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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoTurning Back the Economic Clock2024-03-24T18:27:18+00:00
https://www.thefitzwilliam.com/p/turning-back-the-economic-clock
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyIo0e4tSOc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbW7VcEztY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lngA8zrx3o
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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-how-big-tech-went-to-shh
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https://www.openculture.com/2015/02/how-clocks-forever-changed-humanity-in-1657.html
robertogreco“The mechanical clock was self-contained, and once horologists learned to drive it by means of a coiled spring rather than a falling weight, it could be miniaturized so as to be portable, whether in the household or on the person. It was this possibility of widespread private use that laid the basis for ‘time discipline,’ as against ‘time obedience.’ One can … use public clocks to simon people for one purpose or another; but that is not punctuality. Punctuality comes from within, not from without. It is the mechanical clock that made possible, for better or worse, a civilization attentive to the passage of time, hence to productivity and performance.”
It’s all part of the logic that eventually gets us to Benjamin Franklin offering this famous piece of advice to a young tradesman, in 1748, “Remember that Time is Money.”
You can find similar arguments at the core of this newly-released video called “A Briefer History of Time: How technology changes us in unexpected ways.” The video brings us back to the 1650s — to a turning point when Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum clock, which remained the world’s most precise and widespread timekeeping device for the next three centuries. He wasn’t alone. But certainly Huygens did much to make us masters of time. And certainly also slaves to it."
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https://usurpatormag.com/A-Website-Can-Be-A-Poem-w-Chia
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https://archive.is/rYEe5
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3zfMUBTDl0
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https://twitter.com/naomicfisher/status/1662058277004255234
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9nklOW9BMs
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https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wendell-berry-the-work-of-local-culture/
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https://harpers.org/archive/2022/12/between-chaos-and-the-man-the-dawn-of-everything-graeber-wengrow-the-dispossessed-ursula-k-le-guin/
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https://www.noemamag.com/the-tyranny-of-time/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usv9o2I_y9o
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https://futuress.org/magazine/named-after-men/
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https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/evidence-is-the-new-catchword-in-education-but-it-requires-some-scrutiny-20200214-p540uz.html
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https://twitter.com/keguro_/status/1214833773029871616
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https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/33063300
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18693533/metric-system-measurement-us-conversion-act-verge-science
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2018.1556215
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/11/26/educator-finland-i-realized-how-mean-spirited-us-education-system-really-is/?noredirect=on
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https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-30/if-you-have-meeting-ethiopia-you-better-double-check-time
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https://anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/article-notes-on-an-anarchist-pedagogy/
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https://www.thinkcompany.com/2017/12/web-accessibility-what-you-say-what-i-hear/
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https://teachersgoinggradeless.com/2017/05/10/the-problem-with-measure/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/03/childhood-conformity/554453/
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https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/recent-squibs-on-education.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vtMJpadg-E
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/how-the-appetite-for-emojis-complicates-the-effort-to-standardize-the-worlds-alphabets.html
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https://medium.com/identity-education-and-power/this-just-isnt-something-public-teachers-do-part-1-ad488274af69
robertogrecoStatements can be true, and meaningful, only in the discourse of an established community that determines what could count as observations, what degrees of accuracy in recording observations are possible, how the words of common language are restricted and refined for different kinds of cognition and for practical or technological uses, and what could count as an argument” (1994, p. 135).
As an example, we as a society have come to define plumbing as the knowledge and maintenance of water, sewage, and drainage systems. In order to become a plumber one must demonstrate one’s ability to understand and maintain these systems with a certain degree of fidelity. I would not expect a plumber to critique my bathroom’s color scheme because that’s not a practice of their rational community. Similarly, if I want to be a teacher then I need to act in a way that conforms to my community and society’s definition of a teacher. This means I teach content and skills to different groups of adolescents, assessing them at some point to check for proficiency. The instructional methods and assessment strategies I may pull from are not infinite; they draw from a set of assumptions that my community produces and is produced by. So while I could spend every class period performing cartwheels up and down the hallway, I wouldn’t because it obviously doesn’t fit with what we think teachers should do. But what about if I wanted to remove all grades and tests from my class? Would my actions still align with my community? Although I would still be teaching and assessing, I would no longer be enacting the practice of A — F grades, a staple of public education since at least the 1960s (Schneider & Hutt, 2014).
