Full List Of Post On Education

Two short video presentations:

1. Open Classroom Initiative: invest in the first world-wide open library of lessons

2. Invest in EdTech and disrupt K12 education

The mission (i.e. the reason for existence) of education 
as a human practice is to ensure the progress of humanity.

The mission of education as a social institution

is enabling people to succeed in life.

The mission of educational institutions in higher education

is equipping people with relevant professional and general knowledge and skills.

The main function of an educational institution is Teaching: i.e. guiding students through an arrangement of learning experiences specifically designed for helping students with mastering subjects, acquiring relevant social skills, and feeling good about themselves.

The mission (i.e. the reason for existence) of science as a human practice is understanding the world in its entirety (outside and inside human subjects); i.e. developing exact description of the world’s structure and evolution.

The mission of a specific science is making reliable predictions in a specific scientific field.

The mission of a scientist as an agent of that practice is discovering truth and presenting it in a testable form.

The mission of a scientific institution is advancing sciences.

The mission of a teacher is fostering in students his/her love for learning.

The mission of a science teacher is sharing with students the feeling of pleasure from thinking.

The mission of a mentor is sharing with students the feeling of pleasure from doing the right thing.

The mission of a parent is making children feeling safe, loved, and confident.

The mission of humanity is making world a better place.

(C) Valentin Voroshilov

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The Proof of a Professional Success  

This page offers ALL posts on education

·                Artificial Intelligence

·                Fundamentals of Quantum Physics 

·                Philosophy Of Education

·                Strategies For Teaching Science

·                From The Top Of My Head: a collection of random ideas

I. Publications on the various aspects of

the methodology of teaching science (physics).

[scroll down for the papers on

II. general methodology of teaching

and III. critique of philanthropic approaches to education]

1.  Essentials of Teaching Science

2.  On the science of teaching science

3.  Modeling Instructions, Design Thinking, and Productive Thinking for a Science Teacher

4.  Deliberate Thinking v. Digging a Trench

5.  Graphical Approach for Structuring Physics Knowledge

6.  A General “Algorithm” for Creating a Solution to a Physics Problem

7.  What does “Thinking as a Physicist” mean?

8.  Teaching Tools for Fostering Understanding of Physics

9.  What Math Skills do Students Taking Physics Need to Have?

10.  Three Lessons from Neurology to Science Teachers

11.  What does it mean to be "smart?"

12.  How much of “cyber” in “cyberlearning” and "cyberthinking"?

13.  Who and why should learn physics?

14.  What does a Teacher need to know about a Brain?

15.  Physics as a Door into STEM Education

16.  What is teaching? What is learning? Why Physics? Professional philosophy of a STEM teacher.

17.  A Problem v. a Task; the Distinction Matters!

18.  Thinking about becoming a STEM teacher? Think again!

19.  What is the difference between a science and a religion? Really.

20.  Anti-Atheism; a Struggle between God and Science

21.  A Full Physics Course 

22. Factual thinking v. integrative thinking, or how we need to teach science

23. On a Definition Of Science

24. Full Physics Course: 2019

25. The difference between online learning and remote teaching.

II. Publications on the general methodology of teaching.

Books:

1.  Fundamental Laws of TeachOlogy: a Handbook For a Beginner Science Teacher

2.  Facilitating In-Service Teacher Training for Professional Development

3.  Becoming a STEM teacher: a crash course for people entering the profession.

Proposals: 

1. Invest in EdTech and disrupt K12 education.

2. Open Classroom Initiative: invest in the first world-wide open library of lessons.

Articles:

1.  The Essence of the Meaning of “Zone of Proximal Development”

2.  The Importance of Early Exposure To Thinking

3.  What is the “Socratic Method”?

4.  Critical Reading of "Making Sense of Confusion" by Jason E. Dowd, Ives Araujo, and Eric Mazur

5.  From being a Teach-er to becoming a Teach-smith.

6.  How I flipped my class without even knowing it (a case study, works for everyone).

7.  What is the mission of education (as a human practice)?

8.  Why Did Russian Cyber Forces Beat Their U.S. Adversaries in 2016? The Answer Is Rooted In The State Of Education!

9.  Do we really know if active forms of learning better than a simple lecture?

10.  Regular Education v. Elite Education

11.  Why do students drop a class and what to do to prevent it from happening

12.  To test or not to test? This is NOT the right question!

13.  An example of NOT being a teacher.

14.  Developing the nation-wide database of the quality of teacher professional development programs, events, and providers.

