Beth Hawks

@adamboxer1 Success helps a little; engagement helps a little, but I do think there is also value in the life lesson that, while we would love for you to be motivated, sometimes you have to do things whether you are motivated or not. That small percentage may just have to do it anyway.

When I first started teaching, I thought I could motivate my students through engaging lessons and relevant examples. When that didn't work, I thought I could motivate my students through getting them to be really good at science. This was the standard "trad" line to take, and was based on the 'competence' strand of self determination theory. That definitely worked better, but only as far as it went. It resulted in three categories of students: Category 1: "this is great, I want to study this subject further." Category 2: "this is not so bad actually, I don't hate it." Category 3: "I still do not like this, not one little bit." Better teaching - explicit instruction and systematic retrieval practice - pushed more students from Category 2 into 1, and from 3 into 2. But we are talking %s here. Motivation isn't mechanical, and you can't just expect a clear process of necessary causation. While GCSE results went up by x, motivation went up by a fraction of x. That doesn't mean that doing more whizzy lessons would make that fraction bigger. Probably the opposite. But the idea that all students are "blank slates" when it comes to motivation strikes me as naive. We have natural likes and dislikes, and often that dictates our starting points and, further down the line, our end points.

@tombennett71 Don't smack talk Pizza Hut, now Tom. That place is childhood for a lot of us.

Flying back to UK tonight and I read that Pizza Hut is...back? Try Little Chef, you cowards.

@VinceBoley The irony of the line "we believe something special happens when you sit down with a book a truly immerse yourself in it" while giving you a product that takes you out of the immersive experience so you can record yourself.

I'm tired of people trying to reinvent how people read. What this AI bookmark achieves can easily be accomplished with a $2 highlighter and an old fashioned "dog-eared" corner page.

@KETRafael @atrupar Hyperbole? No. Saying God raised up a man to build a ballroom is not hyperbole.

@atrupar It’s called a rhetorical hyperbole made by a radio host, author, & speaker who is known for dramatic, providential interpretations.

checking in for a brief moment on the Rededicate 250 blasphemy fest and yep, it's beyond parody

@Imposter_Edits @atrupar I promise you, real Christians are not like this.

@atrupar Christians have turned their religion into a fascist right-wing cult. The bible has nothing to do with what they worship

@atrupar So, God cares so much about ballrooms that this . . . Oh, never mind. I don't have the energy.

it's a poem about a thing that never happened, credited to an author who probably never existed, and helen is introduced within the mythology as the daughter of ZEUS, a figure literally nobody in this country even believes in, if you're emotionally invested in the historicity of her pigmentation you need a life and also medication, not necessarily in that order

@MathCurmudgeon @oliviajune82 @dailystem If it said that, I would be fine with it. At no point does it indicate that this is only at the beginning. If that's what they mean, they should say it.

@oliviajune82 @dailystem Wouldn’t you prefer any observation that you could explore further rather than insisting on a scientific explanation for something they have little knowledge about? Isn’t this just saying “Don’t shut them down at the start”?

"They do not need to accurately identify what they see" -OpenSciEd 5th grade Unit 1, Lesson 2

This week's blog post - Sometimes, you are too close to a problem to see the answer - Ask someone to show you. ontherabbittrail.blogspot.com/2026/05/someti…

@MrZachG There are 4-5 school arguments that just go round and round on Twitter.

🔄🔄🔄🔄 If you've been on here since 2012, it just keeps coming back.

I've been waiting a while to post this one!

@JarDLar @AdamKinzinger "Completely successful in everything"????

@AdamKinzinger I love that you guys just cry and cry and cry don't like Trump please don't like Trump please don't like Trump when he's done everything we want him to do and he's completely successful in everything and you guys lost the freaking election by ruining America

No matter what, Trump will always turn on you. Always

@RpsAgainstTrump It's hard to know who to root against more.

Trump: Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?

@SciInTheMaking I'm confused. I didn't know about this one or the one in Atlanta. And at the one in NY, they passed the baton to Patrice for the one in September in St. Louis.

I can't tell you how excited I am about this! I hope you get a chance to join us!

@kangminlee @elonmusk You've read the book, yes? It's dark and stormy and difficult. It shouldn't look like a resort photo if you want to stay in tone with the story.

@elonmusk It's not just the casting that sucks…

Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey so that he would be eligible for an Academy Award …

@elonmusk I'm certain you have read it.

@Kathy_Rice Credibility first. Only after you show them that you take your job and their learning seriously will they want to have a relationship with you.

It’s troubling that people say they can’t teach for the first 6 weeks because they must exclusively focus on social-emotional learning before anything else.

@AdamKinzinger YES! I could earn so much pizza this way!

I’m sorry, but i support this. Bring back the old Pizza Hut. I’ll read books for the personal pan pizza

@oliviajune82 So, not educating them, then?

@PhysicsHawk Yes, I was half tweeting to save these screenshots but should have explained things more. They just take forever to get to any real concrete content. And part of this directive is not correcting things that are wrong.

It is of course fine for students to describe things they haven't been taught, but I pulled this "tip" because it is in line with OpenSciEd's philosophy of barely teaching content and extremely delayed correction of misconceptions.