My ability to transition seamlessly between two opposing school environments revealed a set of technocratic and instrumentalist assumptions about what it means to be a teacher in this moment in time. These norms cast education as a scientific instrument. Teachers wield education as a seemingly neutral tool to bring about specific and predetermined learning outcomes. In my state this means ensuring that every child knows how to do things like identify the main idea of a passage, summarize important details, and ascertain a reading passage’s organizational pattern. Children demonstrate proficiency with these skills by correctly answering multiple-choice questions on a test. While teachers can and often do provide additional methods of assessment, test-based accountability means that, at the end of the day, scores on standardized exams are what matters most."
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"To stray from the community becomes an act of open rebellion. Something as simple as removing letter grades from student assignments and providing only narrative feedback goes against the core assumptions of the community. As I found out during that afternoon with the assistant principal, refusal to participate in the practices of the rational teaching community puts one’s ability to be a teacher at risk. Regardless of the rhetoric around creativity, the whole child, differentiation, and creativity, teachers are expected to function within a of specific set of instructional practices and behavioral dispositions. Plumbers use wrenches; teachers use data."
[See also
"Confronting My Critical Identity in Social Media: The Critical Ceiling, Part II"
This Just Isn’t Something Public Teachers Do — Part 2
"Confronting My Critical Identity in Social Media: The Critical Ceiling, Part II"
https://medium.com/identity-education-and-power/confronting-my-critical-identity-in-social-media-the-critical-ceiling-part-ii-7e8b6d092bf6 ]]]>education pedagogy criticalpedagogy peteanderson 2017 teaching howweteach cultue practice sfsh schools schooling resistance rebellion change unschooling deschooling learning standardization standardizedtesting testing standards gertbiesta alphonsolingis community rationalcommunities gregdimitriadis marclamonthill tests societyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:68916849b8b3/When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer… – Arthur Chiaravalli – Medium2017-04-01T00:38:08+00:00
https://medium.com/@hhschiaravalli/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer-2b6f6ee991ad
robertogrecoLow-quality assessments have the potential to produce inaccurate information about student learning. Inaccurate formative assessments can misinform teachers and students about what should come next in the learning. Inaccurate summative assessments may mislead students and parents (and others) about students’ level of proficiency. When a teacher knows the purpose of an assessment, what specific elements to assess…he or she will most likely see accurate assessment information.
Unfortunately, assessment accuracy in the language arts and humanities in general is notoriously elusive. In a 1912 study of inter-rater reliability, Starch and Elliot (cited in Schinske and Tanner) found that different teachers gave a single English paper scores ranging from 50 to 98%. Other studies have shown similar inconsistencies due to everything from penmanship and the order in which the papers are reviewed to the sex, ethnicity, and attractiveness of the author.
We might argue that this situation has improved due to common language, range-finding committees, rubrics, and other modern developments in assessment, but problems remain. In order to achieve a modicum of reliability, language arts teams must adopt highly prescriptive scoring guides or rubrics, which as Alfie Kohn, Linda Mabry, and Maya Wilson have pointed out, necessarily neglect the central values of risk taking, style, and original thought.
This is because, as Maya Wilson observes, measurable aspects can represent “only a sliver of…values about writing: voice, wording, sentence fluency, conventions, content, organization, and presentation.” Just as the proverbial blind men touching the elephant receive an incorrect impression, so too do rubrics provide a limited — and therefore inaccurate — picture of student writing.
As Linda Mabry puts it,
The standardization of a skill that is fundamentally self-expressive and individualistic obstructs its assessment. And rubrics standardize the teaching of writing, which jeopardizes the learning and understanding of writing.
The second part of Mabry’s statement is even more disturbing, namely, that these attempts at accuracy and reliability not only obstruct accurate assessment, but paradoxically jeopardize students’ understanding of writing, not to mention other language arts. I have witnessed this phenomenon as we have created common assessments over the years. Our pre- and post-tests are now overwhelmingly populated with knowledge-based questions — terminology, vocabulary, punctuation rules. Pair this with formulaic, algorithmic approaches to the teaching and assessment of writing and you have a recipe for a false positive: students who score well with little vision of what counts for deep thinking or good writing.
