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Holiday time = reading time. I started with “A very private life”. An excoriating commentary on the isolated individualistic state of our modern culture. “It was the suffocating network of my family’s social, emotional and sexual relationships around me that was choking me…” 1/2
Ooh I’m doing this. Couch to 5k in reading. I have a LOAD of books that this could reinvigorate me to read.
Naomi Alderman@naomialderman.bsky.social · last mo.She’s here! Today is the start of this Couch to 5k for reading I’ve put together! Come and join us :-D open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
Keats argued for the value of negative capability, being “capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason” Such an important idea for #edpsychs but also more widely in our world of divisive politics. theconversation.com/john-keats-c...
John Keats’ concept of ‘negative capability’ – or sitting in uncertainty – is needed now more than ever
Doubt can be uncomfortable. It is often tempting to jump to conclusions. But Keats counsels otherwise.
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On my bike ride tonight in semi-rural/suburban outskirts of Winchester I started counting how many cars were single occupancy. 124/146. That’s 85%. It would have been 90% if it hadn’t been for 6 cars coming out of an office complex probably car pooling. And we wonder why we have #congestion.
This is too good.
The Marsh Family@marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 3mo agoHappy Bank Holiday! Here’s a tongue-in-cheek #parody song about #nigelfarage accepting a massive gift from a #crypto billionaire and then hiding from a #BBC interview - to the iconic tune #500miles of the legendary Proclaimers … We’re calling it: “Five Million Quid” 💰🤑💰🤑💰🎶 youtu.be/z5A0qpWUrfg?...
A typically brilliant post from @dtwuva.bsky.social. Conclusion: probably not that they can't, but that they choose not to attend, perhaps because of high delay discount on socially mediated information, or becoming easily bored in a world of rapid access to distraction www.aft.org/ae/spring202...
Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Do Today's Kids Have Reduced Attention Spans?
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Today is #worldbicycleday, and this is one heck of a picture served up by Bing wallpaper to celebrate it
This is a great summary of evidence (not) supporting many typical schl interventions, by @pepsmccrea.bsky.social & Jen Barker. I like the emphasis on opportunity cost of ineffective but seductively visible action & also the links to better ways to invest time & effort. steplab.co/news/common-...
Common SEN (Mis)Interventions - An Evidence Summary
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Tell-tale signs that you’re married to a Reception teacher, no. 73: Dinosaurs in the dishwasher. #eyfs
Yikes. Let’s resist cognitive surrender.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what AI tells them without question…Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80% of the time—a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”
Southampton trainees are inviting you, as an EP or TEP wherever you work, to participate in a study investigating the use of GEN AI within Educational Psychology. It is a short survey. Please follow the link for more information. Please retweet 🙏 Thank you! southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
We were looking today in a session at @suedpsy.bsky.social at eliciting and reporting child voice. This quote really struck home hard. Eliciting ≠ reporting ≠ hearing ≠acting. #edpsychs
As a regular marker/feedback giver of adult learners’ work, I found this a very helpful and “resetting” read. I need to keep keeping in mind how feedback receivers *feel* on receipt of my feedback.
Beth G-G@bethgg.bsky.social · 4mo ago*NEW* Being on the receiving end of feedback has left me feeling flat, despite doing well. It made me think how we focus on the theory & rules around giving pupil feedback, but how often do we consider how it lands? #feedback #EduSky #EduBlogShare impressionthatiget.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/t...
This is brilliant stuff. A reasoned explanation of the importance of knowledge in supporting reading. And some thoughts about why a shift to a knowledge curriculum will take time to be revealed in “results”.
Dan Willingham@dtwuva.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew article from E. D. Hirsch and me on (1) the evidence for the importance of knowledge in reading; (2) why it’s taken so long for people to acknowledge the evidence; (3) what we predict if the role of knowledge is taken seriously. www.educationnext.org/rediscoverin...
#motonormativity @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com latest newsletter offers 5 handy tips to cut the cost of petrol and diesel. Didn’t bother asking “Since 25% of trips are less than 1 mile, and 75% are less than 5 miles, have you considered simply not driving?”
Decent ride through beautiful back roads in Wiltshire yesterday. So many wonderful place names: Sixpenny Handley Tarrant Gunville Witchampton Fontmell Magna Iwerne Minster Fifield Bavant And my favourite: Gussage St Michael #cycling
![Satirical meme based on Toy Story.
Buzz Lightyear looks inspirationally into the middle distance, and expounds: “I dream of a world where we’ve fixed the SEND system…
By renaming School Action Plus as Targeted Plus”
[a reference to the previous nomenclature for graduated support]
Woody looks on, with a worried look on his face.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xv6nuzeuflvfpi23umhnqopm/bafkreiacj5diekn7eg7ya2nzcluhfkqwxvcrknosropvg4yfy37ocmoq5a)
A risk of a non-nuanced growth mindset understanding: “Failure becomes a moral issue”.
Pedro De Bruyckere@thebandb.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat if teaching a growth mindset actually backfires? A fascinating experiment suggests that people who are told intelligence is malleable sometimes judge failure more harshly, not less. An unexpected twist in one of education’s most popular ideas. 🔗 theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/08/04/w...
I’ve always sort of liked the original, but this cover elevates it to a new level. 👌 open.spotify.com/track/2CO1t1...
(Sittin' On The) Dock of the Bay
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Baby was looking a bit poorly, but nothing that a 30° C wash couldn't fix. Putting my doctorate degree to good use.
Yes. I can’t understand how the conversation about SEND doesn’t focus on mainly on the breadth and flexibility of the regular curriculum. As you say, what we’re having is instead a (hopefully kind) conversation about the cyp that don’t fit.
Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe idea being if we can work out which of our children "don't fit the mould" early enough we can then use resources to help them early enough to save more money, stress and other resources later. This is very very tempting to believe. But I think it's wrong.
I predict that more resources into exisiting SEND orthodoxies will drive more demand and even further overwhelm schools. There will be less consistency and predictability in schools, which will make quality first teaching harder to achieve. This will also drive more demand for specialist help.
Yes. Just like Kurt Lewin said that behaviour is a function of the interaction between person and environment, neither does SEND exist purely within the child/young person.
Nancy@nancygedge.bsky.social · 6mo agoI’ve been thinking about this lately. To my mind, it helps to define SEND as a relationship (to support and services) rather than a thing in itself.