Language & Literacy A Writing Life

Learning & Cognition

How minds learn — cognition, neuroscience, critical thinking

Pieces

• 2015How Can We Mitigate the Errors in Our Minds?
• 2016On Threshold Concepts and Experiences
• 2016Low floor, high ceiling, wide walls in ELA classrooms
• 2018Building an Instructional Core for Student Literacy: Part II
• 2021Our Brains Were Not Born to Read…Right?
• 2022An Interlude: What do we mean when we say learning something is unnatural?
• 2023Language—like reading—may not be innate
• 2024Language, Cognition, and LLMs
• 2024Scaling Our Capacity for Processing Information
• 2025More Productive Than an Hour of Instruction?