It’s clear what we’re doing here: we’re trying to do to writing and other language arts what we’ve already done to mathematics. We’re trying to turn something rich and interconnected into something discrete, objective and measurable. Furthermore, the fundamentally subjective nature of student performance in the language arts renders this task even more problematic. Jean-Paul Sartre’s definition of subjectivity seems especially apt:
The subjectivity which we thus postulate as the standard of truth is no narrowly individual subjectivism…we are attaining to ourselves in the presence of the other, and we are just as certain of the other as we are of ourselves.…Thus the man who discovers himself directly in the cogito also discovers all the others, and discovers them as the condition of his own existence. He recognises that he cannot be anything…unless others recognise him as such. I cannot obtain any truth whatsoever about myself, except through the mediation of another. The other is indispensable to my existence, and equally so to any knowledge I can have of myself…Thus, at once, we find ourselves in a world which is, let us say, that of “intersubjectivity.”
First and foremost, the language arts involve communication: articulating one’s own ideas and responding to those of others. Assigning a score on a student’s paper does not constitute recognition. While never ceding my professional judgment and expertise as an educator, I must also find ways to allow students and myself to encounter one another as individuals. I must, as Gert Biesta puts it, create an environment in which individuals “come into presence,” that is, “show who they are and where they stand, in relation to and, most importantly, in response to what and who is other and different”:
Coming into presence is not something that individuals can do alone and by themselves. To come into presence means to come into presence in a social and intersubjective world, a world we share with others who are not like us…This is first of all because it can be argued that the very structure of our subjectivity, the very structure of who we are is thoroughly social.
Coming to this encounter with a predetermined set of “specific elements to assess” may hinder and even prevent me from providing recognition, Sartre’s prerequisite to self-knowledge. But it also threatens to render me obsolete.
The way I taught mathematics five years ago was little more than, as Biesta puts it, “an exchange between a provider and a consumer.” That transaction is arguably better served by Khan Academy and other online learning platforms than by me. As schools transition toward so-called “personalized” and “student-directed” approaches to learning, is it any wonder that the math component is often farmed out to self-paced online modules — ones that more perfectly provide the discrete, sequential, standards-based approach I developed toward the end of my tenure as math teacher?
Any teacher still teaching math in this manner should expect to soon be demoted to the status of “learning coach.” I hope we can avoid this same fate in language arts, but we won’t if we give into the temptation to reduce the richness of our discipline to standards and progression points, charts and columns, means, medians, and modes.
What’s the alternative? I’m afraid I’m only beginning to answer that question now. Adopting the sensible reforms of standards-based learning and grading seems to have been a necessary first step. But is it the very clarity of its approach — clearing the ground of anything unrelated to teaching and learning — that now urges us onward toward an intersubjective future populated by human beings, not numbers?
Replacing grades with feedback seems to have moved my students and me closer toward this more human future. And although this transition has brought a kind of relief, it has also occasioned anxiety. As the comforting determinism of tables, graphs, charts, and diagrams fade from view, we are left with fewer numbers to add, divide, and measure. All that’s left is human beings and the relationships between them. What Simone de Beauvoir says of men and women is also true of us as educators and students:
When two human categories are together, each aspires to impose its sovereignty upon the other. If both are able to resist this imposition, there is created between them a reciprocal relation, sometimes in enmity, sometimes in amity, always in tension.
So much of this future resides in communication, in encounter, in a fragile reciprocity between people. Like that great soul Whitman, we find ourselves “unaccountable” — or as he says elsewhere, “untranslatable.” We will never fit ourselves into tables and columns. Instead, we discover ourselves in the presence of others who are unlike us. Learning, growth, and self-knowledge occur only within this dialectic of mutual recognition.
