Dan Tracy

Some things should change.....among those things is EveryThing

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

When a failing system endorsed a deeply Luddite system for improving upon failures, you can assume they are looking to avoid accountability. Edtech is the only scalable solution for education. It may not have achieved the goal yet but the Luddite alternative is poisonous to kids.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

If technology is not the scalable solution for education then what do you propose. The issue with edtech is not that it has not worked (if that was the case then we should also be pointing at teachers and admins) but that it has not iterated. This is because the of systems restrictive nature. Thus homeschooling will win the day. Fast iterations until success is achieved.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

@ModestTeacher What is the definition of effective because last I checked getting 50% proficiency is a failing grade. And 50% if generous even if we reverse the clock 10 years.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

@Homeschool_LLC I am very pro homeschooling but I will say that The Learning Cousel never gets things right so dont hedge your bets. 10% is a much more likely number. TLC edits out dissenting opinions post interview, ask me how I know.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

Learning is a 24 hr activity for children. When the school system removes the impetus for parents to be the PRIMARY educator (not a nice addition) the system will fail. Schools are the help to the parents not the other way around.

Schools can make themselves indispensable help to the education of students by seeing themselves this way. This mindset shift is the first fundamental change that must happen to the school system.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

System fails and system stays.

Can we possibly say we care about learning if we are OK with that system. Learning in its least complex form is failure and correction. We are getting the results that we want and demonstrating to students that perpetual failure is fine.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

@JonHaidt @paulnovosad Yes but the "COVID impetus" to go all in on tech is what is being displayed here. Once the teeth sunk in they never let them go back. Tech made the teachers job easier and the students learning worse. So now we get to see how altruistic education will be. Will they give it up?

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

@joeignition @JonHaidt DM sent

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

The point that was being made when learning styles were introduced was just to stop lecturing as learning happens by doing not by simply listening. So learning can happen by way of each of the "styles" but you don't have a style for learning. So this is a both are true situation. Learning is an activity that you do not a something that happens to you.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

I work in EdTech and I have been ringing this bell for years. But I think the key to this debate being successful and the most fruitful for students is found in what Horvath said: "This is not a debate about rejecting technology...It is a question of aligning education tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them."

When these programs are sold to the district none of the correct questions are being asked by the purchasers, I should know I help sell them. See the Education market is geared to sell to the adult but the end user is the student. Thus there is a disconnection.... We would hope that the buyers are altruistic but that is just not the case from my experiences. I am happy to chat more about this and give you an inside look. As a board member I would think it would be valuable to know how there purchases are actually made and what I see as the decision making metrics that are used. DM me and I will give you my cell.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

One thing I know is that parents dont know just how bad the school's performance is that their students go to. That green 'A' only means its better than the average for the state you live in and the real data is quite hard to find. A wave of transparency is coming!!!!

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

Every school district venerates the idea of creating 'Life Long Leaners'. Step one is to find a way to have students actually like what they are doing in school and this key to this is not necessarily to make it interesting but to make it HARD. No one likes solving easy problems

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

Is it surprising that someone who reads mountains of fiction to receive a journalism degree wants to write fictional narratives that are quite sensational. Tust your gut. If it sound like fiction its probably fictional fantasy written by a person with a degree in fiction.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

System fails and system stays.

Can we possibly say we care about learning if we are OK with that system. Learning in its least complex form is failure and correction. We are getting the results that we want and demonstrating to students that perpetual failure is fine.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

@BasedMikeLee @DOGE @BasedMikeLee there should be state level @DOGE . If we are serious about what you said the other night regarding Federalism it's a no brainer.

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[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

I recently said on a podcast how, in education, we have overplayed the hand of data. We have enough information (it doubles every 12 hours). We need more doing! Put into practice what is obviously right, learning is a contact sport, craft more doing & learning increases.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

We all want change...... This is the type of change everyone in education knows will make a difference mostly because it is basic and logical. And as a bonus you will get much more fulfilled teachers.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

Furthermore. Why is no content creator saying "if you want to implement this curriculum to fidelity you need to reduce the student teacher ratio to 1:15." Then they offer consulting services to the districts on how to reschedule the school day to make this happen.

[Dan Tracy @Math_Man_Dan]

@MichaelMaherPhD @yannaisegal Take a look at this article. One of the question is about virtual vs. in-person. Your team has internal efficacy data on virtual offerings but it will be interesting to show those same results on state standardized testing. @talbertkt