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Rene Grimes

@MrsG2nd

Views my own. PhD Special Education, Former PK-2 Teacher; Wife, Mom, Autism Advocate; Lover of Family, Friends, Laughter, World Adventures, Math, Books & KIDS!

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Joined August 2014
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Lamson Nguyen@LamsonNguyen15Nov 6
Core Knowledge is not the great curriculum its proponents make it out to be. One might assume that because curriculum exists, that is the best we can do. As noted in the article below, we are shockingly far from that. Knowledge Rich, Meaning Poor justsemantics.substack.com/p…
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I’m a total failure at threads. But I don’t want the hassle of getting verified, or whatever I’m supposed to do to have unlimited text. @elonmusk just make it unlimited & add the dang edit button already.
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2. A complex adaptive system. The brain, the body, a classroom, a school, an LEA, state DOEs, and US DOE (RIP) ARE, individually and collectively complex systems. Any change in a variable will impact other variables & it’s pretty darn hard to predict when or how that will occur>
Rene Grimes (@MrsG2nd) profile pictureRene Grimes@MrsG2ndNov 5
Replying to @drewhalbailey @EdTechMuser @JulieSarama
🧵I’m going to weigh in here from my perspective. This might take a thread. I consider myself fortunate in that I was trained in a program called Mind, Brain & Education. This program wove Behaviorism, Neuroscience, Ed Psychology, and Learning Science together as elements of…
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21. To the wars, we have to acknowledge that fact. Theories evolve, or should. Taking hard line stances & claiming “this” is “best” is silly b/c it all depends…we’ve got to be comfortable with that. Doctors ARE. They choose protocols & follow up b/c nothing is sure. The thing >>
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22. What do you think? I think researchers have put their studies out there, sometimes overstating ED, policy makers don’t consider implications, yet they mandate what Ts do. Tchrs are left juggling the ball. When/how do we embrace uncertainty? Pressure’s real at classroom level.
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22. Frustrates me is thinking one theory captures the complexity. Behaviorism, constructivism, cog sci are all narrow…various camps need to see that within each of these are threads of the others b/c humans are complex. I am weary of sound bites, dichotomies & overstated claims.
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18. When studies don’t compare a method, resource, etc to something else, we don’t really know how to interpret that. If BAU was nothing, e,g. never practicing math facts, we can’t say that drill is better than another method. It should be better than nothing. There’s a great >>
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