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Guy I know was complaining about making his 8th grader's lunch. I didn't have presence of mind to say anything so 3 days later I made this. I don't think the guy's is on Twitter, this is my therapy.
Daniel Willingham
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Daniel Willingham
@DTWillingham
Prof @ UVa who's puttin' the funk back in functional brain imaging and the psycho in psychometrics. One study is just one study, folks.
- A friend just showed me this chart from her 8th grade science project and I don't think I've ever loved anything more.
- Dumbfounded when I hear "every child learns differently." 1) They literally don't. Scientists can make generalizations about the mechanism across people. 2) If every child *did* learn differently, experience would be meaningless. A teacher would be a novice with each new child.
- Mentioned to my wife, who teaches early elementary, there's talk of re-opening schools with social distancing. Now, four hours later, I'm still hearing her occasional bursts of laughter from the other room.
- What's the best teaching advice you can give in 3 words?
- Kids can see the fish they've drawn swimming in this aquarium :)
00:00 - Too many edu-tech conversations are backwards. They begin with the tech. “Here's this new tech...how should it change what ppl do?” We should start with ppl. “What problems are teachers working on? What do students need?” Tech is *one* avenue to explore in seeking solutions.
- Today is Trisomy-18 awareness day. That is the chromosome disorder my daughter had. She passed away last July. Nothing made her happier than connecting with people. Please teach your children that all children want to connect, and teach them how.
- Apparently schools are bad because 100 years ago evil corporations duped them into prepping workers for factories. And the solution is to emphasize cooperative, creative work, because that's what present-day, non-evil corporations say is needed for jobs of the future. Got it.
