September Education Reading: Double Empathy, Unqualified for Tech, STEAM > STEM, Ed-tech Ethics, Lower Ed, Paying the Price, Shame is not a Weapon, #CripTheVote on Education, Reading Logs, Intrinsic Motivation

Here’s a recap of my education-related reading and writing from September.

My Writing

• Unqualified for Tech, STEAM > STEM, and Tech Ethics
• Lower Ed, Paying the Price, and Weapons of Math Destruction
• Compassion is not coddling. Design for real life.
• The Double Empathy Problem: Developing Empathy and Reciprocity in Neurotypical Adults
• Reading Logs and Intrinsic Motivation
• Autistic Empathy
• Surveillance, Positive Behavior Support, and Intrinsic Motivation
• The Pipeline Problem and the Meritocracy Myth

Suggested Reading

Interesting articles by others:

Behaviorism, Mindset Marketing

• Shame is not a Weapon. – Love Learning….
• Rejecting Growth Mindset and Grit at Three Levels | radical eyes for equity
• Self-esteem based on external sources has mental health consequences

Disability, Accessibility, Inclusion

• My daughter doesn’t have ‘special’ needs. She’s disabled. – The Washington Post
• Monthly Reading List — Disability Thinking
• How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Adventures in Universal Design: Handwriting Notes and In-class Exams
• Hitting Refresh on Accessibility – Microsoft Accessibility Blog
• Liz Jackson: Designing for Inclusivity – 99U
• Satya Nadella Rewrites Microsoft’s Code | The future of business

Reading and Writing

• Seeing the Essay Again for the First Time | radical eyes for equity
• Bad Ideas About Writing | Open Access Textbooks | WVU Libraries
• Every Child, Every Day: The six elements of effective reading instruction don’t require much time or money—just educators’ decision to put them in place.

The Grading and Ranking of Children

• The Effects of Grades, Praise, and Source of Information
• The Case Against Grades
• The Absolute Best We Can Do For Kids – Modern Learners
• Steele Thoughts: You’re More than a Letter Grade: Letter to a Discouraged Student
• The Downside of Checking Kids’ Grades Constantly – NYTimes.com
• The “No Grades” Experiment – The Teaching Experiment

Dress Codes

• School-Disturbance Laws Have Outlawed Being a Teenager in America – The Atlantic
• Sexist School Dress Codes Are A Problem, And Oregon May Have The Answer

Play

• Why Kindergarten in Finland Is All About Playtime (and Why That Could Be More Stimulating Than the Common Core) – The Atlantic

School Start Time

• For the love of God, let the students sleep… – Momma Brown’s Blog – Medium

Ed-tech, Deficit Model Capitalism, Surveillance Capitalism

• Reading the LMS against the Backdrop of Critical Pedagogy, Part One – OFFICE OF DIGITAL LEARNING
• Reading the LMS against the Backdrop of Critical Pedagogy, Part Two – OFFICE OF DIGITAL LEARNING
• Inequality, ‘Brand Ambassadors,’ and the Business of Selling (to) Classrooms
• Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues – The New York Times
• The History of the Future of Learning Objects and Intelligent Machines
• The Business of Ed-Tech: September 2017 Funding Data Follow the money.
• The Business of Ed-Tech: August 2017 Funding Data
• Google forced out New America’s Open Markets division. What’s next? – The Washington Post

Tech Ethics

• Biased Algorithms Are Everywhere, and No One Seems to Care – MIT Technology Review These algorithms are in schools, grading and ranking teachers and students.
• Algorithms of Oppression | How Search Engines Reinforce Racism | Books – NYU Press | NYU Press
• Adtech and Misinformation: the Middlemen Who Sell to All Sides
• The business of hate media – Data for Democracy – Medium
• Facebook and Google, Show Us Your Ad Data – Bloomberg
• Privacy of London Tube Wifi Tracking Applies also to school privacy.

Colonialism, Racism, Structural Ideology, Critical Pedagogy

• Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea – AAIHS
• Deschooling Society
• Christopher Emdin Confronts “White Folks’ Pedagogy”: “whether one chooses to do damage to the system or to the student” Fix injustice, not kids.
• The Resegregation of Jefferson County – The New York Times
• In the Middle: Teaching Medieval Studies in a Time of White Supremacy
• When your community becomes the #hashtag – Ira David Socol – Medium

Other

• The Future of Education Is Already Happening (If You’re Paying Attention)
• Failing Charter Schools Have a Reincarnation Plan — ProPublica
• Hack Education Weekly News

#CripTheVote chat on education

In the#CripTheVote chat on education, we talked about PBS, growth mindset, and ed’s infatuation with behaviorism. Behaviorism backed by millions in marketing is a growing concern for neurodiversity and disability communities. Among top issues noted in the chat are: ableism (number one with a bullet), the deficit model, behaviorism, mindset marketing, assessment industry, mainstream ed-tech, surveillance, lack of social model. I updated my curation post on Mindset Marketing, Behaviorism, and Deficit Ideology with resources from the chat.

Curated Tweets

Here are curated collections of education related tweets. Each month, I put notable tweets and threads into Twitter Moments. Ed + ed-tech + D&I + tech ethics + social model. These are important intersections.

There are lots of great educators to discover in these collections. “The gospel of the new economy is the transformative power of a diverse, genuine network.” Have a peek at my networks:

• Education and Ed-tech – September 2017
• Diversity, Inclusion, Representation, Accessibility – September 2017
• Humane Tech and Tech Ethics – September 2017
• Education and Ed-tech – August 2017
• Diversity, Inclusion, Representation, Accessibility – August 2017
• Humane Tech and Tech Ethics – August 2017
• Autistic Empathy
• Classroom UX: Bring Your Own Comfort, Bring Your Own Device
• Ban Laptop BansLaptop and tablet bans are ableist. Don’t do it.