aejbowen.bsky.social
Researcher, teacher, therapist. Interested in bringing a better school experience to future generations.🌻🌈 Based at the University of York 🦆 affiliated with Birkbeck College🦉and the Centre for Educational Neuroscience 🧠
- One final highlight from ENCoRE: Paul Howard-Jones on “the journey from neuroscience to education”, a fascinating commentary on the history and current state of efforts to bring education and the science of learning together. Thoroughly enjoyed. #edusky #edneurosky
- Another highlight from ENCoRE: Gemma Goldenberg on the effects of learning outdoors on attention. Very striking findings - those students with the worst attentional difficulties and those who preferred working outdoors demonstrated greatest increases in on-task behaviour when working outside #edusky
- Some highlights from the first ENCoRE conference in London - the first for me being my own lightning talk on challenges in evaluating educational interventions! It was super fun to deliver some key messages in 5 minutes and get people thinking about evaluation methods #edusky #edneurosky
- If you are working in early years provision, UCL IoE researchers want to hear from you about the types of resources used for early maths skills and what you would like from new resources - please fill out our survey and share widely! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... @eyalliance.bsky.social
- Ready for an exciting couple of days at this packed ENCoRE conference hosted at Birkbeck UoL! #edusky #neuroskyence #edneurosky
- The recording of my recent CEN seminar is now available! If you’re interested in evaluating educational practices and programmes, have a watch to learn about some of the research methods used and how methods could be improved. #edusky
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- This is such an important study, thank you so much!
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- I really like the comments on the article. For me, when a lesson is actively flopping, 1) stay calm, 2) pivot if possible, 3) use the rapport with students to keep things cheerful and smooth. After the lesson has flopped, 1) review what went wrong and why, 2) make adjustments/learn for next time
- Can’t wait for this!!
- “Informed intuition” is a concept often unacknowledged in decision-making - within research methods and in wider organisational contexts. Pretty excited to see this article this morning!
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- My thoughts are with you and your colleagues Lorna
- Submitted my abstract for the Educational Neuroscience Collaboration and Research (ENCoRe) conference to be held at Birkbeck April 24-25 2025. Excited to share my work on methodological challenges evaluating complex school-based interventions. #edusky #eduneurosky #neuroskyence shorturl.at/vaMwR
- Submitted my abstract for the Educational Neuroscience Collaboration and Research (ENCoRe) conference to be held at Birkbeck April 24-25 2025. Excited to share my work on methodological challenges evaluating complex school-based interventions. #edusky #eduneurosky #neuroskyence shorturl.at/vaMwR
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- Congrats on all your accomplishments and good luck with the DClinPsy!! :)
- Achieving skill/knowledge transfer to novel situations is typically one of the biggest challenges for education - this article is a super interesting deep dive into the topic with some theory-driven strategies for achieving the elusive goal of adaptive learning.
- #edusky Are you/do you know a parent or caregiver of a child with SEND living in or around York? The University of York wants to hear about your/their experiences of local mental health support services. Please fill out or share this anonymous survey link! york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- We’re really excited about this project - we want to gather as many experiences as possible to make the best recommendations for service improvements, so please share widely!
- Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #3,119,639!
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- Thanks Mary, hope you enjoy!
- My CEN colleagues and I recently published a paper on ‘Evidence, policy, education and neuroscience’. It’s a great read for anyone interested in joined-up solutions for bringing the science of learning into the classroom. #edusky #neuroskyence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Super interesting reflections. It’s really important to ask “if this is true, what does it REALLY mean for the way our brain and body work?”
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- Very interesting Zoe!
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- I think the way I used to handle this with my students was firstly to have cultivated a “mistakes are the best way to learn” kind of environment, secondly to lead with feedback on what they’re doing great. If lack of curiosity is the real issue then the activities should be adjusted to engage them.
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- So important to be aware of this, thank you for highlighting this article.
- My poster from IMBES 2024, sharing my study on how developers of commercial educational interventions interact with academic research evidence. An essential topic for understanding how to improve uptake of evidence-informed practices in the classroom. #edusky
- Here’s the full thing laid out nice and neat for easy reading:
- Third highlight from Day Three of IMBES 2024: keynote speaker Stanislas Dehaene exploring new methods in understanding reading problems. Having taught the work of this giant in the field, it was an impressive experience to hear him speak in the grand hall at KU Leuven. #edusky #neuroskyence
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- In terms of educational applications, he highlighted that explicit teaching of phonics and reading rules produces better results than hands-off approaches like discovery learning, which is not a new take at all of course but good to hear the emerging evidence supports this as well. ☺️
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- Some of the new research he discussed was looking at the role of specific neurons in the Visual Word Form Area in the brain and how they learn to recognise specific letter shapes both on their own and in relation to other shapes. This had implications for understanding how dyslexia can develop.
