From last week: An important post for our times in which transmission and retrieval have over-dominated the discourse.

From last week: An important post for our times in which transmission and retrieval have over-dominated the discourse.

I've ordered a copy of this for our T&L library and am looking forward to reading it.

This was such a fascinating episode with lots of things that biology teachers can pull from: The Voracious Ctenophore and the Silent Sea (with Brad Gemmell) www.bigbiology.org/episodes/202...

Best seller over in the USA? ● Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough

Nice analysis of the climate costs of Chrome pushing a 4GB Geminin nano to people's devices. Even just looking purely at the download (ignoring inference, re-downloads etc) it's substantial (not sure it's 'insane'), and shows the Google is just kinda doing stuff pretty thoughtlessly

My post from this week: ● Information theory and why explaining clearly isn't enough christianmooreanderson.com/the-transmis... #EduSky #UKEd

"You're wasting your time marketing on Bluesky because it's all authors" my dude nobody reads more than authors. I've read nine books this year and it's only May. One of the authors in my discord has read a whopping 39. Good authors are also good readers, and good readers buy books.

#EduSky Last week I successfully defended my Ed.D Capstone research. Pedagogical Content Knowledge was central to the conceptual framework of that research. I discuss that in this post, though in a bit of a different direction from my main research. www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/resolvi...

For anyone interested in memory, check out this excellent new paper by my @ubcphilosophy.bsky.social doctoral student Laura Bickel. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read our article: “Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric”: ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...

It’s in the basket looking forward to reading it. Possibly looking to fashion an Action Research around this next year, I might be back for advice!!

Yes! Hard recommend.

To the publishing houses creating the languages textbooks, please take note.

🔤 ☑️ 📡 💭 ❌ 📡 Message sent but is it understood?

My post from this week: ● Information theory and why explaining clearly isn't enough christianmooreanderson.com/the-transmis... #EduSky #UKEd

Have any math teachers read this book? Is it any good?

I think the thoughts behind this trend is explained partly by my new post: "Information theory and why "clearly explaining" isn't enough" christianmooreanderson.com/the-transmis...

I’ve been waiting for the paperback! Purchased. Can’t wait.

Christian is 100% focused on teaching as an interaction where meaning making and understanding is always foregrounded. His ideas are explained using a deep understanding of a broad range of cognitive science disciplines and from a refreshingly novel and eye opening perspective.

The paperback has finally been published! If Cognitive Load Theory tells us how to avoid overwhelming students, what comes next? Perfectly clear explanations don't guarantee deep understanding. Teaching Meaning, explores what works when telling isn't enough. mybook.to/teachingmean...

I'm really enjoying reading this, and if you're a teacher type you'll love it too...

Regardless of your discipline, I highly recommend Christian’s work. His book offers actionable approaches that eschew false instructional dichotomies and emphasize the importance of meaning making. It’s the perfect counterpoint to the rise in neo-traditional pedagogies masquerading as “scientific.”

I'm reading Byung-Chul Han's The Crisis of Narration, interesting essay on the difference between information, narrative and meaning-making. I'm obsessed with meaning- making rn. Adult educator, and so many people are turning with information overload while starved of meaning.

The paperback has finally been published! If Cognitive Load Theory tells us how to avoid overwhelming students, what comes next? Perfectly clear explanations don't guarantee deep understanding. Teaching Meaning, explores what works when telling isn't enough. mybook.to/teachingmean...

New Post: ● The Transmission Trap: What information theory tells us about teaching Shannon's information theory was groundbreaking. As a fundamental theory of communication, it can also tell us something crucial about teaching. #EduSky #UKEd christianmooreanderson.com/the-transmis...

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

New Post: ● The Transmission Trap: What information theory tells us about teaching Shannon's information theory was groundbreaking. As a fundamental theory of communication, it can also tell us something crucial about teaching. #EduSky #UKEd christianmooreanderson.com/the-transmis...

