Betsy DeVos has been a disaster, but this reductive approach is nearly as bad. Summer vacation does not "wipe out" learning: kids just learn different things that tests don't "measure". Because tests don't measure most of what's really important. #edchat nytimes.com/2021/01/02/opi…
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That feeling when you have to watch the Senior Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education brief the Chancellor and Campus Leadership Council about the University's approach to support "learning styles" and so you feel compelled to share this apa.org/news/press/rel… #edchat
If, as a teacher, you think it's appropriate to surveil your students, you're saying that your administrators should be able to surveil you. Would you like them to be able to monitor your screen during work hours? Education should be grounded in mutual respect. #edchat
I struggle with feelings of complicity whenever I'm reminded how higher ed has become a vehicle for the wealthy to extract rents by indenturing students through loans. #edchat
"14. Don’t do too much [to prepare for online teaching]. Right now, your students don’t need it. They need time to do the other things they need to do." #edchat anygoodthing.com/2020/03/12/ple…
In the sudden, unplanned transition to online teaching, rather than focusing on what *you* can do, consider what you can have *students* do to support their learning. #edchat
is attending a local instance of the Mobile Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching #edchat / lernas.
finally wrote up a simple post to describe the "melamine effect" -- the toxic result of using the cheapest means to improve test scores blog.bierfaristo.com/content/melami… #edchat h/t @alfiekohn
When students can participate in building the curriculum, you get results like this: vimeo.com/40602632 via northstarteens.org #edchat