Principal, vice principal, two assistant heads, head of department... Tyrone Ruth lists everyone who checked his books in a single year. Fifteen people total. Listen here: buff.ly/zuX5Tr3 #TeacherWellbeing

A lot of autism research is based on the metaphor of computational cognitivism: signal in - autistic algorithm - autistic behaviour out. It is also the metaphor that drives the claims AI tech bros. Bodies are eliminated.

Great lens. I often think of Gregory Bateson’s notion of “making circuit”. You want the important feedback loops to make circuit through you, or else it’s no longer your OODA loop.

Some contemporary pedagogical practices do make me wonder: are they more about students' learning, or creating a comfortable illusion for the teacher? For example: Obliging all students to hold their hands up (straight, not bent at the elbow) when the class is asked a question.

It would be interesting to hear other parents' views on this -parent voices in support don't seem that evident. Some prominent teachers/educators have criticised the programme, implicitly supporting this trust.

A new editorial by @utafrith.bsky.social on whether the term "autism" has been broadened so much that it's lost its meaning www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Autism spectrum disorder: has it lost its meaning and is it leading to misdiagnosis? | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Autism spectrum disorder: has it lost its meaning and is it leading to misdiagnosis? - Volume 56

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Uta Frith@utafrith.bsky.social · 2d ago

My thoughts about the autism spectrum: Autism spectrum disorder: has it lost its meaning and is it leading to misdiagnosis? Psychological Medicine. 2026;56:e240. doi:10.1017/S0033291726105376

Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.

This is a harrowing - though not surprising - read. It’s probably hard to quantify, but I think we need to know how widespread this approach is, and what impact it has on young people’s mental health

How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won

Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.

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Dear evolutionary biologists Does anyone ever discuss Maturana's evolution by natural drift? If so, what do they say (I never see anything), and if not, why not? @gregpriest.bsky.social #hpbio

I have been waiting for August to read this book. It is time, and I'm excited:

Schools could learn from Beer's Viable System Model. The most important principle is the mutuality of adaptation. When discussing behaviour management, I see analogies of how adults "can't do x" in society. These suggest only individuals must adapt, but institutions must also adapt to individuals.

I agree, Christian. In too many settings compliance driven behaviour, rather than value driven behaviour is what is expected. This teaches that, on a day to day basis, a compliant person survives/succeeds rather than a person who has developed core values broadly aligned with their peers/society.

When I asked about this, more home ed parents cited the environment, and level of control in schools as downsides than they did curriculum. But curriculum is easier to change. open.substack.com/pub/learnwha...

What do home educators consider to be the pros and cons of school and home education?

With the fifth edition of the Pearson School and College Report just around the corner, and the Children’s Wellbeing and School Bill likely to be receiving Royal Assent today, I thought it might be a ...

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Having volunteered alongside several disaffected teenagers who are currently school refusers is not what they’re being taught but how they’re treated at school. They are good kids who resent being putting into regimes which restrict everyone in the name of good behaviour management.

I opened Vellend's Theory of Ecological Communities again and immediately realised that his image is essentially a stock-and-flow model. Which I then turned into a stock and flow diagram.

#EduSky I'm looking to be more thoughtful with my use of Ed Tech this school-year, which means I'm also going more analogue. I've written up the below for my course syllabi. I'd love to hear from others and get feedback. www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/some-te...

Some Tech, AI, and Academic Honesty Language for HS Syllabus — PRAXIS Education

Some sections that I'm including in my high school class syllabi this year as I seek to be more deliberate about the use of Ed Tech in my classroom to take a more default analogue approach.

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Error found: the link to my models for teaching plants to 16–18. The link now works here ↓↓↓ christianmooreanderson.com/models-16-18...

I've listened to @ensermark.bsky.social's episode & read his post. And I like his thoughts. But, Mark, I think your labels are wrong: ⒈Cognitive science ⒉Dialogue ⒊Enquiry EduCogSci isn't cogsci. Cognitive science itself can encompass all three points... ↓↓↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzK...

Synergizing Dialogue, Inquiry, and Cognitive Science for Powerful Knowledge Pedagogy

YouTube video by ThoughtStretchers Education

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After writing three books (2 on bio teaching, 1 on an enactive pedagogy), I'm returning to writing papers. Just finished this (provisional title): From Description to Explanation: A Pragmatic Matrix for Guiding Student Discourse in Secondary Biology Wondering if it transfers to other subjects.

The bluesky ecosystem (AT protocol) doesn't lock you in. You can move your account somewhere else; I moved mine to Europe: "Eurosky is ... a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands [which] grew out of the Free Our Feeds campaign to advocate for alternatives to big tech."

Christian Moore-Anderson@cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 6d ago

Just migrated my bsky account over to Europe and eurosky's servers, run by a nonprofit: New handle: @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social Wasn't hard doing this: move.eurosky.tech

Just migrated my bsky account over to Europe and eurosky's servers, run by a nonprofit: New handle: @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social Wasn't hard doing this: move.eurosky.tech

I do wonder if half the challenges we now see in schools come from the fact we talk about knowledge as something to acquire or transfer...rather than something which we form as individuals and communities..... and back to work

This is pretty decent feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Just migrated my bsky account over to Europe and eurosky's servers, run by a nonprofit: New handle: @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social Wasn't hard doing this: move.eurosky.tech

Agree. Bsky is better. Do consider moving account to @eurosky.social on EU servers, EU jurisdiction & EU moderation. There are tools for moving accounts and existing posts, so it is easy. @sebastian.eurosky.social

Excited to share my conversation with Dr. Joseph Allen Boone about his latest book from @columbiaup.bsky.social, "The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts"! It was a great conversation about the enduring, creative legacy of Melville's work. trevoraleo.substack.com/p/dr-joseph-...

Dr. Joseph Allen Boone Talks The Melville Effect, Aesthetic Hybridity, & Renewing Literary Traditions

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The problem with Corporate L&D 👇🏾 @cmooreanderson.bsky.social explains how similar the problems in mainstream education and corporate learning and development programs are... Checkout the full podcast for more: youtu.be/1hevoAfoWyU #cybernetics #learning #complexity

Guest Diego Vázquez investigated the symmetry of specialization- the idea that specialists mostly interact with other specialists and generalists interact with other generalists. What he found studying plant-pollinator interactions was evidence that specialization asymmetry was more prevalent.

I've listened to @ensermark.bsky.social's episode & read his post. And I like his thoughts. But, Mark, I think your labels are wrong: ⒈Cognitive science ⒉Dialogue ⒊Enquiry EduCogSci isn't cogsci. Cognitive science itself can encompass all three points... ↓↓↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzK...

Synergizing Dialogue, Inquiry, and Cognitive Science for Powerful Knowledge Pedagogy

YouTube video by ThoughtStretchers Education

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Intriguing discussion of symbolic representations of higher-order thinking v. purely neural/connectionist ones. infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/symbols-ne...

Symbols, neural networks, and mathematical intelligence

Some reflections on connectionism and the basis of higher-level cognition

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