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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 15h

Tenor, vehicle and ground have been appearing in lots of English curriculum plans, promoted by a few eduinfluencers. I've been v sceptical about their usefulness in teaching metaphor. In a forthcoming EMC resource, linguist Peter Stockwell explains the problem with them.

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Juan Fernandez @juanfernandez.bsky.social · 6h

Ya es mío. Con ganas de aprender mucho como siempre que leo a @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

It's Wednesday and I made a new video: How I teach fermentation technology (without PowerPoint): youtu.be/ZQyt1_cjAkw?...

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How I teach fermentation technology (without PowerPoint)

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

My editorial has just been published in the Journal of Biological Education: "Thinking with models: the true heart of the biology lesson". As an editorial, it's open access and a short piece, check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've just published my debut poetry collection for adults and I am giving it away for free online. Here's a poem from the book, below. I hawked it to some fancy magazines, but no luck. Very proud to self-publish it. Download the entire book here: archive.org/download/the... #BookSky #PoetryCommunity

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Did you read this? bsky.app/profile/head...

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Although, (probably taking out of original context here), thinking about alternatives and conditionals is said to be a hall mark of our intelligence according to Peter Godfrey-Smith in Metazoa. He says the mind is like an arena in which we can experience these alternatives.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, the light might help, at least to make them think in terms of the rate of photosynthesis.

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Mr Lee Bates @mrbates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you take the time to explore Christian’s diagrams, (as his students would be doing), you will soon find they get you thinking and realising all sorts of novel relationships between concepts you have not connected before. A clear indicator of a great explanatory model.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Any one know where the biology teachers are nowadays so that I can share these videos with them?

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

We're back to the parallel between far-right movements and the development of conspiracy theories about the establishment.

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Mr Lee Bates @mrbates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The focus on memory is the focus on the product. Much better to focus on the act of learning, the process.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Or just "practice" (and if needed, "to practise remembering").

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

When I wrote Teaching Meaning, people commented on how well it captured teaching and learning. Yet, I didn't need to refer to storage or retrieval at all. Except, in this passage:

Through the ways we talk about knowledge, we create and
bring forth the idea of knowledge, to which our students will adapt.

It’s our responsibility to converse within our communities and
reflect on our criteria. The same is true of our students. They exist,
of course. We can all agree, for example, who they are, what they
look like, the form of their handwriting, and their school grades.
But through the ways we converse about students, we bring forth
who they are. If we discuss learning as storing and retrieving
information, then we bring forth students as storers and retriev-
ers. If we discuss learning as adapting and making meaning, then
we bring forth students as adaptive meaning makers.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

On another note, von Foerster and Maturana always argued that there "everything is here and now", everything else is a construction we make in the moment (including past and future).

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Right, from a teaching perspective, improving memory is a particular frame. IMO, I think we get more out of the term "remembering" than "retrieving". And retrieving edges us towards a computational-storage account of learning, rather than meaning making.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

@aweatherall.bsky.social So, I watched what I could and skimmed some of the transcript. The trouble is, I didnt see anything particularly concrete in the ideas about time and memory.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I've still not had a moment to listen to it, so I'll get back to you about it.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes! Well, principally in my latest book, Teaching Meaning, which is fundamentals of enactivism applied to teaching. So, while I don't use the term "Structural coupling" the idea is baked into it. And chapter 1 is: Meaning can't be transmitted.

Figure 12: A conversation showing a dance between convergence (thinner lines) and divergence (thicker lines). The teacher fosters agreement by attempting clarity in communication. In turn, teachers prompt students to express and explore their understandings, which the teacher then absorbs.

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

My views come principally from enactive cognitive science, in which the idea of "storage" can't be obtained when beginning from its core fundamental assumptions. However, I recognise that people might want to frame "storage" in different ways. But no *thing* is deposited or "retrieved".

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Christian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

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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