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Welcome @matt! Matt Bateman is a philosopher & historian of education. He’s a cofounder of Guidepost Montessori, the world’s largest Montessori school network. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)
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@matt via @qt https://warpcast.com/qt/0xd75ba72c
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Matt Bateman
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1. Reggio vs. Montessori They often get grouped together because of a similar emphasis on environment as third teachers, and because they are both mid century developmental early education movements. But they are very different. Maybe best way to gesture at the differences is that Reggio doesn’t have a curriculum—it’s all “emergent”, project based—and Montessori has an extremely opinionated curriculum—defined scope and sequence of materials and lessons in every subject area. Reggio is pretty squarely progressive education whereas Montessori is much harder to place and is quite classical seeming in some respects
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2. How is tech reshaping PK6 education landscape? I would say that overall, just descriptively, it’s not. But as an individual parent or teacher with a quantum of agency, you definitely have lots of amazing things you can do with tech. Just the content alone is great (you have to filter and curate, but great stuff is out there). That’s not even getting into the more active affordances like learning how to write software or use software for creatives, etc. There are a handful of now very standard tools that are helpful, IXL being probably the main one. But it’s not really reshaping anything, it doesn’t represent novelty
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