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Daughter of BRUTAL⚡️ takes out the first at @EagleFarmRacing Newgate raised SAVAGERY VIBE⚡️ finds clear air late to power home for another city win @tonygollan 🚀 She now boasts 4 wins and 7 placings from 15 starts💪 Bred by Orbis Bloodstock, congratulations to all involved!👏👏 #RaisingRacehorses

⚜️ New winner for #Grunt 💪 3YO filly Here Comes Ruby (ex Barrett's Mark) storms home to score maiden success for @mattlaurierace in the hands of Tom Stockdale. Congrats to her breeders, BJ & J E McKnight! #aworldofopportunity

Here Comes Ruby! 💥 She defeats Rotating Soul in a thrilling finish to R1 at Mornington 📸 @mattlaurierace

Savagery Vibe lunges & wins in the final stride 💥 @nryanracing

⚡️BRUTAL WINNER⚡️ 3YO filly SAVAGERY VIBE claims her 2nd victory first up for the Nick Ryan stable💪 The Newgate Raised filly was bred by Orbis Bloodstock🙌 Congratulations to her big group of owners!👏👏

@pasi_sahlberg @UniMelb Fantastic lecture this evening! One of the best I have been to. Thank you. It’s heartening to have a passionate & knowledgeable person driving for the good of education in Aus 👏

What do you think? I will explore this question on Wednesday evening at the Dean't Lecture at the @UniMelb. This time it will be personal.

Savy purchase for Cameron Cooke Bloodstock through Inglis Digital, Savagery Vibe impressive debut winner for Brutal breednet.com.au/news/32254/pro… @inglis_sales @NewgateFarm @cameroncookebl @nryanracing

Game, set & match 🎾 Djockovic found top gear & went straight past them. @craig_newitt @szahraracing

It's a winning Australian debut for Shrewsbury Road 🙌 The son of Sea The Stars will be a force over further ground. @szahraracing @BlaikeMcDougall

@naomicfisher The trend/fixation of everything is “evidence based and science” Wonderful! - but you need to adapt this to the learners/humans in front of you. A fixation on the ‘science’ is only helpful in a classroom environment where students feel seen, heard & valued & psychologically safe

Is the work of developmental psychologists and developmental neuroscientists irrelevant for schools, because they are only talking about learning which is hardwired (or biologically primary, as Geary would say)? Does the science indicate that cognitive load theory is ‘the science of learning’ and any other evidence on learning can be ignored in school? No, and here’s why not. Cognitive load theory is a a theory of information processing. It is a model which suggests how information can be processed and retained in the brain. It is mostly based on experimental studies with adults, learning lists of information. There are, as far as I know, almost no studies on younger children and very few in areas outside maths and science with teenagers. Learning - and particularly children’s learning - is about an awful lot more than information processing. For a start, an information processing model is silent on motivation. All information is equal, according to the model. It doesn’t matter what you put in. Whereas when it comes to real life learning, motivation is fundamental, particularly for children. A child learns about something which interests them with alacrity, whilst if you try to teach them about something which has no interest to them it is like wading through treacle. The developmental psychology research into children’s learning indicates that learning is an interactive process, where children are driven by their desire to participate in the world. They form hypotheses and use the information they already know. This is not just about learning things which are ‘hard wired’. Very little is hard wired into human brains. Human brains are born with enormous flexibility, able to adapt to different environments and cultures. This is one of the things which makes humans different to other animals. Developmental psychology is about how children learn when they are in environments which enable them to use their strengths - environments like good early years classrooms. Early years teachers share content, and children acquire knowledge and skills. Including a lot of new information which is culturally specific and could not be ‘hard wired’ in. There is no research which shows that children’s learning changes in quality at age five, and that they are no longer able to learn in this way. In fact, quite the opposite, there is a lot of evidence that children find formal learning at five very difficult and that it causes many of them to become distressed and to show this through their behaviour. That’s because they are not just information processors. They are young humans who need to move their bodies, who find it hard to concentrate and whose strengths do not lie in sitting still and listening. Children are learning how to manage themselves in the world, and this will be fundamentally important to their future - but isn’t captured by cognitive load theory. Cognitive load theory is silent on how to get children to stay still long enough and listen - and that’s because cognitive load theory is not a theory of education or child development. It’s a theory of information processing. As a theory of education, it lacks complexity, and it has nothing to say about child development and motivation. That’s because it’s a cognitive model, and it doesn’t set out to cover all those different aspects of learning. Cognitive load theory is not the only theory of learning that matters, nor is it the dominant theory of children’s learning. Children aren’t just novice-adults, any more than they are information processors. Ignoring child development and the way in which children learn best will inevitably lead to more unhappy children and less effective learning.

"I've got some high hopes for him." @c_douglasracing has a nice colt on his hands in Gallant Prince 👌

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"I've always had a big opinion of her - I'm hoping she can accumulate enough credentials for the Moruya [Newhaven Park] Country Championships" - shorturl.at/HMR67

@debbie_prest Haha @debbie_prest this might be a good fit for me as a school 😂

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@kjinquiry @GuyClaxton Excellent article! Hence why learning through inquiry is so valuable - because it provides access for all learners! Not a one size fits all.

Son of Trapeze Artist, Gallant Prince, showed plenty at his fifth start for @c_douglasracing 🤴 @beau_mertens

How fantastic 👏👏👏

Another winner for 💛🖤 Trapeze Artist 💛🖤 Gallant Prince takes out the win showing plenty fight @PakenhamRacing. This brings up career winner number 2️⃣3️⃣ for Trapeze Artist. Congratulations to @c_douglasracing on a great training performance and @beau_mertens on a great ride.

Not a dry eye in the house! 🥹 Thank you CODY'S WISH 💙 #BC23 🎥 @AtTheRaces

"We won't forget this one." A cracking day for connections of Maktoob at Sale 🥂