uri treisman

6:11
6:34
what if it's not about competition

what if competition is the thing keeping us from equity

7:05 - what if evaluation is a non.
what if mathematically - evaluation is a non.

7:44 - if we're talking proficiency about a publicly prescribed curriculum.. how can that be a means to equity

9:48 - what if equity is not about performance

14:20 - you don't really learn math on the streets?
you mean school math.. no?


14:50 - pisa is about applying (school) math
no?

16:50 -
again - mathematically speaking - what matters is perhaps not competition - for a score on a test

17:11 - good point indeed
but (schooling the world) who's to say that baccalaureate degree is success...?
18:23 - what about the # of doctorates on food stamps...
remedial
35000 in ca 2 yrs ago - repeated remedial math for the 5th or more times - no one can say they don't have persistance..
can we not listen to the water?.... what does this mean? surely not that we need better math scores

19:40 - not about the students.. but what we teach the students...?
hmmm. what about what we educe from the students... learn/listen alongside.. people in the community.. everyone a student

21:32 - where you live shapes what you learn - then right to - 8th grade scores...
[denise pope - 95% say they cheat - how is this being soaked in - in the math community - not statistically sound - no]

23:30 - math mission - the accident of where you live should not limit your mathematical opportunity.. what if the accident of the "wealthy" is keeping us in this compulsory prescribed system of teaching to learn. perpetuating it. what about plato - math man - no? -

27 - does it matter how pretty the graph, if it's exposing non-material data...
27:57 - ie: what does a graduate mean, what does college ready mean. what do we know of what's happening in college?
climbing into the numbers... this is the data...   - how to know..
30:02 - being in schools...
30:29 - tests not worthy - so why are we talking pisa, et al?
[so sorry - if i'm missing something - but is not fractal thinking - that we're missing]
32 - the hardest challenge of our profession - remembering the person..?
36 - come out of school with what they are not
36:45 - time for us to write it? decide what common core is?
what if common core is simply - learning how to learn
38:24 - what if it's the primary determinant because it's the thing most won't need, so most never find success in, yet the world lauds it as the ultimate...knowing/learning math
39:45 - education is the part that we control?

1. poverty
2. opportunity to learn

40:38 - oh my - our field is the determinant if people will end up on the right or the left..
oh my.

42:32 - race matters - when we have defined normal/common core/ what should be learned.
we have much to learn from each other.. if we focus on that - rather than math.
well - dang -  just imagine that
the reality is the reality ? and the numbers are the numbers?
reform - taking the eye of poverty - and schools as places where we produce citizens with democratic ideas
oh my - engines of producing a complex american identity? which are commitment to making us a country...
44:30 - start with the common core? if it collapses - bad thing...
what if we are starting with the wrong thing..?
46:45 - the aggregate affect we want?
47:43 - culture and trust - imagine just trading out - in schools - to in cities...


seems to be a lovely man. great heart.
they hype is spot on. i mean - he's talking - deeply/sincerely - about equity.
except... what if his focus is wrong..
what if we are missing it because our focus is our distraction... to what matters...



To view these slide in PDF format, click here. 

NCTM has committed itself to equity, with many of us working toward a new generation of mathematics-savvy citizens and STEM professionals representing our diverse population. We need to take stock of the record and take action from the state house to the classroom, so that our vision becomes reality and our hopes for our students are realized. Philip “Uri” Treisman is professor of mathematics and of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Charles A. Dana Center. He is a senior adviser to the Aspen Institute’s Urban Superintendents’ Network and recently served on the 21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992 for his work on nurturing minority student achievement in college mathematics and 2006 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation of Harvard University for his outstanding contributions to mathematics. In all his work, Treisman advocates for equity and excellence in education for all children.

Philip Uri Treisman
Charles A. Dana Center, University of Texas at Austin


via http://dianeravitch.net/2013/05/21/better-links-to-uri-treismans-talk-at-nctm/

seth godin - backwards at new school

9 min - it's the work you are after - not the credit

Breaking Down Generational Silos

Breaking Down Generational Silos


 youth start asking questions to @TheBIF whenever you want. add #BIFQuest to your tweet.

