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“The process of #rationalization central to #capitalism has required the creation of an intermediate stratum comprising the specialists of this rationalization, as #administrators, #technicians, #scientists, #educators. The very complexity of not...
“The process of #rationalization central to #capitalism has required the creation of an intermediate stratum comprising the specialists of this rationalization, as #administrators, #technicians, #scientists, #educators. The very complexity of not...
... only the #technology but the social system has made it essential that this stratum be large and, over time, expanding.The funds that have been used to support it have been drawn from the global surplus, as extracted through entrepreneurs and states. In this elementary but ...
... fundamental sense these #cadres have therefore been part of the #bourgeoisie whose claim to participation in the sharing-out of the surplus has been given precise ideological form in the twentieth-century concept of #HumanCapital. Having relatively little real capital to ...
Join us at 3 p.m. (WAT) tomorrow as we commemorate #EducationDay with a #tweetchat where gender experts @Tawakalit19 and @ngunanioron_a will share insights on how to shift social norms that keep girls out of school in Nigeria.
#Educators
#InternationalDayofEducation
#Educators
#InternationalDayofEducation
Hello everyone! Welcome to our #tweetchat titled, "Transforming Social Norms: Girl Child Education" dedicated to #EducationDay2023, an annual event that raises awareness on the state of education in the world. The theme for this year is "Invest in people, prioritise education."
Formal education is critical to improving people’s quality of life and the nation's development. Globally, 244 million children and youth are out of school, and 771 million adults are illiterate.
#EducationDay
#EducationDay2023
#EducationDay
#EducationDay2023
1/ In 2022, we produced and updated over 20 videos and films. Take a look at some of our highlights from over the past year ⬇️.
2/ Produced in partnership with @frontlinepbs, “American Reckoning” covers a lesser-known story of the civil rights movement and Black resistance to racist violence in Mississippi. retroreport.org/video/american…
3/ We documented the lasting legacy in Latin America from revolutions, coups, and uprisings that became commonplace during the Cold War. #Teachers can find our classroom materials related to this video here: retroreport.org/education/vide…
#teachersoftwitter #edchat
#teachersoftwitter #edchat
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Hey 👋 #educators and defenders of #publicschools:
Got an angry #MAGA family relative at your #Thanksgiving 🦃 table who likes to yell at you about #publiceducation?
Here’s a short “well actually” sheet to 👏 back:
@Network4pubEd @NPEaction @PV4PS
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Hey 👋 #educators and defenders of #publicschools:
Got an angry #MAGA family relative at your #Thanksgiving 🦃 table who likes to yell at you about #publiceducation?
Here’s a short “well actually” sheet to 👏 back:
@Network4pubEd @NPEaction @PV4PS
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“I’m sick of just throwing money at #schools that just waste it!”
Well, actually, Aunt Betsy, investing in #publiceducation is one of the best things taxpayers can do—more $$, better outcomes. @KiraboJackson
chalkbeat.org/2018/12/17/211…
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Well, actually, Aunt Betsy, investing in #publiceducation is one of the best things taxpayers can do—more $$, better outcomes. @KiraboJackson
chalkbeat.org/2018/12/17/211…
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“And all this crime you damn liberals have going around too!”
Well, actually, spending more $$ on #schools helps reduce long term #crime rates too! @fordschool @BrittanyEdPol @JasonBaron4
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fordschool.umich.edu/news/2022/inve…
Well, actually, spending more $$ on #schools helps reduce long term #crime rates too! @fordschool @BrittanyEdPol @JasonBaron4
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fordschool.umich.edu/news/2022/inve…
I always go back to @matt_barnum on this, who said we need to take seriously the alarm from school leaders even as we explore the mismatch with admin data.
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It’s silly to argue that admin data show anything like a crisis on teacher exits. Those data don’t.
But I’m surprised that with advent of mixed methods in policy research more folks aren’t looking for ways to join both #educators perspectives and admin data.
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But I’m surprised that with advent of mixed methods in policy research more folks aren’t looking for ways to join both #educators perspectives and admin data.
