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Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
Excellent episode of Chalk&Talk with Anna Stokke
Memory, transfer, forgetting, retrieval. Listen to it and enjoy!
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Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
What if one of Americas largest education experiments revealed something we still don’t want to talk about?
In the 1970s, Project Follow Through put nearly 20 teaching models to the test in classrooms serving children from low income families.
There was one approach that stood out - Direct Instruction.
It didn’t just produce stronger academic results in reading and mathematics, but it also performed incredibly well in problem solving and student self esteem.
Yet decades later, we’re still debating whether this approach belongs in our classrooms…Why?
The latest season of Sold a Story brings this debate back into focus. But the history goes much deeper than one podcast or one teaching method.
Perhaps it’s time to ask a bigger question: Are we choosing teaching methods based on what looks good in a classroom, or what actually helps children learn?
🎥 Watch the video and join the conversation.
@ehanford #Soldastory
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
Carl Hendrick discusses studies showing students who remembered rules much better through retrieval practice didn't apply them any better. Dutch children recalled spelling rules at 88% versus 43% for controls, yet both groups spelled verbs identically in actual use. He argues retrieval practice maintains learning but doesn't create application ability.
Hendrick uses philosopher Gilbert Ryle's distinction between knowing facts versus knowing how to do things to explain the results. Philosophy provided the conceptual framework—remembering and applying are separate skills—that science then confirmed through experiments. The lesson: teaching students to recall rules requires different methods than teaching them to use those rules fluently. open.substack.com/pub/carlhe…
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
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Latest post is all about the problems with the current govt's education policies.
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How Memory Works, by @daisychristo .
Great response across different platforms to the latest episode of The Amol Rajan Connection - out now on YouTube, Spotify. Apple and Amazon.
YouTube: youtu.be/Xcyc3LQkqjY?is=WTvp…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3lc…
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo is an excellent communicator. Great explanation of working memory and long-term memory.
How Memory Works, by @daisychristo .
Great response across different platforms to the latest episode of The Amol Rajan Connection - out now on YouTube, Spotify. Apple and Amazon.
YouTube: youtu.be/Xcyc3LQkqjY?is=WTvp…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3lc…
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
🔥 NEW! This week’s ⚗️DistillED covers the redundancy effect: how to spot information students don't need, and five steps to cut it. Free one-page guide included.
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Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
Writing a lost post about Direction Instruction and AI. One of the things which completely blew my mind when I read it was this paragraph from the intro to a book called ‘Inferred Functions’ by Engelmann and Don Steely.
Engelmann here describing what a machine would have to do to learn the way a child learns: start from raw examples, sort positives from negatives, and work out which features predict the label.
If you know about the science of learning and don’t think AI has much to offer the design of learning, and are not excited by the possibilities, then I don’t know what to tell you.
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
The Visualiser: The Complete Guide — 5 practical classroom uses, from live modelling to whole-class feedback, the research behind why they work, and a FREE one-page guide.
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Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
Some things just don't seem to change. The culprits weren't the teachers then and they're not the teachers now. Zig said the culprits were administrators. As @Dale_Chu says there's something else: "It's how generations of educators have been trained to think about teaching and learning"
And that is what needs to change more than anything. The belly of the beast, so to speak.
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
TikTok generationen har sett klippet men inte filmen. Hört refrängen men inte låten. Fått en sammanfattning men aldrig läst boken. Sett rubriken men inte förstått nyheten.
De konsumerar fragment av allting och riskerar att förstå helheten av ingenting.
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
Direct instruction is joyful & leads pupils to success. Here is a *clip* where I use high frequency & high participation questioning in 3 phases:
1. Check for listening
2. Rehearsal
3. Check for understanding
Established routines: all hands up, turn & talk, SLANT & ruler reading
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
Kris Boulton's pitch is simple: we can accept classrooms where some students succeed and others struggle, or we can be much more systematic about designing instruction so that all students have the opportunity to succeed at a high level.
🎧 The episode is a must listen! Link below
@Kris_Boulton
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
Tomorrow!! Don’t miss out!
📣 FREE WEBINAR! I'm hosting another free online DistillED webinar with special guest @HughesHaili — Lethal Mutations: When Good Ideas Lose Their Purpose.
WHAT'S IT ABOUT?
As evidence-informed practices spread through schools, they can become simplified, standardised or distorted until the original purpose is lost. In this 45-minute session, Haili will explore:
→ What lethal mutations are, and why they happen
→ Common mutations of evidence-informed practices
→ How to adapt principles intelligently without losing their purpose
📘 EXCLUSIVE HANDBOOK! Everyone who stays until the end will receive the brand-new DistillED Lethal Mutations Handbook, a practical short guide to recognising common mutations and keeping evidence-informed practice connected to its original purpose.
WHEN IS IT?
📅 Saturday 24 October
🇦🇺 5:00–6:00 pm AWST (Perth) / 8:00–9:00 pm AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne)
🇬🇧 10:00–11:00 am BST
👉 REGISTER: luma.com/aott82if
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
📣 NEW… The Split-Attention Effect! A diagram with its labels in a separate key forces students to search back and forth — adding unnecessary load to working memory. Five practical ways to reduce split attention in your teaching, plus a free one-page guide.
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Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
28 out of 30 kids learned the concept.
Most educators might call that a success.
Zig Engelmann didn't.
“There were still two kids who hadn’t learned it.”
For Engelmann, it only worked when everybody got it.
What if our education system took that standard seriously?
Fredrik Hollsten retweeted
The biggest scandal in education isn't even the low test scores. It's the high grades.
