🟣 NEW! This one-pager summarises RETRIEVAL PRACTICE as a powerful learning strategy. Thanks to Kate Jones & Tom Sherrington for their influential insights on how RP can be applied in the classroom.

Download a free HQ copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

☕️ Support my work!…

When the machines take over, I shall take some solace that they learned a bit of Minecraft from me. 😀

A one page summary of Tom Sherrington Mode A and Mode B Teaching, Kate Jones RP strategies and other key ideas in cognitive science from Walkthrus and oliver caviglioli. Thanks to Maddy for the excellent T&L map idea. Please RT if you would like a copy.

There’s nothing I love more than stripping things back for some old time jams. The sound you’re hearing comes from a gourd viola & banjo made by Menzies Instruments. They’re reproductions of instruments from the 1800s & with them they bring back the history & voices of our ancestors

On a flight with someone who lived up (or down) to his name.
#martinshort #comedyroyalty

Across the millennia, a style that’s stood the test of time!

A pair of #Neolithic espadrilles from Spain 🤩

Made some 5,000 years ago from esparto grass. Found in the 1800s, in the Cave of Los Murciélagos, Albuñol. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid.

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

I wonder which teaching strategies would be at the top of the list if we measured curiosity, love of learning, imagination, and self-efficacy instead of (or along with) acquisition of content knowledge.

Climate is headed for a new frontier. Here’s how we know. Earth’s energy imbalance also informs us about how much we need to do to stop global warming. See — Uh-Oh: mailchi.mp/caa/uh-oh-now-…

Check out this amazing attachment anchor chart from Sarah Wyman, art teacher at Festus Elementary School! ow.ly/2ina30nD5zu #MakerEd #STEM

The Roman Barbegal watermill complex - perhaps the first attempt in Europe to set up industrial-scale 'machines'.

Built c. 1,900 years ago, it consisted of 16 waterwheels that continuously milled grain, making 25 tonnes of flour a day!

📷 J. Dufresne

#Roman #History #France

🚨 NEW! This one-pager summarises Dylan Wiliam and Siobhán Leahy’s five formative assessment strategies that teachers can use to move learners forward.

📥 Grab a HQ copy: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

☕️ Support my work: ko-fi.com/xpateducator

14 wonders of Gothic (and Neo-Gothic) architecture:

Bridge House in Ambleside, Lake District, Cumbria, England.

It was first built as a bridge by Braithwaite family to allow access across beck, before a building was built on top of it in 17th Century CE. It was first used as an apple store, building has also been used as a…

Call to prayer in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina…

Mostar stands proudly as one of the most captivating cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is one of the most beautiful places in the Balkans. Overflowing with cultural treasures, historical significance, and stunning…

The other day I stumbled upon this pin at a flea market in Mexico.

It resembles a flamenco dancer’s fan, and in the center is what looks like Arabic - but not quite...

It's Pseudo-Arabic!

An unexpected legacy of Islamic rule that made its way to Mexico. A thread...

New Danish study just out in Nature Communications, titled 'Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation'.
Is it serious? Here's my take on it: buff.ly/3O95c2M

Happy Friday everyone.
I had AI generate selfies from important moments in Canadian history.
I use AI to raise interest in Canadian history by presenting it in a fun way.

1. Vikings arriving in Newfoundland in 1000 CE.

🧵1/13

12% of Americans live in California - but 30% of homeless Americans, and 50% of unsheltered Americans, call California 'home.' This prompts endless schadenfreude from 'red state' partisans, and is waved as proof of the failure of liberal policies.

1/