Craig Ortner @snortner

educe: bring out or develop (something latent or potential) (math teacher turned lawyer turned math teacher again turned mostly school leader w/ a side of TOK) Shekou, Shenzen, PRC Joined July 2009

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Justin Skycak @justinskycak

a day ago

You can be happy doing tons of work when it's a mission that involves varied challenges, forces you to grow, and compounds.

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@New_Old_Paul I remember Richard DuFour saying something along the lines of, "I've come across many definitions of professionalism, but as far as I can tell, none of them included the idea that a professional can do what he or she damn well pleases."

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Craig Ortner @snortner

5 days ago

@dieworkwear Do you think a knit tie on outfit three would change much or integrate the two halves?

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Justin Skycak @justinskycak

a week ago

"What are you passionate about?" is often less useful than "What have you repeatedly practiced?", because sustained reps reveal preferences more reliably than self-reports.

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Matthew Noah Smith @MattNoahSmith

a week ago

I teach college and here's the thing: Writing is a materialized form of thinking. It is not just a way to record thoughts. It is a concrete route to understanding. If one uses a machine to write, they cease thinking. They abandon a route to understanding. Not good!

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

a week ago

Unfortunately, I think that in the near future, not using LLMs to write for you will be like someone refusing to use Google Maps for directions in a new city. A bizarre idiosyncratic choice that's just completely incomprehensible to the vast majority of people.

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Craig Ortner @snortner

a week ago

See esp nos 3 and 6!

Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam

a week ago

@DFISHERSDSU Here are the questions we should be asking of research: 1. Does it solve a problem we have? 2. If we do it, how much faster will our students learn? 3. What's the cost—in money and also time? 4. Can we do it here? 5. Do we know what to do? 6. What are the potential side-effects?

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Justin Skycak @justinskycak

2 weeks ago

Imagine a gym where everyone lifts according to birth year. That's basically how we organize education.

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Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka

2 weeks ago

A Lissajous curve x = sin (t + φ), y = sin (2 t ) This video demonstrates the kinetic depth effect, showcasing the reversal of perceived depth.

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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans) @booksoftitans

2 weeks ago

I've been to bookstores all over the world, and as far as I can tell, what we've done at Landmark Booksellers in Franklin, TN with The Great Wall, presenting the Great Books in chronological order, is something no other store is doing. Anyone know of another?

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Matt Stoller @matthewstoller

2 weeks ago

Biden successively withdrew the U.S. from Afghanistan, a war he didn’t start. Trump started an Iran war he then lost to catastrophic effect. The differing media coverage and elite discourse shows how loathsome our establishment truly is.

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Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick

3 weeks ago

“The key book for me is @DTWillingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School?” - @NickGibbUK talking about the books which influenced his thinking. A big shoutout for @daisychristo too at @researchED_US Houston

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Craig Ortner @snortner

3 weeks ago

@justinskycak Sadly markets can be irrational longer than people can remain solvent

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‏ً @omgsidewalks

3 weeks ago

Hatė when people at work ask you what books you are reading for professional development. I am reading books to counteract the effects of being professionally developed. I am reading books that bring me back to being human. Thank you

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Craig Ortner @snortner

3 weeks ago

@Philip_Huff And the framers were only supposed to revise the articles of confederation

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Kpaxs @Kpaxs

4 weeks ago

People believe they think clearly and just struggle to "put it into words." It's almost always backwards. The struggle to put it into words is the discovery that the thought wasn't clear yet. Writing is the brutal honesty machine. It takes the warm fog in your head that felt like understanding and forces it onto a line where every gap shows. You didn't lose the clarity in translation, you never had it. The page just told you.

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Deepak Patel @x_deepakpatel

4 weeks ago

Kids don't get confident from being told they're great. They get confident from doing hard things and finding out they can.

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Jon Boeckenstedt @JonBoeckenstedt

4 weeks ago

What if--bear with me--what if the UC Faculty have it backwards? What if the SAT is the cause of student math struggles, rather than the solution to them? jonboeckenstedt.net/2026/06/05/wha…

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SoL in the Wild @SoLInTheWild

4 weeks ago

Here’s a key distinction I see missed in many of the framed for social media debates between inquiry-based learning and the science of learning. The science of learning is not an instructional method. It is a body of evidence that helps us understand how learning occurs under different conditions. Inquiry-based learning, by contrast, is an instructional model—a particular way of organizing teaching and learning experiences. Because of this, it makes little sense to place practices such as curiosity, questioning, or exploration into either an “inquiry” bucket or a “science of learning” bucket. Curiosity and questioning are not “inquiry methods” as claimed here. They are features of learning that can be leveraged through many different instructional approaches. If research shows that curiosity and questions can support learning, then those practices can absolutely be used within a science of learning, evidence-informed approach to teaching and learning. Trying to frame these ideas as competing camps is often counterproductive. The real question is not whether we are using inquiry or the science of learning. Rather, it is how we use our understanding of human memory, attention, knowledge building, and learning processes to make evidence-informed instructional decisions. The science of learning should help us determine when, why, and how particular practices are most likely to be effective for the greatest number of students—not force them into opposing categories.

Drew Perkins @dperkinsed

4 weeks ago

Lovely to see two researchED related posts in the past 24 hours presenting about inquiry. Here, using "Using curiosity to drive cognitive engagement" Maybe, just maybe, we're starting to see the necessary shift and bridge to using inquiry methods WITH traditional SoL tactics.

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Jack @tracewoodgrains

4 weeks ago

I'm not sure this lands. Take chess to see what it looks like at the limit. There is no skill in being an Engine Operator. Humans don't add to the engine by knowing how to turn it on just right. You run Stockfish and humans cannot even contribute. Skill development changes you in concrete ways. A skilled chess player sees the board fundamentally differently, and better, than an unskilled one, memorizing positions in the blink of an eye, noticing patterns, spotting tactics. Yes, humans are obsoleted by machines there. But that does not make you equal to Magnus Carlsen. So – school. Maybe we just want it all to be trade school, where the goal is to maximize earnings, and so humans should abandon every intellectual task obsoleted by AI. Maybe. And on that trajectory, perhaps we can abandon every intellectual task, full stop, because the train shows no signs of slowing down, and we're all about to be left behind. Do we want to be slaves to minds greater than our own, masquerading as their masters because we know how to turn them on? Do we want to stop creating Terence Taos because Codex out-calculates us? Do we want every classroom to maximize the skill of flipping switches, accepting our own obsolescence by becoming eternal adolescents? I do not. Skill-building matters as a good in itself. Training your mind matters. Becoming better and more knowledgeable, in concrete ways and in narrow topics, climbing skill pyramids ourselves rather than abandoning every intellectual skill, matters. And any skill that is worth training, any subject that is worth learning, is worth training and learning right: in a way that actually improves the individual. AI is not going away. But I'm not ready for human skill building to go away either. There are more chess classes worth preserving than "how to download Stockfish."