Me by my computer where I just signed my first book contract!
Just signed the contract for my first book with Cognella! So excited to continue this project and get this book out to students in 2028. Look for How to Succeed in College: Being Successful and Avoiding Burnout Along the Way coming soon.
Are there any psychology graduate students planning to attend WPA in Tacoma, WA that would like to participate in a panel about graduate school? The panel is aimed at an undergraduate audience and panelists share their experiences and there is a Q&A session.
"Inevitably, they view learning as a problem of content delivery, failing to understand that learning is a social process, happening among and inside of people"
Human connection is the center of learning. Tech has a place in ed, but never the main role. We should fund teachers over tech every time.
But how do we overcome this? I used to think alternative grading was the answer or at least an answer, but I'm not so sure anymore.
"The more institutions rely on measurable proxies for learning, the less they cultivate the conditions under which deep learning actually occurs."
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Our assessment tools are not built for creative thinking, intrinisic motivation, or critical analysis.
The only thing worse is when you find the scale and have to pay for it.
Scrabble board and tiles with unzip waiting to be played.
I have unzip with nowhere to play it and the kid wants to stop after the next turn 😭
Graphic of books read January 26. 10 books, mostly fiction, split digital, audio, them print formats.
January reading wrap up!
It is a departmental and college level decision though so it can vary by department.
I'm at an R1 and yes if our research faculty stop producing enough their e teaching load goes up. And if they stop taking graduate students and have only 1 or less who are also not active it goes up even more.
Calling a child “it” is dehumanization—an easy way for groups to justify violence and give a sense of moral superiority. Milgram showed people aren’t just “following orders”; they convince themselves the ends justify the means. This will only get worse if we don't stop it now.
One reason (not the only one) that I went non-tenure track was to get off this train. I didn't want to be on it when it crashed. This isn't sustainable and it's not good science. Individual solutions like this can be good, but we need a wider systemic change first. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Wrote the very first 699 words of my book today! For years I've been trying to write a book. I've been outlining it, researching, but I never officially committed to writing it. Now, I finally did it. I started it and I couldn't be more excited. Here's to hoping it gets finished.
Haha it always makes me think of Skeet Ulrich then I start thinking about Scream then I can't stop saying "liver alone, get it" all day!
"The report describes a kind of doom loop of AI dependence, where students increasingly off-load their own thinking onto the technology, leading to the kind of cognitive decline or atrophy more commonly associated with aging brains." www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
An Educators Guide to ADHD book cover
Look what came today! So excited.
In talking to a friend who teaches 5th grade, we discovered so much in common from problems we experience, philosophies on teaching, methods to use. It made me wonder why K-12 educators and Higher Ed educators don't cross paths enough. We should be communicating, helping, encouraging one another.
Similar, but different. They had the decency to lie about what they were doing then. Plus back then we still believed in law and order and that things could right themselves out eventually if we held people accountable. Now it feels a bit more hopeless.
Can I just write "I have concepts of a plan" for the rest of my Spring syllabi and submit?
I was going to say something pithy and funny here, but then I read the comments and I can't do any better, pure gold!
Am I weird for liking doing syllabi at this time of year? Course design is my favorite part, I'm all full of hope and grandeur that my future self will curse under her breath.
Found something almost as annoying as 2 factor authentication...having to enter a birthdate but not being able to type it in or change the year on the calendar so having to scroll through 40 years of calendar.
What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?
Covers of all 105 books read this year.
Finished out 2025 with 105 books just in the nick of time.
Cookies with star, dolphin, and gingerbread man cookie cutters
Couldn't find the cookie cutters we wanted at the store so 3D printed some for New Years cookies!
Wow, what an incredible piece that's put all of my thoughts and feelings over the last year into writing. I particularly, love the part about EdTech as I've been struggling with it not only in my classroom, but in my kids classrooms in elementary school. It's good to know I'm not alone.
Realizing how much the world is designed for people to have cell phones. Mine broke yesterday and I don't get a new one until Tuesday. The amount of times I had to say I can't receive text messages right now, my phone is broken just to get them to replace mine!
My neighbor's who had multiple Trump signs in their yard during the election, now have a "Joy to the World" sign on the mailbox for the holidays. The cognitive dissonance is strong.
That's so cool!
Yep! It's Season 6 Episode 9 Get Gellar. You can see me for a split second if you know what you're looking for.
