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Karen Costa (she/her) Profile picture
@karenraycosta
Jul 3, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
#Highered and fellow #pedagogygeeks, in the spirit of talking about teaching and learning, the heart of our work, and not just fall planning insanity, a thread on boredom and attention:
I've been thinking lately that #highered has a boredom problem. AND, it also has a "fill up every space and leave no time for contemplation and reflection" problem. Been chewing on this and would love to know your thoughts.

#pedagogy
#teachingandlearning
One of John Medina's brain rules: We don't pay attention to boring things.

#pedagogy
#teachingandlearning
Medina: "The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded — and retained."

#pedagogy
#teachingandlearning
We have a lot of boring content and presentation out there in our work, in our courses as well as #profdev/#facdev. And people aren't paying attention...

#pedagogy
#teachingandlearning
But I've also seen arguments that boredom can boost creativity. That in the moment of "THIS IS SO DAMN BORING" our brains fight back by creating something fantastic.

#pedagogy
#teachingandlearning
So I'm just curious how folks see this. Should we be aiming to limit boring things in recognition that no one's paying attention to them? But does that limit creativity?

#pedagogy
#teachingandlearning
#highered

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Low attendance is understandable as we continue to recover from a global disaster while simultaneously experiencing repeated impacts/surges.

We have to design/adapt for this reality. Not for the fantasy of “back to normal.”

#HigherEd
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Faculty, staff, and students should not be left in the wind like this to wonder why this is happening. It’s infuriating tbh, and #HigherEd continues to be its own worst enemy.

We have to prioritize well-being and talk about trauma.
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Feb 3, 2022
Okay here goes nothing. A new thread 🧵about #CourseHero.

My name's Karen, I've worked in #HigherEd for 20 years, and this is the absolute last thing I want to talk about today. But, I'm compelled in the face of what I see as immense harm being done to students.
Yesterday, I wrote a piece about Course Hero. You can read it here:
karenraycosta.medium.com/we-dont-need-a…
I want to be as transparent as possible and encourage you to take nothing I say at face value. Don't trust me. Trust what you see.
To that end, here's how I've profited thus far from talking about Course Hero, for any who might wonder about my motivations. $1.19. Profit report from Medium s...
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Jan 24, 2022
great #OnlineLearning isn't necessarily media-rich. it's connection-rich.

the LEAST engaging online courses I've taken have been media-rich and connection-poor.
I see a lot of #HigherEd LD postings that seem to misunderstand this. That worries me.

pedagogy before tech
people before pedagogy

#OnlineLearning
btw all of this is covered in the research on effective #OnlineLearning particularly the work of xu and jaggars scholar.google.com/citations?user…
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Nov 19, 2021
so I woke up thinking about the "rigor wars," as one does
and I kind of feel like the debate over rigor, not to be dramatic, but it feels symptomatic of a (the?) battle for the soul of higher education
I want to give this "what do we talk about" a v.2. -our own educational trauma -the way we were taught -lack of
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Nov 18, 2021
I have a few thoughts on rigor!

#HigherEd
#ToxicRigor
I don't disagree with anything in this piece. What I find really interesting is the assumption that those of us who are advocating for caring pedagogy, grounded in a balance b/t support and challenge, have at any point become less rigorous.

#HigherEd
#ToxicRigor
And that to me is the mark of #ToxicRigor. When someone points to flexibility, humanizing, and support and says, "You're dumbing things down" or "You've sacrificed rigor," there's just no evidence of that, so something else is up.

#HigherEd
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