This Month's #BookmarkedReads📚 curated reading list provides eight of my favorite books on US education. These books will collectively provide a foundation from which to expand your understanding of both K12 and #HigherEd.

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bookmarkedreads.substack.com/p/educationboo… (affiliate links)
Best In Teaching

As the title suggests, The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You about College Teaching by @dgooblar, teaches you everything you were never taught about college teaching.

Must read for educators in the classroom. amzn.to/3zNTpPN
Best in Learning Science

In How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now, Stanislas Dehaene explains four key pillars of learning that can be applied to how we teach and how learning environments are structured.

amzn.to/3GhQy49
Best in Education Technology

In Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, @bjfr explains everything you need to know to understand the role of edtech in today’s educational environment.

One of my favorite edu books.

amzn.to/3qgNxeJ
Best in History

In A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education, @DLabaree gives the best historical overview of the US higher education system that I’ve read to date, explaining the contradictions within our education system.

amzn.to/3qihFXi
Dueling Perspectives on #highered

Sustainable. Resilient. Free. (amzn.to/3fd79dp) where @biblioracle argues for higher ed as a public good.

vs.

The Case Against Education (amzn.to/3r58xUZ) where @bryan_caplan argues for higher ed as largely a waste of money
Dueling Perspectives on

A Wolf at The Schoolhouse Door (amzn.to/3tdUkI0) promoting public K12 by @Edu_Historian + @BisforBerkshire

vs. Charter Schools and Their Enemies (amzn.to/3ti78x6) promoting private/choice K12 models by T. Sowell.
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My intro development class I’m teaching starts tonight.

Already a few students are sick and can’t make it.

The pandemic has changed the structure of my (in person teaching).

Here’s how 🧵
1. My deadlines are soft.

All assignments have deadlines, but there’s no penalty to late submissions. Exams are still more strict but still soft as they are all take home now.

Honestly saves a lot of email hassle.
2.Exams are all take home.

I am fundamentally opposed to proctoring software, so now all my exams are take home essay or projects that can’t be googled.

Please don’t require spyware.
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A 🧵of my hottest 🔥 takes of 2021 as indicated by views.

No. 1 – The Academic Publishing System is a Failure where I argue that academic publishing actively inhibits the dissemination of knowledge

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No. 2 – Introduction to Psychology with Better Readings where I give you a full reading list of popular books that are way better to read than your dated intro psych textbook

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PhDs - if you’re not super into stats and data analysis and looking to shift to #altac/non-prof roles the skills you want to hone & excel at are:

- Writing (but not dense academic writing)
- Project management
- Strategic, big picture thinking

You have a leg up here ^^ use it.
Now two years out, I look on whether my PhD was “worth it”.

If only based on job requirements then no. Most roles I want don’t need a PhD.

BUT my PhD gave me the writing, PM & strategy skills I use everyday that will get me on a new path. So yes, it was worth it.
I did so many types of tasks during my PhD and it really is all about leveraging those things and being able to translate what you did for a new career audience.

Your PhD also gives you confidence and leadership skills that most just don’t have coming out of undergrad.
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🚨Highlight reel thread of today's talk.🚨

I spoke to students and faculty at @AbertayUni about how we do #edtech research at WGU Labs, and advice for psychology PhDs looking to land an #altac role.

[THREAD] with pics, links to posts, and the full presentation at the end 👇🏼 1/
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However, there are some three key problems that I see with #edtech research👇🏼

Edtech research should focus IMO on enhancing core learning processes. I've talked about some of this here: nicolebarbaro.com/2020/06/16/usi… 3/
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6 Aug 20
A study that does not measure racism but is framed as a study showing that “racism is a genetic trait”.

Oof.

An example of horrible #scicomm

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I saw this title and “thought this is so unlikely to be what the actual scientific paper said” and I was right. First things first – let’s look at the title of the actual paper, linked at the end of the article 2/
Well the article must at least talk about race and racism, right? Right?!

Ope. Never mind then. 3/
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I feel like doing a brief live tweet reading thread of this paper: A Validity-Based Framework for Understanding Replication in Psychology

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Juicy take on why replication attempts *really* fail: The phenomenon I studied was super complex and you probably didn't do something correctly.

2/
Their proposal is a(nother!) framework or "lens" to evaluate failed replications across 4 types of validity to identify the potential ways in which the replication study differed that could explain the failed replication.

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