Author: Noah Arney

  • UDL Critiques and Misrepresentations

    A former twitter thread Based on this tweet: Thoughts and feels pedagogy friends? “UDL shares problematic similarities in theory, operationalization, and research with the discredited concept of learning styles. No strong research evidence exists that either approach increases learning.” https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000280 https://twitter.com/karenraycosta/status/1480644625232715776 I’ll have a kick at this. The problem in this article is thatessentially what…

  • AI and Hiring

    A former twitter thread In response to this tweet: NEW: the insurance startup Lemonade claimed it was analyzing “non-verbal cues” like eye movements and speech patterns to reject insurance claims. then the company deleted a bunch of tweets, and now it’s saying “we def do not do phrenology” https://twitter.com/janusrose/status/1397602847064215554 This is part of a trend…

  • Changing Employee Cohorts and Retention

    Originally two twitter threads: thread 1 thread 2. It took everyone a bit of time to notice this year, but the labour market shortage is basically being driven by mass retirements over the last two years, just not where you think (is the cultural moment for a Madisynn MCU reference past? Probably). Employment stats time.…

  • Automation and Career Development

    This was originally a twitter thread I’m seeing a lot of people talking about how people should go into HS only jobs or trades instead of university. Lets put aside that the unemployment rate for trades is often worse than jobs that require a university degree, instead I’ll tell you a story about the economy.…