Greg Ashman
@greg_ashman
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School leader. PhD in Instructional Design. Writer. Honorary Fellow. I can speak amusingly about education. Views entirely my own.
Ballarat, Victoria
Joined June 2012
I didn’t have “saying attendance to school is really important” on my list of things that would attract the most abusive trolls, but there we are.
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I am changing my view on whatever ‘woke’ is or was (with apologies to those who got there before me). I used to think it was a political movement of the last decade that coalesced around a set of cultural left issues. It still is this, but that doesn’t explain its strangeness
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This is poor advice. A supposedly impartial broadcaster should avoid fights and instead focus on trying to be impartial.
He should never have been there in the first place. Johnson damaged public life in so many ways and this was one of them. We are now reaping what they have sowed. Labour government should back the BBC, support it against Trump and fight back harder against the right wing forces
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‘I’m basically retraining them’: school leaders lament cost of poor ITE — EducationHQ
educationhq.com
Australian school leaders are faced with devoting huge resources to ‘undoing’ everything that beginner teachers have been taught at university, a panel of prominent educators has reported.
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Well... if I *could*
School leaders must work to undo what beginner teachers are taught at uni, three educators warn. “I would employ someone who had done a biology degree to be a science teacher...over someone that’s done two years of teacher training…” @greg_ashman said. https://t.co/zxxPhtwqL1
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In other news, part five of my series addressing arguments against explicit teaching dropped this week. https://t.co/qSsE1ueMOT
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I wonder what and who this is about? I'd ask, but he keeps telling everyone about how he mutes me.
Oh how times have changed. More than 8 years ago I wrote a 5 part blog series and a summary blog on a popular edubook. The usual suspects thought it was nitpicking, too long, and more, never actually commenting on the substance. Now they would just make it into a substack. 😎
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Something new happened today. In today's class meeting (Italian schools are class-wise, not course-wise), the class coordinator asked me what that teaching technique was that my students were so enthusiastic about. It was miniwhiteboards! First time someone showed real interest!
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In Brussels this morning speaking at the launch of the new school behaviour strategy for Flanders with minister @Zu_Demir
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A weird idea in math guru education is that perhaps you could teach procedures directly, but you can’t teach concepts this way. Why 🤦♂️ 😂 You most certainly can, and should, teach concepts explicitly and directly. This is so destructive. Never leave concepts up to chance!
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A perennial problem. That’s why schools must focus on that which has endured.
@C_Hendrick @GoogleDeepMind And the challenge of “AI literacy” as a topic, is that the tools are changing so quickly that any curriculum is out of date as soon as you’ve written it. (Providers like Multiverse are finding this out)
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Strewth, these former prime ministers are expensive—Former prime ministers’ expenses: Taxpayers foot $1.4 million bill for flights, office supplies and car costs
smh.com.au
The report doesn’t include pensions for the former prime ministers, or the costs of staff.
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NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching #5 Explicit teaching is demotivating Link 👇
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New Zealand teacher unions’ ‘colonialism’ cry doesn’t reflect classroom reality | The Australian
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NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching #5 Explicit teaching is demotivating Link 👇
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