Carl Lund

Lifelong educator & learner. *Opinions are my own.* Reader & gamer: copeknight (XBL, Steam, PSN).

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

It’s so healthy that one of the primary political antagonisms in our country is between people who think blacks and browns should be rounded up by lawless federal agents versus people who think blacks and browns are racially incapable of doing things like Learn or Book or Test.

[John McWhorter @JohnHMcWhorter]

Sad thing is this is normal. She genuinely, warmly thinks her people are smart in "alternate" ways, and that being good at tests (close reasoning and linear thinking) is "white." I wrote about this strain of thought a few months ago here: https://t.co/uBZ7R2Xs5n

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

🚨🚨🚨Unpopular Opinion: The biggest lie schools accommodate is the, “My child is just not a good test taker” farce. We just accept with little to no evidence that it’s an actual affliction. Yes, there are a VERY few students this impacts, but it generally starts as a child doing poorly on a test, and it is an accurate reflection of the child’s knowledge, but parents refuse to believe that so they create a diagnosis and the schools just roll with it every single year. No one tries to give the student strategies or work through the supposed “anxiety”. Nope everyone just accepts it and moves it along. 🙄

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

No, you don’t understand, we mean *democratic* socialism like in [checks notes] Cuba

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

The Nation: “Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. The conditions are unsustainable—for professors and students alike.”: https://t.co/owmQKirdqr

[sam @sam_d_1995]

bruh she literally just hates every single holiday lmao

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

When does applause become a “disruption”?

In Emporia, Kansas, apparently it only takes five claps.

At a city commission meeting, an attendee was ordered to leave after applauding a speaker who criticized officials. After refusing, they were arrested and physically removed.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

This is a good example of why pseudoscience is so prevalent in education. For years, teachers like me who questioned orthodoxies were told: "Be quiet, and have some respect for the professor who has lots of books and honorary degrees (despite the fact their theory is demonstrably wrong.)"
Well no I won't do that actually. I have educated myself, and I'll continue to call out neuromyths which waste teachers time and compromise childrens' education.

[Justin Baeder, PhD @eduleadership]

Great piece by @karenvaites

https://t.co/VYP7fOUjGG

[Foghorn Teacher @TalkingTier1]

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68% of teacher agreeing with this statement is concerning.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Democrats should go back to using the term "illegal immigrant." Our party needs to talk clearly again about how you need to be invited to come here, and how having an immigration policy means removing people for being here illegally. https://t.co/xWas8R8Yy3

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

Progressives: Noooooo! Students need dialogic, intersectional, critical pedagogy to decolonize their identities and money to close historio-cultural achievement gaps!!!

Mississippi: But have you tried simply teaching them to read and holding them back if they can’t?

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

If schools lack the courage to suspend the unruly, they are quietly expelling the innocent.

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

How do you get good at math? "the same way you get to Carnegie Hall: practice." Steven Pinker also notes that American children are not born dunces; "the problem is that the educational establishment is ignorant of evolution" in "How the Mind Works"

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

There is no such thing as a "visual learner."

While students may have learning style *preferences* (e.g., visual vs. verbal), they do not actually learn better when receiving information via their preferred learning style.

This has been empirically tested over and over again. But despite having countless stakes driven through the heart, the myth continues to rise up from the grave like an unkillable zombie. It is the educational equivalent of astrology.

To get ahead of the a common follow-up confusion:

Q: "But math topic XYZ clicked for me when I saw an image/diagram!"

A: What you're thinking of is matching instructional design to the content, not matching teaching style to the learner.

Lots of math topics benefit from images/diagrams regardless of what the learner might claim is their learning style.

Yes, an image/diagram may help you learn a particular math topic. That doesn't mean you are a visual learner.

What it means is that the particular information being taught is effectively communicated through an image/diagram. For everybody, not just for you.

What you're experiencing is that you learn better when the instructional design is properly tailored to the information being taught.

From the bottom-left reference in the screenshot, "How Learning Happens" by @P_A_Kirschner and @C_Hendrick:

"How do you explain to a pupil in an auditory way how crimson red and brick red look? Or how do you kinaesthetically explain how a blackbird sings? In other words, it's actually the subject matter and the learning goal that should determine how one teaches and not a preference or a non-existent learning style."

[Mme Lockhart @MmeLockhartLDS]

“Decades of research clearly demonstrate that for novices (compromising virtually all students) direct, explicit instruction is more effective and more efficient than partial guidance.” @P_A_Kirschner

Putting Students on the Path to Learning, a must-read article for all teachers and one I will be sharing this week in my pre-service teacher training Language and Literacy course @TrentUSoE.

Link to full article: https://t.co/4Zm9cQ4u9x

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

What stands out to me is that high performers haven't lost a beat 333->335

But the scores have the lowest scoring students have tanked 249->224

All this woke silliness--equity grading, restorative justice, SEL, DEI nonsense--is the WORST for the very students it purports to help

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

What has happened to children’s attention span? The problem may not be that they can’t pay attention, but rather that they don’t want to. I review the data here: https://t.co/VHPFkOpxfV

[Matt Burgess @matthewgburgess]

If you read one thing today, make it this by Roland Fryer on education. Link below.

"The tragedy is that we already know what works. High-dosage tutoring, extended learning time, relentless use of data and feedback, and refusing to accept the soft bigotry of low expectations—these aren’t theories. They’re proven."

If K-12 education inequality isn't the top social justice issue in this country, it's got to be at least in the top three. There are so many things we can do to improve the situation, and many don't cost much money. We just need the political will.