Just published a new article on how students understand (…or don’t understand 😅) fractions. After testing 26,000 kids, the mistakes we found shocked us. Think you can do better than a 6th-grader ? Free printable test on Excello’s website (bio)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Characterizing error types in the comprehension of fractions: The number line test

Understanding fractions is a major hurdle for many students. A key aspect of fraction comprehension is the ability to evaluate their numerical magnitu…

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Good news in MB as govt passes Bill 225 for reading screening. "Bill 225 requires elementary schools to systematically screen elementary students for early signs of struggle, immediately act on warning signs and document findings in report cards." www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Manitoba early reading screening legislation passes final test

Manitoba’s poor literacy rate has prompted MLAs of all political stripes to unanimously endorse a private member’s bill to increase teacher monitoring and support for struggling readers.

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A new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📢 New episode with Jamie Metsala dedicated to all reading advocates! Math next! Why are some provinces still using ineffective methods to teach reading? ❌Pitfalls of balanced literacy 📖 Structured literacy 📢 Ontario’s Right to Read report 🛠️ How to advocate open.spotify.com/episode/15GB...

How advocacy is changing reading instruction with Jamie Metsala (Ep 43)

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Our project to improve literacy in Mayotte with the RSMA has started ! Learn more here www.instagram.com/reel/DHDroQV...

Which LLM can pass a student exam?! benchmarks.ai-for-education.org

The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren't always getting hechingerreport.org/the-building...

The building blocks of math students need to excel

A flexible understanding of how numbers work is as important to math as phonics is to reading

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An amazing day seeing Excello’s Kalulu reading program in action with adult learners in Brazil! Inspiring to witness how cognitive science can empower literacy at any age. #LiteracyForAll #phonics #CognitiveScience

❤️❤️❤️ this podcast!

Anna Stokke (Host of Chalk & Talk Podcast)@rastokke.bsky.social · last yr.

🚀New episode with @sarahpowellphd.bsky.social just dropped! We critique the NCTM/CEC position statement on teaching math to students with disabilities and discuss practical, research-backed ways to support students with math difficulties. open.spotify.com/episode/3QIf...

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New paper from the lab! Mathias Sablé-Meyer used behavior, fMRI and MEG to study the mental representation of geometric shapes (quadrilaterals ranging in regularity from squares and rectangles to random figures). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It’s mind-blowing that disproven instructional methods are still widespread in schools—undermining children’s confidence and learning. #ScienceOfReading #Phonics #EducationReform #StopTheGuessing www.itv.com/news/2025-02...

Over the course of 2024, the Godot project has amassed more new features and community highlights than any one person can keep track of. Find out if you missed anything essential in our "2024 Cherry-picks" blog post 🍒 godotengine.org/article/2024... Don't miss out on the showcased games either! 🎮

2024 Cherry-picks

Over the course of 2024, the Godot project has amassed more new features and community highlights than any one person can keep track of. To ensure you did not miss anything essential, we have selected...

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Kalulu working hard today in Spanish to bring the #scienceofreading to Bogota📚

👾We're hiring developers who want to build #opensource #evidencebased #edtech! We use @godotengine.org www.college-de-france.fr/en/news/seni...

I couldn’t believe it and had to try it myself… what is going on ??!#instagram #democrat #republican

📣I’ve published a primer to teach your child to read! This book is special to me. As a mom, I wanted to give my kids the best possible start in life, and that journey inspired my work in #cognitivescience. 📖: a.co/d/6LcSUmf #ScienceOfReading #EarlyEducation #booksky💙📚 #DevSci #CogDev #DevPsy

Ever compare your kids candy colors in the U.S. and Europe? 🍭 FINALLY!!! The FDA banned Red 3, a dye linked to cancer in animals, from food. Already prohibited in the EU.

The FDA does not know what chemicals are added to foods

A rule concocted in the 1950s for vinegar and spices has had unintended effects

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Don’t miss out! www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/gr...

I ❤️ed this program and now get to work with so many of the amazing professors that i met there. I can’t recommend the CogMaster enough!

Joao Barbosa@jbarbosa.org · 2y ago

There's a strong computational neuroscience track, where you could learn with the best in the field (e.g. Srdjan Ostojic, Alex Cayco-Gajic, Boris Gutkin, @stepalminteri.bsky.social, Valentin Wyart) and the mediocre, too (i.e. yours truly).

Kalulu's GitHub: github.com/Excello-Rech... 👾 We're #opensource and use @godotengine.org. Coders to join us in creating A/B tests with kids worldwide, improving education through science! 🌍 DM me if you’re in! #EdTech #GameDev

Looking for some nice, clean, kid-friendly neuro content? How about a colouring-page about brain cells and they ways they interact? Includes plain language explainers about different types of brain cells. I use this #OER in my #CogPsych classes 😉 #OA downloads: doi.org/10.21979/N9/... 1/

Comment enseigner les fractions avec sens et plaisir ? Ce 15° #numéro du "Passeur" met en lumière : ➡️ les obstacles liés à l’apprentissage des fractions ➡️ les pistes pour y remédier Y- accéder : 🔗https://miniurl.be/r-5wgf @standehaene.bsky.social

📢 Enseignants, boostez l’apprentissage des maths avec le concours Mathador ! 🧮🎲 #Mathador #Éducation #Mathématiques blog.mathador.fr/concours-mat...

Concours Mathador 12ème édition : à vos marques, prêts, calculez ! - Le blog de Mathador, actualités des jeux, pédagogie du calcul mental et des maths

Ce lundi, plus de 50 000 élèves d’écoles et de collèges français en France et à l’étranger ont démarré la nouvelle année avec la première épreuve du Concours Mathador 2024-2025. Le gong a retenti : le...

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We use @godotengine.org to create Kalulu, an #opensource phonics app for kids worldwide! 🎮📚 Godot’s flexibility lets us build engaging games and deploy them globally—no licensing barriers. Passionate about evidence-based education? We’re hiring developers! contact@excellolab.org to join us! #EdTech

L'été dernier, dans « Une idée dans la tête », j’ai décrit le test du Malabi, qui identifie différents types de dyslexies. Il est à présent en ligne, accompagné d'un dispositif semi-automatisé d'évaluation des erreurs. N'hésitez pas à nous envoyer vos remarques. excellolab.org/fr/plateform...

We’re hiring at Excello! Join our team at the Collège de France, working alongside @standehaene.bsky.social, to create education tools and drive research that transforms learning worldwide. Please share 📣 www.college-de-france.fr/en/news/data...

More Happy New Year news. ❤️ the point that even great graphs may be compounding bad data. parentdata.org/alcohol-and-...

Alcohol and Health

Cutting through the noise

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Interesting article, but it misses a key point: grade inflation by teachers. It creates the false expectation that students deserve As simply for effort, rather than true excellence www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...

Opinion | No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort (Gift Article)

High marks reward excellence, not grit.

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