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Nathan Haines, Ed.D.

@mrnfhaines.bsky.social

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 · last mo.

#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...

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 · 4mo ago

#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...

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 · 6mo ago

#EduSky My response to an aspect of a blog by Paul Kirschner: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/paulo-f...

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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Nathan Haines, Ed.D.@mrnfhaines.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#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

“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 · 8mo ago

#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...

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 · 8mo ago

#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...

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 · 8mo ago

#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...

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 · 9mo ago

#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...

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 · 9mo ago

#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.

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 · 9mo ago

#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...

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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