David Gill 🇨🇦
@david_teched
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education Memorial University of Newfoundland. Re-posts are not necessarily endorsements. Posts are my own.
St. John's
Joined November 2013
Some observations on the Ode from twitter. a thread. @Bose_Memorial @FureyAndrew @JimDinn @PaulLaneMHA @BarryPetten.
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RT @tombennett71: It is bizarre how many people in education see it as their job to indoctrinate children into their political beliefs. If….
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RT @tombennett71: For many people who have never had the pleasure in working with challenging classes, managing behaviour is a luxurious th….
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I told my incoming class of pre-service teachers basically the same thing last week -and I'm a tech education professor @tombennett71.
This is a neat illustration of why classrooms and teachers will remain the absolute norm for schooling at scale. Children are not consistently motivated as a cohort to learn independently. It’s madness to believe otherwise. Education is 90% persuasion, 10% compulsion. Learning.
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RT @FoodProfessor: It’s election day. In a democracy, citizens ultimately receive the government they deserve. If you believe politics ar….
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RT @LaurierHxA: That's why it's important to model disagreement and provide heterodox spaces for dissenting views. Students at our events h….
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RT @FoodProfessor: Think your quality of life has declined since 2015? . Data suggests you're right. In 2015, Canada ranked 9th for quali….
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RT @LDBildy: I'm old enough to remember when gov'ts went back & forth between Liberal & Conservative without one side thinking the other wa….
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RT @tombennett71: The debate around subject knowledge and pedagogy for teacher efficacy mirrors the debate around student subject knowledge….
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RT @FoodProfessor: Yesterday, our own Dean's office at @DalhousieU shared an op-ed written by a colleague that openly endorsed Mark Carney….
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RT @FoodProfessor: As we transition out of the Trudeau era, Canadians should reflect critically on the extent to which science and the scie….
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Thanks to @VOCMOpenline for the chance to have a chat about the @EDU_GovNL proposed changes to Intermediate (junior high) Tech Ed. You can listen here: And thanks to @nltatesic for posting some more detailed information that I will be rebutting in the.
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Thanks @nltatesic for posting this response. I've started my own critique of the proposed changes, but now I'll add these points to my rebuttal. Below are my current thoughts:. The relationship between technology and science is undeniably reciprocal, yet the proposed changes to.
For those curious about the changes to the junior high curriculum and its impact on tech teachers, here is the response we received from Todd Woodland.
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RT @nltatesic: For those curious about the changes to the junior high curriculum and its impact on tech teachers, here is the response we r….
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RT @tombennett71: This is a very common misunderstanding of how schools, consequences, and children work. 1. First of all the school/ pris….
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Thanks @LKrauss1 for the leadership. I just joined, I hope a lot more do as well. @FSU_Canada.
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