Seth's Blog: It's Thomas Midgeley day

Seth's Blog: It's Thomas Midgeley day

It comes down to this: only people can have ethics 

taking personal responsibility, not on blaming the heartless, profit-focused system....

insideout project - trailer

Inventor Of ADHD's Deathbed Confession: "ADHD Is A Fictitious Disease"

Inventor Of ADHD's Deathbed Confession: "ADHD Is A Fictitious Disease"

murmuration

Murmuration from Islands & Rivers on Vimeo.

sole higher ed

Yaacov Hecht - Democratic Education

A SOLE is a “self-organized learning environment”, a concept conceived by educational researcher and winner of the 2013 TED Prize Dr. Sugata Mitra. His wish to inspire the world is for educators to create SOLEs for children to tap the power of self-directed learning.

Home - Black Mountain SOLE

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Black Mountain SOLE is the world’s first SOLE for higher education. We provide a residential campus with the infrastructure and personnel necessary to support collaboration, individual work, and group events. Our programs incorporate progressive ideas from leading educational innovators and combine…

Seth's Blog: The river guide and the rapids

Seth's Blog: The river guide and the rapids

The thing is, the captain changes his tactics constantly. He never whines. He doesn't stop the boat and say, "wait, no fair, yesterday this rock wasn't like this!" If your pilot keeps demanding that the rapids cooperate, it's probably time to find a new pilot....the one who can see--see what's coming and see what matters--is the one you want piloting your boat.

quest to learn - connected learning

via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/whitney-burke/connected-learning-a-approach-for-our-time_b_3269437.html

storm clouds gathering

caine smith

icons

http://www.today.com/moms/mom-helps-daughter-channel-icons-not-disney-princesses-1C9921545

http://redefineschool.com/632/icons/

you go big picture

http://www.bigpicture.org/2012/05/big-picture-learning-showcased-as-model-for-educating-students-at-obama-administration-announcement-of-new-race-to-the-top-competition/

The new competition asks districts “to show us how they can personalize and individualize education for a set of students in their schools,” Secretary Duncan stated. “We need to take classroom learning beyond a one-size-fits-all model and bring it into the 21st century.”

“We are excited to see these changes being encouraged in schools across the country,” states Dennis Littky, co-founder of Big Picture Learning. “For over 17 years, Big Picture Learning has been on the front line of innovative personalized education. Once you find their passion and invite the student to drive their own education, the end results are phenomenal.”

Seth's Blog: Appropriate cheating in the nine-dot problem

Seth's Blog: Appropriate cheating in the nine-dot problem

tweets - experiment with free form

Whitney Johnson (@johnsonwhitney) 5/12/13 7:04 AM One lesson I never expected to learn as a mother. buff.ly/13qoOTQ c @morraam @bostonmamas@miguelina @DeniseRestauri

No matter how many doors science could open, would I have closed the door on her?

No matter how many doors science could open, would I have closed the door on her?

No matter how many doors science could open, would I have closed the door on her?

No matter how many doors science could open, would I have closed the door on her?

Chocolate Bar Book (@sochocolatebar)
5/9/13 8:47 PM
Two best friends, ages 6 and 7, raise $200,000 to fight rare disease nbcnews.to/10eNTjb via@nbcnightlynews #sochocolatebar

Despite the work involved in being constant caregivers, Jonah's father Rabin Pournazarian said he's grown to appreciate life more since Jonah was born.

Professor Dr. David Weinstein, director of the Glycogen Storage Disease Program at the University of Florida, is working on finding a cure through gene therapy. Because it is so rare, he said, "We're just in the infancy of really trying to treat this."

Funding research for what Weinstein describes as an "orphan disease," something rare that affects a small population, has been challenging.

"It's too small for the NIH [National Institutes of Health] to care about, too small to have a foundation," Weinstein said.

Saul Kaplan (@skap5) 5/10/13 6:26 AM Standardized tests are neither good nor bad. They're a tool to provide us with information.@deborahgist

oh my.

dang.

