Efrat Furst
@efratfurst.bsky.social
Bridging cognitive science and education: teaching and supporting educators with research-informed, classroom-oriented content. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/efratfurst/teaching-with-learning-in-mind
What if motivation starts less with freedom and more with clarity? A new study of 800+ students found that clear instruction, structure, and useful feedback were more strongly linked to motivation than autonomy support. #education #teaching #motivation #research wp.me/p2nWPo-5ZH
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Why Writing by Hand Beats Typing (in 6 Charts) Amazing! @edutopia.org got it just about right! www.edutopia.org/visual-essay...
Why Writing by Hand Beats Typing (in 6 Charts)
It may sound archaic in today’s tech-centric classrooms, but researchers around the world are digging into the powerful effects of handwriting, revealing how the act of putting pen (or pencil) to pape...
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When Prior Knowledge Helps, and When It Doesn’t Which factors make prior knowledge helpful or unhelpful? And which should we consider first? efratfurst.substack.com/p/when-prior...
When Prior Knowledge Helps, and When It Doesn’t
Four basic considerations and the one that should come first
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Sehr überlegter und differenzierter Beitrag von @efratfurst.bsky.social zur Bedeutung der "cognitive science" für das Verständnis von Lernprozessen. 👇 #Lernen #Unterricht #Gedächtnis
Efrat Furst@efratfurst.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew post - going back to the basics: Why cognitive science matters for teachers? open.substack.com/pub/efratfur...
Eine sehr hilfreiche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Arbeitsgedächtnis von @efratfurst.bsky.social. #Gedächtnis #Lernen 👇
Efrat Furst@efratfurst.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat do you see in your mind’s eye when you think about working memory? And how does that picture shape the way you plan instruction? In this post, a less familiar model and a different way of illustrating it. Does it change anything? efratfurst.substack.com/p/looking-at...
What do you see in your mind’s eye when you think about working memory? And how does that picture shape the way you plan instruction? In this post, a less familiar model and a different way of illustrating it. Does it change anything? efratfurst.substack.com/p/looking-at...
Looking at Working Memory Another Way
A pyramid model approach to Cowan's Embedded Processes Model
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New post - going back to the basics: Why cognitive science matters for teachers? open.substack.com/pub/efratfur...
Why cognitive science matters in education: three reasons
My perspective on why the science of learning is important for teachers
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What can we really learn from the case of Calculators in mathematics to the case of GenAI in education? sites.google.com/view/efratfu...
The recording of my #IATEFL2025 plenary is now online. If you missed it, you can watch it now. If you have attended my plenary last Wednesday, this is an opportunity for spaced practice. 😄 Either way: Enjoy! #edusky #academicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGh...
IATEFL International Conference 2025 plenary 2: Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel
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One thing that I think becomes very clear from analyses of actual AI use for educational purposes is that subject matter, pedagogical, & PCK* expertise are indispensable; if we don't have a clear, concise, detailed idea of what we want to achieve, we'll likely achieve something else.
Efrat Furst@efratfurst.bsky.social · last yr.Everybody talks about innovating assessment in #higherEd in the era of GenAI, It's been (positive) messy so far, but how should we proceed? Once again, cognitive science principles can support our thinking: sites.google.com/view/efratfu...
Everybody talks about innovating assessment in #higherEd in the era of GenAI, It's been (positive) messy so far, but how should we proceed? Once again, cognitive science principles can support our thinking: sites.google.com/view/efratfu...
EfratFurst - GenAI Mastery HigherED
Generative AI has been around for over two years. We've had the chance to play with it, use it in our own work, and experiment with integrating it into teaching and learning in higher education. Frank...
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Should we predict the future to prepare our children for the world of tomorrow?💭 Technology adoption rate is only dictated by human rate of adoption. We should (and can) prepare them for what it takes to succeed today. If we do it well, they will bridge the gap themselves. Just as we did.
