Ralph Pantozzi

@AEF_Program 24 Alumni Fellow • @MoMath1 • #PAEMST @NCTM • @MAAnow

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

Oh the Places You'll Go! Random Walk on Wall Street @profkeithdevlin @JohnAllenPaulos @timchartier @stevenstrogatz

[Emma Turner FCCT @Emma_Turner75]

I want my children to learn not just the content and associated proficiencies but the incidental aspects such as humour, passion, funny little tangents, errors modelled and recovered from. I want them to look into human eyes, watch a human hand and hear a human voice.

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

When AI becomes an oracle, what happens to mathematics?

https://t.co/QYJfh7dBsB

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

Peer-to-peer talk enhances learning. Don’t believe the naysayers.

[vie ⟢ @viemccoy]

I think you guys are talking past each other a bit. Adam is saying that peer talk, as I understand it, is useful for developing softer skills like socializing, group negotiation, peer-trust, etc. When you try to make kids do this *while learning content*, they end up learning worse. Kids teaching each other how to count doesn't really make much sense. But, kids teaching each other how to respect one another, how to negotiate in a social settings, how to communicate better in groups - this all rocks! Alpha seems to be doing the right thing, which is socializing for socializing and pedagogy for pedagogy.

[Robert Davi @RobertJohnDavi]

Thank You

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

@charowhipple @educator4ever36 @Alphaschool I could believe that

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

@GradeScience @LJ198767 @timstirrup Indeed. And you’re not doing it solo

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

That’s Hendrick’s biggest argument for Alpha School’s model as a solution: “You can’t scale good teaching”

Incredible

[leonie haimson @leoniehaimson]

@StephenVainker Carl Hendrick is the so-called “senior learning scientist at Alpha School” snake oil on top of pseudo science on top of BS https://t.co/F19CV9NZdK

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

But such claims have a long history

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

Making Up A Story

[Vince Boley @VinceBoley]

The sobering reality is that few teachers today are actually teaching.

Most have relinquished their role.

What I'm increasingly seeing are adults working incredibly hard to plan activities and keep students occupied. At best entertaining them and placating them at worst.

[Carrie @LearningIn203]

Weird. I spent today teaching kids how to find the gist of what they’re reading, how to spell words that end with that weird -le syllable, and how to break down a word problem, draw a model, and then write the equation and solve it. I’m not sure what schools he’s been to.

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

@GradeScience @LJ198767 @timstirrup That also trained by people who have generally been practicing medicine for significant amount of time

[Robert Davi @RobertJohnDavi]

THANK YOU ALL ! "LOYALTY IS MORE IMPORTANT TO ME THAN MONEY"

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

@hopkinsmmi @sciantificnew https://t.co/9w190QbBMR

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

“I don't believe that a culture that presents itself as being the One True Way of the future, but which in so many ways embodies the worst of the past-- where human values and, ultimately, people, count for less than machines-- is one that is cause for rejoicing” https://t.co/rgnHm8Seul

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

“I don't believe that a culture that presents itself as being the One True Way of the future, but which in so many ways embodies the worst of the past-- where human values and, ultimately, people, count for less than machines-- is one that is cause for rejoicing” https://t.co/rgnHm8Seul

[Peter Greene @palan57]

CURMUDGUCATION: Cyberselfish: A Prescient Look At The World of Tech https://t.co/j4uMroKtwh

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

You can scale good teaching. Some just don’t want to pay for it. No superheroes required.

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

That’s Hendrick’s biggest argument for Alpha School’s model as a solution: “You can’t scale good teaching”

Incredible

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

“We're not going to allow anyone to hurt or damage our country with bad, foolish, horrible ideology. We're not gonna let it happen, and everyone knows what I mean”

[New York Times Education Pitchbot @GreyLadiesNYC]

Do Last Night’s Election Results Put Direct Instruction at Risk?

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

@emiles_turbine @DTWillingham But what are you proposing instead? Lots of things!

What is anyone “willing to sacrifice for the classroom experience you want children to have”? Also lots of things. Not an either/or here.

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

@hopkinsmmi @BarbaraBleiman @GingaGill Perish the thought. The people they’ve been criticizing for decades were just doing it the wrong way.

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

I'm SO confused. People who dismissed peer talk, discovery learning, engagement, dialogic learning are now working for Alpha & saying how great it is because students spend most of their time doing this (with teachers as 'guides') & that they 'love' their education. Hang on...1/

[New York Times Education Pitchbot @GreyLadiesNYC]

I Was Firmly Against Online School and AI in Schools, But That Was Before Alpha School Showed Me What My Salary Would Be

I’m Pleased to Announce I’ll Be Joining Alpha School as a Learning Scientist

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

Knowledge and experience are co-requisites to reasoning, problem solving, and other high-level cognitive processes.

As I put it: “Dots are where your scribbles intersect”

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

New Substack
The disagreement over Direct Instruction may not be about what works, but about what we want school to be.
https://t.co/h4oFC4897s