Michael Elliott

Teacher at an Independent 7-12 Girls School.

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

@msonenote please change the way email is sent from Outlook to OneNote back to the old way. The new way is C R A P. Esp when you have several sections w same name in several notebooks

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

And in Qld we're just about to head into this kind of external exam based mess. Thanks clueless @katejonesqld. "I got a 99 ATAR but I had a lousy education" https://t.co/GmSlWGTrbj

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

“Algebra Is Not The Problem: Unnecessary Partitioning Into Courses Is The Problem” @Mathgarden https://t.co/0BedGu3KDW

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Solution to NAPLAN debate. Get every MP to sit Year 9 test. Publish the results. Watch the test disappear.

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Stop maligning potatoes through association.

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Doing well in school is, predominantly, a sign of good luck.

[Roger Hawkins @rog_hawkins]

“We are so invested in the idea that academic achievement is a de facto good that we fail to consider whether intelligence should be rewarded in the first place.” Some insightful thoughts here.. https://t.co/NpKL62JJnW

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Not sure what to make of this. I'm not opposed to coaching but really, what's that graphic mean??? Begs the question student achievement of what? Recall of facts? Ability to synthesise? Analytical skills? Who knows. Data without a context is meaningless.

[Education Next @EducationNext]

On average, coaching improves the quality of teachers’ instruction and student achievement by 0.49 standard deviations and 0.18 standard deviations, respectively. https://t.co/VK3gFTXa3X

[misha @mishazelinsky]

If you can’t pay wages, you don’t have a business.

Foodora leaving Oz shows that most gig ‘ businesses’ aren’t an innovation, they’re a wealth transfer from workers to consumers, with a ticket clip(& tax evasion) in middle.

Using tech to justify IR from 1810 is bullshit.Adios.

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

HRP’s Books of the Month, Part 2: What School Could Be https://t.co/ofOLNSWC8S

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

“Do exactly what progressive education is: ditch grading, go all out for your students, build passionate projects, disobey standards, reorganize for student voice and choice” https://t.co/67fvP0Kvu5

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

So what yr really saying is @microsoft is going to force us to use an inferior version of @msonenote missing a v large number of features which I use everyday like quick access toolbar. Just as I started thinking @Microsoft was becoming more user focussed how... silly of me

[John Setka @CFMEUJohnSetka]

.@MatthewGuyMP
Statistics show African Australians involved in under 1% of all crimes.
Statistics also show 112 people have been killed on our roads this year. Think about that.
#springst https://t.co/h4LONjm3pQ

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Another ADF financial disaster wasting billions of taxpayers $$$ in the making.We can believe @MarisePayne hagiography on the F-35 or we could read this. @4corners The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster” @warisboring https://t.co/DfSrh3kWtR

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Maybe replace NAPLAN with...“Children take exams that evaluate their ability to regurgitate recently consumed information, but how well they sustain their attention and regulate their emotions is rarely taken into account” https://t.co/6QkXemS4dg

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Why we need to be asking the fundamental questions that the "curriculum transfer" ideologues (Hattie et al) ignore. “Why School Shouldn’t Be Designed for ‘Learning’” @REENVISIONED https://t.co/Sn6oZeuFUt

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Hip-hop Architecture Summer Camp! Now we're talking. How One Man Is Using Hip-Hop to Diversify Architecture” @RollingStone https://t.co/MthkQpSHBQ

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Can only agree. Why ARE we wasting our time trying to teach complex concepts to increasingly younger. @ACARA curriculum is littered with this problem. It's what happens when you take curriculum design away out of the classroom. "How waste time learning” https://t.co/xAsqIB1ZKf

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Not happy with the schooling his kids were getting Elon Musk set up a school inside Space X.
https://t.co/zXkvIAiRFT

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

When it comes to what they want their children to be, around the world parents rate caring higher than achievement. So how do you raise a caring child. Some tips from psychology studies summarised here. Raising a Moral Child https://t.co/B0dxzwh1rm

[Michael Elliott @chalkietalk]

Must read. The ideas here will be a blessed relief to struggling students eveywhere. One is- your brain isn't designed for this stuff. A second is - draw a diagram. “Use 'Metaphorical Scaffolding' to Learn Hard Stuff” @mmeditations https://t.co/kVzhGRAj2j