Zach Groshell

Former teacher helping schools implement effective instruction | Progressively Incorrect🎙️ | Director @Steplab_co North America | PhD, Author of Just Tell Them

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Would love to see you at the Explicit Teaching Institute in NYC - DM for details

Registration here: https://t.co/1pfni3aXKI

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

1/2 🎯“We’re not an evidence-based profession traditionally, we’re more of an ideology-based, philosophy-based profession & that works to some degree, but it’s not working for most of our kids” Gaffney said. “So we need to move away from that towards the evidence”
https://t.co/hkkLo1pV58

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Just spoke to the most incredible group of Stanford/MIT interns at @gauntletai about the science of learning and the future of adaptive learning platforms. Brilliant questions and thinking about hard problems around retrieval, spacing, interleaving, cognitive load and elaboration. The kids are alright 👏

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Off the shelf LLMs running on a single generic prompt agreed with qualified examiners at least as closely as the two examiners agreed with each other. https://t.co/IALETDkZ1Z

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Excellent essay on the contradictory messages in Toy Story 5 and the new moralising around technology by Nick Potkalitsky

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@kutluokan There is a total of like 1 study that compares pre questions with pretraining. The rest compare with nothing. I don’t know why this isn’t discussed more. The meta on pre questions even seems oblivious to how bad a design this is. Retrieval isn’t compared to nothing…

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

In sweltering central London working on AI and learning science, recursive self-improvement, and verification layers with the great minds of @PepsMccrea @SCottinghatt @MrZachG and @profbeckyallen

[Kevin Fulton @Teacher_Fulton]

ResearchEd does a great job in “democratizing” the research and helping show how it applies to the classroom.

This is an organization that I hope continues to grow and to become more well known because it helps teachers help students.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@S_Oberle @Steplab_co Hahaha. Join me!

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Really nice to talk with folks that just “get it” = @Steplab_co

Not just in cog sci, but in implementation science

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@ProfDanielMuijs @DrWHKitchen @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi Email the marketing crew, but don’t blame the teachers who have been working tirelessly to put effective practices into place for kids who often don’t have access to these methods - kids without a physics teacher, an option for acceleration etc. Many of whom respect you greatly.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@ProfDanielMuijs @DrWHKitchen @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi Easy to revise your mental model: the apps are based on principles of cognitive science and Engelmann’s DI.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@ProfDanielMuijs @DrWHKitchen @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi You understand the difference between how apps are designed, and how parent advocates operate, surely.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@DrWHKitchen @ProfDanielMuijs @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi Go ahead and email Doug Carnine. No argument by authority, you’re just very visibly confused between delivery systems and instructional design.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@ProfDanielMuijs @DrWHKitchen @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi No lol

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@DrWHKitchen @ProfDanielMuijs @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi Crazy that I run the Direct Instruction podcast, present at DI conferences regularly, that DI tried video disks and PLATO, and you tell me what DI is the antithesis of haha 😂

[Ben Rodgers @MrRodgersAHT]

My final session was with the OG, @teacherhead.
He had the room hooked with his formative action loops.
Tom challenged us to choose the right formative assessment technique at the right moment to drive thinking and check understanding. 🫶👌❤️

Thanks for a great day, @Josh_CPD!

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@DrWHKitchen @ProfDanielMuijs @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi As a parent there, it answered my question.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@DrWHKitchen @ProfDanielMuijs @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi No lying. They assume that apps are based on cognitive science, and are told about it frequently, and are also interested in the whole model.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@ProfDanielMuijs @DrWHKitchen @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi A school should explain the difference between comparatives, non comparatives, nouns, joining forms, and complex forms, such as fact systems and cognitive routines. I guess?

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@DrWHKitchen @ProfDanielMuijs @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi No, it’s that most people assume core academics is taught with evidence based methods as efficiently as possible. That is just assumed by most parents, and so they want to know about the whole model.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

@DrWHKitchen @ProfDanielMuijs @Kris_Boulton @NickGibbUK @naveenfrizvi That marketing for parents and Theory of Instruction by Engelmann and Carnine follow completely different paths. One about joy of school. One about faultless communication based on cognitive science principles.