Pernille Ripp (@pernilleripp)
5/11/13 6:50 AM
Learn How to Help YOUR Students Change OUR Worldbit.ly/16oOZ0e

ah.. much better - you go on this Saul and Angela...

Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) 5/10/13 6:25 AM Open innovation is changing the economics of advertisings.hbr.org/10uSpY7

imagine..

one innovation/narrative is freeing up 100% of humanity..

Greg Satell (@Digitaltonto)
5/11/13 6:51 AM
RT @craigalberino: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network - Interactually bit.ly/YMvqfD This IS creepy!

Nilofer Merchant (@nilofer)
5/8/13 12:57 PM
Your backbone will get you further than your wishbone. The future is created when you (and others) act more than dream. Do.

Jennifer Sertl (@JenniferSertl)
5/8/13 12:58 PM
Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire; be the fire and wish for the wind ~ Nassim Taleb (@nntaleb) ♫ youtube.com/watch?v=rxxcew… ♫ #a3r

tonysilbert (@tonysilbert)
5/11/13 7:42 AM
Yeah Cassandra Lin @TEDxProvidence. At the ripe age of 15 has been running a #SocEnt Turn Grease in to Fuel (TGIF) for five yrs! #tedxpvd

Jose Baldaia (@Jabaldaia) 5/12/13 7:01 AM Prototyping as children do to create empathy -x.nu/Sxjp2

“Here’s my new prototype rule of thumb: your prototype has to be better (better build quality, faster interface, better lighting, whatever) than the finished product is going to be. That’s what people expect anyway–they see your prototype and take off 20% for reality.” – Seth Godin

the beauty we are swimming into..

Understanding the choices that people make and the behaviors that compromise them we can identify the needs of those people and create effective solutions for them.

hmm. this part.. not resonating..

actually sounds like me - and many others.. seeking/wanting to change the world.

listen.. yes.. notice.. yes..

but.. create solutions.. for another... 

alongside... with... are dangerous enough.. given the likelihood of a real and/or perceived raised eyebrow.

but..create for another..?

unless that creating.. is simply setting them free in spaces of permission where they have nothing to prove.

where they:

1. are known by someone

2. talk to self daily

Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. (@wfryer)
5/12/13 7:05 AM
I've migrated 11 of my 37 WordPress sites to @site5 so far largely thanks to @Backup_Buddy by@ithemes - What a lifesaving tool! :-)

Leon Cych (@eyebeams) 5/12/13 7:11 AM There is nothing to defend if there is no argument other than I was told this by someone else.

ie.. sat guy saying... go AP..

we are so not noticing the world...

just our corner.

the rest is a coveted mystery.

until we go there.

pluralistic ignorance - no?

Eliot Brenner (@eliotmbrenner)
5/7/13 12:20 PM
"Stop thinking about giving to charities and to shift to buying impact." shar.es/j6lgr via@ReachScale

________________

oh my...

ReachScale (@ReachScale) 5/12/13 7:19 AM Thx Jennifer RT @JenniferSertl @ReachScale: Changing Business As Usual: 3 Questions 4 Non-profit & For-profit Leaders shar.es/lU1co

via miller..

Decades of effort to bring the poor into the mainstream where “a healthy and growing labor market” would enable a steady income (and for some, even prosperity) have been shattered as “more Americans experience poverty today than at any time in the 53 years the Census Bureau has published such figures

miller continues...

"If our field is to address a more fundamental set of issues, our tactics must change, broadening our approach to go beyond a traditional set of activities. Admittedly, this emerging approach lacks some of the theoretical certainty of the dominant view, which sees access and ownership strategies as reliable steps into mainstream opportunity."

"Yet given the reality that access strategies have been helpful but not adequate, we must be intentionally experimental. Only by rigorously questioning and transcending our own cherished assumptions will we progress."

What is lacking: cross sector commitment to engage, evaluate, invest and scale the most innovative and sustainable models. The need for this shift and this commitment is reinforced each time a Clara Miller says, “We plan to invest 100 percent of our endowment, as well as other forms of capital, for mission.” These are some of the models that can make mission sustainable.

Yet, NGO Source simply extends U.S.-centric money rules to the global landscape.

