Social Justice Critique of Teach Like A Champion / Teach Like A Pirate
Deconstructing The Silicon Valley Narrative That STEM = Success
If we step back a moment, there is no lesson about employability and technical training to draw from Google’s hiring practices here, but rather a lesson about what employees want from a good manager.”
Funding, Expertise, Ideology, and Flak Shape “Personalized Learning”
A Helpful Historical Look At ‘Active Learning’
But as Kate Lacey notes, active/passive does not work as a simple binary, but as a fractal distinction, where what counts as ‘active’ shifts with context: listening is active in contrast to hearing, but listening counts as passive in relation to speaking, and both listening and speaking count as passive in relation to movement.”
How Do We Reconcile “Personalization” With Increased Digitization?
Learning analytics platforms appear to displace the embodied expert judgement of the teacher to the disembodied pattern detection of data analytics algorithms.” This platformisation only defers the dreams of emancipatory education, perhaps putting it out of reach permanently.”
Let’s Remember That Old And New Are Extremes. We Live In Between.
Against Mindsets, Passion, And Grit – Education Is Emotional
If we understand the inherent structural inequalities that lurk below the surface of emotional labor, we might all hesitate before asking teachers and students to pledge their allegiance to passion and grit.”