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I suspect some of this comes down to the same old difference in the way economists study data without always interrogating sources.
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This piece is fine for what it is. What it and others are understating or flat out missing is the link between religious fanaticism and anti-democratic anti-election white supremacism in the school #privatization push
nytimes.com/2022/09/01/opi…
This piece is fine for what it is. What it and others are understating or flat out missing is the link between religious fanaticism and anti-democratic anti-election white supremacism in the school #privatization push
nytimes.com/2022/09/01/opi…
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To give serious space to people like DeAngelis (a ~30 yo lobbyist-w/PhD) to give “thoughts” is appropriate for what the #vouchers movement is but to quote him intellectually rather than a political actor misses the role rightwing think-tanks have played in election denialism
To give serious space to people like DeAngelis (a ~30 yo lobbyist-w/PhD) to give “thoughts” is appropriate for what the #vouchers movement is but to quote him intellectually rather than a political actor misses the role rightwing think-tanks have played in election denialism
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It’s esp problematic given the only real offset to #DeVos/DeAngelis is Mann himself who’s been dead since 1859 and isn’t even directly quoted at that.
It’s esp problematic given the only real offset to #DeVos/DeAngelis is Mann himself who’s been dead since 1859 and isn’t even directly quoted at that.
wow JavaScript is on 🔥with a lot of new functions for Arrays in progress 🤯😬 Welcome Immutability, Grouping, and Async helpers ❤️
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I'd say JavaScript makes my work as a content creator so easy sometimes 😂
There are so many new proposals and new features coming to the language that we could discuss a whole week about it haha.
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There are so many new proposals and new features coming to the language that we could discuss a whole week about it haha.
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Today, I brought something interesting that I was missing for a while: Immutability in arrays!
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If you feel @C19LH_Advocacy should be involved in informing stakeholders,we need you to go vote for us! Unfortunately, votes will be considered, and we do want to ensure we have a seat at the table to advocate for you! bit.ly/C19LAPDOL1
Tomorrow is the start of the new term and you need to refresh your Twitter feed for educational content. You’re fed up with seeing kitty pictures, rumours about who’s dating whom and celebrity navel-gazing.
#Thread #Educators
#Thread #Educators
If you don’t find any educational content on Twitter, what about in Google? Many educators use it to advertise their courses or programmes so there may be something useful in Google searches too.
But it can take ages to dedicate all that time searching through the Google results when you’ve got lesson plans to prepare and presentations to give.
I keep thinking of the unpaid labours of women.
Today Jason Schilling of the ATA demanded the province fund the contact tracing they demand from schools. Educators (not just teachers) are stretched very thin right now. #ableg #yyc #teachers #educators #nurses #alberta
Today Jason Schilling of the ATA demanded the province fund the contact tracing they demand from schools. Educators (not just teachers) are stretched very thin right now. #ableg #yyc #teachers #educators #nurses #alberta
Spending time on the phone daily, and affirming diligent contact tracing, for the sake of everyone’s health, takes a toll, considering all of their duties in addition. Going online, getting subs, organizing and reorganizing cohorts and busses and seating.
This is all necessary - and I e have to guide the kids through these transitions as safely as possible.
And today - A child died of Covid in Alberta.
I bet a lot of women cared for this child. Teaching is predominately a female profession. So is nursing, and supplemental and
And today - A child died of Covid in Alberta.
I bet a lot of women cared for this child. Teaching is predominately a female profession. So is nursing, and supplemental and
A few days back I held a @joinClubhouse conversation with an interesting gathering of #mathematics teachers and other #educators, and I did talk about #ethnomathematics.
The conversation generated a heated debate among them.
A thread #Culture #Maths #KnowledgeProduction
The conversation generated a heated debate among them.
A thread #Culture #Maths #KnowledgeProduction
In the discussion, I also mentioned African Humanism as new enlightenment based on the endogenous & indigenous techniques and methods to generate knowledge in the #GlobalSouth.
Someone was so upset and felt attacked by this.
Others by my expression #decolonize the #decolonization
Someone was so upset and felt attacked by this.