Here we are vulnerable, verging on a reality as rich and astonishing as the one Whitman witnessed."]]>arthurchiaravalli standards-basedassessments assessment teaching math mathematics writing learning romschimmer grading grades alfiekohn lindamabry gertbiesta khanacademy personalization rubics waltwhitman simonedebeauvoir canon sfsh howweteach howwelearn mutualrecognition communication reciprocity feedback cv presence tension standards standardization jean-paulsartre mayawilson formativeassessment summativeassessment interconnection intersubjectivity subjectivity objectivity self-knowledge humans human humanism 2017 education sartrehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5b5f24829821/Most of the time, innovators don’t move fast and break things | Aeon Essays2017-03-11T23:17:16+00:00
https://aeon.co/essays/most-of-the-time-innovators-don-t-move-fast-and-break-things
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http://www.eater.com/2017/3/2/14780712/chicken-connoisseur-elijah-quashie-restaurant-critic
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https://janwaar-castle.org/our-principles/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bUVjJWA6Vw
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/the-common-core-costs-billions-and-hurts-students.html
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http://advisor.museumsandheritage.com/features/canadian-museum-of-human-rights-setting-a-global-standard-for-accessibility/
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http://harpers.org/archive/2016/05/the-habits-of-highly-cynical-people/?single=1
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https://twitter.com/cblack__/status/726485736665452544
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http://doyle-scienceteach.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-ngss-executive-summary-as-ccss.html
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/07/altschools-disrupted-education
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http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/02/16/465753501/standards-grades-and-tests-are-wildly-outdated-argues-end-of-average
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https://playbook.cio.gov/designstandards/
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http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/spinoza-in-a-t-shirt/
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http://stager.tv/blog/?p=3476
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http://www.democracyjournal.org/36/are-we-still-making-citizens.php?page=all
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http://hacking-curriculum.tumblr.com/post/84716775082/22-things-we-do-as-educators-that-will-embarrass
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https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name
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http://doyle-scienceteach.blogspot.com/2015/03/my-idea-of-ccss-creative-competent.html
robertogrecomichaeldoyle 2015 education standards living life helplessness economics commoncore howwelive howwelearn schools arneduncan problemsolving context local experientiallearning animals humans bigherehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:97ba5beffb85/The Future is Learning, But What About Schooling? | Higher Ed Beta @insidehighered2015-02-25T05:35:01+00:00
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/future-learning-what-about-schooling
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https://vimeo.com/111108854
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http://schoolingtheworld.org/big-box-schooling/
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/12/06/seven-ways-schools-kill-the-love-of-reading-in-kids-and-4-principles-to-help-restore-it/
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http://dmlcentral.net/blog/cathy-davidson/standardizing-human-ability
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http://www.roxandroll.com/2014/11/parents-let-harvard-go.html
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https://medium.com/backchannel/all-technology-is-assistive-ac9f7183c8cd
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http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/09/students-travel-in-packs.html
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http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=1644
robertogrecoDocumentation of the NWG’s effort is through notes such as this. Notes may be produced at any site by anybody and included in this series…. [Content] may be any thought, suggestion, etc. related to the HOST software or other aspect of the network. Notes are encouraged to be timely rather than polished. Philosophical positions without examples or other specifics, specific suggestions or implementation techniques without introductory or background explication, and explicit questions without any attempted answers are all acceptable. The minimum length for a NWG note is one sentence.
These standards (or lack of them) are stated explicitly for two reasons. First, there is a tendency to view a written statement as ipso facto authoritative, and we hope to promote the exchange and discussion of considerably less than authoritative ideas. Second, there is a natural hesitancy to publish something unpolished, and we hope to ease this inhibition.
You can see the similarity to blogging right away. At least two primary Network Working Groups are involved: that of all the other people in the world (let’s call that civilization), and that of the network that constitutes one’s own cognition and the resulting “strange loop,” to use Douglas Hofstadter’s language. We are all of us in this macrocosm and this microcosm. Most of us will have multiple networks within these mirroring extremes, but the same principles will of course apply there as well. What is the ethos of the Network Working Group we call civilization? And for those of us engaged in the specific cognitive interventions we call education, what is the ethos of the Network Working Group we help out students to build and grow within themselves as learners? We discussed Ivan Illich in the Virginia Tech New Media Faculty-Staff Development Seminar today, and I was forcibly reminded that the NWG within sets the boundaries (and hopes) we have with which to craft our NWG without. School conditions what we expect in and from civilization.
I hope it’s also clear that these RFC-3 documentation conventions specify a praxis of intellectual discourse–indeed, I’d even say scholarly communication–that is sadly absent from most academic work today.
Would such communciation be rigorous? Academic? Worthy of tenure and promotion? What did these RFCs accomplish, and how do they figure in the human record? Naughton observes that this “Request for Comments” idea–and the title itself, now with many numerals following–has persisted as “the way the Internet discusses technical issues.” Naughton goes on to write that “it wasn’t just the title that endured … but the intelligent, friendly, co-operative, consensual attitude implied by it. With his modest, placatory style, Steve Crocker set the tone for the way the Net developed.” Naughton then quotes Katie Hafner’s and Matthew Lyon’s judgment that “the language of the RFC … was warm and welcoming. The idea was to promote cooperation, not ego.”
