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Cassandra Potier Watkins

@cassandrapw.bsky.social
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Researcher at Collège de France | President of Excello www.excellolab.org Author of Learn & Play: The American Phonics Reader 📚 Studying how children learn in school — Sharing science-backed insights on learningi!

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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Just published a new article on how students understand (…or don’t understand 😅) fractions. After testing 26,000 kids, the mistakes we found shocked us. Think you can do better than a 6th-grader ? Free printable test on Excello’s website (bio)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Characterizing error types in the comprehension of fractions: The number line test
Understanding fractions is a major hurdle for many students. A key aspect of fraction comprehension is the ability to evaluate their numerical magnitu…
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Anna Stokke (Host of Chalk & Talk Podcast) @rastokke.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good news in MB as govt passes Bill 225 for reading screening. "Bill 225 requires elementary schools to systematically screen elementary students for early signs of struggle, immediately act on warning signs and document findings in report cards." www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Manitoba early reading screening legislation passes final test
Manitoba’s poor literacy rate has prompted MLAs of all political stripes to unanimously endorse a private member’s bill to increase teacher monitoring and support for struggling readers.
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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Anna Stokke (Host of Chalk & Talk Podcast) @rastokke.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
📢 New episode with Jamie Metsala dedicated to all reading advocates! Math next! Why are some provinces still using ineffective methods to teach reading? ❌Pitfalls of balanced literacy 📖 Structured literacy 📢 Ontario’s Right to Read report 🛠️ How to advocate open.spotify.com/episode/15GB...
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How advocacy is changing reading instruction with Jamie Metsala (Ep 43)
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Our project to improve literacy in Mayotte with the RSMA has started ! Learn more here www.instagram.com/reel/DHDroQV...
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Which LLM can pass a student exam?! benchmarks.ai-for-education.org
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren't always getting hechingerreport.org/the-building...
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The building blocks of math students need to excel
A flexible understanding of how numbers work is as important to math as phonics is to reading
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 19/02/2025
please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high. Join us!
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
An amazing day seeing Excello’s Kalulu reading program in action with adult learners in Brazil! Inspiring to witness how cognitive science can empower literacy at any age. #LiteracyForAll #phonics #CognitiveScience
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
❤️❤️❤️ this podcast!
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🙌🙌🙌
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It’s mind-blowing that disproven instructional methods are still widespread in schools—undermining children’s confidence and learning. #ScienceOfReading #Phonics #EducationReform #StopTheGuessing www.itv.com/news/2025-02...
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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 28/01/2025
Over the course of 2024, the Godot project has amassed more new features and community highlights than any one person can keep track of. Find out if you missed anything essential in our "2024 Cherry-picks" blog post 🍒 godotengine.org/article/2024... Don't miss out on the showcased games either! 🎮
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2024 Cherry-picks
Over the course of 2024, the Godot project has amassed more new features and community highlights than any one person can keep track of. To ensure you did not miss anything essential, we have selected...
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Kalulu working hard today in Spanish to bring the #scienceofreading to Bogota📚
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
👾We're hiring developers who want to build #opensource #evidencebased #edtech! We use @godotengine.org www.college-de-france.fr/en/news/seni...
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Senior Developer F/M Kalulu learning-to-read project - Pr Dehaene Chair - EXELLO team | Collège de France
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I couldn’t believe it and had to try it myself… what is going on ??!#instagram #democrat #republican
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
📣I’ve published a primer to teach your child to read! This book is special to me. As a mom, I wanted to give my kids the best possible start in life, and that journey inspired my work in #cognitivescience. 📖: a.co/d/6LcSUmf #ScienceOfReading #EarlyEducation #booksky💙📚 #DevSci #CogDev #DevPsy
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Ever compare your kids candy colors in the U.S. and Europe? 🍭 FINALLY!!! The FDA banned Red 3, a dye linked to cancer in animals, from food. Already prohibited in the EU.
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The FDA does not know what chemicals are added to foods
A rule concocted in the 1950s for vinegar and spices has had unintended effects
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Don’t miss out! www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/gr...
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Réenchanter les maths à l’école | Collège de France
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I ❤️ed this program and now get to work with so many of the amazing professors that i met there. I can’t recommend the CogMaster enough!
