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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 16h

Huge difference between: "Checking for understanding" and "Checking understanding"

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Alpha School is beginning to sound like a mix of Wolf of Wall Street, and Captain Fantastic.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

I had a play at making a stock and flow model today, to represent a continuous fermenter. A stock within a stock.

A stock and flow model of a countinuous fermenter, with a population stock and flow model inside it.

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Mr Lee Bates @mrbates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How Christian builds a single formal model that can then be used by students to test and extend their understanding of multiple concepts.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

When it comes to education, this is a better definition IMO: Learning is structural coupling. than: Learning is a change in the LTM. The latter might be more useful in efficiency views and measurement, but not in overall curriculum or educational views.

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Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another possible negative effect of grade retention: lower earnings later in life. A new study from Texas finds temporary gains in test scores, but also lower high school graduation rates and, by age 26, substantially lower earnings. With important caveats. wp.me/p2nWPo-6e3

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Spent yesterday and this morning re-reading this to sharpen up a paper I'm working on: @laurennross.bsky.social

The book cover of Explanation in Biology by Lauren Ross

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Ivo @velitchkov.eu · 25/09/2026

Recent essays on Link & Think: www.linkandth.ink/p/air-rights www.linkandth.ink/p/second-law... Next up: The New Coding Orders

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Stack capture through layer insertion

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Ivo @velitchkov.eu · 25/09/2026

And the book is out. 📘 I have contributed a chapter on Autonomy and Cohesion (all new work, beyond what was in the A-C chapter of essentialbalances.com ) The e-book is free to download: staffordbeer100.com/festschrift

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ЕSSENTIAL BALANCES

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Laksh Raghavan @laraghavan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

100 Years of Stafford Beer! Today is Stafford Beer's birthday. Beer is known as the father of Management Cybernetics, which he described as the science of effective organization. #leadership #management #cybernetics #systemsthinking #complexity

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Mike Hobbiss @mikehobbiss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was an absolute pleasure to chat to @bradleybusch.bsky.social from @innerdrive.bsky.social about test anxiety podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... 👇👇👇👇

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S2 E2: Test Anxiety with Mike Hobbiss

Podcast Episode · The Science of Learning · 23 September · 37min

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David Knuffke @davidknuffke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is useful!

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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is *TONIGHT* and no takers yet for the free tickets so get in contact if you want them or repost if you don’t!

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 23/09/2026

This is also happening at our library. We are trying to work out how to get the help and expertise people need to them now, when they have stopped being pointed at our webpages and etc.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

So, I trialed recording a "how I'd teach" video: How I get students to understand the symbols of stock and flow models. I learnt: buy a mic, remove the flicker, make sure the whole page can be seen. I'll make more through the year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YB-...

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How I teach students the symbols of stock and flow models (without PowerPoint)

YouTube video by Christian Moore Anderson

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow! I woke up this morning to see that two schools had put in orders for my book with a new *enactive* vision of classroom interaction: Teaching Meaning. I'm absolutely buzzing and extremely thankful.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Let's say you're teaching Year 7 (11-year-olds) the particle model. Which underlying cause would you think most appropriate for diffusion? 1. Particles move randomly in all directions (mechanistic) 2. There is a concentration difference (thermodynamic) 3. Both

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Instead of needing a village to raise a child, PGT-P’s commercial logic suggests it takes only sufficient capital and the right consumer decisions to conceive a child who will not need the solidarity of the village to be healthy." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Embryo screening and the new reproductive divide - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - Embryo screening and the new reproductive divide

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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hi #EduSky - it’s another #Sunday3 rather than a #Saturday3 this week because it was a big family day for me yesterday. Lots of great blogs et this week so you are going to get my niche selection of things I found really interesting.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

John articulates a distinction that is often overlooked. Criticism of EdTech is necessary but insufficient for humanizing education. Many prominent tech-lashers who oppose automation also advocate for forms of standardization based on the same logic of efficiency & optimization underpinning tech.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

So, from global centralisation, the great forum of EduTwitter, to local Whatsapp groups. Is EduSocialmedia in "alpha" now?

The panarchy model. Systems develop, breakdown, reorganise temporarily, breakdown, and develop again.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

EduMarketing is tough and laborious, and in my case, not terribly successful. For me, I think, it's time to return to the deep books and slow papers. And the business of bringing forth new ways of being and doing biology teaching.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Second iteration (with some mistakes included).

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

The last bastion of my readership has fallen. There is a biology teacher Facebook group, where, three years ago, a new post would get up to 1000 reads over a weekend. Now I might get just 50 reads.

