Meritocracy musings: Successful people, including scholars, want to believe their status is earned. @DLAbaree is honest enough to tell a different story about his own career trajectory: https://t.co/8EO9diBGSh.
This passage on teaching/assessing jumped out at me:
“The language of standards is a limiting rather than a liberating language. It distracts us from building a genuinely intellectual culture of schooling that values questions and ideas at least as much as getting right answers.” -Elliot Eisner
2/2 But this study shows that "building a foundation of FACTUAL knowledge [vs higher-order thinking] via retrieval practice did not enhance higher order learning...directly contradict[ing] the long-held belief that 'factual knowledge must precede skill'": https://t.co/DbHo6lby43
Banishing Boredom with "At Home with PZ" - A new series of activities, prompts, and thinking routines to help create a learning-rich environment at home https://t.co/Z80fZSVZ4K @UKnowHGSE#learningathome#elearning
"If education is ultimately about student learning, shouldn't we be leveraging assessment primarily to further that learning, not just reporting whether it occurred or not?’" - How Can We Capture Children's Full Range Of Abilities? https://t.co/LKmhfIKml6
"From glory to glory!" Praise you, Jesus! Harvard Project Zero: Thinking and Learning in the Maker-Centered Classroom and Master of Education #harvardprojectzero#TLMCC… https://t.co/xvi17BNiFy
Agency begins in a culture of permission in which those low-level permission questions no longer need to be asked - “can I go to the toilet?” “can I get a drink of water?” “can I use a pen?” “can I sit over there?” “can I this, can I that?”.
If you haven't registered yet, either as a workshop presenter or a delegate, don't delay! @Engage2019 is on the 2nd of March! #engage_2019#learning#education#pyp
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I am prepping for #Engage_2019 I also can't wait to learn more about Tinkerspace, Makerspace, the Culture of Thinking, and learning about simple games that promote the development of motor skills!
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"...teaching everything of importance reduces it to trivial, forgettable verbalisms or lists..." -Grant Wiggins, The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance
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