Others by my expression #decolonize the #decolonization
My point was and still remains not necessarily to antagonize the Western way of knowledge production but put aside and to mainstream our traditional techniques that fallen in disuse and take into formal education as another way of producing knowledge.
The most menacing aspect of #StandardizedTesting is the way it trains kids to fear making mistakes by labeling & shaming. Misunderstandings should be opportunities for breakthroughs in comprehension, but the tests teach that miscalculations are perverse transgressions.
Playwright Oscar Wilde made a magnificent observation in his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" when he wrote, “Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde understood that creativity cannot exist without mistakes, & without creativity life lacks meaning. Kids live in fear of getting low test scores because they are used to label & shame at best—& sometimes carry extreme high stakes (closing schools, denying graduation).
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Supporting High-Quality K-12 Schools Across America
Only one party understands that a quality education is a critical public good-NOT a commodity. A quality education is the right of every child. 1/16
Only one party understands that a quality education is a critical public good-NOT a commodity. A quality education is the right of every child. 1/16
#Democrats believe in providing equal educational opportunities for students with disabilities. We will fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and fully implement its requirements for a free appropriate public education and least restrictive environment. 2/16
#Democrats will support aggressive enforcement of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act & Americans with Disabilities Act, including the integration mandate of the Olmstead decision & provide school districts with additional resources to better serve students w/disabilities. 3/16
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Supporting High-Quality K-12 Schools Across America
Only one party understands that a quality education is a critical public good-NOT a commodity. A quality education is the right of every child. 1/14
Only one party understands that a quality education is a critical public good-NOT a commodity. A quality education is the right of every child. 1/14
Each year, the United States spends $23 billion more on schools in predominantly white districts than in non-white districts. 2/14
#DemPartyPlatform #education #EducationForAll
#DemPartyPlatform #education #EducationForAll
Using property taxes to fund public K-12 schools results in inequitable treatment for students in low-income school districts, compared to those in wealthier areas. 3/14 #DemPartyPlatform #EducationUSA
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Guaranteeing Universal Early Childhood Education
Only one party understands that a quality education is a critical public good-NOT a commodity. A quality education is the right of every child, no matter where they live.
Only one party understands that a quality education is a critical public good-NOT a commodity. A quality education is the right of every child, no matter where they live.
#Democrats believe that all children across the United States should have access to high-quality early childhood education programs. 2/12 #DemPartyPlatform #EduPolicy #UniversalPreSchool
#Democrats will work with states to offer pre-K for all three- and four-year-olds and expand Head Start and Early Head Start. 3/12 #DemPartyPlatform #HeadStart #UniversalPreschool
About to jump into conversation with @thoughtxchng & @TahiraDChase exploring how to relaunch schools and what we've learned so far #bringpeopletgoether #backtoschool #newnormal #innovation
Launching into the drill-down session from @thoughtxchng superintendent round table: learning, reflection and crowdsourcing to move us into the new normal
Communicating & planning with the community for school relaunch: @TahiraDChase shares her takeaways from opening Greenburgh Central School. #collaboration is key
A comprehensive & balanced view of health & educational risks & benefits is key to decision-making about in-person #schoolreopening. Project Parabola’s suite of resources will be regularly revised to reflect latest scientific evidence & new learning resources. Tools include: ⬇️
‘The School Reopening Readiness Guide’ is an evidence-informed guide to assist district & school leaders in developing, evaluating, & executing operational plans for #reopeningschools. → bit.ly/33Mf5ho
‘The Practitioner Toolkit: How to Build a Mask Culture’ aims to help #educators consider how to best help students adjust to and sustain mask-wearing. → bit.ly/3ad6up9
I'll double-down on my unpopular opinion on the "all-teachers-are-heroes" narrative.
I like heroes who don't let our kids rank 25th in the world on math, science and reading.
Earn your moniker.
#education #educators #school
I like heroes who don't let our kids rank 25th in the world on math, science and reading.
Earn your moniker.
#education #educators #school
To the HEROES killing standardized tests:
Instead of fixing kids' performance, WE SEE YOU burying measures of your massive failures!
