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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is so true! Time and time again students have shown how much better they respond to praise of their success than ridicule of their failures. Helping students grow means acknowledging their faults and helping students overcome them, that does NOT mean blanket "X" marks wherever they messed up!

Antioch New England Education @auneeducation.bsky.social · Aug 29

"There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child can do instead of what he cannot do. " - Temple Grandin

Happy birthday to a pioneer in education! 🎉

#AUNE #education #educator #edusky

Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Sep 4

I started my internship under a seventh grade math teacher a couple weeks ago, I have made discoveries!

-students respect you when you respect them(this only applies to like half the students)

-they do not respect my authority because I am not a full teacher(help how do I get them to listen😭)

Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is definitely something to talk about. Many kids that have access to AI and even just Google struggle to put in the right things to get a good answer. How you ask a question is super important and has drastic effects on the result you get. We need to teach prompting if we continue to use it

Helen Sikavitsa @elenischool.bsky.social · Jun 27

As AI continues to reshape education, students must develop the skills necessary to engage with it in meaningful ways www.facultyfocus.com/articles/tea... #AI #Teaching #Learning #CriticalThinkingSkills #DigitalLiteracy #HigherEd #EduMatters with @viktsam.bsky.social 🎓@vickyloras.bsky.social 👩‍🏫

Helping Students Develop AI Prompting Skills for Critical Thinking

Learn how AI prompting can foster critical thinking in students. Discover strategies for teaching prompt engineering, evaluating AI-generated content, and integrating AI ethically into coursework.

www.facultyfocus.com

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Education is and always will be about growth not getting a good grade. This is why the push towards ungrading is growing. It is so important to remember what school is really for! If your classroom is a place of learning the grades will fall into place if you give them the opportunity to show growth

Rachel Johnson @rachelmjohnson.bsky.social · Jun 24

If a student can’t redo an assessment, is it really about learning?

Let’s stop pretending “real life doesn’t allow retakes.”
Most of adult life IS retakes.

#AlternativeGrading #EduSky

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

They were the first group to come to mind that is fundamentally built on harm

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yes it is! And there is so much evidence to show it so don't give up.
People like:
Carol dweck(mindset)
Jo boaler(limitless mind/mathematical mindsets)
Susan d. Blum(ungrading)

Have all shown that change is more than possible it is happening, locally, classroom by classroom. We can make change!

Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is the kind of thing you have to consider:
If it has always been funded by business moguls looking to make better workers, is it in any way surprising we ended up with those same people funding it in formal control?
People are finally beginning to see this, change can and has to happen.

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

This isn't just some strange period, it has been like this since the beginning. The United States based its model of education off of the Prussian model which is literally built to make obedient workers with less critical thinking. Of course this was heavily funded by the oil lobby.

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is hugely true! Often I see the biggest failure in teachers to explain to students with sources about why they are doing something. Especially in highschool/college the students you are teaching are people with the ability to understand the why. So tell them! It goes a long way I promise.

Corwin @corwinpress.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yes the Prussian education model was literally our roadmap for building our system in the United States. This is a fact we cannot lose sight of, when anyone argues against education reform they are almost always arguing against critical thinking and independence of future generations!

Covid worrier @covid-worrier.bsky.social · Jun 25

Did they teach you that AFTER compelling you to pledge allegiance? Or did they explain separation of powers and world politics before offering the pledge? familiar with how the Prussians invented state education for ease of indoctrination?

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is the result of lifelong learning centers being closed, people do care and it is important to remind everyone of that. Everyone has the ability to learn new things and grow at any age and lifelong learning centers are a major way people grow out of poverty(strain theory is a cool rabbit 🕳️)

Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · Jun 25

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 25

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Khan Academy CEO predicts AI in the classroom will be like 5 'amazing graduate students' assisting teachers

Founder and CEO Sal Khan believes AI agents will act like a team of grad students, helping teachers adjust lesson plans to improve student engagement.

www.businessinsider.com

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yes, the United States system of education was literally built on the idea of creating obedient factory workers all the way back to Horace Mann(cool rabbit hole) it is important to realize that any attempt to keep critical thinking out of the classroom only benefits those who wish to manipulate us!

Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · Jun 25

Tapping the sign again.

The sign says 'min-maxing education for optimal efficiency is part of a fascist agenda that dehumanizes learners.'

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 25

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Getting in trouble as a history teacher for saying something you are told not to usually means you are doing something right! Censorship is the enemy of all educators, but we have to persist. If we don't stay and fight all that's left will be people who don't speak up and that's a scary thought

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

That is true, when learning basics the cue system should be equally weighted in importance, but as you grow the pictures stifle the creative process in your brain of imagining a world on your own which is never a good thing.

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yes it is part of my multimodal point from before all three aspects of the cueing system should have equivalent weight

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yess I agree

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

While being a popular model of education it has faced a lot of backlash over the years for being restrictive/oversimplifying and a lack of inclusion of how multimodal learning using all of vark at once universally works better than the supposed individual "learning types"

Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

If anyone is looking for an interesting rabbit hole to go down the successes and failures of the vark(visual, auditory, reading, kinesthetic) model of learning by Neil Fleming in the late 1980s.

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Context clues are very important past elementary school to work through things and figure out the meaning without it being explained to you, but understanding of phonics is also important. The issue isn't the teaching of one or the other it is the lack of both multimodal learning is very important.

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is totally a thing that will/is happening the main problem we face in it right now is that AI doesn't do the best job of getting facts right all the time(look up "why AI telling you to put glue on your pizza" for a fun rabbit hole) so human involvement is still needed for each individual video.

Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Do you have a way to access the article that doesn't require a subscription? It looks like I need one to read it

Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yes people have begun to see povertys effect on education, but it is so Important to consider things like cultural and social changes. It goes past language as well when you bring in things like strain theory and the groups that push you into(like gangs) that treat learning as a negative. Thoughts?

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

While many are like this it is important to avoid treating them as a monolith! I know many devout Christian teachers that believe in the sciences. Not all Christians are bad, not all people from any group are bad(unless the entire point of ur group is evil i.e. Nazis)

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Teaching_teaching @teachingteaching.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yeah I agree, the standard strategy among schools is working it into the history curriculum through things like civil rights, genocide, and eugenics in schools with more modern pedagogy. Which is a nice medium I think, the only issue is a lot of schools don't teach those things because politics.

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