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David Gill 🇨🇦
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David Gill 🇨🇦
@david_teched
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education Memorial University of Newfoundland. Re-posts are not necessarily endorsements. Posts are my own.
St. John's Katılım Kasım 2013
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@HorsmanGeoff One of my areas of expertise, the studies have shown this for decades, but nobody listens.
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Why are we doing this to our kids? WRDSB never wants to talk about it. Maybe now they will start answering questions?
Katharine Birbalsingh@Miss_Snuffy
The scandal of Ed Tech in our schools, the dumbing down and the poisonous culture. Excellent - By Sophie Winkleman and David James. spectator.com/article/textbo…
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Oh, I got caught up with him as a new teacher. It sounded so good, but worked so bad. It took me years to shake it off, kept thinking it must be me, I must have been doing it wrong. Hahaha haha 😄
Tom Bennett OBE@tombennett71
NEW BLOG. Impressively wrong- why Alfie Kohn's advice on behaviour management is not good behaviourguru.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/impres…
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Look at that @GonzoBennett your mudder must be some proud!
MUN Education@MUNEducation
Congratulations to our very own @GonzoBennett on his 2025 President's Award for Outstanding Teaching (Lecturers and Instructional Staff). As a central part of our #TechEd program, Gonzo has left a lasting mark on countless educators. Read more: gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-com…
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Woohoo!
MUN Education@MUNEducation
Check out these future educators getting hands-on experience with ROVs! Students in our Tech. Ed. Program recently participated in a ROV competition to familiarize themselves with the tech & to discover how they can apply it within their own classrooms. mun.ca/educ/programs/…
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Encouraging children to take part in political activism for a cause you believe in- even if you think it’s just- is crossing the line. If we permit this then we open the door for children going to any protest, even ones you disagree with. Our job is *not* to indoctrinate them.
Kids’ school dinner protest leaves a bad taste schoolsweek.co.uk/national-educa…
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You cannot make learning easy and fun or relevant all the time. Thinking is *hard*, and the effort of doing so is part of what learning is (and part of the reward).
Also a large part of what we are trying to do is to bring the unfamiliar galaxy of content to students and make it familiar.
The junk reference here to 'visual learners' is the tell here that this is unevidenced, breathless, reheated futurism that is anything but new.
Alex Prompter@alex_prompter
This is going to revolutionize education 📚 Google just launched "Learn Your Way" that basically takes whatever boring chapter you're supposed to read and rebuilds it around stuff you actually give a damn about. Like if you're into basketball and have to learn Newton's laws, suddenly all the examples are about dribbling and shooting. Art kid studying economics? Now it's all gallery auctions and art markets. Here's what got me though. They didn't just find-and-replace examples like most "personalized" learning crap does. The AI actually generates different ways to consume the same information: - Mind maps if you think visually - Audio lessons with these weird simulated teacher conversations - Timelines you can click around - Quizzes that change based on what you're screwing up They tested this on 60 high schoolers. Random assignment, proper study design. Kids using their system absolutely destroyed the regular textbook group on both immediate testing and when they came back three days later. Every single one said it made them more confident. The part that surprised me? They actually solved the accuracy problem. Most ed-tech either dumbs everything down to nothing or gets basic facts wrong. These guys had real pedagogical experts evaluate every piece on like eight different measures. Look, textbooks have sucked for centuries not because publishers are idiots, but because making personalized versions was basically impossible at scale. That just changed. This isn't some K-12 thing either. Corporate training could work this way. Technical documentation. Professional development. Imagine if every boring compliance course used examples from your actual job instead of generic office scenarios. We might have just watched the industrial education model crack for the first time. About damn time.
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USC President Kim asked me for my thoughts about Charlie Kirk at USC’s Democracy Day celebration.
There’s something more important than my message in this video. It’s what you don’t hear. No heckling. No disrespect. No shouting.
I know that social media shows us the worst of humanity, and a few people celebrating a death will get more attention than hundreds of respectful people.
Don’t let these companies and the rage influencers that profit from them convince you the worst of us are the most of us. They are a tiny minority that gets too much attention because anger makes you post, repost, and like.
This was an audience of almost 500 students, and zero disrespect. That’s how most of the real world outside of the internet is. If you find yourself falling for the anger, go out in the real world and make yourself human again.
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Every month, I post what I'm reading on my office door. 16 months worth here. Time to take them down and start filling the board again.
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Speech is not violence. Violence is not speech.
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt
We must repudiate the idea that "speech can be violence" once and for all. @glukianoff and I wrote about the dangers of promoting this idea on college campuses back in 2017, in @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/education/arch…
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We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
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At a time when millions across North America are grappling with the dire state of our political discourse in the wake of the horrific assassination of @charliekirk11 — it is more important than ever that our educators respect for the rule of law and recognize the value of human life. This kind of rhetoric from a @UofT professor is completely unacceptable and deeply irresponsible.
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"88 percent of the students [at NWU & U Mich) said they pretended to be more progressive than they are in order to succeed academically or socially." Such preference falsification (caused by fear of punishment for honesty) can lead to "pluralistic ignorance" or a "spiral of silence," in which everyone thinks everyone else thinks something but no one actually thinks it. nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opi…
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Every time I hear someone say that ‘building relationships is how we get children to behave’ I’m amazed how often they then don’t define what
A) they mean by a relationship
B) how to actually build this mysterious thing.
This leads to multiple errors, eg trying to get kids to ‘like’ you and so on.
Part of the problem is that a lot of research into this appears to be dependent on correlation, not causation. Typically you see great behaviour and good relationships together, so people assume the latter causes the former.
But a good relationship is the outcome of good behaviour management, not the other way around. It’s a product, not a cause.
Why? Because a ‘relationship’ is simply a description of two things- How two or more people typically
1. Behave and
2. Value one another.
So if you want to ‘build a relationship’ you teach students how to act with one another, with you, with school peers, and so one. Simultaneously you teach them that they matter to you, and that their safety and success matters.
These things are far more important than ‘do you know what football team they support?’ You’re not their mate. The relationship you want- and they need- is adult to child, student to teacher. Demonstrated high regard AND standards.
Oh, one more major thing: boundaries. Students need to know there are limits of acceptable conduct, with penalties for crossing them. Any discussion about behaviour, or school behaviour system, that doesn’t have these, will eventually be pointless. No community survives without them, so why should classrooms and schools be different?
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Darrin Pike, our Coordinator of Field Services has been featured in the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association Bulletin! His article, "Why Be a Mentor for an Intern?" can be read on pages 14 and 15:
nlta.nl.ca/wp-content/upl…
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It is bizarre how many people in education see it as their job to indoctrinate children into their political beliefs. If you disagree, simply insert [political view I strongly disagree with] into the model, and it becomes easy to see why focussing on teaching the curriculum is safest and best.
Frederick M. Hess@rickhess99
How to Resist the Destructive Self-Indulgence of Teachers on a Soapbox Four lessons to help educators conscientiously object to the culture wars. Me, at @EducationNext. educationnext.org/how-to-resist-…
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