Barry Fishman
@BarryFishman
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Information, Education, and Gameful Learning… making the world safer for learning and teaching. @[email protected]
Ann Arbor (mostly)
Joined May 2008
A new bachelor’s degree at @UMichEducation — Learning, Equity, and Problem Solving for the Public Good (LEAPS) — welcomes applicants with Mastery Transcripts! Learn more and attend an info session: https://t.co/MCl2JVvMdE
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We’ve walked the path of A-F grading for so long that it sometimes feels inevitable from the perspective of students, parents, employers, and institutions. But does it need to be this way? @BarryFishman @MastTranscript
growbeyondgrades.org
Grading systems are remarkably resistant to rethinking given the vast infrastructure built up around our commonly-accepted approaches to grading. Barry Fishman recounts some of his encounters with...
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📣 NEW POST!!! Grading systems are remarkably resistant to rethinking. @BarryFishman recounts some of his encounters with institutional infrastructure, explaining how systemic inertia makes it difficult to give up the current system.
growbeyondgrades.org
Grading systems are remarkably resistant to rethinking given the vast infrastructure built up around our commonly-accepted approaches to grading. Barry Fishman recounts some of his encounters with...
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Been a while since I “checked” in here. Anyhoo… if you have been checking out other platforms, please follow me @barryfishman@mstdn.social
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Fellow social scientists… if you wanted to teach undergrads about social science research methods/approaches/inquiry logic(s), what would you have them read? Do you have favorite books, articles, or cases to teach with?
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Antimatter seems even slipperier than eels!
@BarryFishman Very cool. My big undergrad project was a paper on the trapping of nonthermal positrons in metals...No eels at all, but antimatter!
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One of my favorite books of all time. Actually wrote my undergrad thesis on it!
#Booksof2022 Graham Swift's 1983 "Waterland" - a kind of myth, deep in a place and time, awash in the flat fenlands of Englan through the 19th & 20th centuries, much concerned w/stories lost and found, and what history means. And eels. Many eels.
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With a free PDF and open access e-book, there's no longer excuse NOT to read "Wad-Ja-Get? The Grading Game in American Education"! #sblchat #AtAssessment
https://t.co/cVSLlViRJ5
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Thanks, David! All the readings in the volume you organized are great! If anyone wants to check out the *original* Wad-Ja-Get from 1970, you can get it for free (!) at
fulcrum.org
Grades and grading are an accepted part of modern education. But why? Why do we accept a system that is more focused on ranking students than on learning? Why do we accept the negative effects of...
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Not a new article, but still relevant!
If you're a teacher or administrator looking to use social media for professional learning and classroom engagement, read Dr. @chrisgreenhow Dr. @profvinnycho Dr. @vdennen & Dr. @BarryFishman's article: https://t.co/KcNNV9EArR
@MSUCollegeofEd @bclynchschool
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The future of college admissions is already here… it’s time to become a part of it!
“There is not a U.S. college that hasn't heard of Mastery Transcript [after] only 3 years.” >280 have accepted MTC learners based solely on their competencies, a harbinger of shifts in screening for both college & career! https://t.co/QUhExAaIlF
https://t.co/lxFzBalV1n
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How can competency-based credentialing propel students forward on both learning & work pathways, match talent to opportunities, & empower learners to tell their own stories? Learn more at this cross-sector discussion co-moderated by an MTC student alumnus!
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Congrats to my advisor Roy Pea @rdp_life for his recognition as a 2022 Harold McGraw Jr. prize recipient for Learning Sciences Research! Always a trailblazer, always provocative, always teaching.
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Ying is an incredibly exciting addition to our faculty - check out her work and apply!
I will be recruiting PhD students for Fall 2023 @UMichEducation. If you are or know of someone interested in research that bridges learning sciences, child development, and human-centered AI, please get in touch with me! Below is a thread about my projects—
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O.M.G. Just listened to @samsanders interview my *amazing* colleague @Ebonyteach about Black characters in LoTR & the whiteness of fantasy and it was great! Scholarship meets pop culture. Both win. https://t.co/zkJHrmIAm5
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Podcast Episode · Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders · 09/15/2022 · 43m
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Editing video captions to increase lecture accessibility, sipping some bourbon, and listening to Styx while the sun streams through the window behind me. #lifechoices
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Just sold the last of my “real” (SLR) camera equipment b/c I realized that my phone camera is now nearly as good and doesn’t take up half a backpack and weigh 15 pounds when I travel. But also having SLR separation anxiety. Help!
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Can games improve student outcomes? For @wiwtkpodcast, @BarryFishman shares how #games can help solve some of the biggest issues in education today and how they can help refocus our efforts on the fundamental goals of teaching and learning. https://t.co/DiKU9y8DVa
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Our latest episode is live! Dr. Barry Fishman sits down with @kevinpchavous to discuss how gaming can solve prevalent issues in education and how his co-creation ‘GradeCraft’ is helping make that possible. Watch or listen here: https://t.co/keo7EiyBRd
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