Rob Monk

Why duplicating Michaela in Aus will be difficult …antprincipalsofficeblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/why…

@oldandrewuk @MsJasmineMN The bigger issue is why he could legally go to the scene of a riot openly carrying an assault weapon. Jasmin, Andrew and I thankfully live in countries where that is not even remotely possible to do legally. This is the wicked problem the US won’t be able to solve.

@MsJasmineMN Yes, he sought out situation where he might be able to *legally* kill people. That does seem to cross a moral line. And it raises questions about the laws that make this possible. But the courts only get to decide if laws are broken.

My new response to “the drill And kill” retort! ❤️ #SoR #saygoodbyetobalancedliteracy

We need better reporting of NAPLAN Online so we can see how hard students tried. …antprincipalsofficeblog.wordpress.com/2021/11/14/how…

@Miss_Snuffy @2Markdavid When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be and effective measure. We see this often in education.

Well actually I think the very existence of an inspectorate means schools can try to please instead of doing what’s right in the moment. It undermines real thinking. No one’s fault. Just what happens. But too complex to explain in a tweet really.

@msrebeccabirch @EnserMark @ollie_lovell does a coaching / research role. I argue with people on Twitter. Does that count?

How common is it to have Research Leads in Australian schools? Who should I follow in this role?

@JaneFCSupport They are born undisciplined. We scocialize them into a culture which involves rules and social norms. Hardly a controversial concept.

@dianna60607965 @greg_ashman @AlanTudgeMP got it right. 1. Curriculum 2. Pedagogy 3. Behavior. Sweller is addressing 1&2 here. We also need a national conversation on #3.

The truth about inquiry-based learning theage.com.au/education/the-…

@emel_dub @AlanTudgeMP Still massively better off than we were 20 years ago. See the Forrest Not the trees. Or just be miserable 😭. The choice is yours to make.

@monkrob @AlanTudgeMP But then there’s been 2018, 2019 not to mention *2020 & 2021* since that P.S.M pontificated…

I want our national school curriculum to reflect a positive and optimistic view of our history. See my answer in Question Time today 👇

@emel_dub @AlanTudgeMP The mess we are leaving is better than every previous generation has left. The balance factual view of history is pretty positive. youtu.be/yCm9Ng0bbEQ

@AlanTudgeMP I’d like school to teach critical thinking skills and an honest accounting of world history- all 60k years of it, and prehistory, sciences, mathematics and literature. I’d like our future generations prepared to deal with the mess today’s leaders are leaving them with.

@kittypurrzog Who didn’t Dave Chappelle have a dig at? Blacks, Whites, Asians, Jews, Men, Women, Trans. He didn’t miss many. No Aussie jokes. I feel excluded. Cancel him.

@HPluckrose Pluckrose wins Twitter again. You make me think and smile. Thank you.

@greg_ashman How will students be co-creators of knowledge if we just tell them?

Did your teacher training portray direct instruction / explicit teaching as

@michaelshermer @sapinker @MrDeity Looking forward to it. What is the collective noun for reason. This podcast with Shermer and Pinker will be a …… of rationality.

Filmed an in-person episode of The Michael Shermer Show at my home yesterday with @sapinker on his new book Rationality, debuted today on the NYT’s bestseller list. Filmed by @MrDeity so will be a beautiful episode.

@tombennett71 @oldandrewuk That’s so glass 4/5th full of you Tom.

@oldandrewuk 'Four fifths of parents think behaviour has stayed the same or improved.' Amazing *pops corks*

That's good, isn't it? Only a fifth?

@Hitchslap1 @StuartM21825168 @Quillette I read Charles Murray’s Human Diversity. Great book.

@monkrob @StuartM21825168 @Quillette You could start with Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich. The author is one of the worlds leading geneticists. Warning though it is one of those books that hurts peoples feelings.

"Guns, Germs, and Steel advanced the discussion by providing a powerful explanation for disparities in outcome that relied neither on racial differences nor on a belief in invisible power structures" quillette.com/2021/10/03/gun…

@StuartM21825168 @Quillette I just finished GGS and thought it was amazing. What would you recommend I read next that has more “credibility”.

@Quillette GGS is an old mans creative musings about the world. It's a lot of fun to read, but really short on credibility.

@teacherhead I don’t think @GuyClaxton is seeing the Nuance.

Simplified. Not simplistic. A schematic model. Not a literal description. Nuanced. Not reductive. A basis for discussion. Not a rigid set of rules.

@Trivium21c @ShakinthatChalk Rigorous is aspirational when referring to education research.

@monkrob @ShakinthatChalk Is ‘rigorous’ the right word?

I love how some fans of cognisci fume over the opinions of a real cognitive scientist critiquing their version of cognisci Experts eh? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@Trivium21c @ShakinthatChalk The discourse in education is semi scientific. Some apply rigorous falsification to educational interventions in the hope it will reveal their efficacy, while others suggest this scientific approach is not appropriate in education. It’s a strange game we play.

@monkrob @ShakinthatChalk Cognitive science has a huge chunk of computational thinking about the brain at its core… and yet that blog by a ‘cognitive scientist’ derides a theory because he says it uses computer as a metaphor (which others deny in this instance)

@jdtdobson But you have to get in the water to learn to swim. Impossible to learn to swim without water.

You know what is missing from these tips? How to engage parents & caregivers in the process of literacy learning. These tips seem based on the idea that if you surround a child with books then they will learn to read. Surrounding a child with water won't teach them to swim!