Loves Jesus, GRACE, & the Y Brain Enthusiast (Thanks to Learning and the Brain) Author Show Your Work: Teaching Smarter with the Science of Learning
Raleigh, NC
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Beth Hawks retweeted
Things conservatives told me when I was in my 20’s:
*Character counts
*Crony capitalism is bad
*Russia is our enemy
*Tariffs are taxes
*The Constitution is sacrosanct
*Government power should be limited, restrained, and checked by congress.
Guess they were just joking.
Beth Hawks retweeted
🚨🚨The 6th Annual Rocky Mountain Mind, Brain, and Education conference will be October 18 this year.
If you want to see how psychology research can enhance teaching and learning, you've found the place:
dmns.org/learn/tpd/events-an…
Beth Hawks retweeted
As the world becomes more and more complex, and more and more fake, one of the most important skills we can pass on to our kids is the ability to spot bullshit.
Know who has a really hard time spotting bullshit? Someone who doesn’t know anything.
Discernment, like all other skills doesn’t happen in a vacuum though. We can’t teach it on its own.
The best defense against misinformation and lies will not be a skills-based curriculum, or a 22nd century mindset, it will be actually knowing things.
Beth Hawks retweeted
Everyone must be thinking to be learning - but what are they thinking *with*? teacherhead.com/2025/10/29/e… via @teacherhead
Beth Hawks retweeted
Educationists have spent a lot of ink on explaining why students chronically misbehave in class, whilst ignoring the most obvious reason:
Because they can.
Beth Hawks retweeted
Still blows me away that memorization somehow became taboo in so many classrooms.
Memory is a precondition for thought, and thought is the precondition for learning.
Beth Hawks retweeted
I understand how pen & paper exams can look like anachronisms in an age of AI. Recent comments by the new education secretary indicate as much. But we shouldn't mistake adult ways of working with how children learn. Writing by hand has countless benefits:
alexquigley.co.uk/learning-b…
Beth Hawks retweeted
Knowledge in long-term memory takes up no space in working memory, but knowledge outside the head does. And what's in long-term memory always—and instantly—influences what we can do in short-term memory. Our students don't need practice in thinking; they need more to think with.
Beth Hawks retweeted
This dandy from the WSJ Editorial Board:
"Since Mr. Trump declassified the memo, we can quote the part he didn’t. “Vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results,” it says. “The systems in each voting location are not connected to the Internet or to each other, and many methods for exploiting them rely on physical proximity.” Achieving it across many jurisdictions “would be difficult” and “audits and paper trails very likely would uncover such an effort."
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"Unfortunately, the message from Mr. Trump and others has been that America’s elections can’t be trusted, and the only hope is the SAVE America Act. Aside from being untrue, this is a political backfire for the GOP. If Republican voters believe it, and the bill falls short, then why waste time going to the polls in November? Has the GOP already forgotten how Mr. Trump’s fraud outbursts cost them two Senate seats in the 2021 Georgia runoffs?"
wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump…
Beth Hawks retweeted
The anti-memorization movement has left millions of students unable to think because every elementary operation consumes working memory.
For instance, solving equations feels smooth when basic arithmetic is automatic. It's like moving puzzle pieces around, and you just need to identify how they fit together.
But without automaticity on basic arithmetic, each puzzle piece is a heavy weight. You struggle to move them at all, much less figure out where they're supposed to go.
It’s the same all the way up the ladder of math: from arithmetic, to algebra, to calculus, to all sorts of university-level math and beyond.
Beth Hawks retweeted
Wait. Did we allow a normal, sensible person on this app? It has to be a violation of the terms of service.
Beth Hawks retweeted
Something shocking I've learned at @Alphaschool:
AI is horrible at designing edtech & educational material.
Learning science is so poorly implemented in academia that it's embedded in the training data for every model, and they'll naturally make the same mistakes without realizing it.
Our engineers & learning scientists have to do an incredible amount of manual work around designing good questions & grading rubrics & skill trees.
Beth Hawks retweeted
it's a poem about a thing that never happened, credited to an author who probably never existed, and helen is introduced within the mythology as the daughter of ZEUS, a figure literally nobody in this country even believes in, if you're emotionally invested in the historicity of her pigmentation you need a life and also medication, not necessarily in that order
Beth Hawks retweeted
There are many factors that contribute to teacher exhaustion but perhaps the worst is repeatedly being told that flaky constructivist methods, which go against common sense, work best and when they don’t, you either aren’t doing it right or your perception of reality is wrong.
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