James ✡️✝️☪️

Fundamentally redesigning the way we do school and science. Learning and Cognition PhD loading….

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

I'm not building a school. I'm fundamentally changing the way we do school.

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@ReciprocitEye @Polymarket That’s a dairy cow

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

Looks like Wall-E is becoming more and more of a reality

[James Divis @j_divis]

Would you live on this ship?

I would!!!!

Great retirement plan!

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@natellewellyn I think follower count is a weaker metric because you could be accidentally dismissing a great person who has an interesting comment. This is my approach:

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

How to navigate social media.

1. Fake profile pic = dismissed as a bot

2. Real profile pic, but they have a history of trash content = trash bot

3. Real profile pic, and they have some reasonable posts = will consider their post/comment

[Mark McLaren @MarkMcLaren6]

@p_kuperman @LifespanDevelop "Teaching is knowing the difference between ‘I taught it’ and ‘They learned it.’"
-- John Wooden

https://t.co/BHBdhu28qu

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@MarkMcLaren6 @p_kuperman Thank you for sharing this! I skimmed it and it def seems like a great read!

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

VERY INTERESTING! I’d love to read it once you’re ready. I’d be interested to see how well the PCA and CFA agree with each other.

Yeah my dissertation has been fun but I’m so ready to be done already. I wanna join the Matt-party and apply what I’ve been cooking up to actually help all these innovative schools.

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

I respect your humility. As a teacher and learning scientist I would love to know the exact methods you employed and the depth of coverage of each topic etc but it seems like alpha will be a useful solution without us dissecting you and your child’s teaching and learning experiences.

Keep us posted, I hope everything works out

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@William_Blake @BernieSanders Haha this is great

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@Gena_I_Gorlin @tjrwriting That is very promising! Are you using cfa? I am doing an SEM for my dissertation on measuring developing teachers’ classroom management knowledge for one measure and classroom management self efficacy for the other measure. The structure of each measure was super interesting.

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@Gena_I_Gorlin @tjrwriting Can you share the research that supports the measure? Or are you currently validating it?

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@thekitze Love this challenge!

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

This requires a robust knowledge graph that maps out each topic and relates those topics to specific skills. This has not yet been done. I am working on revising the system that would allow for this (aka updating blooms and webbs taxonomies) and then systems like physics graph and mathacademy can improve what they are already doing with the structure a system I’m proposing might provide.

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@thekitze @FlorinPop17 Lol i know.

But if I see another “I hate being fat” post followed by a slew of posts for 9 days in a row about how you “worked out everyday at 5am” followed by another “i’m injured” post I am going to roast you. And when i say roast, i mean it with love my friend.

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@PSkinnerTech @NessieLabs I think graph based knowledge systems will ultimately win. I use heptabase.

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

I think you’re joking but also I think you might actually believe Florin has skipped days since he isn’t working out everyday. Doing any activity excessively is unsustainable especially working out. Florin is showing exactly what makes a habit persist. Its finding the right balance of how often to do it and how often not to do it.

@JamesClear’s Atomic Habits is super helpful in explaining how to make sustainable habits last a lifetime.

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@ClintFix Spot on

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@Gena_I_Gorlin @mbateman She is such a character

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@MrZachG What are you talking about?

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

@DonKAriel I appreciate your candor. I’m curious to see exactly how your dyslexia affects your cognition and how you use it as a superpower and also how it can challenge you.

[James ✡️✝️☪️ @LifespanDevelop]

Capping grades is a horrible idea. Imagine taking a course and realizing there was a limit to who could be successful. This will destroy motivation.

A better solution is having a more transparent and objective process for measuring student performance. This is literally what I’ve been working on. If after that, too many students are achieving A’s then maybe you could make the course more cognitively demanding, but that means that your course activities need to match your course claims and objectives. Which would mean making the course objective more ambitious.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Breaking news: Harvard faculty votes to cap the number of A's awarded in course grades, a big step in combatting the grade inflation that has been dumbing down our courses, conveying the wrong message to students, and making universities a national laughingstock.