Rachel @rhwave2004

I teach middle school math and ELA. arithmeticplus.wordpress.com Joined September 2017

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Rachel @rhwave2004

4 weeks ago

@karenvaites @DTWillingham @natwexler @C_Hendrick @profbeckyallen PD slides for teachers ended up here: docs.google.com/presentation/d…

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I asked Claude about content-rich videos displacing reading and implications for reading comp, particulary in science/history at the secondary level. Any SOR people want to push back, clarify, or refute what Claude is telling me here? @DTWillingham @karenvaites @natwexler

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Rachel @rhwave2004

4 weeks ago

@karenvaites @DTWillingham @natwexler @C_Hendrick @profbeckyallen Interesting but for the most part focused on AI-generated content and/or algorithmic feeds for individual learning. My hypothesis is that some part of the decline since 2015 is that teachers showing youtube (curated, whole-class) is displacing textbook reading.

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4 weeks ago

@karenvaites @DTWillingham @natwexler @C_Hendrick @profbeckyallen Thanks!

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Rachel @rhwave2004

11 months ago

@TheWritingRevol Hey @TheWritingRevol , I'm enjoying the new tool. I work with 8th grade and secondary students who need to cite evidence from the text (specific quotes). Do you have any scaffolds to help them do this effectively?

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Rachel @rhwave2004

a year ago

@BCPhotos @Frank5386777181 @CALFIRECZU @sccounty Somewhere northeast of Santa Cruz

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Rachel @rhwave2004

2 years ago

@rpondiscio Curious whether you read the Times article, and if so what your reaction was.

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2 years ago

@rpondiscio Gift link: nytimes.com/2008/04/23/edu…

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2 years ago

@rpondiscio nytimes.com/2008/04/23/edu…

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Rachel @rhwave2004

2 years ago

If you had to guess, based on your own experience, what percentage of kids who go on to college made it through MS and HS without ever reading an entire novel cover to cover?

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Rachel @rhwave2004

2 years ago

@mpershan I think it’s a semi-frequent math circle topic? Worth searching for “math circle modular arithmetic”, quick hit math.uci.edu/~mathcircle/ma… but likely various versions out there for older/younger. Can check my physical books tomorrow.

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Rachel @rhwave2004

2 years ago

@MrLandesman FYI -- the free curriculum you can download here coreknowledge.org/download-free-… is...also Illustrative Math. It was developed as an OER and not commercial. (screenshot from Core Knowledge Grade 5 materials.) I could be wrong but I don't think any IM version is commercial.

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Rachel @rhwave2004

2 years ago

@mpershan This is a decent game to play with AI.

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Rachel @rhwave2004

2 years ago

@LaneWalker2 (Also worth usual caveat DI as an instructional method vs a curriculum gets conflated often, as an instructional method alone it’s especially difficult to isolate and quantify effects)

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Rachel @rhwave2004

2 years ago

@LaneWalker2 Anecdotally, seen similar in math—my feeling is that more often that not it raises the floor, but has less effect on the ceiling. Overall more depends on the teacher and other variables.

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Rachel @rhwave2004

2 years ago

@benorlin Choose your fighter: "“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” -E.M. Forster "…whoever places a friend / above the good of his country, he is nothing: / I have no use for him" -Sophocles

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Rachel @rhwave2004

3 years ago

@cmmteach If it doesn't have to be specifically pub quiz format...lesswrong.com/posts/ArhS2ye2…

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Rachel @rhwave2004

3 years ago

@dylanpkane I remember this being really tricky for kids! I tried to have them do some extra practice on Khan and they totally bombed. Concept was hard enough, but also added "constant of proportionality" lang. I wrote at a least a dozen scaffolded practice activities--did one/day for weeks