Adam Wray

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Adam Wray

Adam Wray

@AdamWteach

Techie teacher and cognitive science geek interested in applying Predictive Processing and Active Inference to education and special educational needs.

South West, England Katılım Haziran 2016
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Adam Robbins
Adam Robbins@MrARobbins·
We are looking for speakers to tell us all about how they implement cogsci in their classrooms. Or maybe you want to talk about evidence for certain implementation strategies? Fill out the form in the blog post below
CogSciSci@cogscisci

COGSCISCI 2026 is coming back to London! Join us for a day of talking all about 'Implementing CogSci in the classroom' (That's sure to spark some online discussion 🤣) Fri 29/5/26 Details in the blog post linked below, eventbrite link below that. PLEASE SHARE

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Adam Wray
Adam Wray@AdamWteach·
@DidaVonMoltke @dylanwiliam @C_Hendrick @DavidDidau @DTWillingham @GiovanniPezzulo @CogsAndy @KarlFristonNews @SCottinghatt @olicav @ollie_lovell @teacherhead @utafrith I agree: AI hallucinations aren’t errors for the model — it’s just doing probabilistic prediction. I disagree that this makes AI fundamentally different from humans. We do the same. The difference, per Pezzulo et al., is that human errors matter and reshape our models; AI’s don’t
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Adam Wray@AdamWteach·
@olicav This is not an education example but I found this @ManyMindsPod podcast bit.ly/3xN64Ta about navigation fascinating - particularly around the example of "The Knowledge" of london cab drivers. It give insight into our brain's heirarchical "chunking" mechanisms.
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oliver caviglioli
oliver caviglioli@olicav·
Chunking. I don't find the numerical (dates) or acronyms (BBC etc) convincing examples of the phenomenon. How about some more practical, knowledge-based ones? Less party trick, more classroom.
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Adam Wray@AdamWteach·
@SCottinghatt Let them wander through the plane, they will be engaged with lots of people finding them cute, and it will take several hours before someone will get the guts up to come and ask you to take responsibility for your child....
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Sarah Cottinghatt
Sarah Cottinghatt@SCottinghatt·
I need help… Taking the 2.5 year old on a long plane journey (7 hours). He gets bored after about 20 mins of watching stuff. Any tips? ✈️
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Adam Wray@AdamWteach·
@SciInTheMaking Yes... You need both, and I wouldn't underestimate the power of the overall scaffold - how we talk scientifically.
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Ms. Sam
Ms. Sam@SciInTheMaking·
@AdamWteach You can do that AND instill background knowledge.
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Ms. Sam
Ms. Sam@SciInTheMaking·
The same goes for periodic trend graphs. They can’t “analyze” it if they don’t know what effective nuclear charge is and what atomic radius, ionization energy, and electronegativity mean.
SoL in the Wild@SoLInTheWild

Students can’t “analyze” a graph of declining global birth rates without prior knowledge: what fertility rate means, why education access matters, what urbanization does. Without that conceptual base, they’re not analyzing—they’re eyeballing lines. Knowledge drives the thinking.

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David Didau
David Didau@DavidDidau·
If theory has nothing to say that changes practice it’s worthless. CLT (for instance) has very clear, actionable insights. Unless PP can do the same it’ll never be anything other than a curiosity. As of yet, PP doesn’t seem to offer anything that makes a difference. However, I am more than open to being convinced:)
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Adam Wray@AdamWteach·
@MrLeeBates @englishspecial I have lots of thoughts, but think it's more related to synaptic plasticity mechanisms. Just in process of a big synaptic plasticicty blog.. so I'll wait till after that
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Dr James Shea
Dr James Shea@englishspecial·
👀Today's thought provoking🤔 #sundaypoll 👀 Retrieval Practice is doing the rounds again but what’s your number one reason for using it? 😓Reduces cognitive load 😊More efficient way of teaching knowledge 🧐They need to recall tons for exams RT, ❤️and comments welcomed
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David Didau
David Didau@DavidDidau·
@AdamWteach @teacherhead @ollie_lovell @EducEndowFoundn @C_Hendrick @SCottinghatt @DTWillingham @profbeckyallen @CogsAndy @warmMagnet @dylanwiliam @MrZachG @mrbartonmaths You say, “Ideas do not become relevant to one another merely by virtue of their content or their position within a domain.” I think that’s almost certainly what happens. 😀 I’d like to see some plausible support for the - on the face of it - rather odd claim that they don’t
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