Christian Moore-Anderson
@cmooreanderson.bsky.social
Biology Teacher & Head of Bio (11–18)
📗Making Meaning (Forthcoming)
📘Difference Maker (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
📙Biology Made Real (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
Blog: rb.gy/dyi5a
#EnactiveCogSci
📗Making Meaning (Forthcoming)
📘Difference Maker (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
📙Biology Made Real (🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸)
Blog: rb.gy/dyi5a
#EnactiveCogSci
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I see representationism leading to the idea of storage and retrieval, and, therefore, lessons focused on memorisation and answering correctly.
UK education would be better off embracing non-representationalist cognitive science.
A enactive/pragmatic turn is needed in education.
#EduSky #UKEd
UK education would be better off embracing non-representationalist cognitive science.
A enactive/pragmatic turn is needed in education.
#EduSky #UKEd
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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This has always been the fear with the oracy agenda - that it will lead to the DfE dictating pedagogy and the return of compulsory group work by the back door.
The devil will be in the detail but this isn't encouraging.
www.thetimes.com/article/40e5...
The devil will be in the detail but this isn't encouraging.
www.thetimes.com/article/40e5...
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This has always been the fear with the oracy agenda - that it will lead to the DfE dictating pedagogy and the return of compulsory group work by the back door.
The devil will be in the detail but this isn't encouraging.
www.thetimes.com/article/40e5...
The devil will be in the detail but this isn't encouraging.
www.thetimes.com/article/40e5...
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Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
I see representationism leading to the idea of storage and retrieval, and, therefore, lessons focused on memorisation and answering correctly.
UK education would be better off embracing non-representationalist cognitive science.
A enactive/pragmatic turn is needed in education.
#EduSky #UKEd
UK education would be better off embracing non-representationalist cognitive science.
A enactive/pragmatic turn is needed in education.
#EduSky #UKEd
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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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Totally. I really don't think people who doesn't teach science gets how much content there is in there. Every lesson is covering 8 different things. Fundamental is exactly what we need.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Totally. I really don't think people who doesn't teach science gets how much content there is in there. Every lesson is covering 8 different things. Fundamental is exactly what we need.
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
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The trend towards seeing learning as delivering content into memory by using direct instruction has set the path to this enthusiastic adoption imo. Unfortunately people are making themselves increasingly superfluous by doing this as per @risu.bsky.social's posts below.
Talking to teachers who enthusiastically use ai reminds me of talking to people who join Facebook pyramid schemes like selling weight loss juice or make up. “It is so amazing I use it every day, I’m an entrepreneur”…
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The trend towards seeing learning as delivering content into memory by using direct instruction has set the path to this enthusiastic adoption imo. Unfortunately people are making themselves increasingly superfluous by doing this as per @risu.bsky.social's posts below.
Just moved to Proton Mail.
Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive
Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive
Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise
Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions.…
dlvr.it
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Just moved to Proton Mail.
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Thanks for inviting me on the show, drew. What an honour!
Always a pleasure to talk with @shaneleaning.com, this time about his new book, Change Starts Here.
And for those of you savages who like watching podcast videos, the YouTube link is below.
The ThoughtStretchers Podcast: Change Starts Here with Shane Leaning
wegrowteachers.com/thoughtstret...
And for those of you savages who like watching podcast videos, the YouTube link is below.
The ThoughtStretchers Podcast: Change Starts Here with Shane Leaning
wegrowteachers.com/thoughtstret...
The ThoughtStretchers Podcast: Change Starts Here with Shane Leaning
Drew Perkins talks with Shane Leaning about his new book, Change Starts Here: What If Everything Your School Needed Was Right in Front of You?
wegrowteachers.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Thanks for inviting me on the show, drew. What an honour!
Prerequisite knowledge check?
*** NEW POST ***
open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
Too many lessons are filled with checking what pupils know rather than helping them learn something new.
open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
Too many lessons are filled with checking what pupils know rather than helping them learn something new.
Make Time for Learning
When Checking Becomes the Lesson
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Prerequisite knowledge check?
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Some people claim that a positive of Sweller's work is that it goes back to the 80s. However, he built this work on the computer metaphor.
Enactive embodied insights were being published in the 70s.
Only now is Sweller pivoting towards biology and yet still retains computer language in CLT.
#EduSky
Enactive embodied insights were being published in the 70s.
Only now is Sweller pivoting towards biology and yet still retains computer language in CLT.
#EduSky
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Some people claim that a positive of Sweller's work is that it goes back to the 80s. However, he built this work on the computer metaphor.
Enactive embodied insights were being published in the 70s.
Only now is Sweller pivoting towards biology and yet still retains computer language in CLT.
