Alex Dainis 🧬🔬
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Parsnip Problems :
As an educator I have a new rule of thumb “when given the opportunity students will optimize the learning out of education to get a grade”
2026-05-27 19:57:38
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willfreundmedia :
As a nonformal educator, I really focus on fostering curiosity. You read that paper bc you were interested in the topic. not everyone is going to be interested in every topic. but learning how to recognize and follow curiosity is a skill and process that can be taught.
2026-05-27 20:10:37
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Marc S :
I agree 100%, but then I have a state mandated standardized test to prepare kids for and it all goes out the window.
2026-06-15 20:28:20
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Em :
This distinction is something I’ve had to work so hard on for myself as I’ve gone through university and my PhD. I’m an amazing test-taker without really any effort. Turns out I’m not so great at the actual learning part unless I really try though.
2026-05-28 01:20:23
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Ben Lackey :
I took a bunch of grad level courses freshman year of college. I had no business being in them. My grades were dismal. I learned a lot. The irony was it closed the door to most grad school opportunities. Ultimately I was able to follow a someone and be one of hos first masters students. If I did it again I’d balance hard and grades a bit more. That said I have minimal regrets.
2026-06-01 19:20:08
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Neat Thanks :
I wish school assessments were not how we decided what opportunities kids got. This would let us shift the focus to learning instead. Make the door opener be a different orthogonal approach. And have a test that changes enough every year it cannot be studied for.
2026-05-27 22:32:52
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miradoon :
Ungrading the classroom can go a long way toward reorienting motivations.
2026-05-28 11:43:00
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Inkerstheprune22 :
I am currently going to school to be a math teacher, I plan to teach in a way that makes it so kids actually want to learn and not just try and get good grades, but I have no clue how to do that because I just finished my first year of college lol
2026-05-27 21:51:57
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Daily Dose :
Hey Alex! Just seen your McGurk effect video and would love to chat about sharing it. Please check your message requests
2026-07-01 10:52:04
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teagonia 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 ♂ :
but, but … everyone only pays attention to the grades, the result, the numbers … /s
2026-07-07 21:26:12
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footnote¹¹ :
Time after time in my career I've brushed up against nuanced situations that are hard to evaluate in a way that makes it clear how to proceed. But instead of tackling thorny issues, we pick some trivially measurable metric. Unfortunately, it means that all processes are optimized for that metric because it's the only thing we have to measure success. That's what grades in school are, and why teachers inevitably "teach to the test". But it's not just a problem in education.
2026-05-27 20:38:19
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Ahmed Bellankas :
head on, interesting content.
2026-07-20 14:03:16
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Spooky Babe :
This has been my constant project in my four years as faculty. We train medical professionals, and we need them to be able to do deep problem-solving and critical-thinking, but their whole science education before they come to, our program is very outcomes & graded-focused. I’ve really focused on adding metacognitive awareness and transparency in learning to all my courses. It’s a new challenge with every cohort, and I’m actually doing part of my dissertation on how humanities education supports critical thinking in STEM students
2026-05-27 21:20:02
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teagonia 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 ♂ :
hm, I'm not sure. I guess I was mostly focused on understanding. That helped me in the stem classes, but the further away the subjects got, the less they were taught in a way that leads to understanding. What is there to "understand" or to "figure out" in analyzing a poem? doing the same thing on another gave entirely different results. I just didn't see the patterns that others did. or when looking at (old greek) architecture, yeah yeah, they did this and that, those things have names, fine, whatever, that's a fact, so what? Where's the unknown, the puzzle, the curiosity, the process for how to gain knowledge?
2026-07-07 21:34:26
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