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If AI tools had been put into development five years earlier, so that in 2020 they would have been at 2025 levels in terms of power and features, how would education during the pandemic have played out differently?

The authors of this paper are either ed-tech bros, or are being paid by them, or just woke up one morning and said "YOLO" then decided to come right out of the gates with debatable assumptions.

Just read a paper from 2020, pre-pandemic, that talked a lot about "21st century skills". Pretty startling to think how that concept has changed in five years. The 21st century didn't follow our blueprint it turns out.

Journals that make authors include key artifacts from their research studies in an "online supplement", but then do not post a link to the supplement in the article or on the journal website, can also go frak themselves

My POV chasing down papers to read for the literature review for my flipped learning book, about half the time

It's always cool to find yourself cited in a research paper. Less cool when your name is misspelled. Between this and having "G. Valley" listed as a co-author I'm starting to feel like I get no respect 😂

New at Grading For Growth: Jane Wageman shares strategies for tracking growth through the revision process in a university writing class.

Feedback, revisions, and the writing process

Tracking growth across drafts in an undergraduate research course

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Went to a home football game last night and had to meet up with my wife outside out of the classroom buildings on campus. She gave me the name and I simply could not recall where it was. I think that means my sabbatical is going well.

I like this observation about flipped learning (made by Russian scholar Irina Gnutova) very much. Flipped learning doesn't take sides in the "lecture v. active learning" wars. Instead it tries to get both approaches to coexist harmoniously and play to the strengths of each.

Oh, the irony that every single one of the research papers I'd found that deal with flipped learning and student equity and access, are behind paywalls.

A friend asked me last night, as a trivia question, what is the smallest number whose spelling has the letters in alphabetical order. My answer: e.

This quote from a research paper I am reading right now hits hard. #practice

Proposed definition for active learning: Activities done by students in an organized group setting that instantiate deliberate practice.

Didn't expect this to come up in my JSTOR search for papers about flipped instruction. Sadly, it didn't make it through my exclusion criteria. #badminton

Reminder that there is no such thing as "college algebra".

Reading through papers on flipped learning, I found this citation to one of my early publications -- with my esteemed co-author "G. Valley". 😂

Today at Intentional Academia: I realized that the Clarify process for email was missing a big piece, and I think I know how to fix it -- giving us a Grand Unified Theory of Academic Email. intentionalacademia.substack.com/p/a-grand-un...

A Grand Unified Theory of academic email

Filling in the missing links in the Clarify process

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New piece from me at @timeshighered.bsky.social on a little different subject: What I learned from going on six different campus visits with my college-bound kids. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/every...

‘Every faculty member should go on campus tours’

When one university professor went undercover to find out how different colleges welcome prospective students and their parents, he found out what institutions should, and should not, do in their visi...

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Journals that charge you to access articles that are 10+ years old can go frak themselves

Reviewing flipped learning research from 10 years ago, one of the main criticisms was that students didn't have a way to ask questions about pre-class assignments while outside of class. AI has definitely changed that up a little, hasn't it?

This morning I completed an initial read-through of the case study interviews submitted for the second edition of _Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty_. I'm absolutely stoked by what I've received. Some fun facts: (1/4)

New at Intentional Academia: Who says you have the right to have purpose, productivity, and meaning in higher education? Today I present and argue for a principle that goes to the heart of it, that I call the Law of the Whole Person.

The Law of the Whole Person

An underlying axiom for intentionality

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Slightly diminish a band: Just-OK Funk Railroad

Peter Newbury@polarisdotca.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Slightly diminish a band: Bruce Springsteen and The E Lane Band

I'll be speaking this Thursday at Dunwoody College in Minneapolis, about a subject very close to me: Habits of productivity that promote purpose and meaning for higher ed people. Here is the resource page I'll be using, with links and other goodies: docs.google.com/docu...

Taking Charge resource page

Taking Charge Resource page Curated by Robert Talbert, Ph.D. Photo by Thomas Kelley on Unsplash Contact information Email: rt@rtalbert.org Website: http://rtalbert.org Social: Twitter | LinkedIn | BlueSky For information on speaking and workshops: https://www.rtalbert.org/speaking Mater...

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Working on a talk next week on faculty productivity and I happen to really like this slide that I just put together.

New at Grading For Growth: A look at the connection between deliberate practice and alternative grading. The connection is closer than you think, and there's a lot to unpack. gradingforgrowth.com/p/alternativ...

Alternative grading and deliberate practice

A framework for feedback, and thoughts on using it

gradingforgrowth.com

New at Intentional Academia: I'm concluding "tool month" by focusing in on @todoist.com, my personal operating system for intentionality. intentionalacademia.substack.com/p/how-and-wh...

How and why I use ToDoist

A personal operating system for being intentional

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I'm happy to announce today something I've been working on for some time: A redesigned version of my professional website, rtalbert.org. The new site has updated info on my speaking and workshops, a much-improved layout, built-in contact forms, and a searchable archive of blog posts back to 2015.

Hypothesis: If every college student were required to learn a sport or a musical instrument that they didn't already know as part of their graduation requirements, pushback about alternative grading would disappear.