James Tucker
@JtuckerJames
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Joined September 2013
Fun fact. Finland has been among the fastest declining countries in Pisa over the last twenty years, wrecking it's previously excellent education system with whacky ideas.
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Finland’s decline is a cautionary tale for anyone espousing progressive education or constructivist methodology.
I didn't realize this: Finland, which used to be the absolute star in the West on education, is now on math roughly at the OECD average, only a bit higher than the US (meaning way behind New England), and fell 60 pts in 20 years, worst in the world. What happened?!
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Wife is away. Daughter: “Dad, Instead of watching a movie together what if I read Northanger Abbey aloud?” Not sure what I’ve done to deserve this but I’m going to try to do everything exactly the same tomorrow just in case.
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Since it’s Read Across America day, I’m sharing my favorite image to represent a compromised working memory from cognitive overload.
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@Doug_Lemov @ValaAfshar Oddly, Ken Robinson didn't pay much attention to the second part of his own definition of creativity (having novel ideas that have value). Children are better at coming up with wacky ideas; unfortunately, you need domain knowledge to come up with ideas that have value...
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@ValaAfshar There’s actually real research on this sort of thing and it doesn’t support these intuitive vibey and dead wrong “takes.” Please stop perpetuating misinformation.
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Public service announcement: if you want to be taken seriously as a data scientist, please stop referring to Hattie's "hinge-point" of a 0.4sd effect size. Most effect sizes included in meta-analyses are net of business as usual, so it has zero value in interpreting effect sizes.
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Universal block for any tweet like - “you must read this (AI marketing piece) or become irrelevant / be replaced / teeth will fall out” Give me strength
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ok, let's give this a try, what plausible yet ridiculous ideas might we try to build? As in, what are the most ridiculous app ideas we can think of, we can then try and convince the AI to build it for us, because it's our dream...
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RT @AviWoolf: Not my experience with Cluade. When it disagrees, it disagrees.
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@JtuckerJames Yes. Ask it to critique your work as if written by a hostile reviewer or a professional enemy.
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According to AI; all my ideas and random occurrences are brilliant. This is a problem. Reminds me of when Duolingo says I have a "perfect" session when I clearly got three right out of five. Anyone else notice this?
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Michael Pershan notes Alpha School teaches math, reading, and science in just 2 hours using apps, leaving afternoons for sports and hobbies. Unlike regular schools that want kids to love books and explore subjects deeply, Alpha's goal is getting through academics as fast as
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How do you coach teachers who don’t want to be coached? Instructional coaching can be an extremely efficient and effective approach to PD. But not all teachers are as enthusiastic, often for fair & rational reasons. What to do about it? I answer here👇 https://t.co/Z6VTAtgbVe
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We have overprotected our children in the real world and underprotected them online. This is not just about phones and iPads; it's about childhood. Let them have adventurous play, with small risks. It's safer and healthier in the long run.
Every additional hour a child spends in adventurous play is associated with lower anxiety and a better mood. More screen time does the opposite. Why? Adventurous play is free exposure therapy. Kids feel scared, then survive it. Over and over, they learn fear is manageable.
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I'm old enough to remember when the one sentence paragraph was a stylistic exception.
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