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Interested in evidence based approaches to improving learning in schools. Educator. Views expressed, including RT's are entirely my own.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined October 2011
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Craig Biddick retweeted
Ah, statistics. Tricky things. 😂
13.1m and “roughly one in five” are correct.
The 143% increase is since 2004, Zia, not “in a decade”. That is twenty years.
And “foreign born” is not the same as “foreign national”.
If you are going to cite the data, reading the date range is usually a useful first step.
Craig Biddick retweeted
Over at my Substack, I wrote about how teachers can subtly amplify signals of peer-to-peer approval after a student speaks in class & how seeing signals of peer approval is more likely to cause them to be comfortable engaging in scholarly work even than seeing signals of teacher approval.
Read more here: douglemov.substack.com/p/nor…
Craig Biddick retweeted
This is a blatant lie. JLR themselves have attributed this to the Cyber attack they suffered, US tariffs, the winding down of many of their ICE models and global instability.
They haven’t said anything about Reeves budget, Net Zero or EV Mandates. The also haven’t confirmed how many jobs will go but they have said that these will be salaried/management positions, not production jobs.
What you’ve done here is what Tice has also done. Told a barefaced lie to fit your political narrative. It’s all Reform MPs do. Lie.
Craig Biddick retweeted
Researchers have developed an experimental mRNA vaccine that could one day help treat many different types of cancer using a single approach. Unlike most cancer vaccines, which are designed to target specific tumour proteins, this vaccine works by stimulating the immune system itself. It activates an early defence pathway called the type I interferon response, which acts like an alarm signal that alerts immune cells to recognise and attack cancer. This research is still in the preclinical stage and has mainly been tested in laboratory animals.
Many cancers are known as "cold tumours" because they hide from the immune system and respond poorly to existing immunotherapies. The experimental vaccine appeared to transform these tumours into "hot tumours" by attracting immune cells and increasing their activity. In several mouse studies, the vaccine improved the effectiveness of immunotherapy drugs, while some animals treated with the vaccine alone completely cleared their tumours and later resisted the cancer when it was introduced again.
"By activating the body's natural interferon response, this strategy helps immune cells recognise cancers that normally remain hidden. If this approach continues to perform well in future research, it could provide a flexible platform that works alongside existing immunotherapies and may be adapted for many different types of cancer."
RESEARCH PAPER 📰
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01380-1
Source > facebook.com/thedoctorasky/p…
Craig Biddick retweeted
Not to be missed:
Coming tonight: Channel 4 News and @Verbatim_Media reveal an undercover investigation inside Reform UK.
Watch at 7pm on Channel 4 or YouTube.
Craig Biddick retweeted
In 2006, researchers gave students two ways to learn the same material.
One produced better results almost immediately.
The other produced much stronger retention a week later.
The difference matters in almost every classroom. 🧵
So what is their response to these cold facts...
Richard Tice’s constituency, Boston & Skegness, has over 10,000 people claiming PIP. That costs £79 million a year, while 21.6% of the working-age population is not in work.
Nigel Farage’s constituency, Clacton, has 10,442 people claiming PIP. That costs £77 million a year, while over 24% of the working-age population is not in work.
Sarah Pochin’s constituency, Runcorn & Helsby, has over 9,000 people claiming PIP. That costs £69 million a year, while over 19% of the working-age population is not in work.
Lee Anderson’s constituency, Ashfield, has around 9,058 people claiming PIP. That costs £69 million a year, while almost 20% of the working-age population is not in work.
Robert Jenrick’s constituency, Newark, has 6,011 people claiming PIP. That costs £46 million a year, while over 12% of the working-age population is not in work.
Abolishing PIP and treating people who haven't worked for a year like criminals by making them do 20 hours of community service will hit Reform voting constituencies the hardest.
Craig Biddick retweeted
💡 Rosenshine's Principles are a great place to start if you're interested in learning about evidence-based teaching strategies!
📺 Check out my math education myth-busting episode on YouTube below
Or listen on your favourite podcast platform!
Craig Biddick retweeted
This is the issue with things like Building Thinking Classrooms. It’s never been properly tested. I can point to evidence against practices I think are similar, but advocates can always claim Building Thinking Classrooms is different to those in some way.
Craig Biddick retweeted
Knowledge in long-term memory takes up no space in working memory, but knowledge outside the head does. And what's in long-term memory always—and instantly—influences what we can do in short-term memory. Our students don't need practice in thinking; they need more to think with.
Craig Biddick retweeted
In 2013, I wrote a book called 7 Myths about Education.
Myth No.5 was about transferable skills.
I've updated my argument for a new @researchED1 project.
All the evidence, historical & scientific, on why you can't teach transferable skills.
aei.org/research-products/re…
Craig Biddick retweeted
BP isn’t abandoning Britain.
It’s selling five mature North Sea hubs, 5% of its output to chase higher returns in the US and Brazil. HQ stays. Most of its 14,000 UK jobs stay.
Tice turns a portfolio cull into “abandoning the country” so Reform can sell oil tax cuts as patriotism.
If the levy destroys jobs, how has BP still banked billions while shareholders cleaned up?
Craig Biddick retweeted
In my experience, medical researchers don't understand how hard it is to do meta-analysis well in education. For a start, they rarely use effect sizes, because they aggregate studies that use the same outcome measures, which never happens in education.
Craig Biddick retweeted
This is excellent!
In a reaction to a Dutch educational publisher’s ‘bucket list’ for teachers that amounted to changing almost everything in the classroom, my friend and colleague @VerbrugghenGert made a better list and then let ChatGPT remake it in English for me (and you).
Craig Biddick retweeted
Excellent article by @daisychristo on transferable skills (creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking).
"teaching transferable skills would offer us an elegant solution to several difficult dilemmas—if it were possible. Unfortunately, the best evidence we have indicates that it is not"
aei.org/research-products/re…
Craig Biddick retweeted
Final episode of the year and it's a BEAST!
We are joined by @BeckyFrancis7 to discuss the EEF, evidence based practice, mixed attainment teaching and what makes for inclusive practice.
Tune in and share!
open.spotify.com/episode/7q9…