Education
What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a tenured full professor. I could probably get away with that for a while, but sooner or later the Dean’s going to bring me in for a sit-down. Plus, if we flunk out half the student body and drive the... See more
The average college student today
What education does is provide a curated experience to help you learn.
Done well, it sifts through the myriad resources, possible paths, and common errors and says:
> read *this* (not that) book
> practice *this* skill first
> be wary of making *this* mistake
Samantha Joytwitter.com
In a world suffering under algorithmic, finance-driven thinking gone wild, we need something to fight back with. We need something that makes a difference—not in the classroom, but in the world at large, and inside powerful organizations.
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Generative AI Lab
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Growth Mindset. Persistence. Grit. How real learning happens.
To me, what’s happening with teaching reading looks very much like what has happened with teaching writing, namely that we reduce something complex, human, and necessarily messy, to something smaller, discrete and oversimplified so it can be tested and measured, in order to provide comfort that we’re making “progress.”
We are courting a phenomenon... See more
We are courting a phenomenon... See more
John Warner • We Need to Make More Readers
How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
Matt Walltheconversation.com
The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child. Purposeful work and achieving mastery are tools to getting there. They aren’t the results of learning and imagination, it’s the other way around—learning is simply the consequence of doing. To understand this is to understand the ecology that fosters genius and talent.