I want 1000X MORE standardized STEM tests!
Get to #1, then you losers can improvise. Even Picasso had to draw fruit first.
Instead of fixing kids' performance, WE SEE YOU burying measures of your massive failures!
I want 1000X MORE standardized STEM tests!
Get to #1, then you losers can improvise. Even Picasso had to draw fruit first.
And we don't need more arts & crafts. Americans will be plenty creative on our own.
Teach STEM. That's it.
If you can't, you're a babysitter. And you need to step aside.
"Educators" have failed this country. Now we need to find & mobilize real teachers.
Teach STEM. That's it.
If you can't, you're a babysitter. And you need to step aside.
"Educators" have failed this country. Now we need to find & mobilize real teachers.
Just got my ARC’s for THIS IS A SEAHORSE! (@AlbertWhitman, 2020) Since people seem curious about the process of making a picture book, I figured I'd write up a THREAD breaking down the choices I made when designing the first book in this series, THIS IS A SEA COW (2019).
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First, a quick jump back in time to 2015 when I attended my first @SCBWI conference. @dsantat spoke about book design. “Form follows function.” It was a lesson that really resonated with me and I became determined to apply what I’d learned to the dummy I was working on.
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That dummy would become my first published book, THIS IS A SEA COW (@AlbertWhitman, 2019).
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THREAD: READ AND SHARE/RT ONWARD, PLEASE
I know not everyone is a fan of #screentime [feh] for their #kids, but in the face of #CoronaVirus the #KidsMedia world is stepping up.
I know not everyone is a fan of #screentime [feh] for their #kids, but in the face of #CoronaVirus the #KidsMedia world is stepping up.
@bigbadboo Studio is removing the paywall for its #VOD platform @OznozKids. If you're not familiar with it, now's the time to become so, especially if your home speaks more than one language. #Oznoz has 200+ hours of #video content for #children, in 10 languages.
Podcast @wowintheworld is getting activities & resources to #teachers to send home as needed. Their #wowsheet designed by educators can be used with any #Wow episode (tinkercast.com/wowsheet). They're also offering free teacher memberships via @FirstBook (fbmarketplace.org/wow-in-the-wor…)
Thoughts on 2 conferences: #altc - UK, heavily #edtech focussed, #2019NVC - Australia, #VocEd focus.
I participated in #altc through YouTube live streamed sessions and a vibrant Twitter back channel, connected with dozens of educators I hadn’t ‘met’ before
On Sunday evenings I often join with hundreds of #educators in #AussieEd another lively group (mostly K12) sharing in #CPD through chats on Twitter & ‘meet’ new people every week
Generation Z will outnumber Millennials by 2019 weforum.org/agenda/2018/08… via @wef
As per the report "#India's Gen Z population rise to 472 million next year, 51 percent more than #China’s projected 312 million"
"Key differentiating factor between #GenZ versus #millenials is an element of self-awareness versus self-centeredness"
GenZ naturally seek their own solutions and can quickly detect whether or not something is relevant to them. #selfaware, #selfreliant #innovative
GenZ naturally seek their own solutions and can quickly detect whether or not something is relevant to them. #selfaware, #selfreliant #innovative
Thread on being told we must policing our language skillz or it will cost us our voice.
A huge discussion broke out on the Idle No More OFFICIAL Facebook page today. An 'Ally' decided it was finally time to let us all know that after reading our comments on that page, ...2/
A huge discussion broke out on the Idle No More OFFICIAL Facebook page today. An 'Ally' decided it was finally time to let us all know that after reading our comments on that page, ...2/
...it was time we heard that unless we start learning how to employ proper English most of our allies will simply, summarily dismiss our efforts. He really felt he was doing us a favor.
When he received the pushback he so earned, the number of other 'allies' on that page .../3
When he received the pushback he so earned, the number of other 'allies' on that page .../3
... who apparently feel the same way, chirped up in support & also advised us this was not racist in any way - just a fact of life. It was clear they honestly believed that, & they clung to conclusion despite some pretty clear education from those of us who are aware of ...4/
