CALLING ALL SCIENCE TEACHERS The government has recently launched a Curriculum and Assessment Review. It is crucial that our voices are heard. I have written a submission below, and you are welcome to be a co-signatory! achemicalorthodoxy.co.uk/2024/09/30/c...

Calling all science teachers: a submission to the Curriculum and Assessment Review

The Department for Education has recently launched a curriculum review chaired by Becky Francis. They are calling for evidence, and in the space below I have written a submission.  If you are a sci…

I don't know if this is a helpful point for Y7 (it would need some explaining), but 100C steam would cause more damage to your skin than 100C water.

Obviously I’m being rather reductive, as most limited character statements are, but, in principle, yes.

I’ll use an inadequate metaphor (I say inadequate as a get out clause -it’s late). Chunks are atoms. Understanding is a molecule built from those atoms. The same atoms can make different molecules. Some of the latter are better suited to certain tasks than other e.g. salicylic acid vs aspirin

There are two meanings then - the user’s and the perceiver’s.

If you take ‘retrieve’ to mean brining to mind chunks of information, then sure. And some ‘retrieval’ activities are about this. But I retrieval can be about calling forth understanding, which is malleable and open to further shaping during the activity. The meaning of the word is in its use.

A loop in action...

You might find Christian's most recent book interesting (I'm part way through it, and it's excellent so far). bsky.app/profile/cmoo...

A feedback loop, Christian? I agree that the LLM's responses would influence a person's subsequent prompts (and the person's schema would affect their interpretation). The diagram is very helpful in thinking things through.

Reactions of aqua ions on a sheet in a plastic wallet. #chatchemistry