Alex Black
@alexbclearning
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Teacher of Science (37 years), C.A.S.E and TOK. Educational consultant. Member of Let's Think Forum Council. Inspired by ASE, Philosophy, Kayaks and Mountains.
Zürich, Switzerland
Joined December 2017
A Learn to think curriculum developed by Philip Adey and Chinese Professors. Evaluated in https://t.co/clkm4038L6 Read more about it at
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PDF | Methods for teaching thinking may be described as out-of-context or infusion. Both approaches have potential to raise students' general cognitive... | Find, read and cite all the research you...
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In the Foreward to this OECD report the complexity of effective teaching and learning is stressed.
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Looking forward to presenting with Natasha Serret at ASE 2025 in Nottingham next month on metacognition.
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If you are interested in H5P and how AI can be used to quickly create interactive web content then have a read at
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Used H5P Smart Import to make an interactive study book using https://t.co/u6AgOCgRdP Help youself at https://t.co/1eqryaQ5sG or if you have a Wordpress , Moodle etc download and re use
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This is the result from load text with format request to chatgpt import as text into h5p question set. This is the 20 MQC output https://t.co/rx88GS40CC
#EduSky #iTeachBio 🧬 #SciTeachUK
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H5P empowers everyone to create, share and reuse interactive content - all you need is a web browser and a web site that supports H5P.
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Came across this https://t.co/VKdRnwydxG... and tried it out using the IB Biology spec with learning objectives document for section A.
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I have started building a network of people interested in Science Ed, Philosophy and anything related to Learning in general at Bluesky @alexbclearning.bsky.social. Will probably leave here soon when I have checked my contacts and importnat things we have shared and discussed,
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Garvin Brod at Frankfurt has done some great work on prior knowledge, memory and prediction
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Professor of Psychology, DIPF & Goethe University, Frankfurt - Cited by 2,945 - Child Development - Educational Psychology - Educational Technology
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Much talk about retrieval paractice. However the power of prediction has been know about for some time. This gives interesting insight
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review - This article attempts to delineate the procedural and mechanistic characteristics of predicting as a learning strategy. While asking students to generate a...
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..intervening in and accelerating development, not merely ‘facilitating’ it, otherwise why do we need schools? Education is a cultural process, not a biological one.”
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..and where necessary remediate a natural process. But as Vygotsky famously asserted, and contrary to the misapplied legacy of Plowden and those who still view teaching as no more than applied child development, education is about ...
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Robin Alexander https://t.co/cwOKTYw3SA p 7 “Appending the word ‘development’ doesn’t help -‐ social development, emotional development, oral development – because this very British sleight of hand suggests that the teacher’s task is merely to support ..
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Irish Gaelic cannot speak at all https://t.co/sDTTr6T602 May be really useful for our work with video support for teachers in the future
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I then used the translator into German which I speak reasonably fluently https://t.co/0uKgIVIHPm French which I hardly speak after 4 years at school https://t.co/rh9tRC8nrK
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Thinking about languages and translation I tried out an AI video translator https://t.co/EU4IJWzC2S that allowed very short trial sections. This is a summary of a presentation I was asked to do several years ago at London University https://t.co/8vjBcIThco
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Alex Black has been a science teacher for over 30 years; for many of those he has been using the CASE teaching tools developed using Piaget’s theories. His presentation described how research…
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The BBC Horizon documentary is a must see https://t.co/t0PpUuqEJS The human and collaborative side of how science can tackle urgent but long ignored problems. The persistence and resilience of the cross continental collaboration is wonderful.
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Filmed with privileged access over several years to key scientists on four continents, this is the inside story of the development of a new malaria vaccine that could change the very nature of the...
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