The near term cost is the lost competition of non-profit programs with more sustainable models. IRS rules of money favor less sustainable and scalable models. The much larger cost is the massive loss of innovation that could come from engaging community, philanthropy, non-profit, social enterprise, business and government leaders across global north and south opportunities to invent and scale sustainable solutions.

2. How can we collaborate to scale “best solutions” now while advocating and changing the rules so that data (and sustainable models) are more influential in allocating resources to global, country and community engines of economic development

The knowledge silos and non-profit money rules limit our innovation visions. Simple questions like the difference between social innovation and social entrepreneurship are not well understood. Even organizations who understand the distinctions and know proven innovators who could scale, continue to over-invest in adding new pilots and enterprises and underinvest in scaling these proven winners—begging the question:Where Will All the “Household Names” in Social Enterprise Come From?

wait.. proven innovators..?.

Even organizations who understand the distinctions and know proven innovators who could scale, continue to over-invest in adding new pilots and enterprises and underinvest in scaling these proven winners—begging the question:Where Will All the “Household Names” in Social Enterprise Come From

perhaps.. exactly the point...?

no more household names.

instead ... 7 bill people doing/being/preventing/solving....

No one has done more to call on leaders to expand their vision of “Progress Out of Poverty” than Yunus. “Whenever I found a problem, I started a business to solve it,” he has said repeatedly. The $30 billion micro-finance markets grew from that “I started a business to solve it” premise and the understanding that poor women are some of the world’s best entrepreneurs.

perfect.. we are starting a business... city as school... to solve for 100 % of humanity..

via (proven?) social entrepreneurs... you th.    b.  n  

3: How can we engage and collaborate with innovators and entrepreneurs in every sphere of influence to leverage the entrepreneurial human spirit?

We see from Mohammed Yunus’ example that successful leaders and models are those capable of tapping the entrepreneurial human spirit.  When people who must “innovate to live” (immigrants, for example) engage with leaders who are motivated to share these innovations, the potential is enormous. Social entrepreneurs demonstrate that these stretch goals are achievable and could result in scale and profit.

These leaders are solving complex problems for broad populations by combining community leadership, technology, social marketing, silo busting, policy levers, movement building and partnerships often in ways that standard for-profit organizations have never considered.

An important next step: to invite multiple stakeholders to design and build scaling engines that streamline scale commitments and reduce risks so portfolios of “most innovative” social enterprises can be scaled.

We simply must adopt the best examples and never underestimate what talented entrepreneurs can do, no matter where we find them.

huge David.

from a fellow - mom.. speaking for heart wrenched moms..

and a non-publicized.. so perhaps.. non token and or tarnished youth..

who are now describing youth..

you to whatever th degree you decide

amber rae - bold academy

Seth's Blog: The certain shortcut

Seth's Blog: The certain shortcut

Lauryn Hill Ordered by the Court to Undergo “Counseling” Due to her “Conspiracy Theories”

Lauryn Hill Ordered by the Court to Undergo “Counseling” Due to her “Conspiracy Theories”

http://redefineschool.com/632/lauryn-hill/

Let's Hack Higher Ed! An Invitation to Team Teach "Future of the University" in Spring 2014: | HASTAC

Let's Hack Higher Ed! An Invitation to Team Teach "Future of the University" in Spring 2014: | HASTAC

My motivation for doing my version of Hack Higher Ed is manifold but here is the biggest:

We must change the current US higher education system which, because of price cutting of public education and the soaring costs of private education, is increasingly aimed at the "global 1%" (the wealthiest top tier of the world) and the "intellectual 1%" (that subset of smart students who are unfailingly studious, do great on tests, don't question authority, and earn the kind of perfect records that get you into college today).   As I note in all my lectures, the current average GPA of a student entering the Univeristy of California at Irvine is 4.1 on a 4.0 scale--and they have perfect test scores, scads of AP classes, tons of community service to boot:  I do not want to live in a society that expects young people to be that perfect and then has the audacity to tell them they have to "learn to fail" and "take risks":   no, we have set up a system where even a tiny mis-step is disaster.