Brittany Avila

The amount of times I've double checked that we don't have an election day is approaching needing two hands haha!

I needed to hear this today!

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We have this in psychology! We have the Society for Teaching of Psychology and it has its own Facebook group and conference where we do this and solicit advice. It works, but it's relatively small. I think if we did it on a larger scale it might need to be more heavily monitored for bad faith.

Interesting. Excited to share this in class this week and discuss with my students.

To see if students in my online class are reading my announcements, I added an extra credit opportunity. This time I asked them to tell me something that made them happy over the week and now I'm smiling reading them all! Highly recommend :)

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Y'all it happened! For the first time I ever I had a full office hour session. Multiple students came and they came for the entirety of my office hours! I even had to have some wait outside for a few minutes. Living the dream :)

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

Yes! I have this problem with iPads. My university has a contract with Apple and gives every incoming student an iPad (love the program) I just wish it was with Microsoft and they could have Surface tablets instead so they'd act like computers instead of phones.

I remember when I was looking a daycares for my oldest, anytime they mentioned the words "curriculum" "rigor" or "academic standards" I just immediately walked out.

The Secretary of Education Outlined a Vision for Higher Ed in a Speech. Here’s Some Context. In an address to Hillsdale College, Linda McMahon articulated the Trump administration’s vision for higher education. We annotated the speech.

"Censorship and its chilling effect on free speech have no place on campus" is a unique choice of words when your administration just fired a Professor for utilizing free speech.

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Texas A&M Professor and Administrators Out After Viral Video Video circulated by Texas state representative shows student accusing English professor of teaching material related to gender identity and violating Trump’s executive orders. State officials pressure...

Looks like the first amendment is now officially meaningless. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

US high school students math and reading scores hit record new low, continuing yearslong decline | CNN A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to...

This is a problem we already know how to solve we just won't implement any of the changes necessary because the people in charge either don't know anything about education or will only listen to data that doesn't accurately portray learning.
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Cognitive dissonance and it's justifications is a real trip!

Also this is what the second amendment was designed to protect us from. So the idea that this could happen has been here from the beginning.

I think I'm just going to put this video in my syllabus

(PDF) Students as Co-Authors: Achievement Emotions, Beliefs About Writing, and OER Publishing Decisions PDF | Faculty interest in open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy has grown over the past several years. The current study examined how... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

A few years ago @aekelly.bsky.social asked me to help with a project to have students contribute to an OER on underrepresented historical figures in Psychology. Students enjoyed the process and it led to greater feelings of pride, enjoyment, and positive feelings about writing! tinyurl.com/29rm2ju8

Last semester I learned it was commonplace for my students to track their roommates and friends on Life360. I was flabbergasted! They were shocked that I was shocked. That's when I learned I was in a minority of people who have never used Life360 or similar programs and I was considered weird for it

The intoxication of power. They start to feel powerful and become addicted to gaining more. In Careless People, Sarah Wynn Williams describes the moments when Zuckerburg started to notice his power and crave more. He changed all strategy and ideology to get more. They hope to become the dictator.

$61M in Nevada!

New Nevada laws July 1: religious displays, school bus violations, women with cancer Gov. Lombardo signed 518 bills into law. Among them: School buses can get ticket cameras, landlords can't ban religious displays, online cigar tax.

Nevada put forth a lot of new laws/ordinances this week. Two stand out:
1) school buses will now have cameras that can ticket drivers who pass when stopped and flashing
2) schools and universities can not replace counselors and psychologists with AI

Way to go Nevada!

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This is the epitome of who he is. Paving over beauty for no reason other than he can.

I think I get it. I often pick books by vibes too. I call it mood, theme, or genre because I'm older but I often choose by how I'm feeling and how it can relate so it makes sense!

"In democracies, the freedom to assemble is one of the foundational rights granted to every individual. In countries descending into authoritarianism l, one of the first things to go is the right to assemble. Why? Because of what can happen when people come together, exchange information, inspire one another, test out new ways of being together."

Just opened The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker & wow starting strong

"In democracies, the freedom to assemble is one of the foundational rights granted to every individual. In countries descending into authoritarianism, one of the first things to go is the right to assemble."

This could be a great time to use mixed age classrooms. If middle schoolers had the opportunity to mentor and help younger students it might be a slightly easier time for them.

New Carnegie Classification Focuses on Student Success The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education debut a new classification system focused on student success.

Interesting...Excited to see a focus on students. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

It should be illegal to send out college/grad school acceptances and then say "oops we didn't mean too, you're not actually accepted". At the very least they should be forced to take those students still.

And I bet that will be the hardest of your responsibilities!