I’m going to leave these screenshots here so I don’t forget them… Text is underneath each one. ME: It would be a terrible, terrible thing if students ever got to learn about things THEY wa...
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2024/01/students-dont-need-agency.html
When we subject young people to 13 years of ‘just tell me what to do’ schooling that emphasizes giving teachers ‘the right answer’ instead of exploration and risk-taking, we shouldn’t...
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/12/extinguishing-students-curiosity-in-learning.html
Schools give every encouragement to producers, the kids whose idea is to get “right answers” by any and all means. In a system that runs on “right answers,” they can hardly help it. And t...
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/10/schools-give-encouragement-to-producers-not-thinkers.html
What hampers their thinking, what drives them into these narrow and defensive strategies, is a feeling that they must please the grownups at all costs. The really able thinkers in our class turn ...
The valiant and resolute band of travelers I thought I was leading toward a much-hoped-for destination turned out instead to be more like convicts in a chain gang, forced under threat of punishme...
If a certain kind of teaching failed to produce learning the first time, why will it suddenly produce it the second time? In many cases the children, now ashamed and angry as well as bored and co...
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/09/lets-double-down-on-math-and-reading.html
fail because they are afraid, bored, and confused. They are afraid, above all else, of failing, of disappointing or displeasing the many anxious adults around them, whose limitless hopes and exp...
I’m going to start posting some quotes here from John Holt’s How Children Fail, which is a classic education text about student learning (that most educators have never read?)… The bad thin...
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/08/why-do-we-assume-the-worst-of-children.html
I had the pleasure of being a panelist last night for the EdTechTeacher webinar on ChatGPT in education, which was moderated by Tom Driscoll. I was joined by Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook an...
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/02/chatgpt-in-education-webinar.html