when they're more reflective and less dichotomous.

Thanks to @dylanwiliam.bsky.social, @olicav.bsky.social, @drchendrick.bsky.social, & @cbokhove.bsky.social for joining me for this lovely chat on Cognitive Load Theory!

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February 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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🚨*FREE* webinars - How Teaching & Learning Happens course. Join me and @hugheshaili.bsky.social
▶️ 27/2 at 4pm GMT Retrieval Practice
▶️ 6/3 at 4pm GMT Scaffolding
▶️ 13/3 at 4pm GMT Checking for Understanding
▶️ 20/3 at 4pm GMT Questioning
Register here: forms.office.com/e/7pdGTMNmJs...
February 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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thebandb.bsky.social
What are the effects of smartphone bans in schools? Well, don't get your hopes up too high. theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/02/07/w...
What are the effects of smartphone bans in schools? Well, don’t get your hope up too high.
Yesterday Wouter Duyck already shared this study on Twitter. In a first study, the researchers discovered that restrictive school policies don’t lead to lower phone and social media use or be…
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February 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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16 must-know edu-research papers from the last 16 weeks:

(all open source 🔓)

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February 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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rodjnaquin.bsky.social
Cognitive Load Theory: A Reflective Conversation - The ThoughtStretchers Podcast https://pca.st/episode/c06e61f7-088b-439c-b152-63563fb6ac4e
February 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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thebandb.bsky.social
This sounds almost too good to be true: Innovative one-minute video game boasts 80% success rate in diagnosing autism? theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/01/29/t...
This sounds almost too good to be true: Innovative one-minute video game boasts 80% success rate in diagnosing autism?
I read press releases of studies daily, and I know how a communication office of a university can boost a study to enormous proportions, but this press release doesn’t hold back at all: A new…
theeconomyofmeaning.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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3 brilliant critical thinking tools used by Daniel Dennett
The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.
bigthink.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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"To keep an adjunct to remember thee / Were to impart forgetfulness in me." (Sonnet 122)
January 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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daisychristo.bsky.social
Some appropriate reading for a Sunday afternoon - how to reclaim your Sunday afternoons from marking.

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/but-my-stu...
But my students like written comments...
Feedback that is accurate, helpful, and doesn't ruin your Sunday evening
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January 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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paulkirschner.bsky.social
It’s our nature to try to make things easier for others. As parents, we want to make things easier for our children than they were for us. And as teachers, we’re taught that it’s our job to make learning as easy and effortless as possible. #EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/01/27/i...
January 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM