rnbn – Page 7 – microblog, commonplace book, changelog

Take coddle out of your mouth. Looking at you educators and techbros, who I’ve heard it from enough.

Compassion is not coddling. Design for real life.

Roaming autodidacts/techbro rationalists who’ve acquired some evopsych are insufferable and waste the time of your DEI team.

Tech Ethics, Roaming Autodidacts, and the White-Male Effect

I’m going to let this analysis calm my election nerves a bit so as to stay below heart explosion threshold:

https://kendallkaut.substack.com/p/why-joe-biden-is-going-to-win

https://kendallkaut.substack.com/p/the-final-look-and-two-paths-how

My musical hope buoy for election day:

https://youtu.be/R1P1g4C-Jjg

I’m leaning heavily on playlist making as a coping mechanism right now. Here’s my “Chronic Neurodivergent Depressed Queer Punk” playlist of mental health related punk and punk-adjacent songs.

Themes/CW: suicidal ideation, addiction, mania, depression, dysphoria, chronic illness, anxiety, overwhelm, panic, meltdown, masking, burnout, OCD, ADHD, ADD, SPD, bipolar, autism

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/chronic-neurodivergent-depressed-queer-punk/pl.u-yZyVVjZtYzXDqW

When bigots have got me down and I need to scream it out, I often turn to Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females, my favorite power trio of all time and space. Here she is singing about gender non-conformity and homophobia, screaming “While you sit on the fence I will burn in hell” over and over from the depths of her soul.

Legend.

To all you fence sitting family members with conscience compromised by your bigoted religion: fuck you. You fail at moral autonomy, and you fail to #EmptyThePews of toxic Christianity.

“For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself.”

Putting this on repeat and swimming in it.

My YouTube play list of favorite cover songs from 2020 is helping me cope with 2020. Plenty of goosebumps and chills moments.

Thorndike won, and Dewey lost. You can’t understand the history of education unless you realize this. I don’t think you can understand the history of education technology without realizing this either. And I’d go one step further: you cannot understand the history of education technology in the United States during the twentieth century – and on into the twenty-first – unless you realize that Seymour Papert lost and B. F. Skinner won.

Skinner won; Papert lost. Thorndike won; Dewey lost. Behaviorism won.
It seems to really bother folks when I say this. It’s not aspirational enough or something. Or it implies maybe that we’ve surrendered. Folks will point to things like maker-spaces to argue that progressive education is thriving. But I maintain, even in the face of all the learn-to-code brouhaha, that multiple choice tests have triumphed over democratically-oriented inquiry. Indeed, when we hear technologists champion “personalized learning,” it’s far more likely that what they envision draws on Skinner’s ideas, not Dewey’s.

Source: Behaviorism Won