Barry Fishman

Information, Education, and Gameful Learning… making the world safer for learning and teaching. @[email protected]

[Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) @MastTranscript]

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

#UMichEducation #MasteryTranscripts #MTC #LEAPS

[Grow Beyond Grades @GBGEdu]

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 https://t.co/zSfCJfhro6

[Grow Beyond Grades @GBGEdu]

📣 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. https://t.co/SUUWOEjyj5

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Aw shucks - thanks, Lisa!

[Barry Fishman @BarryFishman]

Been a while since I “checked” in here. Anyhoo… if you have been checking out other platforms, please follow me @[email protected]

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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?

[Barry Fishman @BarryFishman]

Antimatter seems even slipperier than eels!

[Tim McKay @TimMcKayMI]

@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!

[Tim McKay @TimMcKayMI]

#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.

[Matt Townsley @mctownsley]

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

[Barry Fishman @BarryFishman]

@peakdesignltd with the launch of Continuity Camera in Mac OS Ventura, we need a Peak Design-ed solution for iPhone mounting on a laptop or desktop monitor!

[Barry Fishman @BarryFishman]

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 https://t.co/UxZPkw3a3B

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Not a new article, but still relevant!

[TC Record @TCRecord]

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

[Barry Fishman @BarryFishman]

The future of college admissions is already here… it’s time to become a part of it!

[Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) @MastTranscript]

“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 @slooney

[Barry Fishman @BarryFishman]

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! https://t.co/Wj7tx9qh2S

[Barry Fishman @BarryFishman]

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!

[Ying Xu @YYingXu]

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—

[Barry Fishman @BarryFishman]

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

[Barry Fishman @BarryFishman]

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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@Ebonyteach 100% have experienced this and also tried to get ITS to figure out why. Only plausible explanation: Rogue black holes

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@CathyNDavidson I was just there! Don’t miss the main public library across from opera house. Go to top floor and ask to see the “Future Library”. Mind blowing