Rob Marchetto
robmarchetto.bsky.social
Rob Marchetto
@robmarchetto.bsky.social
Teaching and learning, curriculum, Geography. Blog at https://failthinklearn.wordpress.com
Clearly, the battery recycling rate must improve. This is where everyday people can help. In the future, manufacturers should avoid using forever chemicals in batteries altogether.
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Taking the ‘forever’ out of ‘forever chemicals’: we worked out how to destroy the PFAS in batteries
The PFAS in lithium-ion batteries is a major obstacle to recycling or disposing of these batteries safely. But we have a way to fix this problem.
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February 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Reform Scotland, an independent think tank, has published a paper advocating how a knowledge-based curriculum could transform Scottish Education. www.reformscotland.com/wp-content/u...
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January 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
January 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
“this is probably the biggest problem with teaching for learning, is that performance is easy to see and measure while learning isn’t.” @paulkirschner.bsky.social
What we teach may go into our students’ memory but it isn’t learning if nothing is retained and it can’t be recalled and used next week, month, or year. What it is, is performance: The student performed!
#EduSky
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What’s Good for Performance Often Isn’t Good for Learning
If you’ve really learned something, you may not always remember it but you never forget it!
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January 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
January 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"To be able to think critically about something and deeply understand a text on a particular topic, you need a solid base of background knowledge on that topic. Making sense of things and being able to apply it in novel situations is, in fact, memory in disguise." link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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January 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
“Content in the absence of thinking is inert and meaningless; but thinking in the absence of content is vacuous.” (Robert. J. Sternberg, cited in Tobias and Duffy (2009, p. 10)
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January 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
New stadiums, airports and oil links: the environmental cost of Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup theconversation.com/new-stadiums... #geographyteachet
New stadiums, airports and oil links: the environmental cost of Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup
The Saudis have won the right to host football’s biggest tournament. But its bid doesn’t seriously address the environmental issues.
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January 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking
The Knowledge Revival.

Coauthored by Tim Surma, Claudio Vanhees, Michiel Wils, Jasper Nijlunsing, Nuno Crato, John Hattie, Daniel Muijs, Elizabeth Rata, Dylan Wiliam, and Paul A. Kirschner.

Freely available here: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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January 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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This looks like it will be gold. Thanks for sharing @shaun-allison.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Leading Through People: The Power of Consultation in educational leadership is the antidote to the leadership pitfall of Bypassing.
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Leading Through People: The Power of Consultation in educational leadership is the antidote to the leadership pitfall of Bypassing.
This blog leans on Viviane Robinson’s book Reduce Change to Increase Improvement and a wonderful blog by Joe Kirby. Effective leadership, particularly in the educational sector, is not about dictat…
failthinklearn.wordpress.com
December 8, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Reposted by Rob Marchetto
You must first learn to draw within the lines…
As my colleague @robmarchetto.bsky.social wisely said: The most compassionate and student-centered approach to learning is a knowledge-rich curriculum and explicit instruction.
#EduSky
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You must first learn to draw within the lines… - kirschner-ED
The most compassionate and student-centered approach to learning is a knowledge-rich curriculum and explicit instruction.
www.kirschnered.nl
December 5, 2024 at 1:43 PM
The importance of explicit instruction leads to success!
December 4, 2024 at 1:03 AM