Amazon has a global technical issue; my paperback is still stuck. But! The eBook & hardback are available. If you want to read beyond telling and retrieval get a copy: mybook.to/teachingmean... I'd really appreciate the support (and an honest review to help this calamitous launch).

@cmooreanderson.bsky.social brings such a necessary clarity to fraught discourse: "All teaching styles, therefore, share the same fundamental problem. Rather than a dichotomy between 'telling' and 'discovering,' teaching in any form can be seen as a process that must trigger meaning making."

Greg Ashman's journey to misrepresenting Hattie case open.substack.com/pub/stephenv...

Just listened to this. Great podcast.

Bank holiday weekend, gorgeous sunshine, sitting outside reading a really interesting and engaging book. Enjoying being able to read slowly then sit and ponder each section. Finished Chapter 1 - Meaning Can’t Be Transmitted, so many brilliant points. @cmooreanderson.bsky.social

The beauty of this book cover isn't AI. My talented wife created the look to match my words. She made the strip herself (see the shaded bit where it was glued on the left). Then sought the background colour she liked (it was notebook cover) and took a photo to form a shadow from the sun's rays.

The beauty of this book cover isn't AI. My talented wife created the look to match my words. She made the strip herself (see the shaded bit where it was glued on the left). Then sought the background colour she liked (it was notebook cover) and took a photo to form a shadow from the sun's rays.

Amazon has a global technical issue; my paperback is still stuck. But! The eBook & hardback are available. If you want to read beyond telling and retrieval get a copy: mybook.to/teachingmean... I'd really appreciate the support (and an honest review to help this calamitous launch).

Post: ● Does "checking for listening" really help learning? People say it's actually for behaviour management, but many defend its use in learning. This depends on how you see cognition: as receiving information, or as acting to perceive information. christianmooreanderson.com/does-checkin...

Looking forward to listening to this one

Post: ● Does "checking for listening" really help learning? People say it's actually for behaviour management, but many defend its use in learning. This depends on how you see cognition: as receiving information, or as acting to perceive information. christianmooreanderson.com/does-checkin...

Genetic determinism, the idea that genes determine who you are, is something we must avoid in schools, as it is one of the principles behind racism and Nazism.

People visiting my christianmooreanderson.com site from Bluesky spend the most time there. As always, LinkedIn gets the worst type of traffic. Bluesky is all about engagement. LinkedIn is just about setting out a shop window.

Mendelian genetics today. I was careful to show that Mendel bred away the complexity in his plants to obtain just two versions. It's this missing information that often leads to students thinking that genes determine traits. I wrote about it here: christianmooreanderson.com/the-problems...

People visiting my christianmooreanderson.com site from Bluesky spend the most time there. As always, LinkedIn gets the worst type of traffic. Bluesky is all about engagement. LinkedIn is just about setting out a shop window.

His comparison to athletes watching game film is an interesting choice. I don’t see TLAC teachers as ones at the epitome of our profession. I can’t separate their authoritarianism with their techniques. It’s just not what I want my classroom to look or feel like. #TeacherSky

Excellent 🧵

*** NEW POST *** When 'I Do, We do, You do' goes wrong - and how to put it right again. open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...

I have started a wordpress, with idea of posting ideas around pedagogy, didagogy and general teaching things. If you fancy reading it, have a look at the first in my series of posts on behaviour. sustainablescienceeducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/h...

Third time in a couple of months that my website is down due to shared-hosting and some other website overburdening the server. As soon as its back online, I'm switching my hosting over to Krystal.

In the last decade, people have come to think they know the *best* classroom techniques. The only way to achieve this thought is to abstract away the agency of the student to respond in surprising ways. Thinking of them, instead, as predictable machines. christianmooreanderson.com/teaching-tri...

WHen people write about 'questioning' for teachers, it's basically just about how to use questions as formative assessment - as part of some form of training towards a closed goal. But you can also ask questions to find out what the students actually think and take an interest in their answers!