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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 5h

This will only work if people have designated on-street parking spaces, which in a large number of cases they don’t. How annoying - and impractical - would it be to return home to find you can’t charge your car because somebody else has parked outside your house 🤷

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Kirklees electric car charging trial for homes without driveways

A pilot scheme aims to help Kirklees residents without driveways charge EVs safely at home.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

September sunshine is so nice if you can get it. Enjoying the last few days before we head into autumn. #Mdina (the silent city) #Malta #Photography #Stone #Limestone #Gateway

Main gate, Mdina, Malta. Honey-coloured limestone, arched entrance, flanked by two stone lions atop limestone pillars.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Best thread I’ve read on Bluesky for ages

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, the Green Cross Code Man visited us in primary school too - I had my photo taken with him (sadly, the photo is long gone) #StopLookListen #MayTheForceBeWithYou

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amazing archeological museums in Istanbul - if you get the chance to visit this beautiful city then they’re a must do. The Basilica Cistern is very impressive too.

The Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, arches, columns, water, reflections.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For learning to mean something as a term it needs to be defined. For me the definition provided by the APA fits the bill because it's based on robust evidence, i.e., not just someone sitting there thinking about it, which may or not be valid depending on the thinker; Aristotle being a case in point.

A definition of learning and memory from the APA website, Sept 2026
https://www.apa.org/topics/learning-memory

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What you will quickly find is that someone else's interpretation of that work may not be your own. Your snowball model is very similar to Piaget's Schema and Learning Theory*, so I think it may appeal. *Piaget was first a biologist and he based a lot of his ideas on his research on snails

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I see. I've seen snap shots of his work - diagrammatic overviews mainly - but I would always go to the original source if you can. A really accessible book is 'Learning Theories Simplified' by Bob Bates, then maybe explore some of the theorists work that Bates presents in his book for yourself.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am still very curious to know where you're getting your ideas about learning and memory from.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm not in any way arguing this: 'What use is there to deny that learning involves the pupil thinking and experiencing rather than just receiving and memorising carefully sequenced bits of a big picture?'

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Sam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sometimes you come across gates almost hidden from view - a portal to a hidden realm - half frame photograph printed onto mulberry paper. The photograph was made using my Pentax 17 and Ilford HP5 developed with DD-X. #believeinfilm #halfframedriday

A 6x4 black and white half frame photograph of a small wooden gate printed onto delicate mulberry paper. The gate was almost hidden from view, sparking a sense of mystery and wonder.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Does it? ‘Schemata tends to mean a rational logical overview of the entire system.’ Where are you getting this idea from? Look at each of the terms you have listed, e.g., conjecture - what is this based on? Isn’t it prior knowledge gained through prior experience—learning centred in memory?

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Learning is a process. As your metaphor illustrates rather nicely, a process that centres on memory.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks for the detailed explainer. Point 2 is memory right? The structure the new snow (new memories created from learning) sticks to - older snow - isn’t this structure (the memories created from previous learning) stored somewhere (the brain)? Sounds suspiciously similar to schema to me.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not redundant, no. Learning is a process.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I see and agree. The tick lists remove the humanness, the relational, which is what teaching and learning fundamental are.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

... just read your blog, so I guess I'm asking you: where is this "snowball" and what is it made from?

A blog screenshot. It reads:

It's the same for language-learning. To change metaphors again, we are helping pupils acquire their own snowball of French. With slow accretion, where more French sticks to what they already have, rolling from one topic to another getting bigger and bigger. We are not aiming for an even coverage, with everything

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Blog read but still unclear how the slide on potty training relates to 'memory items', aren't they just questions? Definitions are often fuzzy - is it skills or is it knowledge, it's far from clear cut - but I do see Mr E's point, even though I don't think the starfish analogy works very well.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ah, now I think I understand where the issue lies here: Learning to do the splits did result in a change to your ltm, and this (memory) change was coupled with many other (body) changes that are not classified as learning, e.g., getting your tendons warmed and stretchy (I'm presuming here).

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks for the link! You absolutely learned how to do it using your memory, although you may not have been consciously aware of it at the time.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If we are creating something where is the thing we have created?

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You learn from how your body responds via all of the stimuli* received when doing the splits by creating memories *lots of these

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

… each attempt at the splits, failed or successful creates memories

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, I did earlier in the thread: You use your body to perform - to demonstrate a skill like the splits - you learnt how to do this through experience, which created memories.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That still doesn’t invalidate the definition.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Toilet training and memory items? Intrigued - tell me more. I think that the definition works for all, but happy to think harder about this if you can provide some examples, e.g., from early years.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lots of interchangeable terms complicate things, but if we have a shared understanding then this helps. If memories are not stored, as you state, then where are they - what happens to them? I’m assuming here that you think that memories have a physical basis, which of course you may not.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Depends what you read. Movement away from the computer memory model has been happening for a long time.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Do you think memories are stored Mr E?

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What do you understand Seth’s position to be? In answer to your Q, I guess so.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

… and now we move to consciousness …

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, and I’m not saying this anywhere. Christian brought the concept of storage to the thread, which he is yet to define.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

… in one word “learning”, two more words “through experience”, two more words “creates memories”

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Already done it repeatedly in the threads spiralling from the OPs post - please take a moment to have a read 😂

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The debate here: learning and memory. Yes, how we understand and perceive both of these terms is hugely important.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

… they both involve changes in long-term memory

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes - both of those statement are true!

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s at the heart of it. Learning is centred on memory. A child doesn’t just wake up one morning able to walk (I’m moving away from the splits).

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

By giving the example you chose - storage - you moved the discussion to the material

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t think that at all. Stretching a tendon isn’t learning.

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Rebecca Tickell @rebeccatickell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think memory is central to learning. I can support this view using a number of well-tested theories. I’m bowing out of this thread now because we won’t agree. I’ll read your book when it’s written to better understand your reasoning, which is difficult to get across in a series of short posts.

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