I don't know anymore. Into learning and everything tangled up with that.
Baltimore, MD
Joined March 2013
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BritniBrownO'Donnell retweeted
I'm a university professor who homeschools her kids
Why do I not trust the school system to teach my kids?
Because I study learning for a living & schools do not create independent, innovating, stewards of the future
Here are the top 5 academic reasons I homeschool
I appreciate stores reserving opening hours for the "elderly and other vulnerable populations" but as someone with invisible illnesses, I'm very concerned about potential gatekeepers and shamers making it difficult for vulnerable people who "look normal" to access what they need
BritniBrownO'Donnell retweeted
Don't worry about your kids' learning. Worry about your kids.
They need your love, your calm, your courage, your sense of humor, your patience, your gentleness, your hugs.
The rest will take care of itself.
Truly. It will. 💛💛💛
BritniBrownO'Donnell retweeted
It is too widely assumed in education and society that a young person's worth is defined by their ability to achieve competitively. Many young people are destroyed each year in the US with environments fostering this deeply absurd narrative. Let's change it.
BritniBrownO'Donnell retweeted
A reminder that if public schools shut down, millions of children will lose their access to some of the only meals they receive each day.
Food banks will become more important, and I've learned the best way to help is not to donate your spare canned goods, it's to donate money.
BritniBrownO'Donnell retweeted
Fascinating study on academic cheating shows that it's predicted by (absence of) need fulfillment, which in turn reflects how kids are taught: goo.gl/dGDKQc. Of course this is inconvenient for adults who'd rather just blame & punish students who cheat...
BritniBrownO'Donnell retweeted
"Voices of Practice will inspect, interrupt, question, what it means to be a scholar, using personal reflections, poignant vignettes, and carefully examined timelines of intellectual and professional development.” Deadline to submit, April 17! hybridpedagogy.org/new-colle… #digped
BritniBrownO'Donnell retweeted
In other words, skill isn’t a thing. It’s a dynamic relationship that is performed by mover-environment systems. It is contextual, not an isolated, predetermined list of steps.
You don’t “teach” skill. You give it opportunities to emerge & develop. You facilitate it.
Reflexivity:
There is dissonance I grapple with in my desire to change education to something I wholeheartedly believe is better, and my absolute belief in not dictating what other's know. Which is itself fundamental to the way I want to change what people know...
Like the belief there is an authority in knowledge and who that authority may be. The belief that an authority can give you knowledge or if knowledge is something you construct yourself. The belief that inform what qualifies as evidence, how you evaluate & interpret evidence.