Monday, January 2, 2023

Does technology improve student writing?

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I decided to begin the new year by asking ChatGPT two questions that I broached in a long-ago blog post. 1. Should students learn touch typi...
Monday, December 26, 2022

More educational malpractice: the sad legacy of Everyday Math, II

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Here's a follow-up post to my first "sad legacy of Everyday Math" post, in which I concluded by saying that You can’t blame ...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Educational malpractice for the sake of Reform Math

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Jo Boaler has been in the news once again, this time as one of the authors of the  controversial new California Math framework .  So I thoug...
Monday, December 19, 2022

The sad legacy of everyday math

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[Everyday Math, I gather, is still very much in use, and so I thought it worthwhile to recycle this old post.] Twice this past week I saw sh...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Where calculators don't help

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How much longer would it have taken for the flight to take off if one of the younger flight attendants had taken charge? Another resurrected...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

False choices in remediation: "addition and subtraction over and over again" or Marxism and Shakespeare

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I suspect the rejection of true remediation has only grown over the years since I wrote this, as schools, bowing to the Common Core standard...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Is there really no Theory of Mind deficit in autism? Part II: the validity of the standard Theory of Mind measures

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Cross-posted at FacilitatedCommunication.org . In my previous post on Gernsbacher and Yergeau’s 2019 paper, Empirical Failures of the Claim ...