Lecturer and researcher in applied linguistics and language education in Madrid.
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Tom Morton retweeted
In 2013 I wrote a book called Seven Myths about Education.
What is the most persistent myth, the one that is hardest to kill, and the one that has biggest implications outside education?
Transferable skills.
People think that you can teach things like critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, etc. But you can't.
But the idea is so persistent not just in schools but in universities, the corporate world and the British civil service.
Over the next few weeks, I will have a series of articles about it on my Substack. You can read the intro here and listen to me talking about it tomorrow on the @EconTalker podcast.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p…
Tom Morton retweeted
I'm not even in the mood to joke about this, it's so depressing. You can't assign take-home essays anymore; it's completely pointless. Writing and reasoning abilities are very noticeably plummeting. Very discouraging to think where this is all going.
Tom Morton retweeted
For the third time in four seasons…
𝗪𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦! 🏆😍
#WeAreLarne #ForTheTown
Tom Morton retweeted
Citation managers such as Zotero etc are more annoying than they are useful and instead of using them, it's better to just manually compile bibliographies
Tom Morton retweeted
When everything becomes a literacy, the word stops meaning anything. Link in reply ⬇️
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Imagine losing first authorship because you got hit by a blue shell on the last lap 💀
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Vygotsky's 'Zone of Proximal Development' is perhaps the most misunderstood idea in education. It was never a teaching method but a metaphor for how teaching can pull thinking upward, from the everyday to the scientific. ⬇️ 🧵
Tom Morton retweeted
Han sacado un libro con el que se desmontan la mayor parte de bulos negacionistas y antivacunas, por si lo queréis pillar:
Sad to read this the day we heard of Manchán Magan's passing. Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Tom Morton retweeted
*NEW POST* - The Enduring Persistence of Neuromyths in Education. A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers provides one of the most detailed snapshots to date of educational misconceptions in the field. Link in reply ⬇️
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This should be an interesting conference on disciplinary literacy, based on the The British Academic Written English Secondary School (BAWESS) project. It is investigating the role of language in representing knowledge in different disciplines.
bath.ac.uk/events/second-dis…
Tom Morton retweeted
Increasingly convinced the incessant claim that a humanities education is about "critical thinking"—rather than content mastery—is a scam designed to justify the humanities in "skill-building" terms that are legible within the university's new role as a credentialing bureaucracy.
Tom Morton retweeted
You: "did you get enough work done this week?"
Me: "no"
You: "well did you at least relax a little"
Me: "somehow also no"
Tom Morton retweeted
The most common teaching mistakes are things like:
presenting too much
not enough practice
not gathering responses
moving on too quickly
not securing attention
no examples
I’m struck by how much attention we devote in education to stuff that distracts from these fundamentals.
It was great to present work on critical literacy as part of #clilnetle #COSTaction at #worldCLIL with @mervebozbiyik and @P_Gerns, representing Leah Tompkins, Leila Kääntä, Sari Sulkunen, Lucilla Lopriore, Silvia Minardi, and Lucila María Pérez Fernández.
Tom Morton retweeted
We're often asked how long it takes to assess a set of essays using Comparative Judgement.
Here is a comparison.
TRAD MARKING: If it takes 10 minutes to mark an essay, it will take 5 hours to mark a class of 30.
HUMAN CJ: 2.5 hours
HUMAN & AI CJ: 15 minutes
95% time saving!!
help.nomoremarking.com/en/ar…
