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I ended up back in the classroom near the end of my k-12 career. I pushed back on all of the silly practices recommended by instructional coaches, and I shared research articles and my supporting my “push back.” They were happy to see me finally retire.

I met with a faculty member to “fix my gradebook” in the LMS. It became clear immediately the instructor had no idea what they was asking their students to to this term. No wonder students were confused.

The degree to which flexibility characterizes effective classrooms is overlooked in my opinion.

If you can’t tell me what’s wrong with your plan, I’m not going to trust what you say is right about it.

Look at the curriculum & instruction. If it is grounded in telling and testing, be skeptical of the practitioners. Cognitive and learning science has taught us lots in recent decades, if educators don’t know those lessons, they will be ineffective.

@garyackerman I would add the word “challenge” to “change.” If they (we!) are not challenged, how can we be encouraged to change?

Education is about changing humans. When our students leave our classrooms, we expect they can do things, see things, and think things they could not before the class. If our students leave with their abilities unchanged, then they (and we) have wasted their time and energy and money while there.

John Dewey wrote education is not preparation for life, it is life itself. While this may be true, many students enroll in higher education to be better prepared for the profession they will enter after they graduate. It seems reasonable, then, that educators should take steps to ensure their students can use what they learn in the classroom in other settings as well.

I work in IT. I spend all day trying to figure out what people mean in their incomplete and typo-ridden emails.

I work in IT.
I will edit the announcement in which “board of trustees” is abbreviated “BOT” as in “click here to join the BOT meeting.”
We don’t want anyone associating bots with something safe to click.

Abandon topics and outcomes for questions. It will improve your teaching and students’ learning.

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Increasingly I understand learning as a network process. We add nodes, create new connections, and strengthen or weaken others.

One of my former colleagues and students wrote this. If you are interested in guys playing guitars and singing catchy tunes, give it a listen.

youtu.be/G0aFyWNp3qI

Why am I posting so much less now?

Because the electricity turns on now twice a day for about 2 hours,& when it’s switched off, signal is very poor. I do my best to keep you updated,but I do miss reading your comments.

But,everything will be better soon.We are winning anyway🤍

A view of the earth being eclipsed by the moon. A never seen before view from space.
#space #nasa #artemis

Pitch invader. They showed the flag they were presumably carrying. Point made.

@garyackerman
Hey its is more 'fun' than that. (AKA even more cyclical)
Consider 3 educational institutions, it is entirely plausible (has been observed to occur)
That 'A' is using program 'a', B is using program 'b' and C is using program 'c'
all of these are >>accurately<< observed to be ... failing
They all swap to new 'better' programs...
A is now using program 'b', B is now using program 'c' and C is using program 'a'
and all are again >>accurately<< observed to now be much better than before.

Education is an interpersonal process (not bucket chemistry). How a new and exciting the program is (feels) for the humans implementing the program has substantial effect on how well the program works. And it might be tempting to want to "fix" that but the people implementing the programs are indeed people, and how enthusiastic they are, is TBMK the actual most important factor in how well the programs work.

If they continue to cycle through programs a,b,c for all eternity and it continues to produce "improvements" (followed by inevitable decay/boredom) then there isn't actually a problem with that.

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