Assistant Professor @UCIEducation Interested in [foundations/history/philosophy/equity] of ed tech, ed data science, and learning sciences
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Also, I think Bereiter's story complicates the story being sold in Sold a Story. (Though he's one of the founders of Direct Instruction, he's gotten hardly any airtime...) I'm thinking of writing something on this, if I have time. @mpershan
For the record though, Bereiter describes Direct Instruction (when it was originally developed) as not behaviorst, and in fact, "totally atheoretical." He gives a nice answer to what behaviorism is missing here: youtu.be/RdL3zXLGk54?list=PL…
Seeing examples and quotes from Engelmann, @Mr_Raichura, and automated attempts at DI the past couple weeks, I see a lot of Skinner. And this isn't completely disparaging, because I think there are a lot of misconceptions about Skinner. See this post:
nitter.gq/EdTechMuser/status/130…
One day before this.
ALT Google's AI Overview responds "There are 2 'r's in Turkmenistan" in response to the query "how many r's in Turkmenistan".
“They think the way you toughen kids up is to get them to clean a bathroom, and the way you get them to learn is to power through it as quickly as possible,” Professor Willingham said, adding, “These are naïve theories of psychology.”
The New York Times article on Alpha School is long. I admittedly did not read all of it, but I am glad I skimmed through the end to see the mic drop ending by @DTWillingham:
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/al…
