Dr. Don Kirk Macon

The Man. The Myth. The Legend.

[Dr. Don Kirk Macon @Macon_Prof]

I feel the love. My cup runneth over with gratitude for a phenomenal week of appreciation culminating today, on #NationalLibrarianDay! @Sparks_Interest @BSybert_Prek8 #TeamSISD @TXLA @ALALibrary @SocorroISD #librarians @sljournal

[MONTWOOD RAMS BASEBALL⚾️🏈Coach Romo @ramsbaseball12]

“Don’t count the days, make the days count!” C/o26’ ⚾️has completed another chapter in their lives. PROUD. We appreciate the impact they made to @MontwoodHS…now, GO BE GREAT!! Congratulations to Jojo for continuing the streak…another Ram Award recipient for MHS BASEBALL! 👨🏻‍🎓🐏

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Let the teacher close her door and teach.

[Rebeca Parada @BSybert_Prek8]

What a beautiful evening celebrating our Scorpion athletes! 🏆🦂

A huge thank you to our coaches for coordinating an outstanding Athletic Banquet and to our families and athletes for making it such a special night🏅🏈
#TeamSISD #ScorpionStrong

[David Herrera @MontwoodHS]

Some fun in the sun with our seniors. Class of 2026 enjoying there field day. #Earnyourhorns #RAMSUP #ALLIN

[David Herrera @MontwoodHS]

Where did the time go. Feels like just yesterday we were at senior sunrise. Tonight we celebrated the class of 2026...senior sunset. Enjoy the last couple of days at the Emerald City #Earnyourhorns #RAMSUP #ALLIN

[Elva Quiroz @equiroz_BSS]

Got this on a day I needed it the most… something so simple, so sweet and so meaningful! This is my why 🩷🥹

[ABC News @ABC]

Just a few years ago, America’s public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Now, the conversation has flipped.

After pouring billions of dollars into laptops, tablets and apps, many schools are facing a digital reckoning.

Read more: https://t.co/VEqepE9iTI

[Jen @jenteach13]

A few weeks ago, I started posting one educational fix a day. Here is the list so far.

You want to fix education?

🔹 Count the administrators in your district. Then count the teachers. Then ask who is in the room with your child.
🔹 Stop treating teachers like they're the problem. They're the ones who showed up every day, documented everything, and told you the truth all year.
🔹 Pay teachers more.
🔹 Close the Chromebook. Confiscate the phone. Hand them a pencil.
🔹 Fix class sizes.
🔹 Start with accountability. When nothing happens, students learn something. It is not the thing we want them to learn.
🔹 Make attendance mean something again. A child cannot learn in a building he doesn't enter.
🔹 Figure out how to keep the good teachers where they are.
🔹 Staff the building.
🔹 Stop pretending teachers are only working when you can see them.
🔹 Let teachers remove kids who make it impossible for everyone else to learn.
🔹 Restore consequences.
🔹 Stop buying curriculum from companies that repackage the same junk every seven years. Ask the teachers in the room what actually works for the students in front of them.

We know what is broken. We know how to fix it. We just keep aiming at the wrong person.

[Montwood Ram Football Recruiting @RecruitTheRams]

@MontwoodFB and community remembers those who made the ultimate sacrifice! May God bless their families and God bless America!!!!

Memorial Day 2026

[BAX @BRADDAHH00D]

. #Honolulu residents—like me—understand a particularly distinct significance EVERY #MemorialDay.

#Hawaii was attacked by 🇯🇵 throughout the area, not just in one city.

And we fought back 12/7/1941; as much as we could against a sneak attack. Warriors.

God bless our protectors!

[Dr. Don Kirk Macon @Macon_Prof]

@BRADDAHH00D @malafunkshun808 @pigskinpetey @uabfan92 @RAVelation777 @ArtWong128 @younghdmi @SubduedSnarl @olifischer2 @MonarchDafey @themorganverse Everything on the side, not on. I want to admire the beauty of the steak first

[David Herrera @MontwoodHS]

Time for annual Green vs White spring game. Good luck...stay healthy #Earnyourhorns #RAMSUP #ALLIN

[MONTWOOD RAMS BASEBALL⚾️🏈Coach Romo @ramsbaseball12]

👏🏼Another joyous event in the books! @MontwoodHS 🐏⚾️Banquet 2026 was a success. Over 300 guests helped honor & celebrate all of our ballplayers! We thank the Maldonado Family, our booster club, & the rest of the parents that helped make it happen! 👍🏼🙏🏻GO RAMS!💚 @SocorroISD

[Dr. Don Kirk Macon @Macon_Prof]

@BRADDAHH00D @uabfan92 @RAVelation777 @Nolan79697782 @malafunkshun808 @TNTCollegeFoot1 @pigskinpetey @Pac_Surfrider @Kunigirl2 @KainS6587 @MonarchDafey @GppPos1 @jessimym @ohwaitchristian @DudyNobleField @BBucky2u @watshawaii @only_loxs @UHawkFan12 Enjoyed it, but a tough way to go out...

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Dr. Don Kirk Macon @Macon_Prof]

@BRADDAHH00D @ESPNPlus @RAVelation777 @pigskinpetey @Pac_Surfrider @Kunigirl2 @KainS6587 @MonarchDafey @GppPos1 @jessimym @ohwaitchristian @DudyNobleField @BBucky2u @watshawaii @only_loxs @uabfan92 @TNTCollegeFoot1 @malafunkshun808 @Nolan79697782 Let's go!

[Dr. Don Kirk Macon @Macon_Prof]

@BRADDAHH00D @uabfan92 @RAVelation777 @Nolan79697782 @malafunkshun808 @TNTCollegeFoot1 @pigskinpetey @Pac_Surfrider @Kunigirl2 @KainS6587 @MonarchDafey @GppPos1 @jessimym @ohwaitchristian @DudyNobleField @BBucky2u @watshawaii @only_loxs I'll be on!

[Hawaii Baseball @HawaiiBaseball]

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[David Herrera @MontwoodHS]

Happy Mother's Day from our family to yours