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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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/
The #edtech industry has been on the rise since 2018, but #COVID19 has acted as a catalyst for online learning at scale in 2020. Edtech adoption by educators has been a huge output of this pandemic & all the more reason that our work at Labs is super relevant right now. 2/
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/
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?!
Juicy take on why replication attempts *really* fail: The phenomenon I studied was super complex and you probably didn't do something correctly.
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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.