Teacher of Science (37 years), C.A.S.E and TOK. Educational consultant. Member of Let's Think Forum Council. Inspired by ASE, Philosophy, Kayaks and Mountains.
Zürich, Switzerland
Joined December 2017
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A Learn to think curriculum developed by Philip Adey and Chinese Professors. Evaluated in
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Read more about it at abceducation.ch/blog/2017/02…
FREE to use for all IB Biology and Irish Leaving Certificate Biology Teachers and students.
IB BIOLOGY abc-learning.org/ib-biolog-r…
Irish Leaving Certificate Biology abc-learning.org/irish-leavi…
You can donate to himalayanchildren.org/ Shree Mangal Dvip in Nepal
I am honoured to be making an opening Keynote speech and two workshops at the
7th International STEM Education Conference in Istanbul stempd.net/ this coming weekend. Having already made many contacts with Science and Mathematics Educators in Turkey.
I know there are many IB PYP, MYP and Diploma schools in Turkey and would be more than willing to help your schools in developing the critical and creative thinking that is demanded by the IB. I have decades of experience in IB teaching and research.
A very interesting article in TES from Christain Bokhove @cbokhove tes.com/magazine/teaching-le… I have also written a piece with some common points docs.google.com/document/d/1…
On my way to Nottingham for the superb Association of Science Education annual conference
Looking forward to presenting on Thursday about Epistemic Inquiry sched.co/26lpV and co presenting on CASE with Natasha Serret sched.co/26PUf
In the Foreward to this OECD report the complexity of effective teaching and learning is stressed. abceducation.ch/blog/2025/04…
What human clarity this guy Yuri shows great interview youtube.com/watch?v=wXBdOcUm…
Looking forward to presenting with Natasha Serret at ASE 2025 in Nottingham next month on metacognition. 2025aseannualconf.sched.com/…
Used H5P Smart Import to make an interactive study book using youtu.be/4kd2ctxZwlc?si=82QC… Help youself at abceducation.h5p.com/content… or if you have a Wordpress , Moodle etc download and re use
If you are interested in H5P and how AI can be used to quickly create interactive web content then have a read at abc-learning.org/wordpress/h…
Came across this h5p.org/using-ai-to-... and tried it out using the IB Biology spec with learning objectives document for section A.
This is the result from load text with format request to chatgpt import as text into h5p question set. This is the 20 MQC output h5p.org/node/1511350/ #EduSky #iTeachBio 🧬 #SciTeachUK
I have started building a network of people interested in Science Ed, Philosophy and anything related to Learning in general at Bluesky @alexbclearning.bsky.social. Will probably leave here soon when I have checked my contacts and importnat things we have shared and discussed,
Much talk about retrieval paractice. However the power of prediction has been know about for some time. This gives interesting insight link.springer.com/article/10…
Garvin Brod at Frankfurt has done some great work on prior knowledge, memory and prediction scholar.google.com/citations…
Robin Alexander
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“Appending the word ‘development’ doesn’t help -‐ social development, emotional
development, oral development – because this very British sleight of hand suggests that the
teacher’s task is merely to support ..
..and where necessary remediate a natural process. But as Vygotsky famously asserted, and contrary to the misapplied legacy of Plowden and those
who still view teaching as no more than applied child development, education is about ...