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Nathan Haines, Ed.D.

@mrnfhaines.bsky.social
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HS Social Studies Teacher: Econ, Psych, Gov, Geo, His. International Schools: Ethiopia, Rwanda. Ed.D. Student at UVA, Curriculum & Instruction. Interested in Global Citizenship Ed and Teacher PL. Check out Praxis Education at www.onteachingandlearning.com

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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#EduSky I'm looking to be more thoughtful with my use of Ed Tech this school-year, which means I'm also going more analogue. I've written up the below for my course syllabi. I'd love to hear from others and get feedback. www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/some-te...
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Some Tech, AI, and Academic Honesty Language for HS Syllabus — PRAXIS Education
Some sections that I'm including in my high school class syllabi this year as I seek to be more deliberate about the use of Ed Tech in my classroom to take a more default analogue approach.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Didn’t expect this… my Sunday sermon just came from Ezra Klein.
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Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · August 2 · 16m
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#EduSky A good stock-take by Carl Hendrick on the current state of research around video-format learning: carlhendrick.substack.com/p/learning-i...
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Learning in the Age of Algorithmic Video
Are children learning anything from TikTok and YouTube?
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#EduSky Last week I successfully defended my Ed.D Capstone research. Pedagogical Content Knowledge was central to the conceptual framework of that research. I discuss that in this post, though in a bit of a different direction from my main research. www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/resolvi...
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Resolving Teachers’ Suspicion of Educational Research and Outside Expertise — PRAXIS Education
Using this Refined Consensus Model of PCK, I argue that teacher professional learning involves both an inside-out and an out-side in process.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#EduSky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... I taught a HS stats class for a couple of years. Taught the students Blackjack and card counting during the probability unit. The 1st part of this podcast reminded me that the unit was fun; the 2nd part made me feel guilty.
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Blackjack
Podcast Episode · This American Life · April 26 · 1h 3m
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies #DPpsych #TOK I just finished this book and thought it was great. What do teachers think about using it in a DP psych or TOK class? There’s quite a bit of discussion of psychedelics www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to…
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#EduSky Check out my article in the April Newsletter of The International Educator (TIE Online): www.tieonline.com/article/7959...
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Reclaiming Teacher Professional Knowledge in an Era of AI | The International Educator (TIE Online)
If we give up on this cognitive and creative work of teaching, both a source and the outcome of our professional knowledge, our profession will suffer; it may e
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#EduSky #EruditePedagogy I have not spent a lot of time thinking about this yet, but recently put together this matrix and I'm curious what others think. As you can tell from the descriptors, I think effective teaching & learning happens in Quadrant D, but... (1/2)
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies This is worth a read: www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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I’m Iranian American. Here’s What I Want Educators to Understand About the War (Opinion)
Understanding Iran requires holding multiple truths at once, writes education reformer Nina S. Rees.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... No one should miss the point that these stories are being told on a program called “This American Life.”
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Give a Little Whistle
Podcast Episode · This American Life · March 8 · 1h
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
#EduSky My response to an aspect of a blog by Paul Kirschner: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/paulo-f...
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A response to Paul Kirschner's outline of 10 reasons why discovery-based learning remains appealing. — PRAXIS Education
On LinkedIn , Kirschner recently reposted a blog that he originally wrote in March 2025 called The Seductive Appeal of Discovery Learning . In other places, Kirschner has critiqued discovery-based l...
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 20/02/2026
Are you a teacher who wants to share on social media without getting “devoured by the machine”? 🍽️ Educator @teachercutler.bsky.social talked to @tobiasrose.bsky.social about how to protect your mental health and intentionally engage. #EduSky
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How to Engage Productively on Social Media as a Teacher
Although many platforms are designed to reward provocation and outrage, we can choose how we interact with different perspectives.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
#EduSky I'm curious... how many teachers watched "One Battle After Another" and thought... that title and the relentlessness implied by it... it feels like the job of teaching in schools?
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... #EduSky I thought this was a great episode. Great talk-through of Rosenshine’s principles. Tom Sherrington has a lot of great insights on teachers and teaching.
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Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction with Tom Sherrington (Ep 64)
Podcast Episode · Chalk & Talk · 02/06/2026 · 1h 3m
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
#EduSky #EruditePedagogy I couldn't give up on the question, "Is "metaphor" a good metaphor for teaching?" Thanks in part to @manymindspod.bsky.social for inspiring the question. Check out my latest blog post: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/a-metaphor-for-teaching-and-learning
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“Metaphor”: An apt metaphor for teaching — PRAXIS Education
A exploration of the question, "To what extent is 'metaphor' an apt metaphor for teaching. Explores representations as conceptual metaphors and argues that teachers need to select and create apt repre...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
#EduSky #EruditePedagogy I just listened to this podcast (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) about metaphors and couldn't help but think about teaching & learning. To what extend is the concept of "metaphor" a metaphor for teaching and learning? 1/10
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The aura of metaphor
Podcast Episode · Many Minds · 01/29/2026 · 1h 36m
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
#iteachsocialstudies In the long tradition of the protest song…Springsteen gives us this: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n... #EduSky Summary of recent Brookings report on AI in education.