Naughton concludes,
The RFC archives contain an extraordinary record of thought in action, a riveting chronicle of the application of high intelligence to hard problems….
Why would we not want to produce such a record within the academy and share it with the public? Or are we content with the ordinary, forgotten, and non-riveting so long as the business model holds up?
Or have we been schooled so thoroughly that the very ambition makes no sense?
More Naughton:
The fundamental ethos of the Net was laid down in the deliberations of the Network Working Group. It was an ethos which assumed that nothing was secret, that problems existed to be solved collaboratively, that solutions emerged iteratively, and that everything which was produced should be in the public domain.
I think of the many faculty and department meetings I have been to. Some of them I have myself convened. The ethos of those Network Working Groups has varied considerably. I am disappointed to say that none of them has lived up to the fundamental ethos Naughton identifies above. I yearn for documentation conventions that will produce an extraordinary record of thought in action, with the production shared by all who work within a community of learning. And I wonder if I’m capable of Crocker’s humility or wisdom, and answerable to his invitation. I want to be."]]>gardnercampbell internet web online commenting johnnaughton 2011 arpanet stevecrocker via:steelemaley networks networkworkinggroups ivanillich standards content shiftytext networkedculture networkedlearning blogs blogging inhibition unfinished incomplete cicilization douglashofstadter praxis cooperation tcsnmy sharing schooling unschooling academia highered highereducation authority humility wisdom collegiality katiehafner matthewlyon rfc-3 rfchttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:512b2d5dd1ae/A Thousand Rivers: What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning.2014-08-10T20:58:30+00:00
http://schoolingtheworld.org/a-thousand-rivers/
robertogreco“Spontaneous reading happens for a few kids. The vast majority need (and all can benefit from) explicit instruction in phonics.”
This 127-character edict issued, as it turned out, from a young woman who is the “author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The Science of How We Get Smarter” and a “journalist, consultant and speaker who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better.”
It got under my skin, and not just because I personally had proven in the first grade that it is possible to be bad at phonics even if you already know how to read. It was her tone; that tone of sublime assurance on the point, which, further tweets revealed, is derived from “research” and “data” which demonstrate it to be true.
Many such “scientific” pronouncements have emanated from the educational establishment over the last hundred years or so. The fact that the proven truths of each generation are discovered by the next to be harmful folly never discourages the current crop of experts who are keen to impose their freshly-minted certainties on children. Their tone of cool authority carries a clear message to the rest of us: “We know how children learn. You don’t.
So they explain it to us.
The “scientific consensus” about phonics, generated by a panel convened by the Bush administration and used to justify billions of dollars in government contracts awarded to Bush supporters in the textbook and testing industries, has been widely accepted as fact through the years of “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top,” so if history is any guide, its days are numbered. Any day now there will be new research which proves that direct phonics instruction to very young children is harmful, that it bewilders and dismays them and makes them hate reading (we all know that’s often true, so science may well discover it) — and millions of new textbooks, tests, and teacher guides will have to be purchased at taxpayer expense from the Bushes’ old friends at McGraw-Hill.
The problems with this process are many, but the one that I’d like to highlight is this: the available “data” that drives it is not, as a matter of fact, the “science of how people learn.” It is the “science of what happens to people in schools.”
This is when it occurred to me: people today do not even know what children are actually like. They only know what children are like in schools.
Schools as we know them have existed for a very short time historically: they are in themselves a vast social experiment. A lot of data are in at this point. One in four Americans does not know the earth revolves around the sun. Half of Americans don’t know that antibiotics can’t cure a virus. 45% of American high school graduates don’t know that the First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of the press. These aren’t things that are difficult to know. If the hypothesis is that universal compulsory schooling is the best way to to create an informed and critically literate citizenry, then anyone looking at the data with a clear eye would have to concede that the results are, at best, mixed. At worst, they are catastrophic: a few strains of superbacteria may be about to prove that point for us.
On the other hand, virtually all white American settlers in the northeastern colonies at the time of the American Revolution could read, not because they had all been to school, and certainly not because they had all been tutored in phonics, which didn’t exist at the time. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, not exactly light reading, sold over 500,000 copies in its first year of publication, the equivalent of a book selling sixty million copies today. People learned to read in a variety of ways, some from small one-room schools, but many from their mothers, from tutors, traveling ministers, apprentice’s masters, relatives, neighbors, friends. They could read because, in a literate population, it is really not that difficult to transmit literacy from one person to the next. When people really want a skill, it goes viral. You couldn’t stop it if you tried.
