"AI allows us to be cognitively sedentary, and writing is a gym for human thought we will need more than ever." Ya think?

My junior high school had kitchen, sewing studio, ceramic studio, wood shop, metal shop, and drafting studio when I was a student... they were all gone soon after I left my position teaching there... a decision motivated because I saw what they were planning for spaces I valued.

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Surveys (the way they are usually done) are probably the least reliable and accurate data one can gather.

Remember when we used to have shops and kitchens in schools? That was great.

I’m watching some algorithm-driven predictions carefully for the last few months... GIGO is still a thing.

If you don’t read a paper after you submit it, do the typos you always find really exist?

I’ve been thinking about networks, and it occurred to me education focuses so much on naming nodes. The real action is interactions and relationships between nodes, but we ignore ‘em.

I don’t care what the research says, I’m more productive when my office is filled with Bach.

What if our classroom tasks were as messy as real-world tasks?

So much that is “data driven” turns out to be “myth driven.”

Don’t overestimate the power of data. Sound interpretation of data is far more useful.

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Learning in one of the most complex systems we have identified, yet many educators approach it as a simple unidirectional transfer of information.

I’m more concerned about school and district administrators, the general public and politicians that conflate scoring well on assignments as learning. Same can said for conflating standardized testing results to learning or not learning.

I just noticed “correlated” (one of those words I can never seem to spell is “co” and “related”, but with an extra “r.” Now, if I can only remember that.

Seriously... if you want to regain your writing skills, read excellent writers. Ernst Mayer is working for me right now..

Teachers who conflate “scoring well on assessments” and “learning” are starting to annoy me.

If you only deal with “data and facts,” ignoring interpretation and theory, then you aren’t building any evidence.

The real scientific method begins with, “I don’t know,” and ends in much the same way, but twhat is unknown is different.

Yeah, I think educators have a greater responsibility than ever to apply critical thinking skills (similar to those they want their students to develop) to the curriculum they teach... and call out the “stuff” that shouldn’t be there.

A phenomenon observed in different areas right now: some variation on ‘it will work because I need it to work’. The other possibility is that it won’t work & it doesn’t matter whether you need it to work or not?

I received.a message from senior leaders that came from the legal folks regarding accessibility. It was not accessible.

What if you are an educator, who did your job and taught an incomplete, inaccurate, inappropriate curriculum? I used to think that could be excused... now... not so much.

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I’m trying new strategy for expanding my professional library... if the table of contents resembles something I would write, I skip it. Self-reinforcing libraries are echo chambers too.

“I now hold entirely different views,” are not words often heard today.

What if (contrary to what were were told 15 or 20 years ago) Wikipedia really is full of credible information?

So much that is “data driven” turns out to be “myth driven.”

If your efforts to “innovate” seek to return to the “glory” of the past... just stop... you misremember the past, and we were probably jerks back then.

If your efforts to “innovate” seek to return to the “glory” of the past... just stop... you misremember the past, and you were probably jerks back then.

Wondering why we need to keep putting volume, issue, page numbers in citations when we have a doi.

It is always strange when deceased colleague’s work anniversaries, birthdays, and other dates arrive in social media notifications.

Avoid “leading by buzzword.” Some of us can recognize it and we know what it means.

The older I get, the less tolerance I have for hypocrisy.

believe diagramming sentences helped me understand how to construct good sentences.

I really think essays are an under-appreciated genre.

What if we replaced "delivering the curriculum" with "teaching?" #education

Your “steam of consciousness” presentation is likely worse than your prepared talk.

“Lecturing is really just making noise.” Interesting, and maybe not inaccurate, interpretation.

Someone somewhere needs to read this right now: Your rambling reflection in the keynote is not a question... we know it got you thinking.. and your mind is swimming... please avoid grabbing the microphone (real or virtual) to prove you have incomplete (but energizing) thoughts.

What changed your mind about students?

Does anyone else get distracted by the books behind participants in Zoom meetings? I just want to go and browse and chat with ‘em about what is there and why.

Yeah... those “trends in the data” you are touting or bemoaning are probably just regression to the mean.

Competition drives both business (fighting for market share) and politics (winners take office, losers return to the citizenry). Should this same competitive metric be applied to our schools? No.

Business and politics are easily measured through profits and votes, making their results generally objective and unequivocal. Education isn't that simple! #Education #Measurement

EdTech professionals have a vital role in inclusivity. They must recommend, teach, and provide support for the tools that allow teachers to successfully meet accessibility checklists.

It's understandable that faculty might push back or view document accessibility tasks as "busy work," especially when their teaching environments have been upended. However, ensuring accessibility remains a vital part of the job.

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No institution can truly claim to be an inclusive community dedicated to equity if they are not taking their responsibility to create accessible materials seriously .