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The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
#iteachsocialstudies Worth a listen for those trying to make sense of foreign policy and the “rupture” of the “rules-based world order.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in Years
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 01/27/2026 · 1h 15m
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#EduSky I think this is worth reading. Data is mostly correlational, but shouldn't the burden of proof be on the EdTech? www.economist.com/united-state... (sorry, article is pay-walled).
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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
#EduSky #GlobalEducation #IntlEdu #GCED Check out my article in the most recent issue of The International Educator (TIE) Newsletter on some reflections from teaching a HS course called Critical Global Citizenship: www.tieonline.com/article/7877...
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Learn From and Act With: The Global Citizen Attitude | The International Educator (TIE Online)
The motto of the Critical Global Citizenship course at ISK, "learn from and act with," sits at the heart of meaningful global citizenship...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
#EduSky #TeachEcon I'm using the CoRes tool in my EdD research and thought I'd spend a little time with the tool from the perspective of myself as the teacher. CoRes is a tool to promote teacher pedagogical reasoning. Check out my example: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/cores-a...
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Content Representations (CoRes) as a Tool for Pedagogical Reasoning — PRAXIS Education
An example of using the Content Representations (CoRes) tool for a topic in economics (market demand curve) to promote teacher pedagogical reasoning.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
#EduSky Here is part 2 of my reflections on Ed Tech after reading Horvath's The Digital Delusion. Here I push-back on an aspect of his book. www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/part-2-...
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Part 2 of My Reflections on Ed Tech and Horvath’s Book The Digital Delusion — PRAXIS Education
Part 2 of my reflections on Ed Tech inspired by the reading of Horvath's book, The Digital Delusion.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
#EduSky The Stranger Things series finished this week. Season 5 wasn't perfect, but I liked the final scene; Mike the Game Master, aka. The Storyteller, narrates one last quest. I posted this some week's ago; it held up with the conclusion of the series: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/curricu...
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Curriculum Units as Storytelling — PRAXIS Education
My daughter and I were a little late to the Netflix TV phenomenon of Stranger Things . We didn’t join the fan club until the summer of 2019 and the release of season 3. At that point, before we could...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
#EduSky I recommend this book as a corrective to the ubiquitousness of Ed Tech and AI Ed Tools these days. I wrote up some thoughts after reading the book. www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/reflect...
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Some Reflections on Ed Tech After Reading The Digital Delusion by Jared Cooney Horvath (Part 1) — PRAXIS Education
Some reflections on the role of educational technology prompted by the reading of Jared Cooney Harvath's booth, The Digital Delusion.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
#EduSky If you're trying to keep up with the discussions about AI in education, this podcast from MIT's Teach Lab is worth a listen: www.teachlabpodcast.com. If you've been following it already, the first couple of episodes will feel a little old news, but stick with it.
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The Homework Machine
The Homework Machine is a mini series from TeachLab, a podcast that investigates the art and craft of teaching. There are 3.5 million K-12 teachers in America, and…
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#EduSky I always enjoy listening to Dylan Wiliam talk about Formative Assessment: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
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What is formative assessment, and why should anybody care? With professor Dylan Wiliam
Podcast Episode · They Behave For Me · 12/12/2025 · 56m
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies Here are some of my latest thoughts on Gen AI in Education, at the K-12 level, these thoughts are specific to ELA and Social Studies. www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/will-ll...
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Will LLM Generative AI Spell the End of the Humanities? — PRAXIS Education
Written texts and human engagement with those texts through reading and writing is epistemological to the humanities. This is under threat by LLM Generative AI.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
#EduSky I agree. Good explanation for teachers on intelligence testing. What does it tell us and what does it not.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
#EduSky My hunch is that we will start to see push-back against the AI-generated slop flooding our streams. If you're interested in thoughts about teaching & learning that are human-generated, consider my old-school blog.There's a spot at the bottom to subscribe: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog
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Blog — PRAXIS Education
Human-generated and written thoughts on teaching and learning.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies I was thinking about the debate between inquiry-based learning versus direct instruction. I decided to revisit a paper a wrote. Take a look: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/the-c3-framework-for-social-studies-minimally-guided-instruction-or-disciplined-inquiry
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The C3 Framework for Social Studies: Minimally Guided Instruction or Disciplined Inquiry? — PRAXIS Education
This past week, I briefly engaged with post on LinkedIn from Drew Perkins, the president and director of Thought Stretchers Education , which offers professional development around project-based and ...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#EduSky I've love to hear from some teachers who have verified with ChatGPT for Teachers and have played around with it. In the meantime, I have some concerns, which is write about here. The Vienna Beef pic is intentionally... just read it. www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/chatgpt...
