Kyle Smith

New Instructional Designer and eLearning Developer. Old HS math teacher. Nerd for assessment and learner engagement strategies.

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@heymrsbond Several recs for @StrictScrutiny_ here. I also like @sistersinlawpod

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

This is so good.

[Will Watson @willwatson]

after two days I’m prepared to raise the flag

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@ToddTruitt76508 @gdavis451 @MichaelPetrilli In theory, sure. In practice?

You could still measure accountability with time-to-benchmark measures, but you wouldn't have the logistical crunch and year-end decompression that seems to be the subject of all the up-thread ire.

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@gdavis451 @MichaelPetrilli @ToddTruitt76508 What if standardized tests were restructured from "ready or not, everyone take it" to "everyone take it when you're ready". Then instead of charting how many kids we label as failures, we could chart everyone's timelines of achievement?

[edutopia @edutopia]

From history_4_humans on IG: “‘What do you think we will learn tomorrow?’ or, ‘What do you think will happen next in regards to X?’ are two great exit pass questions.”

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@AngieMaxwell1 @GregLeding "accidentally"... Ask any ER doc how that went for their favorite x-ray.

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@teachbk I love it. Best feedback I've ever received:
1. My own realizations when I see someone else do something I wouldn't have thought of.
2. Questions from colleagues that lead me to introspection.
3. 3rd party observations of student actions I didn't notice from my POV.

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@ddmeyer All process. No reasoning.

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@Mr_McGarrah Reading back through this after referring to it in a Facebook comment earlier. Two things come to mind:
1. Apples and oranges? More like raisins and Pomegranates.
2. Of course charters have "accountability"... They are the ones serving the poor kids of color. Gotta measure 'em.

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

While @Mr_McGarrah was digging into the teacher pay plans in #ArkansaSLEARNS #SB294, I've been looking at the voucher side of things with this this survey of the private and charter school landscape:

https://t.co/dVbOKfE1qR

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@Trianglemancsd In this day and age, I'm not opposed to encouraging humans to empathize with anything... But point received. 🥹

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@Trianglemancsd Here's what ChatGPT had to say... It doesn't really have a better term than "hallucinate" either.

https://t.co/Or9VVK78yw

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@Trianglemancsd Why? It seems like a very accessible way to communicate the idea of disordered processing of reality. I'm trying to think of better ways of expressing it without implying wholesale brokenness, and can't come up with any. Maybe I'll ask ChatGPT. 🤖

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@Trianglemancsd AI hallucinations are only "incorrect" or "nonsense" when evaluated in the context of precise calculation questions with known (or knowable) specific solutions. That sort of question is (for now) outside the domain of (most?) LLM functionality.

It's just not their purpose (yet).

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@Trianglemancsd "Hallucinate" is actually a pretty good anthropomorphic analogy. LLMs are not just outputting nonsense; they're producing unexpected or inconsistent outputs based on statistical models.

This isn't that different from the disordered hallucinatory firing of bio neural connections.

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@alimbrady @USConst_Amend_I 👍🏻👍🏻 I was missing that bit of context. Ty!

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@alimbrady @USConst_Amend_I Isn't BYU a church sponsored private school?

[Kyle Smith @KyleSmithID]

@alicekeeler I've often said assessment is a DOK-4 task. Teaching as a humanities pursuit is another interesting framing... Has me thinking about single- and double-blind research studies, and Goodhart's law in economics.

Why don't we consider these crossover ideas in education more often?

[Alice Keeler @alicekeeler]

Final grades are inevitable, but not based on an inaccurate (and biased) math formula. We bow to math as if it is smarter than us. It's not. Teaching is a humanities profession & calculators can not capture what we can capture in terms of our knowledge of a students capabilities.

[Dan Martin @danmartin_7]

Students don't need everything they write to be rigorously graded. That actually intensifies their anxiety. They need a lot of low risk practice writing across contexts w/out intense surveillance.