David Gill 🇨🇦 @david_teched

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education Memorial University of Newfoundland. Re-posts are not necessarily endorsements. Posts are my own. St. John's Joined November 2013

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Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71

5 days ago

You cannot make learning easy and fun or relevant all the time. Thinking is *hard*, and the effort of doing so is part of what learning is (and part of the reward). Also a large part of what we are trying to do is to bring the unfamiliar galaxy of content to students and make…

Alex Prompter @alex_prompter

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Arnold @Schwarzenegger

2 weeks ago

USC President Kim asked me for my thoughts about Charlie Kirk at USC’s Democracy Day celebration. There’s something more important than my message in this video. It’s what you don’t hear. No heckling. No disrespect. No shouting. I know that social media shows us the worst of…

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David Gill 🇨🇦 @david_teched

2 weeks ago

Every month, I post what I'm reading on my office door. 16 months worth here. Time to take them down and start filling the board again.

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David Gill 🇨🇦 @david_teched

2 weeks ago

This is not good for anyone.

FIRE @TheFIREorg

2 weeks ago

This is not good for anyone.

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Steven Pinker @sapinker

2 weeks ago

Speech is not violence. Violence is not speech.

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Barack Obama @BarackObama

3 weeks ago

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

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J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling

2 weeks ago

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe…

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Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada

2 weeks ago

At a time when millions across North America are grappling with the dire state of our political discourse in the wake of the horrific assassination of @charliekirk11 — it is more important than ever that our educators respect for the rule of law and recognize the value of human…

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Paul A. Kirschner @P_A_Kirschner

a month ago

Truer words were seldom spoken!

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Steven Pinker @sapinker

a month ago

"88 percent of the students [at NWU & U Mich) said they pretended to be more progressive than they are in order to succeed academically or socially." Such preference falsification (caused by fear of punishment for honesty) can lead to "pluralistic ignorance" or a "spiral of…

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Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71

a month ago

Every time I hear someone say that ‘building relationships is how we get children to behave’ I’m amazed how often they then don’t define what A) they mean by a relationship B) how to actually build this mysterious thing. This leads to multiple errors, eg trying to get kids to…

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MUN Education @MUNEducation

a month ago

Darrin Pike, our Coordinator of Field Services has been featured in the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association Bulletin! His article, "Why Be a Mentor for an Intern?" can be read on pages 14 and 15: nlta.nl.ca/wp-content/upl…

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Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71

3 months ago

It is bizarre how many people in education see it as their job to indoctrinate children into their political beliefs. If you disagree, simply insert [political view I strongly disagree with] into the model, and it becomes easy to see why focussing on teaching the curriculum is…

Frederick M. Hess @rickhess99

3 months ago

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Lawrence M. Krauss @LKrauss1

3 months ago

Look what just arrived!

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David Gill 🇨🇦 @david_teched

3 months ago

Look at me, in the news, fancy: vocm.com/2025/06/23/272… @MUNEducation

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Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71

3 months ago

For many people who have never had the pleasure in working with challenging classes, managing behaviour is a luxurious thought experiment. They can dream about how their magical gifts of empathy and virtue would heal every and any disruption or classroom conflict. But children…

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David Gill 🇨🇦 @david_teched

5 months ago

I told my incoming class of pre-service teachers basically the same thing last week -and I'm a tech education professor @tombennett71

Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71

5 months ago

I told my incoming class of pre-service teachers basically the same thing last week -and I'm a tech education professor @tombennett71

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The Food Professor @FoodProfessor

5 months ago

It’s election day. In a democracy, citizens ultimately receive the government they deserve. If you believe politics aren't your concern, remember: elections invariably carry consequences. Never take the right to vote for granted—it is both a privilege and a responsibility.

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LaurierHxA @LaurierHxA

5 months ago

That's why it's important to model disagreement and provide heterodox spaces for dissenting views. Students at our events have voiced similar concerns—one compared an undergrad degree to "doing time."

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The Food Professor @FoodProfessor

5 months ago

Think your quality of life has declined since 2015? Data suggests you're right. In 2015, Canada ranked 9th for quality of life — considering factors like cost of living, climate, access to home ownership, and more. Today, it barely holds onto a spot in the top 30. ⬇️