Author: anderhaff

  • Ed Tech as discipline

    > The indirect legitimacy in a network environment is actually post-institution even though the way we talk about it centers the institution. Because ed-tech arises from the business of the institution — accountability regimes, technologies, the spaces between bureaucratic nodes — it cannot legitimize the institution. Therefore, ed-tech as we currently practice and understand it…

  • Data Isn’t Neutral

    > “In every situation you face, there will be unique considerations about whether and how to publish a set of data,” he wrote. “Don’t assume data is inherently accurate, fair and objective. Don’t mistake your access to data or your right to publish it as a legitimate rationale for doing so. Think critically about the…

  • A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

    > The downside of going for size and scale above all else is that the dense, interconnected pattern that drives group conversation and collaboration isn’t supportable at any large scale. Less is different — small groups of people can engage in kinds of interaction that large groups can’t. And so we blew past that interesting…

  • Textbook Assumptions

    > We are pestered by the bookstore to decide on a textbook before registration (which means a lot of faculty pick a textbook just in case). > We force our students to spend millions of dollars on textbooks but are unable pay for instructional design help and release time for faculty who want to write…

  • Learning Adaptive Learning

    > Yes, students worked in the adaptive learning platform, but they also had class time devoted to supporting them with their study and work habits. Learning how to learn, which is very important for students that do not have a history of academic success. [source](http://mfeldstein.com/osu-panel-discussion-faculty-experience-adaptive-learning-intro-psychology-course/) Interestingly, in the study that launched the [[Testing effect]], student’s…

  • Argumentative Theory

    Recent theories of cognition suggest that there are really two types of logic we have, intertwined with one another. One developed for problem-solving — we look carefully at a situation, try to figure out how to mend that spear or bowl, how best to track down that bison or cook the meat. But many of…

  • Militarized Masculinity

    > The gender issue is really a postwar issue. Women, wherever they were, what side or what in the war situation, stepped into the places that men had left. And they were competent, and they could do it. It was only after the war, when the men came back, that they needed the mystique—that she’s…

  • Anger Spreads Fastest

    Chinese researchers find that anger spreads faster than sadness, happiness, or joy on the Twitter-like social network Sina Weibo. > They gauged various online emotions by tracking emoticons embedded in millions of messages posted on Sina Weibo, a popular Twitter-like microblogging platform. Their conclusion: Joy moves faster than sadness or disgust, but nothing is speedier…

  • Identity Headlines

    Most retweeters and Facebook reposters aren’t informing, or even arguing. They are using headlines the way one might use a bumper sticker: to express who there are and bond with others. > From a user’s point of view, every share, like or comment is both an act of speech and an accretive piece of a…

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