NEW FREE POST Education’s dark matter There is no evidence to inform most of what we do fillingthepail.substack.com/p/educations...
Education’s dark matter
There is no evidence to inform most of what we do
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Greg Ashman
@gregashman.bsky.social
School leader who teaches a bit. PhD in Instructional Design. Writer. Podcasted for a bit. Honorary Fellow. Views entirely my own. Ballarat. fillingthepail.substack.com
NEW CURIOS Free section includes a thought burp from Andy Burnham on vocational education and some inadvertent trolling fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #178
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST Moral panic at the academy Teaching standards and a call to action fillingthepail.substack.com/p/moral-pani...
Moral panic at the academy
Teaching standards and a call to action
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the Victorian teachers’ strike this week fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #177
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW CURIOS Free section is about AI and teaching from a lesson plan you haven’t written yourself. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #176
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST Australia's natural education experiment The case of South Australia fillingthepail.substack.com/p/australias...
Australia's natural education experiment
The case of South Australia
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses a new report on science teaching fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #175
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST Low floor high ceiling maths tasks are not the solution Activity-based planning and differentiated instruction fillingthepail.substack.com/p/low-floor-...
Low floor high ceiling maths tasks are not the solution
Activity-based planning and differentiated instruction
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the great fidget toy controversy fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #174
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW CURIOS Free section takes a look at homework in the age of AI fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #173
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST Can Rosenshine’s Principles mean anything to anyone? No, but it’s interesting to examine this claim Comments OPEN fillingthepail.substack.com/p/can-rosens...
Can Rosenshine’s Principles mean anything to anyone?
No, but it’s interesting to examine this claim
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NEW CURIOS Free section reports some stunning claims about the number of bureaucrats working in Australian education fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #172
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST I already do that The obvious and the unexamined fillingthepail.substack.com/p/i-already-...
I already do that
The obvious and the unexamined
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses the use of calculators in exams fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #171
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST Honouring student ideas A constructivist shibboleth fillingthepail.substack.com/p/honouring-...
Honouring student ideas
A constructivist shibboleth
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NEW CURIOS Free section discusses research into teaching resilience. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #170
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST When inquiry learning is malpractice We know enough to draw some red lines fillingthepail.substack.com/p/when-inqui...
When inquiry learning is malpractice
We know enough to draw some red lines
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NEW CURIOS In this AI special edition, the free section discusses a *really bad* proposal for Australia’s standardised tests fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #169
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST The curse of conceptual understanding A response to Bill McCallum fillingthepail.substack.com/p/the-curse-...
The curse of conceptual understanding
A response to Bill McCallum
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NEW CURIOS Free section tackles the educational equivalent of hard hats and conservative, behaviourist schooling fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #168
Everything you needs to know about education right now
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NEW POST Conceptual understanding is a myth Transfer is a better focus fillingthepail.substack.com/p/conceptual...
Conceptual understanding is a myth
Transfer is a better focus
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First the latest When Will They Learn with @gregashman.bsky.social and Caiti Wade. Greg makes some really good points on the mobile phone ban, like does it actually need an academic impact, and they look at the NEU stating that shared resources is having a negative impact on teacher independence
Episode #8 When Will They Learn?
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NEW CURIOS Bumper section before the paywall this week that includes a discussion of performance pay for teachers and constructivist teaching. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #167
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST Is AI about to revolutionise the classroom? The Alpha School approach fillingthepail.substack.com/p/is-ai-abou...
Is AI about to revolutionise the classroom?
The Alpha School approach
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NEW CURIOS Free section includes some conference announcements and a discussion of nuance. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #166
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST An urgent response is needed to Artificial Intelligence in schools and colleges Don't let education become a nonsense fillingthepail.substack.com/p/an-urgent-...
An urgent response is needed to Artificial Intelligence in schools and colleges
Don't let education become a nonsense
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Really good post from @gregashman.bsky.social. As I heard @daisychristo.bsky.social say recently, it is possible (likely?) there'll be students graduating this summer who have not themselves written a single essay. open.substack.com/pub/fillingt...
An urgent response is needed to Artificial Intelligence in schools and colleges
Don't let education become a nonsense
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NEW CURIOS Out a few hours early this week because reasons. Free section discusses Tom Bennett’s views on restorative justice in schools. fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-...
Curios of the week #165
Everything you need to know about education right now
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NEW FREE POST Project-based loafing The role of project work in schools fillingthepail.substack.com/p/project-ba...
Project-based loafing
The role of project work in schools
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Don’t always agree with @gregashman.bsky.social but this is an excellent overview of the state of education research and more balanced than the Kesey Piper article that lots of people are mentioning. (Also free to read unlike the Kelsey Piper piece). open.substack.com/pub/fillingt...
Jo Boaler and the state of education research
A garden full of weeds
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