The Real Peter DeCourcy

A slide from the video about how feedback tools are perceived by and can influence students.

Quite an interesting study by Yizhou Fan and colleagues presented in this video, "Learning and Regulating with ChatGPT: What an Experimental Study Tells Us." (youtu.be/YdWePjSYrzw?...). The webinar is especially interesting because it includes a clip of a subject using the experiment's interface.

I would imagine most citizens who are "aspirational billionaires" don't realize the economy is mostly a closed loop, not an endless ocean of money. In other words, most of the wealth that created tech billionaires was extracted from a collapsing middle class.

Everyone tangentially involved in education should read Labaree's "The Trouble with Ed Schools" and not reviews for the book, which is one way Ed School ideologues protect their core ideology. Ironically, Labaree says Ed School profs don't read books at any rate comparable to other programs.

The science of learning is not the same as “back to basics” How teachers can move past educational pendulum swings to a more evidence-informed future.

An articulate post that attempts to move past the trad/prog debate. It's likely just talking into the void as pedagogical progressivism has such a tight grip on Ed Schools that anything but absolute support is largely rejected, but every bit helps.
scienceoflearning.substack.com/p/the-scienc...

I might do line dancing if it was to "Fight the Power" #OPSEU @opseusefpo.bsky.social

YouTube video by PublicEnemyVEVO Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Official Music Video)

I should have learned the S1W's dance from Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" video. That would look cool to bust out on the picket line. #OldManMoves #OPSEU #CollegeStrike @opseusefpo.bsky.social
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The Ford government is pushing Ontario’s colleges into severe financial stress, setting them up to fail so they can be sold off to wealthy friends. Outside of the unions, very few are standing up for the future of education. Wake up, Ontario! #ONPoli #ONCollegesStrike #UnionStrike #OPSEU

And then Bb sued D2L and an entire industry rallied around them with examples of "prior art." It was certainly an odd bit of history to live through...

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Teaching digital correspondence courses in the late 90s. Waiting for Moodle to introduce a "Content" tool for it to be a viable LMS. I still think ANGEL is the best LMS. :) Blackboard killed them all...lol.

I would rather start with Herman/Chomsky's "Propaganda Model" from Manufacturing Consent, which many journalists are very consciously working within. That may clarify what free-floating signifiers like the "left" mean, in the US since most countries have broader limits of acceptable dissent.

I wear jeans. I've looked at myself wearing jeans, but that's pretty much what a Ken doll looks like in jeans.

The NDP is apparently a grower, not a show-er, so...I guess there's that... 🤷🏼‍♂️

Maybe a truly agentic AI will realize it's senior management that's overpaid and unproductive and begin trying to democratize workplaces. 😏

I'm not sure if my research has become more specialized recently, but I've seen fewer Ed articles making misinformed references to Kuhn and "paradigm shifts" lately. This is good because most references indicated no informed use of that term. Keep up the good work! #EduSky

I found a copy of Bransford and Schwartz's "Rethinking Transfer: A Simple Proposal With Multiple Implications" in my document archives today, and it left me wondering: did Bransford and Schwartz EVER publish something fewer than 40 pages? 😏

But the graphic is fun as it interpolates Dunning-Kruger with the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.

The evidence for LS is a misapprehension of the evidence for Dual Coding Theory. But, at one time, I think even Richard Mayer misunderstood Paivio's work. Either way, a discipline that kept repeating debunked "theories" in grad schools for years is something to behold. 😏

Progs vs. Trads: The Ultimate Table Progs Versus Trads: The Ultimate Table Note on the table: This table is meant to facilitate discussion and debate and to put isolated comments and beliefs perhaps into a larger context. It is meant to...

If I attempt to present knowledge as a binary, the least effective criticism is that I've attempted to present knowledge as simple and binary. The attempt counts:
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Haben Girma: "The difference between accommodations for sighted people and accommodations for blind people is Ableism." I wanted to share Girma's point about our routine acceptance of "accommodation" for the able-bodied, but YouTube only lets a clip be 60 seconds: youtube.com/clip/UgkxZwA... #A11Y

No, it's brilliant. I would not say anything otherwise. Tom deserves kudos. I'm thinking of unfolding a (seemingly) simple document into an entire course on WCAG/UDL (further design constriction: all on a single page).

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Just testing if the theme JS plays nice with Hypothes.is: hyp.is/wKfGarJKEe-n...

Oh! Thanks! I thought the hover effect was just an artifact of the WordPress theme. Very nice. I may still want to get the whole thing on a single page with display options. Maybe modals. It's probably a much more fun project in my head.

This is a good start, especially the content. I might add a toggle with an optional explanation below each point. Thanks for sharing!

Is This a Real Science Textbook Introduction? Advanced physics textbooks are not generally known for their jocularity.

I don't know. Literature on gaining student attention comes with an unspoken proviso of "acceptably." One could wave a gun around a few times during a lecture to imprint memory; after that, it would lose effectiveness. #edchat Better left in the faculty lounge: www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

It was heartbreaking. And weighs on me whenever a prof brings up sensitive issues. It was probably the greatest learning moment I had at University, and she dropped out of the program the next week. So, I can't remember or honour her name. 😒

"You don't know what it's like! Any ONE of you could be an agent of the government ready to report me! Me and my family, dead! So, stop asking me about my government!"

As a graduate student, we had an Iranian student in our class as we all "critically thought" about power and our government. Several people "challenged" the Iranian student at times to denounce her government. She finally cracked and put all our privilege into place:

And the key word with any Dunning-Kruger effect is nuance. Expert instructional design involves nuance. Expert #A11Y involves nuance. Check for nuance. #EdTech

Have enough people heard of the Dunning-Kruger Effect that its effect doubles? #EdTech

The problem with Bransford and Schwartz's contrasting cases is A) Coming up with meaningful contrasting cases, and 2) Are the cases at a didactic factual level or at a conceptual level? #TimeForTelling
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