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   Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 02:15:42 JST Robert Link

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   • Albert Cardona
   • Alfie Kohn

   @albertcardona @alfiekohn Yes. The point of standardization is to eliminate thinking. This is news?

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     Albert Cardona (albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 02:15:43 JST Albert Cardona

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     • Alfie Kohn

     @alfiekohn Nice to see this spelled out:

     "Many math teachers will say a community of learners like Wees describes is a fairytale classroom with no time constraints and no standards to cover. They say their jobs depend on covering all the topics on the test and helping students correct their errors, not taking days to uncover the thinking behind that error. Wees acknowledges the limitations that many math teachers struggle with, but points out the way most people teach math now doesn’t work, so it could be considered a waste of time anyway."

     #MathTeacher #math #teaching

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     Albert Cardona (albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 02:15:44 JST Albert Cardona

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     • Alfie Kohn

     @alfiekohn The switch from punishing to nurturing doesn't seem to come naturally to modern teachers.

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     Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 02:15:46 JST Alfie Kohn

     What educator David Page said many years ago about math is true across the disciplines: When kids give the wrong answer, they're often just answering a different question. And our challenge is to figure out what that question is.

     Related: A nice essay on the value of encouraging students to ask "I wonder what if...?" rather than "Did I do this correctly?": https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/40537/seeing-struggling-math-learners-as-sense-makers-not-mistake-makers. (Again, this essay focuses on math, but the shift in question is just as valuable in other fields.)