I tweeted about Timothy Shanahan asking me for evidence (research reports) to show that consonants should not be taught with extraneous sounds. The following Tweets ensued. Peter Blenkinsop @ManYanaEd Replying to @luqmanmichel @ReadingShanahan and 14 others It must be ok to ask for evidence? Luqman Michel Replying to @ManYanaEd @ReadingShanahan and 14 others Yes, when it is something that cannot be thought of logically. Tell me, Peter, do you really need evidence to teach consonants without extraneous sounds. Where do I look for such reports? I can give you many personal anecdotes but you won't accept them. Peter Blenkinsop @ManYanaEd I would expect others to be using the system you use. That is some evidence. Luqman Michel Many are successfully...
Flexibility and relaxing due dates is what grading should have always been about. In a more perfect world, we would also be less about grading and more about evaluation. For this to happen, teachers need smaller class sizes and time during the week to develop curriculum and to work one-on-one with students. This is a funding issue since all of this obviously comes at a cost.There is definitely an ongoing debate about grading students, as you can read here. I land on the side that students will rise to the level of, and even exceed, our expectations when given the opportunity to own their own learning. Here is where pedagogies like Critical Race Theory, project-based learning, participatory action research, culturally...
Every year, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) puts out its AI Index, a massive compendium of data and graphs that tries to sum up the current state of artificial intelligence. The 2022 AI Index, which came out this week, is as impressive as ever, with 190 pages covering R&D, technical performance, ethics, policy, education, and the economy. I've done you a favor by reading every page of the report and plucking out 12 charts that capture the state of play. It's worth noting that many of the trends I reported from last year's 2021 index still hold. For example, we are still living in a golden AI summer with ever-increasing publications, the AI job market is still...
When Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama set out to write Walking the Bowl, a deeply reported look at the lives of street children in Zambia’s capital city, Lusaka, they began with what they didn’t know — exactly how many street children there are in the world, for example. If hard numbers were murky (between ten and fifty million), they were also the most common “information” on offer. Reading the plethora of government and advocacy organizations’ reports on street children, Lockhart and Chama write, “sometimes feels like reading a census taker’s description of hell.” Together with colleagues, they set out to write a different kind of story, one that looked at what was missing from those reports: “the children themselves.”...
Many years ago, before I knew it was a cliche to get into a fight with a man on the internet about Lolita, I got into a fight with a man on the internet about Lolita. He was arguing the position that Humbert Humbert, literature’s most high-gloss pedophile, was simply heeding any red-blooded straight man’s desire for preadolescent girls. I was arguing the position that he was being a sucker, and also, yuck. I definitely won, though I’m sure he didn’t notice; anyone who was going to graciously admit defeat in a conversation like this probably wouldn’t be defending statutory rape in the first place. What I remember, unaccountably, more than 20 years later, is my coup de grace: “If...
