Tag: Education
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Thoughts on “The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be”
A former twitter thread This is thoughts inspired by a book review of The Real World of College: What higher education is and what it can be, so take from that what you will. I empathize with what they’re talking about, and I have to assume that the book itself talks about this, but the…
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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…
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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.…
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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.…