Two reasons NOT to change your course assessment and learning outcomes: 1 GenAI can do it with little human effort 2 Your Ss will use GenAI to do it, in the future. If you believe it is an essential fundamental skill, then it probably is, and your students need to master it before offloading to AI💭
I often hear (from professionals in education) that cognitive science principles are often trivial and surprising at the same time. What is your best explanation? 💭
The Embedded processes model thread - all in one place: sites.google.com/view/efratfu...
EfratFurst - Embedded Processes WM Model
We explore Nelson Cowan's Embedded Processes model, which offers an alternative to the classical "stores" model of memory, and suggests a different way to interpret its function, specifically Working ...
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Sehr guter Thread zur Frage des Arbeitsgedächtnisses, v.a. mit Blick darauf, inwiefern es mit dem Langzeitgedächtnis zusammenspielt. 👇 #Lernen #Gedächtnis #Arbeitsgedächtnis
Efrat Furst@efratfurst.bsky.social · 2y ago1/ Working Memory - a function or a store? Many of us seem to see WM as a function, while most common models depict it as a store, but not all... Let's explore - a thread:
1/ Working Memory - a function or a store? Many of us seem to see WM as a function, while most common models depict it as a store, but not all... Let's explore - a thread:
'Neuroplasticity' is everywhere, but what do we really mean when we talk about the ever-changing brain? Let's dive deeper than the buzzword and explore the evidence with a model.
Our wonderful @durringresearch.bsky.social has a brilliant library of FREE CPD videos - available to all Take a look researchschool.org.uk/durrington/e...
Twilight Webinar Recordings
30 minute Twilight Webinars
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12 years after his first appearance, Sal Khan was back on 60 Minutes to talk AI. And I have thoughts 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/12-years-and...
12 Years and 60 Minutes Later
This will be the last Friday you'll receive a Second Breakfast newsletter in 2024. I'm not writing my usual "year-in-review" series either, as easy as it could have been to just copy-and-paste "artifi...
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New paper w/ the brilliant @OdedWertheimer suggests a new computational framework for ASD variation, framing it as a computational trade-off between precise signal encoding and fast adaptation to changes. This trade-off is driven by neuronal dynamic range. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Autism spectrum disorder variation as a computational trade-off via dynamic range of neuronal population responses - Nature Neuroscience
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder show neural patterns different from those of neurotypical individuals. Here the authors show that this variation reflects a computational trade-off between ac...
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Hier eine Sammlung von Bildern für das Pyramiden-Modell: sites.google.com/view/efratfu...
EfratFurst - PyramidInPics
An images thread demonstrating the features of the pyramid model.
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Das Pyramiden-Modell von @efratfurst.bsky.social weist einige interessante Aspekte auf, die zum Weiterdenken anregen #Lernen #Lehren #Unterricht 1/2 sites.google.com/view/efratfu...
EfratFurst - Pyramids
The pyramid model helps us think concretely about the process of learning. if you wish to learn where it comes from and how it works, check out this page first. Briefly: Every triangular brick is ...
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Thrilled to have had the opportunity to write about our recent PNAS paper for Scientific American! with @vpmurty.bsky.social @benrottman.bsky.social and Yiwen Zhang www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Best Strategy for Learning May Depend on What You’re Trying to Remember
Different approaches can support varied forms of memory
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Teaching with learning in mind - cognitive science principles for educators 🤓🧠 Some URLs have changed, but all the pages are still there! sites.google.com/view/efratfu...
EfratFurst - Teaching with Learning in Mind
Explore the science of learning and implication to teaching and learning
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Resharing this 🌟classic post🌟because it's proved very popular over time: How I teach the meaning of (statistical) p-values using variation theory. Also important for understanding educational research. #UKEd #EduBlogUK #SciTeachUK cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...
How I teach the meaning of p-values using variation theory
A principle of variation theory is identifying the aspect you really want students to discern, and then varying it. Importantly, when you vary it, you must try to keep all other aspects invariant so t...
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Debuting my Bluesky experience with an old-new topic I find relevant again, or always. Thoughts are welcome 🤓