Josh ⌨️📜📘📐🧮

#homeschooling Christian, Dad, husband and Engineer. Working on teaching boys to read. Tweet about #technology for #education and #ipad #Lego #Cessna

[Josh ⌨️📜📘📐🧮 @schooltablet]

Help your kids memorize anything.
Memorization can be especially difficult for non-readers. I discovered three amazing tools that I use to help my kids memorize.🧵 #parenting #education #learning #nonreaders

[Chris Koerner @mhp_guy]

I woke up last week with a strong impression to check my teenager’s phone.

I immediately found some heavy, heavy subject matter being spoken about in a group chat between others.

VERY serious stuff.

It prompted a great discussion between me and my child, and I immediately reported what I found to the authorities.

I shudder to think of what might have happened had I not seen it. I’m obviously keeping things vague to protect people involved.

Even though it was clear my child was a passive observer of the conversation, it’s a very heavy burden for them to live with nonetheless.

Parents, please: If you give your kid a phone, let it be understood that:

1. You can and will go through it at any time.

2. You lock it down.

And then ACTUALLY go through it from time to time. It’s very easy to forget.

That phone is like carrying around a loaded gun pointed at their heart, mind and soul.

I wish we could block them off from the world forever, but it just doesn’t work like that.

[Lisa Britton @LisaBritton]

The perspective that fathers are lazy and heartless is so off. Fathers aren’t lazy and heartless and were never lazy and heartless! And today, they’re more engaged than ever. I think we must do more to celebrate fathers and give them the respect they deserve.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

This is shocking. Causal story?

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

"Microsoft Excel is the novelist's most important friend."

Bestselling thriller writer Andrew Hunter Murray plots every novel in a spreadsheet. Here's how he uses it:

"I'll just look at my scenes and ask: have we learned enough here? Does the scene need to be here? It can't just be, 'oh, let's have a scene set in the fireworks factory,' and we won't really learn anything.

If you look at your spreadsheet and you think, I've got four chapters here and there's not the pace in any of them to propel the reader forward, I gotta fix that."

[Josh ⌨️📜📘📐🧮 @schooltablet]

@BowTiedBroke 905

[aka @akafaceUS]

How to keep a baby entertained on a flight for hours

[Cedra Crenshaw 🚢 @CedraCrenshaw]

Marxist teacher colleges produce credentialed teachers who can't teach basic literacy.

Then these same "experts" tell parents without degrees: "Stay out of it."

I taught my children to read with time, books, a library card, and direct systematic phonics instruction. You can too. Ignore the "experts."

[Jesse Genet @jessegenet]

How I’m pushing past lesson planning to lesson creation with my @openclaw Sylvie

Created an entire interactive hands on game for our science pod this week 🤓

Gorgeous visuals + instructions for our “Biomes” game in link below ⬇️

[Naval @naval]

If it’s not one of the best books you’ve ever read, don’t read it.

[Chapter House @ChHouseBooks]

Here are 50 books every child should read before age 12.

https://t.co/SnzWUfMeGm

[Yiran - edu/acc @yiran__c]

Check out the apps used at Alpha School!

Our cursive handwriting app is rolling out to Alpha Schools right now.

Would you be interested in trying it out?

[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

Highly, highly recommend @erikphoel’s 4-pt series about teaching toddlers to read - both as a mindset shift and for practical guidance. I subscribed to his Substack to read them and it was one of the most consequential decisions I’ve made in the past year. https://t.co/CKMbboxtJ8

[Gabby Orr @GabbyOrr_]

My 4-year-old is so obsessed with her Yoto that she can practically recite by heart the plots of Little Women, Wizard of Oz & several Boxcar Children books. Such a great way to get kids off tablets and engaging with classic children’s literature in a fun way.

[Karel Vuong @karelvuong]

It's posts like these that reinforce why my wife and I decided to build https://t.co/Yy2Fiwk6oP.

> abundantly clear parents are actively searching for high quality products made for learning
> there's a very wide spectrum in the relationship families have with putting tech in front of their kids. some families are entirely no-screen, others are working out how best to integrate (and when to introduce it). iPad alternatives are the most searched keyword on the site

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

For boys, starting in 6th-grade, “moms need to decrease and dads need to increase.” Fathers need to take the lead on everything with their sons until they graduate high school. ~Liz Caddow, founder of Trinity Classical Academy and classical Christian educator of 25 years.

[Rod @rodjnaquin]

Michael Pershan says Gina Wilson quietly became hugely influential in math education by selling easy-to-use worksheets on Teachers Pay Teachers. While education experts debate textbooks and policies, over 167,000 teachers actually use Wilson's materials because they're simple, ready to print, and practical. This shows a big gap between what schools officially require and what teachers actually use in classrooms.
https://t.co/qXRGMPcX8e

[jamie @itsjamiecho]

vintage maps, on an infinite canvas

https://t.co/iereANVKet

[Jesse Genet @jessegenet]

Saving this as a homeschool resource 🤓

[MacKenzie Price @mackenzieprice]

Two questions I get all the time:

"What educational AI tools would you recommend for my kid?" "What adaptive apps does Alpha use?"

Many of the apps we've built ourselves aren't publicly accessible yet. Here are ten third-party ones I do recommend.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

Lower Merion has emerged as the epicenter of Ed Tech backlash

More than 600 parents have signed a petition seeking the right to opt out of devices. The district says they can’t.

There are 8500 students in the district.

One can guesstimate that 5-9% of students have a parent who signed the petition. That’s a significant parent movement.

The media coverage has shifted from local to national.