15.  Developing Strategies and Technology for Generation and Analysis of Longitudinal High Frequency Data Streams from Faculty and Students

16.  The Role of the Unions in “Mass Production” of High-Quality Education

17.  Four Sources of Progress

18.  A Word to Math Teachers About Word Problems

19.  How Can the U.S. Army Solve The Shortage of Qualified Recruits.

20.  The Layered Classroom Approach To Teaching

21.  How is U.S. education reform entangled with U.S.S.R.

22.  Three Myths of The Higher Education

23.  “A Convenient Lie” or “What Research University Faculty Tell Themselves About Their Teaching”

24.  What is so special about being a Scientists?

25.  An Open Classroom: Concept Of a School For The Development of Science Of Education   

26. The mission Of Charter Schools   

27. No sign for improving math education soon.   

28. When a tradition must go - away 

29. Math education –what its consumer says about it. 

30. Some Lateral/Math Problems 
 

31.  Perimeter Institute for Learning and Teaching

 

32.  Why Zoom Sucks For Teaching And Always Will? 

 

33. America! The victim of the Primitivism. 

 

III. Critical reviews of philanthropic and governmental

approaches to reforming education

1.     A word of advice to Mark Zuckerberg: “You are not Steve Jobs, and that’s a good thing.”

2.     "The Backpack Full of Cash": pointing at a problem, not offering a solution.

3.     XQsupesrschool – a blessing or a waste of money?

4.     Why have hundreds of millions of dollarsbeen spent on developing the common core math standards if most people had notreally wanted them?

5.     Seven Reasons Why Rich Philanthropists Fail at Making Systemic Changes in Education

6.     When reforms are due, too much of experience may be as bad as too little of it. (e.g. Bill Gates)

7.     Will the Yidan Prize Affect the Evolution of Education? Too Soon to Say (probably not)

8.     The Beginning of The End of The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative

9. How much of the NSF funded fundamental scientific educational research is really fundamental?

10. Appearances can be deceiving, in education, too.

11. Education Reform Needs a New Paradigm

12. Treat Education Like Space Exploration - the diagram.

13. Five Projects Critical For Education

14. Will Artificial Intelligence Save, Replace or even Affect Education Practices? (a venture capitalist’s view)

15. A letter To Mr. Bezos

16. One True Education Trend Which Will Transform Workforce

17. Why do many EdTech startups fail?

18. “People have to get over this idea that because the guy is rich he’s that smart”

19. The Strategy to Curb Student Loans Debt Crisis

20.  The Road To World Domination Lies Through Mass Education: Part I


21.  The Road To World Domination Lies Through Mass Education: Part II

22.China v. The U.S.: The Battle Of Strategic Thinking

23. What Would Businesses Do If No Foreign Students Could Come In The Country Anymore?

24. A Note On Connection Between Immigration And Science.

25. Bill Gates and The End of An Era.  

 

26. America! The victim of the Primitivism.

 

27. Jeff Bezos v. Education 

28. Two examples of linguistic analysis.

29. I want you to know what I did last summer!  

30. The Litmus Test. 

31. What’s “wrong” with the new definition of a kilogram.

32. Getting ready for the fall semester? Here are some hints. 

33. The future of education is impossible without a robust online component.

34. I want you to know what I did last summer!

35. A free advice to a University President

36. The difference between online learning and remote teaching.

37. The role of Education in the Contemporary World

Three presentations for AAPT meetings (pdfs):

"A novel methodology for measuring content knowledge in physics"

”Project-oriented form of teacher professional development for pre-service and in-service science teachers“

“The "Manhattan Project" approach to development of STEM education”

NB: www.Cognisity.How also includes posts on artificial intelligence and political issues.

www.GoMars.xyz describes the services of Education Advancement Professionals.

 Specific projects for addressing different areas of education and science of education.

 1. Entry125253: High Frequency Data Streams in Education 
(link to the full text)

2. Entry124656: objective measures of physics knowledge 
(link to the full text)
 
3. Entry125317: National database teacher PD 
(link to the full text)
 
4. Entry124655: role of NSF in funding education
(link to the full text) 

5. Entry125719: The new type of a science course for science teachers.  
(link to the full text)

6. Entry126205: The development of the uniform standard for measuring content knowledge in physics.
(link to the full presentation)

Appendix:

In my 2016 “Searching For Visionaries” post I wrote:

“A visionary is not the one who can see things farther away than others, nowadays everyone can utilize binoculars or other instruments to see things afar. A visionary is the one who can see NOW, what others will see much later.”

Since then I wrote many more posts on education (evidently), but my search for a visionary philanthropist has not yet been fruitful.

The critical pieces in the third part of this webpage include descriptions of the efforts of several foundations.

My critique is not about what they do – I admire the efforts to help children getting better education.

My critique is about what they claim – they all claim to reform, reshape the whole system of education.

I have addressed that claim in my pieces.

Here I just want to repeat again that all those foundations will prove is that if you have enough money to hire enough good teachers and to provide to teachers and student good learning environment, students will be learning better than students in other schools.

Affecting the whole system of education requires much more than that; and that is the reason for me writing all those articles listed above (Don’t believe me? Read them!).

Here and now I will only repeat one major feature of the only approach which will make a difference (if applied right) – the openness (some specifics can be found in this posts).

With best wishes,

Dr. Valentin Voroshilov

Education Advancement Professionals

Appendix:

A copy of a note from the main page:

I  am not an idiot or a reckless person. The reason I can allow myself writing what I think, even if that is perpendicular to commonly adopted and conventional views, is that my financial situation is sufficient and stable. Of course, as a normal person, I wouldn't mind making more money, or being involved in more interesting projects (as described in my generic resume). But I do not have to pretend to be someone I'm not to make my living.