Clark Quinn

My answer: "Make it Meaningful" (a book I wrote on just this topic ;). Get real WIIFM for them, and deliver on it.

The incentive is that treating people well leads to better company performance, period. Well-documented.

I so resonate with this: "I am angry at my inability to change the minds and hearts of former friends and current family members. I am sick. I am sorry."

The shooting targeting CDC, which resulted in the death of a police officer was horrific, and it was completely preventable. Cuts to CDC programs that reduce gun violence and support mental health, and anti-science rhetoric from political appointees set the stage for this senseless act of violence. Something needs to change.

Fired But Fighting’s statement on Friday’s shooting at CDC. For the full statement, visit firedbutfighting.org. Stay tuned for more info.

Note to Kristi Noem:

It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.

🤞

Rudyard Kipling, If: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/...

before and after of the Oval Office covered in tacky gold

no but this is crazy

The ‘right’ level

So, I know I've talked about this before (not least, here), but it seems to continue to persist. What I'm talking about is the continuing interest in neuroscience for L&D. And, as has been said by others, it's the wrong level of analysis. What, then, is the 'right' level? Here're…

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Cognitive Networks and Implicit Bias — The Learning Scientists As a cognitive psychology professor, I teach about cognitive networks and how we process, organize, and respond to the world around us. We are able to quickly and flexibly process and categorize items...

NEW POST: "Cognitive Networks and Implicit Bias" by @drsumeracki.bsky.social

www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/7/10

Flipped Classrooms: Can We Skip the Lecture? — The Learning Scientists While we have our own internal and correlational data that allows me to cautiously allow students to skip the lecture, here we have experimental data that actually says skipping the lecture might be ...

NEW POST: "Flipped Classrooms: Can We Skip the Lecture?" by @drcindynebel.bsky.social

www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/7/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Insightful. Could the same be said for venture capital efforts in education?

Screenshot of title page of an article published in the Journal of Educational Psychology titled: "Combining Generative Tasks and Retrieval Tasks."

"In the present experiment with university students, combining generative tasks and retrieval tasks proved to add statistically identifiable value over using either type of task alone—irrespective of choice of sequence." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Auto-marked generative?

As I continue to explore learning science, and get ever-deeper, one idea came to me that I had to check out. So, we're recognizing the difference between elaboration (getting material into long-term memory), and retrieval (getting it out). They're different, and yet both…

Context and models

One of the things I've recognized is that we don't pay enough attention to context. It turns out to be a really important factor in cognition, as our long-term memory interacts with the current context to determine our interpretation. And, as such, makes our interpretations very…

Worse, those tests are psychometrically invalid. They're worse than useless, they actually are bad for people and orgs. May as well use your astrological sign: "I'm a Gemini so I'll do twice as much work!"

In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science.

Read our new report here: act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months

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From knowledge to performance

For reasons, I've been looking at multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Of course, for writing them right, you should look to Patti Shank's book Write Better Multiple-Choice Questions.  And there's clearly a need!  Why? Because when it comes to writing meaningful MCQs,…

Shout this!

Spelled on the windows of the State Department, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”. Dated July 11th, 2025

If you tap and zoom in, you’ll see it:

WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN
RIGHTS

Spelled from the windows of the U.S. State Department, July 11th. A quiet defiance. Because only solidarity, strength, and resistance can hold the line against rising fascism.

🇺🇸💪🙎‍♀️🧕❤️🇺🇸. Please Share!

Donating blood, maybe you can too @americanredcross.bsky.social

Continually learning

I've been advising Elevator 9 on learning science. Now, while I advise companies via consulting, this is a different picture. For one, they're keen to bake learning science into the core, which is rare and (in my mind) valuable. It's also a learning opportunity for me. I'm…

Let's be clear: #AlligatorAuschwitz

Where’s quality?

I get it, when you've a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. Moreover, there's money on the table, and it'd be a shame not to grab onto it. Still, there's also integrity. And, frankly, I fear that we're going down the wrong path. So I'll rail again, by asking "where's…

Iowa: Sen. Ernst Maine: Sen. Collins Missouri: Sen. Hawley North Carolina: Sen. Tillis Ohio: Sen. Husted Utah: Sen. Curtis West Virginia: Sen. Capito

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today.

Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.