- I could go on, but fifth and final highlight from this third and final day of IMBES 2024 has to be this sumptuous after-dinner chocolate mousse. When in Belgium, eh?
- Fourth highlight from Day Three of IMBES 2024: fellow CEN member Roisin Perry (third from left) awarded a well-deserved Best Poster prize for her study on SES and working memory. Congratulations Roisin!! And congratulations to all of the other equally deserving winners as well. #academicsky
- Second highlight from Day Three of IMBES 2024: this perfect slide by Yushuang Liu on some of the challenges conducting research in classrooms. Any applied/field researcher will resonate with this 🫠 #edusky #academicsky #neuroskyence
- First highlight of Day Three of IMBES 2024: symposium and panel discussion on “Bridging Research and Practice across the Globe” with Kendra McMahon, Adriano Linzarini, Sonia Guerriero and @thebandb.bsky.social. Enlightening and hopeful. #edusky
- Fourth and final highlight from Day Two of IMBES 2024 in Leuven, Belgium: a beautiful bag of Belgian chocolates bound to make family and friends back home blissfully happy.
- Third highlight from Day Two of IMBES 2024: this elegant poster by @alexa-mogan.bsky.social comparing the traditional long division method to the partial quotients method. TLD is a bit of a bugbear of mine, and as educators we need more evaluations of specific approaches like this! #edusky
- Second highlight of Day Two of IMBES 2024: my PhD supervisor Michael Thomas sharing his vision for “A defensible science of learning” to a packed room. A vision too grand to share in just a few characters, but happy to discuss with anyone interested! #edusky #neuroskyence
- First highlight from Day Two of IMBES 2024: @grammer.bsky.social’s energising keynote “Conceptual Clutter and Measurement Mayhem”. We need to flip the script on EF in the classroom, building from what we can observe in context instead of imposing what we think EF is and how it works #cogsci #edusky
- Today at IMBES my favourite talk was by @zoepurcell.bsky.social unpicking the relationships between partisan identity, prior beliefs, and reasoning. Partisan identity doesn’t make reasoning less accurate, but it does make the experience of reasoning subjectively more difficult. #academicsky
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- Not sure if there’s a publication on this yet, @zoepurcell.bsky.social may be able to enlighten us :)
- Anybody at IMBES in Leuven, Belgium? I and the rest of the CEN gang will be there over the next few days. Come up and say hi! I’ll be sharing a poster on understanding how private educational intervention developers use research at the session on Friday. #neuroskyence #academicsky #edusky
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- Congratulations Jake!!! So thoroughly deserved.
- A few weeks after the fact, but here is myself and a friend queuing for a signing by Colm Tóibín at the Hay Festival following a fascinating audience with him and @stephenfry.bsky.social where we were treated to a reading from his new book, Long Island. Highly recommend all of his works. 💙📚
- Yesterday I was fortunate to chair a fantastic CEN seminar featuring @lornaquandt.bsky.social disentangling the effects of deafness and sign language skills on perception. The seminar is now available to catch up on if you missed it! #neuroskyence youtu.be/061uIOaauDQ?...
- Love this article, I will definitely be sharing it as a recommended read with my students!
- For the CEN seminar series, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa recently discussed “How can teachers become learning scientists, and why would this improve education?” This fascinating talk is now available on YouTube if you would like to enjoy the benefits of Tracey’s wisdom and wit :) #edusky #neuroskyence
- This is so interesting!!
- #neuroskyence #edusky A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of chairing a seminar for @jackandrews.bsky.social at the CEN, where Jack discussed his work evaluating universal mental health interventions in schools. I am pleased to report that the recording is now available for everyone to enjoy!
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- I started listening to the audiobook of Limitarianism after seeing this post, it’s great. Highly recommend!
- Really fascinating research about the effects of widening the opportunities and material for young people to read. The role of reading in opening up social connections between peers, teachers and parents particularly stood out to me.