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Kalulu's GitHub: github.com/Excello-Rech... 👾 We're #opensource and use @godotengine.org. Coders to join us in creating A/B tests with kids worldwide, improving education through science! 🌍 DM me if you’re in! #EdTech #GameDev
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GitHub - Excello-Recherche-Education/Kalulu
Contribute to Excello-Recherche-Education/Kalulu development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Dr Suzy J Styles @suzyjstyles.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Looking for some nice, clean, kid-friendly neuro content? How about a colouring-page about brain cells and they ways they interact? Includes plain language explainers about different types of brain cells. I use this #OER in my #CogPsych classes 😉 #OA downloads: doi.org/10.21979/N9/... 1/
An A4 colouring page with a large central graphic showing cartoons of many different brain cells intertwined in a complex structure, all with happy faces. Title Reads: “Colour your learning: Brain Cells”. Below the main graphic are five small graphics showing the different characters: Neuron, Oligodendrocyte, Micro-glia, Protoplasmic Asyrocyte and Fibrous Astrocyte. Each has a small explainer.
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CSEN - OFFICIEL @csen-officiel.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Comment enseigner les fractions avec sens et plaisir ? Ce 15° #numéro du "Passeur" met en lumière : ➡️ les obstacles liés à l’apprentissage des fractions ➡️ les pistes pour y remédier Y- accéder : 🔗https://miniurl.be/r-5wgf @standehaene.bsky.social
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
📢 Enseignants, boostez l’apprentissage des maths avec le concours Mathador ! 🧮🎲 #Mathador #Éducation #Mathématiques blog.mathador.fr/concours-mat...
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Concours Mathador 12ème édition : à vos marques, prêts, calculez ! - Le blog de Mathador, actualités des jeux, pédagogie du calcul mental et des maths
Ce lundi, plus de 50 000 élèves d’écoles et de collèges français en France et à l’étranger ont démarré la nouvelle année avec la première épreuve du Concours Mathador 2024-2025. Le gong a retenti : le...
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We use @godotengine.org to create Kalulu, an #opensource phonics app for kids worldwide! 🎮📚 Godot’s flexibility lets us build engaging games and deploy them globally—no licensing barriers. Passionate about evidence-based education? We’re hiring developers! contact@excellolab.org to join us! #EdTech
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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
L'été dernier, dans « Une idée dans la tête », j’ai décrit le test du Malabi, qui identifie différents types de dyslexies. Il est à présent en ligne, accompagné d'un dispositif semi-automatisé d'évaluation des erreurs. N'hésitez pas à nous envoyer vos remarques. excellolab.org/fr/plateform...
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Plateforme – Malabi – Excello
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We’re hiring at Excello! Join our team at the Collège de France, working alongside @standehaene.bsky.social, to create education tools and drive research that transforms learning worldwide. Please share 📣 www.college-de-france.fr/en/news/data...
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Data engineer (Back-End) F/M Data collection, A/B testing & compliance | Collège de France
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
More Happy New Year news. ❤️ the point that even great graphs may be compounding bad data. parentdata.org/alcohol-and-...
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Alcohol and Health
Cutting through the noise
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Interesting article, but it misses a key point: grade inflation by teachers. It creates the false expectation that students deserve As simply for effort, rather than true excellence www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...
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Opinion | No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort (Gift Article)
High marks reward excellence, not grit.
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Exploring YoGPT, an educational tutor powered by ChatGPT. Loving the idea of guided tutoring — so much potential! But I stumbled on this group where you can ‘ask Albert Einstein questions.’ 🤔 www.yochatgpt.io/chat_room/Ta...
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YoChatGPT
Access or create interactive digital chatrooms with ChatGPT!
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 16/12/2024
Created a starter pack of neuroscience in/from Paris. Let me know if you want to be added (the 'from' can include those not in Paris anymore) or just tap in if you want to know what we're talking about! Regardless, please re-tweet! go.bsky.app/3Zs9w5w
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Cassandra Potier Watkins @cassandrapw.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I am delighted to present Kalulu Phonics and our experiments with the Académie of Versailles during this scientific seminar hosted by IDEE. Join us to learn more about #cognitivescience for #education! www.idee-education.fr/evenement/se...
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Séminaire scientifique IDEE - DNE - IDEE
La prochaine journée en présentiel du séminaire scientifique IDEE aura lieu le vendredi 10 janvier 2025 de 9h à 18h à l’Ecole d’Economie de Paris, et sera organisée conjointement avec la Direction du ...
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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Réenchanter les mathématiques à l'école ! Ce cycle de conférences du Collège de France @collegedefrance.bsky.social, ouvert à tous, est organisé dans le cadre de son initiative "Agir pour l'éducation". Il sera diffusé en direct. Merci de nous aider à diffuser l'affiche ci-jointe.
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