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Modern pedagogy has mastered the short term data collection loop. Constant formative assessments and exit tickets generate a plethora of data on every single period of the school day and can help a reflective teacher ensure key learnings reach every student. But the same can not be said about long term growth. For understandable logistic reasons, there is a devastating deficit of long term…
Productive struggle creates the best learning. Friction, challenge, rigor, desirable difficulties, whatever name it goes by, it is well understood that this curated resistance is what leads to growth. This is pretty much universally understood in regards to fitness; there's nuance to "no pain, no gain" but we know that we have to push our bodies to get them to improve. The brain isn't a muscle but…
My digital footprint is a perfect storm for AI-powered networking, especially in EdTech. My name appears alongside things like "AI" and multiple ventures like "GSV" but the most impactful semantic tie comes from "coaching". Career and life coaching recently went through an unfortunate renaissance with all of the turbulence in the tech world and so folks with tech and coaching under their belt were…
One of my favorite concepts to teach is emergent properties. These are phenomena like friction or surface tension that exist because of the scaling up of the behavior of individual molecules. Something where the whole gets new properties because of the sum of its parts. Take the states of matter - a single water molecule isn't a solid, liquid, or gas, it takes a collective interaction of the…
When standing on the shoulders of giants, do we need to see the ground? On average I get less than 5 hours a week with my students so how do I balance teaching fundamental concepts, modern developments, and all of the work in-between? When I teach Physics, this is what haunts me when I teach electricity. The state standards only briefly mention the topic so time is always tight. But the subject…