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ChatGPT for Teaches: The Risk of Off-Loading Pedagogical Reasoning — PRAXIS Education
I have concerns about the accelerating roll-out of generative AI systems in education. Many of these concerns relate to uncritical student use of AI tools, but I’m also skeptical about the implication...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
#EduSky When you do a deep dive into curriculum storyboards during the same week you start rewatching Stranger Things on Netflix... you get a bit of a weird mashup. Check out my latest blog post on curriculum units as storytelling: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/curricu...
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Curriculum Units as Storytelling — PRAXIS Education
My daughter and I were a little late to the Netflix TV phenomenon of Stranger Things . We didn’t join the fan club until the summer of 2019 and the release of season 3. At that point, before we could...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
#EduSky I highly recommend that you check out the #EnRoads climate simulator as a climate education teaching and learning tool. Also check out the @climateinteractive.org Climate Ambassador program: www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads-amb...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Great day yesterday with 45 teachers from Kigali area at our Climate Education Teacher Workshop. We used the @climateinteractive.org #Enroads Simulator and collaborated on climate change lessons / units / activities.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies #GCED #service-learning I believe in the value of service-learning and GCED. I've been trying to figure out how to do these things well for many years. However, sometimes it's good to take a open-eyed critical view: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/a-criti...
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A Critique of Global Citizenship Education in International Schools — PRAXIS Education
I’ve been trying to figure out how to do global citizenship education (GCED) and service-learning — and how to do it well — in two different international schools for about 13 years. Recently, I’ve ha...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
#climateeducation #EduSky #iteachsocialstudies I was going through some old files this weekend and came upon this project that I did with students during Covid. I thought I'd write it up and post it. Take a look: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/an-exam...
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An Example of Climate Education, Project-Based Learning — PRAXIS Education
I distinguish between project-based learning (PBL) and project-based assessment. I have regularly used project-based assessment in my classes, often trying to make them as authentically real-world as ...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
#EduSky #IBDP #TOK If you teach the IBDP TOK course, check out this great resource about Art. Check this out; an interview with Brian Eno. It's fantastic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...
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Opinion | A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Powerful discussion here. Compromise is a necessary part of democracy and we’ve probably lost the value of it. But what about when we compromise our values themselves? Tough conversation.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 09/28/2025 · 1h 9m
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies #TOK #IBDP Thanks to Religion Matters for giving me the opportunity to write up some thoughts that I've been mulling around for a few years. Check it out: religionmatters.org/2025/09/19/t...
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The Case for Incorporating Religion into Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Courses
Guest Post: Nathan Haines, Secondary Social Studies Teacher in the U.S. and East Africa A few years ago, I was one of several teachers teaching the Theory of Knowledge (TOK) course at an Internatio…
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
www.economist.com/finance-and-... #EduSky #EconTeachers #iteachsocialstudies Interesting read here. In what way is it helpful to think of human attention economically? Does relative scarcity apply? Should we consider it a factor of production? Can our attention be stolen?
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Can you make it to the end of this column?
Understanding the new economics of attention
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Would make for an interesting discussion for #APpsych. Personality… but also a critical discussion of data, correlation, causation, psychometric assessment, etc: www.ft.com/content/5cd7... #EduSky #iteachsocialstudies
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The troubling decline in conscientiousness
A critical life skill is fading out — and especially fast among young adults
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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A simple (simplistic?) rehashing of what we know and hopefully do, but for some possibly important eye-openers. Don't only read the post but also the science behind it! #EduSky www.edutopia.org/article/stud...
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7 Study Habits to Teach Kids This School Year
Studying is critical to academic success—but many students have never been shown how to do it effectively.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Good discussion of where things stand with climate policy. #climateaction #climateeducation
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Is Decarbonization Dead?
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 07/25/2025 · 1h 17m
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I cannot recommend this new book from John Green enough: everythingistb.com As Green argues, the fact that TB, in 2025, is still the world deadliest infectious disease, is an example of a great injustice.
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadlie...
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#EduSky This rings true to me: www.forbes.com/sites/danfit...
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What’s Really Going On With AI In Schools? A High School Student’s POV
Schools and teachers around the world are trying to figure out what AI means for education. Meanwhile, it's already embedded into the lives of high school students.
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
#EduSky. I'm skeptical... other thoughts? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/t...
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OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies AP exam score release day. How’s everyone feeling? Any thoughts on exams 2025?
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This was a worthwhile listen: youtu.be/prF8trTallQ?... #climatechange #climateaction #iteachsocialstudies
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The Power of Multisolving for People and Climate | Elizabeth Sawin | TEDxSunValley
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Nathan Haines, Ed.D. @mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
#EruditePedagogy Have not looked at the original research; curious about the thoughts of others. Seems to reinforce importance of responsive teaching / formative assessment... alignment of cognitive processes aided by teacher eliciting information about how the students are conceptualizing topic.
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