In other words, they could read for all the same reasons that we can now use computers. We don’t know how to use computers because we learned it in school, but because we wanted to learn it and we were free to learn it in whatever way worked best for us. It is the saddest of ironies that many people now see the fluidity and effectiveness of this process as a characteristic of computers, rather than what it is, which is a characteristic of human beings.
In the modern world, unless you learn to read by age 4, you are no longer free to learn in this way. Now your learning process will be scientifically planned, controlled, monitored and measured by highly trained “experts” operating according to the best available “data.” If your learning style doesn’t fit this year’s theory, you will be humiliated, remediated, scrutinized, stigmatized, tested, and ultimately diagnosed and labelled as having a mild defect in your brain.
How did you learn to use a computer? Did a friend help you? Did you read the manual? Did you just sit down and start playing around with it? Did you do a little bit of all of those things? Do you even remember? You just learned it, right?”
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"City kids who grow up among cartoon mice who talk and fish who sing show tunes are so delayed in their grasp of real living systems that Henrich et al. suggest that studying the cognitive development of biological reasoning in urban children may be “the equivalent of studying “normal” physical growth in malnourished children.” But in schools, rural Native children are tested and all too often found to be less intelligent and more learning “disabled” than urban white children, a deeply disturbing phenomenon which turns up among traditional rural people all over the world."
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"Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species. It’s no accident that indigenous holistic thinkers are the ones who have been consistently reminding us of our appropriate place in the ecological systems of life as our narrowly-focused technocratic society veers wildly between conservation and wholesale devastation of the planet. It’s no accident that dyslexic holistic thinkers are often our artists, our inventors, our dreamers, our rebels. "
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"Right now American phonics advocates are claiming that they “know” how children learn to read and how best to teach them. They know nothing of the kind. A key value in serious scientific inquiry is also a key value in every indigenous culture around the world: humility. We are learning."
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"“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top,” a great artist once said. Science is a tool of breathtaking power and beauty, but it is not a good parent; it must be balanced by something broader, deeper, older. Like wind and weather, like ecosystems and microorganisms, like snow crystals and evolution, human learning remains untamed, unpredictable, a blossoming fractal movement so complex and so mysterious that none of us can measure or control it. But we are part of that fractal movement, and the ability to help our offspring learn and grow is in our DNA. We can begin rediscovering it now. Experiment. Observe. Listen. Explore the thousand other ways of learning that still exist all over the planet. Read the data and then set it aside. Watch your child’s eyes, what makes them go dull and dead, what makes them brighten, quicken, glow with light. That is where learning lies."]]>carolblack 2014 education learning certainty experts science research data unschooling deschooling schooliness schooling compulsoryschooling history literacy canon parenting experimentation listening observation noticing indigeneity howwelearn howweteach wisdom intuition difference diversity iainmcgilchrist truth idleness dyslexia learningdifferences rosscooper neurodiveristy finland policy standards standardization adhd resistance reading howweread sugatamitra philiplieberman maori aboriginal society cv creativity independence institutionalization us josephhenrich stevenjheine aranorenzayan weird compulsory māori colonization colonialismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f0bfaf1b7466/Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 198, Marilynne Robinson2014-08-07T23:44:21+00:00
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5863/the-art-of-fiction-no-198-marilynne-robinson
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/no-excuses-in-new-orleans/
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/common-core-commotion_796394.html
robertogrecoeducation reform edreform anationatrisk nclb georgewbush georgehwbush ronaldreagan barackobama jimmycarter money policy experts commoncore curriclum 2014 andrewferguson via:ayjay 1990 2000 1979 departmentofeducation edwardkennedy tedkennedy goals2000 1983 gatesfoundation billgates arneduncan bureaucracy markets aft nonprofits centralization standards schools publicschools us ideology politics technocracy credentialism teaching howweteach measurement rankings testing standardizedtesting abstraction nonprofithttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3c2ae68d561a/Death to Common Core! Long Live Failed Education Policy! | the becoming radical2014-06-10T16:47:49+00:00
http://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/death-to-common-core-long-live-failed-education-policy/
robertogrecoWhite students disproportionately attend the best charter schools, while the worst are almost exclusively populated by African American students. Activists in New Orleans joined with others in Detroit and Newark last month to file a federal civil rights complaint, alleging that the city’s best-performing schools have admissions policies that exclude African American children. Those schools are overseen by the separate Orleans Parish School Board, and they don’t participate in OneApp, the city’s centralized school enrollment lottery.
