David John

Researcher at Center of Educational Technology, IIT Bombay.
Building systems that deliver learning design as a service

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

@sdmat123 @curlysaarthak @edzitron

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

Advocates for knowledge-rich curriculum often speak as though the evidence is finally on their side, and it is. But evidence was never the obstacle. The obstacles are ideological, professional, structural, and political. Many are deeply embedded in the culture of education and in American society itself.

https://t.co/yenGAxnhJP

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

Indians spent over ₹20,000 crore on dietary supplements last year. For most healthy people, a good chunk of it ends up as expensive urine

[Puram @puram_politics]

You want to preserve a language by teaching a 3rd language to children who can't read and write in their first? Okay!

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

This is spectacularly silly.

Disadvantaged students do not need untested AI tutors. They need excellent behaviour, high expectations, explicit instruction, and systematic retrieval.

Not this.

[dax @thdxr]

i think the models are great and do amazing things day to day

and then i go to use them as a brainstorm partner for creative work and they are just horrible, no amount of steering gets them to be even slightly better

makes you think about what these things actually are

[kuldeep @ku1deep]

@MrinaliniArora This is just virtue signalling. If there is a human cost to hiring, it balances out. You hire people + human cost.. you fire people - human cost.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Doctors are not asking for integration of alternative medicine into the standard of care. Patients are not asking for integration of alternative medicine into the standard of care. The public is not asking for integration of alternative medicine into the standard of care. The only people asking for integrative medicine are alternative medicine practitioners, their promoters and sympathizers for survival and business opportunities. The only way alternative medicine can survive into the distant future is by integration into standard medical care and these quacks know it. Don't fall for this nonsense.

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

correction: "and what we know"; "of what we know"

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

Also a common learning design bug: start with a bad design, call the damage “iteration,” then build interventions for the problems you created. Iteration only works when v1 is already constrained by evidence, sensibilities, and what we know about learning.

[Paul Kirschner @New_Old_Paul]

Vrijdaggedachte
In het onderwijs hebben we de gewoonte om problemen te creëren en vervolgens interventies te ontwerpen om de problemen op te lossen die we zelf hebben veroorzaakt.

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

correction: "only"; "mostly"

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

@malpani Interested in knowing how you arrived at this insight.

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

@signulll If you're interested in the design journey of ambient interfaces that shape learning in microschools and learning communities.

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

@malpani https://t.co/dtdsfEyR0j

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

@MathCurmudgeon @DTWillingham @rpondiscio I would use the final quote from the Pashler et al review: "If classification of students’ learning styles has practical utility, it remains to be demonstrated." (p. 117). In other words, no evidence that learning styles help, and lots of evidence that other things do,

[Abid Hassan 🇮🇳 @abidsensibull]

Global investing is becoming popular in India, and Indians will now start S and P and NASDAQ investing.

Looks like as a people we have come a long way and moved on to bigger things - from giving exit to FIIs in India, to giving exits to FIIs in America 😏

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

Time to think is a luxury in India. Period.

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

Access to trusted human expertise in India is a luxury.

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

@ScottWu46 Staircases tend to survive elevators, don't they?

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

@Felix_Josemon "90% of wealth vanishes by the 3rd generation" stat is a myth popularized by a flawed 2002 marketing study. Empirical data (like a 600-year study of Florence) shows wealth is incredibly sticky. It rarely completely dissipates; it just dilutes as family trees grow exponentially.

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

Revealing their misconceptions about poverty and pedagogy. The high directional correlation of this sequence in their speeches need to be studied.

[David John @tinkeringDavid]

In the Indian nonprofit sector, the most offputting moments are when an NGO leader whines to give educators a poverty alleviation mission. Give it a few minutes and you’ll hear a boatload about reinventing education for the 21st century and face off between inquiry & rote-memory

[Greg Ashman @greg_ashman]

This is a standard move that needs calling out.

Teachers care about poverty and they accept it affects learning. But poverty is not something they have much agency over. Instructional methods, in contrast, are something they can control.

Should we just wait around until someone else fixes poverty? Is that a good excuse for using less effective instructional methods.

No.