Educator navigating Twitter-verse, seeking glimpses of humanity and civility.
Joined November 2011
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I agree with this.
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A good thread from a teacher, on losing the battle for students' attention
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Reading Don't Label Me by @IrshadManji and came across a good reminder.
"Keep in mind that 'listening to' doesn't have to mean 'agreeing with.'"
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At #SOTU, @JoeBiden said, "Stop seeing each other as enemies and start seeing each other for who we are: fellow Americans.” 400+ organizations in the #ListenFirst Coalition are working every day to achieve that stronger future, together. Join them! listenfirstproject.org/liste…
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The hallmark of an open mind is not letting your ideas become your identity.
If you define yourself by your opinions, questioning them is a threat to your integrity.
If you see yourself as a curious person or a lifelong learner, changing your mind is a moment of growth.
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We're incredibly excited to join @StartsWithUs, a new civic movement to empower all of us to strengthen ourselves and society by practicing curiosity, empathy, and the courage to collaborate across differences every day!
Take the pledge with us today:
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#starmanning in practice:
1. Restate their argument in a way they'd agree with.
2. Locate and explicitly acknowledge the fundamental human desires motivating them, and how you share those desires.
3. Use "We" language, rather than "Us vs. Them" language, when disagreeing.
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"If we don’t want to replicate the polarization playing out among older adults today, putting teens in dialogue with peers whose points of view they might not otherwise share...is of vital importance." @SamuelAbramsAEI @RealClearEd
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According to @BretWeinstein & @HeatherEHeying, “[T]he modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains & bodies.” That’s why, despite greater prosperity, humans are less at peace. I agree & explain.👇🏽 (Can’t wait for their new book!) @munkdebate
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I love this! (You don’t have to wait until college, either).
Great piece by John Rose, Executive Director of the Arete Program at Duke University (one of the sister programs of the James Madison Program at Princeton).
wsj.com/articles/how-i-liber…
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Thanks to everyone who commented on the beta version of this. Here is my final version of my ten positive principles for K through 12: The Empowering of the American Mind @JoinPersuasion persuasion.community/p/the-e…
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“We are all smarter when we have a more diverse inner crowd, which we can achieve by cultivating a cognitively diverse outer crowd. But that involves engaging with people we disagree with, an activity that, in truth, most people do not do naturally.” 👏👏👏
My debut for @TheAtlantic - on why you should disagree with yourself theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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#AlleloThursday is a great opportunity to see how our platform works and how you can use it in your classrooms. Sign up for the roundtable here: allelo.io/roundtable #teachers #educators #edtech #roundtable
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The clearest sign of intellectual chemistry isn't agreeing with someone. It's enjoying your disagreements with them.
Harmony is the pleasing arrangement of different tones, voices, or instruments, not the combination of identical sounds.
Creative tension makes beautiful music.
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Three cheers for teachers who respect unorthodox perspectives about identity.👇🏽Bear in mind: “Respect” does not mean “agree with.” It means “engage with.” Which is what education is all about.
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We are reading (and re-reading) this recent @BrookingsInst piece about why debate and dialogue techniques MUST be part of education innovation. Check it out: brookings.edu/blog/brown-cen… #civildiscourse #debate #edtech #education
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Mill’s (invincible) Trident: An argument every fan (or opponent) of #freespeech must know thefire.org/mills-invincible… via @TheFIREorg
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Here's a lovely essay by an undergrad -- Noah Rosenfield -- on "Why J.S. Mill Matters More than Ever." At @HdxAcademy
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"By committing to argue better, we can engage in rich dialogue not in spite of our differences, but because of them." #ArgueBetter @Allstate @facinghistory @aspenideas aspenideas.org/articles/we-m…
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Fantastic @trinityforum conversation between @JonHaidt and @Peter_Wehner — talking about “machloket l’shem shamayim” (see next tweet) and quoting @nytdavidbrooks (as he channeled JS Mill). Also Pete mentioned the 💗 concept of “2nd friends.” (More here👇) psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
