Dr James Mannion

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1,455 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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Rethinking Education · The missing science of how we learn - and the “barefoot unschool” that’s already LIVING it · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

So you we just talked about these emotionally tight fragments.

You say this explains why people can remember intricate details of personally meaningful experiences.

While struggling with important content that lacks effective salience, as we've just heard about.

And everybody who can who's taught GCSC and they're like, right, kids, you know, me as a science teacher, we're talking about electrolysis here.

You need to be able to predict what happens at the what's going to happen at the anode.

You need to be able to balance the half equations for this.

And the kids are just like

looking at you like with that dead eyed stare that some children have perfected so well.

This does not like have effective salience for them and they're not gonna remember this information.

Right.

So I think that this is something that is like

intuitively makes sense, but you're providing you know the science.

Let's move on to pillar two.

Which is I think where this really starts to take shape and to form like a mental model.

When we had this conversation about the seesaw,

a few months ago, it was just like, oh whoa, this just makes so much sense of things that I thought that I already stood understood, but it and the work that I've been doing with Howell Roberts around botheredness, for example, it all just sort of clicked into place when when when you talked about this seesaw.

So pillar two, the the the simple version is I guess you would call it something like attention is not all you need.

like lots of people in Cogsai talk about the importance of attention.

We we you can only learn what we attend to and we need to attention is the gateway and all of that.

And so what and then the the longer version of this is attention

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