If your primary role is to prevent problems from reaching your boss, you are not “part of the team” and your proposals will never get attention.
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If your primary role is to prevent problems from reaching your boss, you are not “part of the team” and your proposals will never get attention.
All generalizations (including those that are contradictory) are always accurate for a minority sub-population.
If every teaching problem can be solved with one tool, you don’t understand it. "it" is either the tool or teaching.
Just because you experienced it in school, does not mean every one did... or should... or even that you did it at all. Human memory is that bad.
asks "why were you late," you need to resign. If you are a principal who observers it, you must call the teacher out... yes... in front of students.
Yeah... if you attend the "advanced" training, please avoid asking the presenter to show how to do "stuff" done in the "basic" training.
I used to write notes on paper in meetings in my own “scrawly” short-hand. I claim it was an analog encryption method.
Is delivering content and tracking views (which any worthy LMS can do well) teaching?
You don’t get #students to understand ideas by learning definitions of more terms.
What if education was based on building what doesn’t yet exist?
Interdependence is the basis of effective organizations.
I just read a piece about how #OER textbooks are a "disruptive innovation." Sure, they might interfere with textbook profits (if we can continue to increase adoption), but I think it is disingenuous to suggest they will disrupt #education. #teaching #school #highered
Knowing “things” is of limited use... knowing how things interact... that is useful.
I encountered “infrastructuring” for the first time... the more I think about it the more I like it.
When ideas become popular, they are appropriated by everyone for everything that makes ‘em vacuous. I once heard (seriously), “I want my students to learn, so my lectures are the real ‘student-centered’ teaching.” This was from a 5th grade teacher... who lectured!
Learning styles don’t exist, but teaching styles definitely do.
“Leveraging” has a “meaningless buzz word” feel, but it accurately describes what can be done with well-deployed #edtech
If you are ignoring theory, you aren’t really being data-driven.
Taylorism was *not* designed for education.
A blog post, now with audio, on teaching information-rich fields:
www.hackscience.education/education-fo...
A blog post (now with audio) on the history of computers in schools
www.hackscience.education/when-compute...
Are You Being Scientific?
a blog post
www.hackscience.education/are-you-bein...
A blog post on the need for educators to lead #edtech
www.hackscience.education/where-the-ra...
There is a difference between what we “swallow” when learning and what we “assimilate” when learning. Schools have abandoned one.
A More Accurate View of Science, a blog post
#science #STEM
www.hackscience.education/a-more-accur...
A blog post on imagination and education
www.hackscience.education/the-troublin...
“Observation is the only means for us to ascertain whether or not the picture that we formed is correct.”
“If represented as a graph, science approaches the real world like an asymptote.” Yup, pretty much.
When it is well done, science blurs reality by asking more questions with each one it answers.
A former colleague used to tell the story of getting pulled over for speeding on the way to work. The officer said, “If you give me a good excuse, I won’t write the speeding ticket.” He replied, “I’m a teacher and I have to make copies for my students.” He did not get the ticket.