#EduSky
Enactive embodied insights were being published in the 70s.
Only now is Sweller pivoting towards biology and yet still retains computer language in CLT.
#EduSky
Some people claim that a positive of Sweller's work is that it goes back to the 80s. However, he built this work on the computer metaphor.
Enactive embodied insights were being published in the 70s.
Only now is Sweller pivoting towards biology and yet still retains computer language in CLT.
#EduSky
Enactive embodied insights were being published in the 70s.
Only now is Sweller pivoting towards biology and yet still retains computer language in CLT.
#EduSky
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Some people claim that a positive of Sweller's work is that it goes back to the 80s. However, he built this work on the computer metaphor.
Enactive embodied insights were being published in the 70s.
Only now is Sweller pivoting towards biology and yet still retains computer language in CLT.
#EduSky
Enactive embodied insights were being published in the 70s.
Only now is Sweller pivoting towards biology and yet still retains computer language in CLT.
#EduSky
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So like @bernardandrews.bsky.social says, you're mechanism alludes to a homunculus as the mechanism, and you're now in trouble.
You say it does, but the metaphor also doesn't explain how and why memory is always reconstructive, or a reenactment. The birds don't morph and change in the metaphor.
You say it does, but the metaphor also doesn't explain how and why memory is always reconstructive, or a reenactment. The birds don't morph and change in the metaphor.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
So like @bernardandrews.bsky.social says, you're mechanism alludes to a homunculus as the mechanism, and you're now in trouble.
You say it does, but the metaphor also doesn't explain how and why memory is always reconstructive, or a reenactment. The birds don't morph and change in the metaphor.
You say it does, but the metaphor also doesn't explain how and why memory is always reconstructive, or a reenactment. The birds don't morph and change in the metaphor.
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Your (and @cmooreanderson.bsky.social's) point about enactment is, I think, half right, because the solution is that learning the answers to questions is learning *to do* something. But the other key part is that answering a question/following a rule is essentially a *public* practice.
November 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Your (and @cmooreanderson.bsky.social's) point about enactment is, I think, half right, because the solution is that learning the answers to questions is learning *to do* something. But the other key part is that answering a question/following a rule is essentially a *public* practice.
The storage and retrieval metaphor falls apart as soon as you ask any one for the mechanism of retrieval: exactly how is the memory retrieved from storage?
How would secondary education be different if we substituted out "storage and retrieval" for "traces of enaction and reenact"?
#EduSky #UKEd
How would secondary education be different if we substituted out "storage and retrieval" for "traces of enaction and reenact"?
#EduSky #UKEd
It's time to move on from the storage and retrieval metaphor of memory. How would teaching change with an enactive view?
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
"On the one hand, memory is not a library of memories, even if they are episodic; on the other, memory is not the memory of information that enters the system ... [but] the traces of what has been enacted by our actions."
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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It's time to move on from the storage and retrieval metaphor of memory. How would teaching change with an enactive view?
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
"On the one hand, memory is not a library of memories, even if they are episodic; on the other, memory is not the memory of information that enters the system ... [but] the traces of what has been enacted by our actions."
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
It's time to move on from the storage and retrieval metaphor of memory. How would teaching change with an enactive view?
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
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"On the one hand, memory is not a library of memories, even if they are episodic; on the other, memory is not the memory of information that enters the system ... [but] the traces of what has been enacted by our actions."
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
"On the one hand, memory is not a library of memories, even if they are episodic; on the other, memory is not the memory of information that enters the system ... [but] the traces of what has been enacted by our actions."
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Just read a Bridget Phillipson speech which I'm not going to inflict on anyone but basically it's all our fault that some children are failing and more tests and targets is definitely the answer. 🙄🤦♀️
November 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Just read a Bridget Phillipson speech which I'm not going to inflict on anyone but basically it's all our fault that some children are failing and more tests and targets is definitely the answer. 🙄🤦♀️
It's time to move on from the storage and retrieval metaphor of memory. How would teaching change with an enactive view?
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
"On the one hand, memory is not a library of memories, even if they are episodic; on the other, memory is not the memory of information that enters the system ... [but] the traces of what has been enacted by our actions."
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
It's time to move on from the storage and retrieval metaphor of memory. How would teaching change with an enactive view?
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
● Memory isn't a library, but the traces of what we have enacted.
Which, I think, is compatible with (but more encompassing than) "memory is the residue of thought".
"On the one hand, memory is not a library of memories, even if they are episodic; on the other, memory is not the memory of information that enters the system ... [but] the traces of what has been enacted by our actions."
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
"On the one hand, memory is not a library of memories, even if they are episodic; on the other, memory is not the memory of information that enters the system ... [but] the traces of what has been enacted by our actions."
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...