Philip Dituri, Ph.D.

Dir of Education @ficycleedu | Educational Consultant & Coach | Former NYC teacher & MfA Master Teacher. Lover of mathematics, teaching, dancing & games.

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

I don't really use this account much. Please find me on Facebook or LinkedIn. @phildituri on all platforms.

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

If you are a curious person who asks "why" a lot, I have a YouTube recommendation for you: Rabbit Hole. Brand new channel, older Veritasium vibes. This 29-minute episode about Iodized Salt should not be as good as it is.

https://t.co/gLkXNrpN2m

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

Tell a room full of people that learning styles aren't real. A bunch of them will get angry. Here's why the myth refuses to die.
https://t.co/SACOv8RvPa

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

"The opposite of play is not work - the opposite of play is depression." Says Dr. Stuart Brown, the founder of the National Institute for Play, in the middle of his book about the subject. I love this conceptualization and believe it has profound implications for teaching.

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

I've enjoyed using the "Ducks and Squirrels" problem with kids and teachers for 20+ years. Thought I'd seen every possible solution. Check out Claude's solution #9. In 20 years, not one person or LLM has ever done that. Picture is of my favorite solution. https://t.co/hhUqe1j8SB

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

A friend's MS child I know got a low grade and shrugged it off because "it doesn't really matter" His mom thinks he might have a point. That conversation inspired me to write small piece about why grades matter. https://t.co/RDXweCTZk0

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

Math, Sci, ELA, and His standards are organized around concepts. So why are Fin Lit standards still just a laundry list of topics to memorize? Ask any teacher why their subject is built around concepts. Personal finance should be no different.
https://t.co/ePUUKaMUdc

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

Headed far east today. Brooklyn to Patchogue. Sunrise at Jamaica. I’m giving a workshop on financial literacy instruction to about 25 teachers from eastern Long Island. New York State has recently mandated personal finance be taught at all grade levels!

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

Logic puzzles, masquerading as quizzes, Self-Referential Quizzes look familiar at first glance but quickly reveal themselves as something different. A great non-routine challenge for students.
New to them? https://t.co/VdOlsq6OqI
Challenge: https://t.co/LP2WfJfU3k

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

I'm giving a workshop on Tuesday on Standardized Test Prep that focuses on Leveraging Problem Solving & Conceptual Understanding. It's going to be remote, join us!

https://t.co/xnbfRLLl99

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

This is a fantastic article. People, for pretty good reasons, seldom check their prior assumptions or break free from their entrenched beliefs. It turns out that educators are people too. It's so hard for educators to break free from emulating their own experience.

[Robert Kaplinsky @robertkaplinsky]

I think we spend too much time teaching skills that are instantly useless because of technology. I wonder what might happen if we still taught number sense but didn't teach the procedures that a calculator can do.

https://t.co/wCcZltaBcw

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

Put experiences first & vocabulary second.

Example: Don't tell students what slope is. Ask them to compare two lines with very different slopes. Let them struggle to describe, then say "That word you're searching for is slope."
Don't give them the vocabulary until they need it.

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

I love the environment but I hate paper straws! There are scientific reasons they stink. I don't use straws but if I have to I like metal or bamboo. https://t.co/E5huUq10bg

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

@xkcd I love this one. https://t.co/mIVtRRoHfp

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

We are at a pivotal moment in financial education with new mandates across the US. If you are part of the education community, or simply care about the financial futures of young people, please read this open letter authored by all of us at FiCycle. https://t.co/z7EfTfSVRq

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

Before the storm I helped a group of teachers "Make GroupWork the Norm." I had a lot of fun. This is just a reminder to all the teachers out there (even those digging out) to have FUN teaching today. If you're not having fun teaching, they definitely aren't having fun learning.

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

We've found more than 100 of these steel Roman dodecahedrons throughout Europe but no one knows what they were used for. They were fragile and unlikely to be tools. It looks like a game piece to me. I love stuff like this. https://t.co/2zTjcoTOdZ

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

I've got 99 Problems but math teachers being awesome aint one. We had a good time at my workshop, "I Got 99 Problems: Teaching Problem Solving in Mathematics Classrooms." I'll be running it again on March 6th. Check out my other upcoming workshops here: https://t.co/Ut5UVgmUg7

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

Math is finance and we shouldn't try to separate these topics if we are concerned with students real-life financial behavior after schooling. https://t.co/qXACTewaQx

[Philip Dituri, Ph.D. @phildituri]

Any teacher can tell you that a large percentage of each class has been unable to read analog clocks for decades. It's been true for at least 20 years in my personal experience. (Which is a shame because I like analog clock problems! Also life.)
https://t.co/pQqMpyfLDx