Cassandra Potier Watkins
Researcher at Collège de France | President of Excello www.excellolab.org
Author of Learn & Play: The American Phonics Reader 📚
Studying how children learn in school —
Sharing science-backed insights on learningi!
- Just published a new article on how students understand (…or don’t understand 😅) fractions. After testing 26,000 kids, the mistakes we found shocked us. Think you can do better than a 6th-grader ? Free printable test on Excello’s website (bio)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Cassandra Potier WatkinsA new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Our project to improve literacy in Mayotte with the RSMA has started ! Learn more here www.instagram.com/reel/DHDroQV...
- Which LLM can pass a student exam?! benchmarks.ai-for-education.org
- The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren't always getting hechingerreport.org/the-building...
- Reposted by Cassandra Potier Watkinsplease retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high. Join us!
- An amazing day seeing Excello’s Kalulu reading program in action with adult learners in Brazil! Inspiring to witness how cognitive science can empower literacy at any age. #LiteracyForAll #phonics #CognitiveScience
- ❤️❤️❤️ this podcast!
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- New paper from the lab! Mathias Sablé-Meyer used behavior, fMRI and MEG to study the mental representation of geometric shapes (quadrilaterals ranging in regularity from squares and rectangles to random figures). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- It’s mind-blowing that disproven instructional methods are still widespread in schools—undermining children’s confidence and learning. #ScienceOfReading #Phonics #EducationReform #StopTheGuessing www.itv.com/news/2025-02...
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- Kalulu working hard today in Spanish to bring the #scienceofreading to Bogota📚
- 👾We're hiring developers who want to build #opensource #evidencebased #edtech! We use @godotengine.org www.college-de-france.fr/en/news/seni...
- I couldn’t believe it and had to try it myself… what is going on ??!#instagram #democrat #republican
- 📣I’ve published a primer to teach your child to read! This book is special to me. As a mom, I wanted to give my kids the best possible start in life, and that journey inspired my work in #cognitivescience. 📖: a.co/d/6LcSUmf #ScienceOfReading #EarlyEducation #booksky💙📚 #DevSci #CogDev #DevPsy
- Ever compare your kids candy colors in the U.S. and Europe? 🍭 FINALLY!!! The FDA banned Red 3, a dye linked to cancer in animals, from food. Already prohibited in the EU.
- Don’t miss out! www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/gr...
- I ❤️ed this program and now get to work with so many of the amazing professors that i met there. I can’t recommend the CogMaster enough!
- Kalulu's GitHub: github.com/Excello-Rech... 👾 We're #opensource and use @godotengine.org. Coders to join us in creating A/B tests with kids worldwide, improving education through science! 🌍 DM me if you’re in! #EdTech #GameDev
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- 📢 Enseignants, boostez l’apprentissage des maths avec le concours Mathador ! 🧮🎲 #Mathador #Éducation #Mathématiques blog.mathador.fr/concours-mat...
- We use @godotengine.org to create Kalulu, an #opensource phonics app for kids worldwide! 🎮📚 Godot’s flexibility lets us build engaging games and deploy them globally—no licensing barriers. Passionate about evidence-based education? We’re hiring developers! contact@excellolab.org to join us! #EdTech
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- We’re hiring at Excello! Join our team at the Collège de France, working alongside @standehaene.bsky.social, to create education tools and drive research that transforms learning worldwide. Please share 📣 www.college-de-france.fr/en/news/data...
- More Happy New Year news. ❤️ the point that even great graphs may be compounding bad data. parentdata.org/alcohol-and-...
- Interesting article, but it misses a key point: grade inflation by teachers. It creates the false expectation that students deserve As simply for effort, rather than true excellence www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...
- Exploring YoGPT, an educational tutor powered by ChatGPT. Loving the idea of guided tutoring — so much potential! But I stumbled on this group where you can ‘ask Albert Einstein questions.’ 🤔 www.yochatgpt.io/chat_room/Ta...
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- I am delighted to present Kalulu Phonics and our experiments with the Académie of Versailles during this scientific seminar hosted by IDEE. Join us to learn more about #cognitivescience for #education! www.idee-education.fr/evenement/se...
