Bill⚽️Dailey

German/History/Video Teacher, Inst. Tech Specialist,  Learning Coach, Google Ed 2/Trainer, USSF/USC/DFB/EFA ⚽️ Licensed Trainer/Coach. Cert Bilingual 🇩🇪🇺🇸

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@ModestTeacher Love the “seems to” and only linking it to standardized test score averages. 🤣 But, it works for your engagement numbers 😏

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@Dale_Chu @JonHaidt @andersoncooper @AC360 Love the “seems to” and only linking it to standardized test score averages. 🤣 But, it works for your engagement numbers 😏

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@ModestTeacher 1:1 is not the issue. Which devices and how teachers use it is (mostly sadly forced by admin with no inst. tech. understanding or background)

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@RaminNasibov Steven Biko - I write what I like.

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@saidotdev Always have been on the app and OS side. Think any PC speced to a Mac for both hard and software would easily be more expensive

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@rpondiscio It’s pretty clear and easily digestible. But without a doubt, just another rebranded wording to push the congressional education industrial complex, like “direct instruction” or “explicit learning”

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@0Beanie05923291 @researchED_US No such thing as “explicit instruction” or “direct”as a method. Things can be very explicit/direct for learners in many different methods & modes. The rest is just availability heuristic mumbo-jumbo, especially in light of how wrong most systems get the big important things.

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@JamesAFurey The renaissance here is just an agenda guided fad, & will give way just like every other one before it, especially in the poorly constructed stand. test envirnmnt. Even if it had promise, it will be ineffective as long as the big important things are not implemented & done well.

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Apple II released on this day in 1977.

It cost $7,100, adjusted for inflation.

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@rpondiscio As with the opposite

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

Entertaining & quality football from @DFB_Team_EN 🇩🇪 & @USMNT 🇺🇸 Best tactical execution I’ve seen from #usa🇺🇸 since the @J_Klinsmann years @FIFAWorldCup

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@SamanthaBrauns2 Guess the question is – how do you know the supposed “learning science” was the cause? Not sure there’s even a correlation here.

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@Joshua_WD Temu iMac 🤣

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@Milajoy The Dept of Ed was founded in 1867

The USA was never #1 in Education

In which of the 4 areas of its mission is the ED failing?

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@JamieClass5 @MarvelTeacher2 Sadly very myopic
and unoriginally parroting in reasoning and understanding here, and decided to not only share that with the district, but the world. 🧐

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

It’s the printing press, the pencil, the ball point pen, the transistor radio, the Walkman, the PC, the iPod, all over again – boring old takes on emerging tech with zero substance, ironically done on those devices.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Fix #12: Close the Chromebook. Confiscate the phone. Hand them a pencil.

Let me break down Fix #12.
This is not about being anti-technology. It is about understanding what we lost when we handed every student a device and called it progress. The pencil is not nostalgic. It is instructional. The act of writing something by hand, crossing it out, rewriting it, and seeing your own thinking on the page is different from hitting backspace and moving on. One leaves a record of how you got there. The other erases it.

What does it mean in practice?
It means the first draft is written by hand. It means the phone goes in a pouch at the door and stays there until the bell rings. It means the Chromebook closes during instruction and opens only when the task requires it. It means students learn that thinking is not the same as typing, that a blank page requires something from you that a blinking cursor does not, and that the discomfort of not knowing what to write next is part of the process and not a reason to check Instagram.

How does this help kids?
The drafts are where the learning happens. A student who types a first draft, runs it through a grammar check, and submits it has skipped the most important part of writing. She never had to sit with a bad sentence long enough to figure out why it was bad. She never had to cross it out and try again. She never had to think harder because the easy option was gone. We handed her every shortcut and then wondered why she could not write a paragraph without help. We made it too easy to skip the struggle. The struggle is the point.

How do we make this happen?
We need schools that back teachers when they collect phones instead of caving to the parent who calls because her child feels anxious without it. We need administrators who understand that a quiet Chromebook is not a punishment. It is a choice about where attention goes. We need to stop equipping classrooms with technology before asking whether the technology is serving the learning or replacing it. And we need to be honest about what we have seen since the devices arrived. Test scores did not go up. Writing did not improve. Attention spans did not grow. The technology did not deliver what the promise said it would, and the kids in the room are the ones who paid for that gap between the promise and the reality.

The goal is not to go back. The goal is to be intentional about what we put in front of kids and why. Sometimes the most powerful tool in the room is a pencil and a blank piece of paper.

#YouWantToFixEducation

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@jenteach13 It’s the printing press, the pencil, the ball point pen, the transistor radio, the Walkman, the PC, the iPod, all over again – boring old takes on emerging tech with zero substance, ironically done on those devices.

[Jen @jenteach13]

Your child's school has an assistant superintendent for curriculum, an assistant superintendent for instruction, a director of teaching and learning, and a coordinator of academic services. Your child's teacher has thirty-two kids and no copy paper. This is not a funding problem. It is a priority problem.

[Bill⚽️Dailey @BDailey222]

@BornInTheU43614 @jenteach13 Based on what? What other skills have they developed on or above expectations?