The partisan political backlash against Common Core, then, is not reason to celebrate because the essential political commitments to misguided education reform policy (such as accountability built on standards and testing, charter schools, Teach For America, and value-added methods of teacher evaluation) remain robust below the partisan posturing against Common Core as a uniquely flawed set of standards.
Adopting and implementing Common Core and the related high-stakes testing and accountability mechanisms are tremendous wastes of time and money that we cannot afford. Yes, let’s stop Common Core, but as a key step to stopping the entire flawed education reform movement built on ever-new standards and tests."]]>plthomas education commoncore standards poverty schools us politics policy edreform standardization accountability testing standardizedtesting neworleans paulthomas nola charterschools high-stakestestinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ee75e2ab24ab/How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution - The Washington Post2014-06-10T16:43:09+00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html
robertogrecocommoncore 2014 education billgates gatesfoundation 2008 policy schools lyndseylayton politics money influence arneduncan barackobama rttt standardshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e99bbcf97d8e/Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Let's Stop (re)Inventing The Committee of Ten: Getting Over School2014-04-21T22:31:27+00:00
http://maryannreilly.blogspot.com/2014/04/lets-stop-reinventing-committee-of-ten.html
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http://hackeducation.com/2014/04/02/this-is-not-a-test-review/
robertogreco“I can’t help but feel that when my students walk out of their exam, they aren’t just frustrated by the inordinate amount of testing they’re subjected to. They’re starting to sense that the process of schooling in and of itself was not actually designed with them in mind — a feeling those of us born into poverty and racism know all too well.”
The onslaught of testing means that, unlike the story of Stand and Deliver, we aren’t working with a narrative in education that affords a win - for teachers or for students – based on the scores of a single exam. The wins are to be achieved elsewhere. And they’re complicated, not the things captured on multiple choice exams or in grade-books. (This is not a test. This is life.)
The students and their stories, they’re complicated too. But instead the education system often sees students, particularly students of color, as pathological. “When we assume poor kids behave as they do just because of their poverty and not as a manifestation of their frustration with poverty,“ writes Vilson, ”we do an injustice to their humanity.”
I’d add too that we do an injustice to the humanity of educators when we pretend as though they are not “whole people,” when we demand their private lives and their personal beliefs be “pure” by some ridiculously paternalistic (and gendered and racialized) standards.
There is much justice and much humanity and so much bravery in this book. But that’s José Vilson."
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"One of the things that privilege affords you is that your stories get told. Your voice gets heard. Your coming-of-age narrative fits neatly into – hell, makes – the bildungsroman genre, if you will, because you become the individual that society wants or expects.
Vilson offers instead, as the subtitle of the book suggests, “a new narrative of race, class, and education.” The stakes are high in doing so, and they are, no surprise, incredibly political. (Vilson’s popular blog remains blocked in NYC public schools, it’s worth noting.) After all, we aren’t simply talking about a new entry into the coming-of-age literary genre. The book is an entry into the ideological battles in education and education reform – battles that draw on narratives about grit, for example, and “no excuses,” narratives that I’d argue, configure students of color as objects to be transformed and assimilated, not as subjects to seize their own learning and lives and tell their own story."
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"In This Is Not A Test, José Vilson writes a personal narrative that counters folks like Coleman’s concept of education, literacy and language, their valuation of people’s voice and experience. This Is Not a Test is a refusal to be silent. It’s a refusal to capitulate or conform. It’s an expression of a vision where we do give a shit about what you feel or what you think, because we care about people. Because in doing so – particularly in education – we help support one another in growth, in coming-of-age, in learning, and in liberation."]]>audrewatters narrative davidcoleman commoncore race class education 2014 testing standardizedtesting standards standardization jaimeescalante voice bildungsroman josévilson high-stakestestinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ec333c29e219/March 26, 2014 : The Daily Papert2014-03-26T23:25:17+00:00
http://dailypapert.com/?p=1279
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/amazing-structure-a-conversation-with-ursula-franklin/284349/
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