@sprouts

making science a cultural activity

 Somerville, MA
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Joined March 2009
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick6 Nov 2014
"a system of education that routinely & at scale gets its students to high levels of educational achievement"
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America's Got Talent has good acts. Show idea: America's Got Basic Income to see what people can do with free money in a year.
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick3 Jun 2014
Next time someone declares "peak X," consider the possibility its simply becoming part of the fabric of daily life.
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick3 Jun 2014
I tried to answer some questions for @AnthonySalcito about education over at dailyedventures.com/index.ph…
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Bret Victor
@worrydream30 May 2014
Every time you hear someone mention "storytelling", esp. in a journalistic or educational context, go reread this: worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%…
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The go to college response to inequality is the let them eat cake policy prescription of the bridge to the 21st century.
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I have discovered a truly marvelous solution for modern education, which this tweet is too narrow to contain jk it was computers
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick13 May 2014
“We still have the free model for students. It just doesn’t work as well” I mean Thrun’s honesty is . . . something! pando.com/2014/05/12/a-qa-wi…
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick13 May 2014
“If you’re affluent, we can do a much better job with you, we can make magic happen.” haha oh my gosh pando.com/2014/05/12/a-qa-wi…
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick7 May 2014
Presented without comment, cf. washingtonpost.com/local/edu… and
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick3 May 2014
The pretense of some of these professors is incredible youtube.com/watch?v=00Qu1kgs… What would Conway say?
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick27 Apr 2014
One of the most exciting graphs I’ve seen this week, via blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci… h/t @zeynep
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The greatest trick of data manipulation is manipulating human beings into seeing themselves as data
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick14 Apr 2014
“High poverty rates for [kids] in single mother families is a policy choice” via @MattBruenig demos.org/blog/4/14/14/singl…
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Mike Bulajewski@mrteacup9 Apr 2014
Job skills, not college credentials. Spiritual, not religious.
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick4 Apr 2014
“I wish the story could have ended with a discussion […] of the methods of tooth math led by the young discoverer.” papert.org/articles/Learning…
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You can't just imagine another reality, you need to imagine the conditions necessary to imagine another reality
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick4 Mar 2014
Wow, talk about a shitty UX for PARCC testing: youtube.com/watch?v=byETu6yp…
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"Ask a man who caught 1 fish to teach you to fish, & you'll soon realize you would have been better off if he'd given you that fish" -Sanger
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Alec Resnick
@aresnick25 Feb 2014
“the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters [but carpenters men]” how’d I miss DuBois ’til now yale.edu/glc/archive/1148.ht…
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