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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thanks Alex. Comics are always interesting to analyse. I did a session at last year's online conference and am due to do another this year too. Trust all is well with you, Oliver

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I have a number of other large, more academic books on the topic — when you're ready!

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Hello Beth, excuse the delay. Might I suggest 'our 'Annie Murphy Paul's The Extended Mind In Action? Small book, plenty of school examples. And then move onto her own book The Extended Mind (praised by Doug Lemov no less), 2021, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishers.

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ATT Institute @attinstitute.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

An incredible way to complete our amazing #rEDEastAnglia speaker line‑up! 🛬 @olicav.bsky.social joins us as keynote, inviting us to examine the thinking behind our daily practice. Join us for what will be an unmissable day! 🎟️ tinyurl.com/mryr325c #TransformingPD #EduSky @academytrust.bsky.social

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Yes I bought a couple of years ago. Truly wonderful. Thanks anyway.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Yes it does frame human meaning-making into whatever is the closest technology (the computer). Even so, it has its purposes.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#UKEd #EduSky Intro to Rethinking Cognitive Load Theory. Despite Sweller explaining the Transient Info Effect to be primary (Fröyd's Toolbox Episode 56), I notice its significance is still missing. Merlin Donald's evolutionary theory would rectify this blind spot.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This looks juicy and will, I'm sure, offer the more nuanced, finely-observed side of cognitive science, beyond the merely behavioural instantiation (that is temptingly simple to understand and convert into evaluation checklists).

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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Here's our a very condensed version! Situation: whole school alignment - gotta catch those lethal mutations! Theory: Rosenshine's Principles (+ others) Actions: Consistent use of The WalkThrus and codification Results: Significant improvement in consistency from Pre-school-Y6

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It's not communication; it's proclaiming.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The current use of the term "to land" is a poor way of capturing communication, as it stems from the notion that it's a one-way stream. One doesn't just lob a sentence or two 'over there' and hope it 'lands'. That is performance, not communication.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

#UKEd #EduSky Feedback: not one and done.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Yes. Everyone whom talks about Dual Coding, I'd say, needs to read Paivio's Mental Representations. It covers the comparison between linear & non-linear thinking — & its intellectual history — as well embodied cognition. That's 30 years before Sweller.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Yes and in addition, as Paivio explained in his 1990 Mental Representation, visuals offer 'simultaneous' access: multiple entries & trajectories. With text, he adds, there is only one route & that entails keeping in mind what went before (therefore easy to overload, even if not transient).

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I bet. Yes, it's rather a set-up: designed for my course for teachers to 'suffer' in trying to answer the questions with test only. Just to get the point, usually given as a research abstraction alone.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

#EduSky #UKEd According to CLT, the diagram causes the Redundancy Effect because it doesn't add info than is in the text. But, as Larkin & Simon's 1987 paper found a diagram can be informationally equivalent but computationally asymmetric (easier to understand than the text). Update needed?

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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Jos te Lintelo @joslint.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Speciaal voor de "onderwijsexpert" @aadbrinkman.bsky.social

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

#UKEd #EduSky Coaching develops — as in team coaching. Business was there more than a decade ago (see J Britton's From One to Many: Best Practices for Team & Group Coaching). Make it less personal but more personally beneficial as common problems & new solutions emerge from the team.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Indeed. That's why I've invoked my teacher mother with her (supposed) rule of thumb of avoiding Too Much, Too Fast, Too Complex.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#UKEd #EduSky Look what I found: my highlighted sentence from Jerome Bruner's 1971 Towards. Theory of Instruction. Tell me this isn't a germinal notion of cognitive load.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I guess the teacher would have the best judgement. I can see advantages and disadvantages to both options.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#UKEd #EduSky According to CLT's redundancy effect ("multiple sources of info can be understood separately"), the RHS diagram is not needed; causes overload in fact. But some learners need both. Larkin & Simon (1987) concluded that diagrams often are more computationally efficient. Use both.

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

For all those teachers and speakers who use slides (all, thus, except John Sweller😂) I give you the 'Oli-Filter' . Please use it! @olicav.bsky.social

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

#UKEd #EduSky Coaches help identify real classroom challenges by offering an additional perspective: observing where students are struggling, offering practical tools for visits, data and videos to build insight, test hunches and explore learning problems.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Paivio, in his 1990 Mental Representstiins, talks about gesture, as well as other senses, as being contained within his non-verbal channel.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

No, movement doesn't replace thinking. But it can hold information at no cognitive cost and to the benefit of retrieval.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#UkEd #EduSky Modelling strategies (representation), breaking them down into chunks (decomposition) and adapting them (approximation) to suit different contexts is how expertise in teaching happens. Let @walkthrus.bsky.social RUs do a lot of this work.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

#UKEd #EduSky Our thinking and actions stem from what we see happening in the classroom. But what if we aren’t seeing clearly? This is where coaches offer an indispensable additional perspective.

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 04/11/2025

Really pleased that the Spanish version of 'How Learning Happens' is finally coming out. @paulkirschner.bsky.social @olicav.bsky.social @akaleditor.bsky.social akal.com/libro/como-s...

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#UKEd #EduSky A shared vision of high-quality teaching shapes meaningful coaching. Intentional teachers apply techniques with precision and follow through.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I guess everybody does, in or outside of teaching. Being unconscious is part of being human I'd have thought — when I can gather all my attention together to have such a conscious thought.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#UKEd #EduSky A shared vision of high-quality teaching shapes meaningful coaching. Intentional teachers apply techniques with precision and follow through.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Not sure I follow. Are you fully or partially sighted? If so, I've seen very interesting work with embossed graphic organisers with touch being the point of access to their non-linear organisation.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

#UKEd #EduSky I thought you might find this collection of quotes from the CLT stable interesting.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

#UKEd #EduSky In the Coaching WalkThrus book, @MattTeachCoach clarifies — really well — the nature & central role of mental models in developing the cognitive aspect of teaching.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

#EduSky #UKEd Given that Richard Mayer asserts that we learn best with a combination of words and images, it's essential that we consider of the quality of execution. And none better to remind us than Clark & Lyons (in their 500+ page ultimate research compendium).

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

#UKEd #EduSky I'd say this is THE blog of the year. When real replication comes in education, hubris often follows. So, of course, strive to be evidence-informed but, please, a little less confidence & pride when describing one's practice. Bravo to @C_Hendrick.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

#UKEd #EduSky We’re all humans, engaged in learning. Successful coaching is as dependent on a common model of learning as successful teaching. It helps illuminate struggles and offers insights to unblock habit change and confusion.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

#UKEd #EduSky Coaching is difficult without a shared understanding of pedagogical techniques that solve learning problems. WalkThrus creates a common language to improve feedback and reduce miscommunication.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

That, as you know, is an enormous issue. Alignment comes from agreeing end-points/goals. Then, the acknowledgement that there are multiple routes to there. As I've been banging on recently, the term, bought in by Werner Erhard, was to counter command-&-control compliance to one way only.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The weekend's robbery at le Louvre promoted me to reread Edgar P Jacob's (a former colleague of Hergé) wonderful The Affair of the Necklace.

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

#UKEd #EduSky When lesson observations, co-constructed feedback and action planning, are all referenced to a common model of learning, teacher learning really shifts. Harness this power of alignment with WalkThrus.

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