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STEAM teacher - Social Studies and the Sciences
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- I'm Chris, a science and humanities secondary teacher
- I'm a strong believer in wholisitc, cross-curricular education
- STEAM is the way to be, don't forget about the Arts in math and science!
- I have many classes from COVID on Youtube!
www.youtube.com/c/Handforths...
- I'm Chris, a science and humanities secondary teacher
- I'm a strong believer in wholisitc, cross-curricular education
- STEAM is the way to be, don't forget about the Arts in math and science!
- I have many classes from COVID on Youtube!
www.youtube.com/c/Handforths...
Some days current events are quiet. And some days the deputy Prime Minister quits an hour before your Social Studies class.
December 16, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Some days current events are quiet. And some days the deputy Prime Minister quits an hour before your Social Studies class.
The number of times I’ve gotten a history “essay” that just tries to recite every fact a student knows about a topic with zero argument attached to it…
Gotten fewer of these trivia lists as I’ve gotten more used to teaching social studies, but it still happens.
Gotten fewer of these trivia lists as I’ve gotten more used to teaching social studies, but it still happens.
One challenge of teaching in humanities & social sciences is helping students grasp the difference between “interesting”and “significant.” Just because you’ve learned an interesting fact or data point doesn’t mean that that fact is significant or relevant to the argument or issue at hand.
December 14, 2024 at 5:57 PM
The number of times I’ve gotten a history “essay” that just tries to recite every fact a student knows about a topic with zero argument attached to it…
Gotten fewer of these trivia lists as I’ve gotten more used to teaching social studies, but it still happens.
Gotten fewer of these trivia lists as I’ve gotten more used to teaching social studies, but it still happens.
I’m very much of the opinion that teacher need to stop trying to compete with video games - but this is absolutely the biggest thing we must learn from them.
There is a world of difference between failure and fail state. The former is a learning opportunity. Yet we use the latter so often.
There is a world of difference between failure and fail state. The former is a learning opportunity. Yet we use the latter so often.
I should be smart! Why isn't this thing easy when everything I'm supposed to do I have been told should be easy for me?
Video games at the time (and even now) allow people to learn from failure so they do better the next time. But I had been trained to learn that failure is bad.
Video games at the time (and even now) allow people to learn from failure so they do better the next time. But I had been trained to learn that failure is bad.
December 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
I’m very much of the opinion that teacher need to stop trying to compete with video games - but this is absolutely the biggest thing we must learn from them.
There is a world of difference between failure and fail state. The former is a learning opportunity. Yet we use the latter so often.
There is a world of difference between failure and fail state. The former is a learning opportunity. Yet we use the latter so often.
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Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
Pinnned!
- I'm Chris, a science and humanities secondary teacher
- I'm a strong believer in wholisitc, cross-curricular education
- STEAM is the way to be, don't forget about the Arts in math and science!
- I have many classes from COVID on Youtube!
www.youtube.com/c/Handforths...
- I'm Chris, a science and humanities secondary teacher
- I'm a strong believer in wholisitc, cross-curricular education
- STEAM is the way to be, don't forget about the Arts in math and science!
- I have many classes from COVID on Youtube!
www.youtube.com/c/Handforths...
Handforth's Study Hall
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Pinnned!
- I'm Chris, a science and humanities secondary teacher
- I'm a strong believer in wholisitc, cross-curricular education
- STEAM is the way to be, don't forget about the Arts in math and science!
- I have many classes from COVID on Youtube!
www.youtube.com/c/Handforths...
- I'm Chris, a science and humanities secondary teacher
- I'm a strong believer in wholisitc, cross-curricular education
- STEAM is the way to be, don't forget about the Arts in math and science!
- I have many classes from COVID on Youtube!
www.youtube.com/c/Handforths...
Time to return to social media in this capaticy! Hello Bluesky, here is educator me!
December 12, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Time to return to social media in this capaticy! Hello Bluesky, here is educator me!