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m old enough to remember when this sort of apartheid got you some consequences

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

I wanted to redesign my model for teaching condensation to my 11-year-olds. My physics-teacher colleague and I came up with this. We'll have to see how it works in the classroom (using a bottle of cold water to help). I'm not sure if the evaporating flow should be in a lighter colour, or omitted.

A stock and flow model of condensation on a bottle's surface, with the flows: condensing, colliding and staying as a gas, and evaporating.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of the (many) things that irks me about our current PD ecosystem is that deeply researched & classroom tested approaches like Christian’s have to fight for airtime and recognition, while EduGurus get paid 5-figures for Temu TedTalks & big box curriculum companies suck up funding.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

I believe this purposeful non-academic chat to be important. It's about building a web of recursive conversations, in which students find they have a place. It lies in tension with the "every second counts" and "Do Nows". Which are often just about storage and separation.

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Mr Lee Bates @mrbates.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We need social media to be a functioning vehicle for educational discussion again. At the moment it is just the established voices that are heard by everyone. Nobody is proposing a consistent and coherent focus on the interactions that lead to learning apart from yourself Christian.

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Jonny H @poppop.studio · 18/09/2026

I guess if you're not doing the consultant/ speaker thing it must be very hard to plug your book... Btw everyone, it's an excellent book, buy it if you're edu adjacent. Cheaper than 2 months subs to the TES and totally worth it...

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

In the last year I've written a book with a distinct *enactive* view of teaching and learning. I've also put out some long posts/essays, and submitted two new papers. But, my book's stopped selling, and I'm about out of steam.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Discourse™️: “Kids don’t read. They would rather watch brain rot than learn.” My student: “The philosophy we discussed today was so cool. The energy in class was so hype that it felt like a sporting event.” Teaching is so complicated, but the ingredients can be simple. Books. Ideas. Dialogue.

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Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*** NEW POST *** What happens to a country when geography is devalued as a subject? A sobering look at the state of geography in American schools. enserm.substack.com/p/are-americ...

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Are Americans Lost?

What Happens When Geography Goes Missing

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MathIsLife @damianmolinari.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am a professional. My classroom is open to all. If you come into my room and offer a critique for not using adopted materials, I will bring out years of evidence to illustrate how we have taken your materials and improved coherence, increased alignment with standards, and support student success.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

From my view, the necessity of variation in learning & perception isn’t an a priori assumption. It's an abstraction from the coherence of our lived experience. We use it all the time. For example, Joni Mitchell told us "You don't know what you've got till its gone".

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'everybody' and 'nobody' as synonyms for 'the in group' and 'the out group' is something I can't stop seeing now that I've noticed it I feel like I agree with nobody a lot more than I agree with everybody

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When all of this Alpha School stuff inevitably self combusts, I really wish there would be a reckoning for the media coverage that played a role in allowing it to get as far as it has. I know there won't be any accountability, but there should be.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think the gist of warnings like this one is correct: we urgently need binding international regulations before use of AI does serious harm. I'm also concerned that the debate is being distorted by the language & framings that those in the industry have imbibed. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner

We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Loved this episode of the Many Minds podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/2NHw...

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Coming of age in Ngogo

Many Minds · Episode

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Norfolk Research School @norfolkrs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Think blogs are dead? They’re not — people still love them. We’re big fans at Norfolk Research School, so Susi Waters has written a post about writing blogs. If you enjoy great blogs, read Susi’s new piece — it might inspire you to create instead of just consume. Find it here: buff.ly/RJ7ynZy

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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Educators on LinkedIn boasting that their approach is free of 'ideology', as opposed to those other approaches that are 'ideologically-driven'. This is bullshit. ALL approaches are ideologically driven, even those that are 'evidence based' - what counts as evidence is inherently ideological. #EduSky

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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hi #EduSky - the big news this week was PISA results but I already shared the most interesting posts and stats (to me) so Instead wanted to respond in my #Saturday3 to this excellent blog by @claireharley.bsky.social because I am not sure that edublogging is in such a dire state as she feels…

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can AI spread like a virus and erode cognitive autonomy? Our new paper models how LLM adoption can cross tipping points, triggering runaway dependence and tech lock-in, suggesting routes to "cognitive immunization". arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344 @ruffini.bsky.social @francesca-castaldo.bsky.social

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clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social @clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Cohort details are important to clarify too. This would skew the 'data'. 'There are also some signs that England’s sample of students was upwardly biased, with a much lower percentage of students on free school meals or with special educational needs and disabilities than some other countries.'

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