Steve Taylor

Husband, father, servant of Christ.

[Steve Taylor @scubes10]

No one will ever convince me that they love running more than I love not running.

[Steve Taylor @scubes10]

@Pastor_Gabe Also, the business flipped. Artists used to make most of their money off record sales, so concerts were a cheap way to drum up interest for those who hadn’t completely “made it” yet. Now the internet has dried up the album sales, so concerts became an expensive spectacle.

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@HansFiene Why do you think should we compress reading anyway? We need to expand it!

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@Pastor_Gabe Some churches apparently think that baptism falls into the category of overtime. I think it falls under the sacred, glorious privilege and duty of a pastor, much like preaching the Word.

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@HenryWFowler @nytimesbooks And Juliet didn’t yet know that Romeo was standing in front of her.

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@nasonlollar The speech is perfect. Thinking about where the nation was and where it is now, I cannot read it without a mixture and sadness and hope. A man may exist who, understanding the context, could read the words and remain unmoved, but I cannot fathom how.

[Steve Taylor @scubes10]

@nasonlollar It seems to lend fuel to the argument that some unions are pro-teacher to the detriment of students. Teachers—specifically ones that truly have a student-first mindset—that are part of organizations that do this are undermining their own efforts.

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@HLearningPD @WALKTHRUs_5 Is there an option if my school does not show up in the list?

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@wesleyquick I love it!

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@JAustinEDU I would argue that a maximum timeframe for skills is part of the measurement of mastery. Students that take two days to complete an assignment that should be completed in twenty minutes have not expressed the same level of mastery despite similar levels of accuracy.

[Steve Taylor @scubes10]

People in general—and educators specifically—keep getting suckered by the shininess of new technology and the fear that not adopting the next big thing means students miss out on opportunities to be prepared for “the future.” But so often many of the old ways are better.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A meta-analysis of 3,075 college students just settled the laptop vs paper debate. Handwriting won.

The effect size: r = -0.142 favoring pen. Translated to actual outcomes, switching from pen to laptop pushes 25% of students from above the mean to below it. In education research, that's a massive intervention.

The mechanism is the boring part everyone misses.

Lecture speech runs around 125 words per minute. Handwriting tops out around 22 wpm. Touch-typing hits 40-60 wpm. Do the math.

The laptop user has enough bandwidth to transcribe what the professor said. The pen user does not. So the pen user has to summarize in real time. They strip filler, group ideas, reword the concept in their own language, decide what to skip. Every second of writing is an act of synthesis.

The laptop user is running OCR. The pen user is running compression.

This is why the laptop user with better notes scores worse on the test. Their notes contain more information. Their brain processed less of it. The notes won. The student lost.

The friction was the feature.

Now extend the principle. LLMs autocomplete code. Grammarly rewrites sentences. ChatGPT drafts emails. Each removes the bandwidth bottleneck the way a laptop removes it from notetaking. The output gets better. The encoding gets worse.

The students who outsource their writing to AI today are running the same experiment, with the same result, ten years later in their careers.

Pen and paper is the last interface slow enough to make you think.

[Steve Taylor @scubes10]

@theblessedsalt @DeepWithARifle @realDavidBJr It’s not going to shatter bones. And while you’re doing math, don’t forget to add in the other mailboxes protected with all of the benefits that come with not waking up to a smashed mailbox. Advertising the fortification saves one mailbox. Concrete saves at least a dozen.

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@JamesAFurey Do you have any concerns about your readiness for the potential job considering how recently you became Catholic?

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@nasonlollar That did it. Thanks!

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@nasonlollar Do you have a current link to this podcast? This one is no longer active.

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[Steve Taylor @scubes10]

@mrvondo @JeffVanderstelt Not just shaky. It’s made up.

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@foolforthought_ @JamesAFurey The fact that advancements have been made by a small number who use technology well does not mean that the technology is not a hindrance to many. The few have learned (memorized) the knowledge necessary to use the technology successfully. The many replaced knowledge w/ it.

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@foolforthought_ @JamesAFurey As for the internet, compare the reading skills of students that went to school before ubiquitous internet access to the skills of current students. Most of my peers didn’t read books in high school. Most of my students CAN’T.