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Joel Kenyon
@joel120193.substack.com

New Blog Post 📝 Science is formed through recall of knowledge of people long since passed. Creating classrooms that allow pupils to deeply 'understand' and discover science does not make a scientist. Allowing them to recall it does. open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...

open.substack.comUnderstanding: Science is Told, Not FoundIn my time as a teacher, I have been repeatedly urged to adopt generic one size fits all methods which fundamentally collapse when applied to the rigour of science.

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Jane
@janeteachesscience.bsky.social

I think it’s very sensible. I feel that what we need students to be able to do is apply their knowledge to unfamiliar contexts. So the understanding really boils down to being able to correctly link various bits of information.