Bill Hoyle ™️
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Bill Hoyle ™️
@_BillyHoyleofNJ
Everything in moderation, including moderation. Devoted husband father. Die hard #Knicks and #GiantsFootball fan. Sneakerhead.




Of course teachers are starved for students to ask questions. At the same time, almost all teachers in mainstream schools have curriculum coverage goals that they need to meet. Confident, mature teachers who know they can cover the material in less time are often more likely to allow leisurely exploration of ideas. But less experienced teachers under the pressure of administrators who expect curriculum coverage goals are less likely to allow leisurely exploration. And to create a culture of inquiry, it is helpful to be able to have more leisurely explorations. Students who have been habituated to the routine of covering the curriculum often have little interest in asking questions on the content taught by the teacher. Thus the apparent paradox of teachers wanting students to ask questions on content but students passively sitting there staring instead. In my experience even in the 90s, before NCLB and then smartphones, it took leisure to get students to engage in intellectual dialogue. But once given the opportunity, most loved it. But gradually that kind of leisure became less common as high stakes testing, culminating with NCLB, created an atmosphere of marching through the curriculum among the less confident and experienced teachers (even while more experienced teachers, again, knew they could get through it while still providing the leisure to engage in intellectual dialogue). Then smartphones created additional habits of passivity, resulting in student habits where it takes even more leisure to create cultures of intellectual inquiry. Moreover, even if some experienced teachers are fully supportive, if the default message of many classes is, “We’ve got to cover this unit this week” and students don’t feel as if the classroom is a place to explore ideas, and smartphones are making them passive anyway, then the experienced teachers who do welcome inquiry will face headwinds by way of students who default to passivity. It is ultimately about default modes that form habits and attitudes beyond the particular expectations of particular teachers.


In regular school, kids who ask questions get told to be quiet. In Socratic dialogue, they get asked better questions in response. The shift from silencing to deepening changes everything. Kids feel seen rather than shut down. One student put it this way: "All my other teachers told me not to ask. Here, asking is the whole thing." That difference between punished curiosity and celebrated curiosity rewires a young person's relationship to learning.


The Air Jordan 11 “Space Jam” Returns December 12th 🔥 Details: bit.ly/4lOypA1

2015 is already starting to look vintage and I don’t like it

AMC A-List is the greatest subscription ever created, like what do you mean I get to watch 16 movies a month in any format for $27 and walk into any AMC and watch anything I want right now

I’m glad the NFL is being investigated. It’s ridiculous to pay $450 for the full season pkg (not including preseason) and then you have to also pay for Prime, Netflix, Peacock and whatever other streaming platform. Billion dollar league and all they do is fuck over the fans 😒😒


Amazon is removing 4K streaming from Prime Video in April and putting it behind its ad-free tier paywall The ad-free tier is also increasing from $3 to $5 a month





@BBGreatMoments So we got this on video but not Wilt’s 100 point game?




