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Thanks for being here. You didn’t have to be. Book out now from @dbc_inc:

[teaches_humans @teacheshumans]

“I want my kid to be really compliant” is not a dream any parent has ever had. Yet this is the unspoken goal of *much* classroom technique and school governance.

[teaches_humans @teacheshumans]

this is a large-and-getting-larger problem. If your kid's teacher isn't thinking AI things through carefully, they're failing, and if your school leader isn't worried about that, they're not paying enough attention.

[tweets, but heroic @thethirtysixco]

1/ PossibleLawyerDaughter has received a C on a paper bc “the AI checker says it’s 40% AI.”

She did not use AI.

I let my kids handle their own stuff, but I’ve let her know if she doesn’t get a suitable response, this is one I would step in on.
1/

[tweets, but heroic @thethirtysixco]

“And what is the charge, ma’am? Giving your child a C?

A SUCCULENT GENTLEMAN’S C?!”

[teaches_humans @teacheshumans]

@flowidealism Bingo

[teaches_humans @teacheshumans]

The best tech in the world can't teach someone who doesn't want to learn.
But neither can the best teacher.
First school to solve for free will wins everything.

[teaches_humans @teacheshumans]

The best tech in the world can't teach someone who doesn't want to learn.
But neither can the best teacher.
First school to solve for free will wins everything.

[teaches_humans @teacheshumans]

Thread from a guy who gets it

Or, as one of my favorite teachers put it, “dividing students by age makes no more sense than dividing them by shoe size”

Love to see it

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

<pitch to parents of K8-aged children in ~Austin>

A hard constraint on my willingness to take this @gtschool job was “would I enroll my children?”

I would and I am. My 5yo daughter starts this fall.

I’d love for her to have more classmates, so allow me to share my impressions:

[teaches_humans @teacheshumans]

@travis4nh As long as we’re hawking our books, here’s mine on teaching in a way that doesn’t rely on the creation of compliant automatons

https://t.co/mPlNGflu5j

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Excellent

[Ronak Bhatt @RonakAtHome]

Agreement here. I won't rehash the research on why group work is inefficient for learning, but I would like to address this idea pervading K-12 that "group work is critical in the real world" which is used to justify inserting it into all kinds of schoolwork. 1/x

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Garzon Today
02.14.25
https://t.co/Jv3VTGlUdW

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Garzon Today 02.13.25
Word of the Day / Song of the Day
https://t.co/NeWqpwc7Mk

[tweets, but heroic @thethirtysixco]

How to get a free box of paper clips: Buy two 50-ct boxes of paper clips. Remove one from each box. Return one box, saying you bought 2 on accident. The next day, return the other w the same story. Repeat 25x. Free box!

[teaches_humans @teacheshumans]

Garzon Today 11.20.24
Word of the Day / Song of the Day
https://t.co/E2kVcF8wkO

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Garzon Today 11.19.2024
Word of the Day / Song of the Day
https://t.co/bQngZB4uHm

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Teachers weigh in

[tweets, but heroic @thethirtysixco]

Data point: class crushes test
Me: what was different?
Them: review sheet
Me: all I did was generate 20 random sets of the problems in online study guide that’s been up all year
Them: yes but you said this one was for a grade
Me: but the test is always for a grade

What mean?

[teaches_humans @teacheshumans]

Garzon Today 10.22.24
Word of the Day / Song of the Day
https://t.co/QiDTo0t7OJ

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Librarian's Reading Log
Book 10: "The Confessor" by Daniel Silva
https://t.co/cOVtcRBn6t

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Garzon Today 10.17.24
Word of the Day / Song of the Day
https://t.co/XuKa3LkTyd

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Garzon Today 10.16.24
Word of the Day / Song of the Day
https://t.co/icy2AqxH0b

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Garzon Today 10.15.24
Word of the Day / Song of the Day
Poem of the Week / Wisdom of the Week
https://t.co/kRN8RgebFu

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Garzon Today 10.03.24
Word of the Day / Song of the Day
https://t.co/xyO18HEJOT

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TEACHER ROUNDUP #4 // 10.01.24
Phones! Radiohead! Public Speaking!
The Death of Books! Impatience!
https://t.co/nuyf6j0TtU