Tim Klein

@MrZachG Not a causal research study (and the author explicitly states this). I’m curious: are you arguing for more high-stakes testing?

Imagine that: When your choice of school is contingent on grades and test results, you'll learn more in order to get higher grades and test results. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@DrCJSobers Focus on students and try to tune out all that noise - students know your worth 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@Jason @BernieSanders @HowardSchultz He wouldn’t need to if the country offered universal health care like he wants to.

Would love to see @BernieSanders open a coffee shop chain and try to provide better pay and benefits than @HowardSchultz

The easiest way to combat this is to create a scheduling link (calendly/boomerang) and make meeting with professors part of the grading system.

@biblioracle In an age of a plethora of scheduling tools it’s bizarre the common standard is to ask students to just show up a seemingly random time. All we need is a calendy link!

@JonesOnTheNBA Publishers often make the choice to go with paid narrators instead of authors.

One thing I hate about a lot of audiobooks so far…the actual author reads the intros and then they have a paid reader to read the rest of the book. There’s an emotion the actual author has that gets lost with paid readers.

@MrZachG Do you think all material and every subject should be delivered via direct instruction?

Showing students how to do something clearly and succinctly optimizes cognitive load by concentrating students’ limited working memories on the meaning behind the material, while simultaneously relieving them of the burden of having to figure the material out for themselves.

@sean_forman @amyhoy I’ve found in dialogue with chatgpt has pushed my thinking tremendously. It amplifies my writing, critical thinking and creativity when used well.

@amyhoy Writing is thinking. You learn and think when you write.

@m_ashcroft I agree with the sentiment but you don’t want to crowd them out. You want to notice and accept them before moving on to noticing the magic of the world as you articulate so well.

the real world includes the inside of you

if the thoughts in your head are unhelpful, it's okay to just crowd them out but it's too easy to default to 'content' for this: social media, videos, games you can also do it by paying exquisite attention to the world around you all of it, in all its glorious vividness

@FisFraga @tana_inc Every morning? Doesn’t it get repetitive?

Every morning, I write down my current main goal in life on my @tana_inc Today Node. This practice makes me actively engage with what you seek. Each time I write it down, I'm getting more familiar with the idea of accomplishing it.

@AlGruskin @mini_break_pod To me, it depends on the angles he creates on his serve. When he starts to go flat for power he is a lot less dangerous.

Made this point on a recent @mini_break_pod but feels worth tweeting too: If Ben Shelton really is THAT guy, he beats Fritz today right?! Definitely has the weapons to make Fritz uncomfortable. That said Fritz usually brings his best to the biggest stages too. Should be a battle

@TroyPrimaryEd @MrZachG Encouraging students to ask questions of themselves and if the world is harmful??

Help me with this: A school does PBL in all subjects with an allocation of 80% project time and 20% direct teaching. A parent says they prefer more di and wishes it were stricter. The principal says, honestly, this might not be the school for you. Q: is this an exclusive school?

@MrZachG Did I ever claim that PBL offered more of those things than DI? PBL offers opportunity for interpersonal, intrapersonal and critical thinking skill development. It’s not as effective for content development, but again, I never said it was.

@How2Navigate Can you describe to me how PBL has as much feedback, worked examples, and deliberate practice as a system that doesn’t divide the teacher between projects? You’ve just said yourself that it would come as needed to individual students.

@MrZachG You continue to use straw man arguments. We get it, you hate PBL and love direct instruction. Congrats.

@MrZachG Lack of guidance and feedback is not the same as PBL - this is a straw man argument you are using. That article is 13 years old and says “guided learning is better than no guidance at all”. That doesn’t make PBL a failure - it mean the solution is somewhere in the middle.

@How2Navigate Note: the characteristic of PBL that I identified - that is well known to harm learning in the literature - is reduced guidance/untimely feedback/discovery learning. Not a sweeping generalization but an empirical one backed by cognitive load theory tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.120…

@MrZachG No axe to grind but “PBL” is harmful to learning. Got it - sweeping generalizations and lack of nuance usually signal an agenda.

@How2Navigate No axe to grind, it’s our professional responsibly to critique methods, and PBL is harmful to learning. As you just said, “bring to each student as needed” which means reduced scaffolding and untimely scaffolding for all.

@MrZachG Having a full structure is not the same as implementing it in the can bring in scaffolding for each student as needed. Anyways, seems like you have an axe to grind here and are not really trying to engage in dialogue.

@How2Navigate My whole point is, sure, the principal can say that their PBL is super duper scaffolded. But to an inquiring parent, it would be quite the deception to imply that their kid will get just as much instruction as a school committed to di/DI

@MrZachG You have to have a fully scaffolded structure in place first before you do anything else. Then you apply that structure as needed with students. So you start with direct instruction and then slowly remove pieces of it as needed.

@How2Navigate This is what all PBL advocates say, without going into details about what this entails. How can you give structure to a student when there are 29 others. You either give 100% of students structure or you divide the strength of your structure more and more

@MrZachG @dperkinsed These aren’t exclusive they are exclusionary, haha.

@dperkinsed People on here are calling public and charter schools with a particular house style - mostly targeting schools that are more traditional and strict on discipline, to be clear - as being “exclusive” because they might tell complaining parents that the school is not the best fit.