Jackie Wickham Smith

💻 Senior Learning Designer @NorthwesternU @nu_digitallearn @NUSPSOnline
👩‍🏫 TA @NorthwesternSPS
🎓 @il_wesleyan | @niucoe
🏃‍♀️ retired @jonesgirlsrun coach

[Jackie Wickham Smith @jacwic]

#proudcoach #greatrace #greatkids https://t.co/ryoFPA54yx

[MileSplit Heartland @MSHeartland_]

Its OPRF w/the win, look at the battle for 2nd, Jones College Prep w/ the edge over WY, all 3 appear to be State Bound #ConcordiaSectional

[Northwestern Athletics @NU_Sports]

Today’s attendance: 8,316 🌊

A record for a @NorthwesternU home women’s sporting event!

[Julian K. Jarboe @JulianKJarboe]

No baby, it's that we understand cognitive friction aka effort is essential to true learning even outside of the subject area and we don't want to share society with zombies. Some of us even want other people to reach their real potential.

[✨ Tara Wine-Queen Writes ✨ @TaraWineQueen]

Matilda did not walk her four-year-old self to the public library every afternoon to soak up every possible moment she could in the comfort of books and joy of learning for you to not take advantage of your local library’s innumerable charms

[Andy Smarick @smarick]

In 10 years, we'll realize young adults can't read, write, or think as well as they should. We'll wonder how we allowed students to offload huge chunks of their learning to AI. Today we're just watching it happen. This is the most obvious unforced error of our time.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

saw a post saying we are so emotionally invested in the artemis ii mission because it shows intelligent people working together to do difficult things. and honestly, that resonates. it feels like a reminder of what is still possible

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

These are gonna be headlines about AI in ten years.

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

“Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.”

https://t.co/IeOGhGmrPq

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Like an appreciation of progress, reading and literacy are among the things that are good but cognitively unnatural. That is, they go against our evolved nature. We didn’t evolve with print; it was a recent invention. Reading, for many of us, has become so second nature that we just assume it’s the most natural way of getting information. But what we’ve seen, especially in the last 10 years, when video has become so cheap because of the cloud computing revolution and the broadband revolution, is that a lot of people, unlike us, much prefer to listen and watch than to read. You just see this: when I go to Google and ask a basic question about how to unstick my printer or solve a problem, I get like five videos. And I just want a paragraph that would solve it. I don’t want to see Seth saying, “Hi, welcome to my show. If you like it, subscribe and give it a like.” So just help me solve the problem. But clearly there’s something unusual about me, because people are going for the video. And the massive availability of video—of TikTok, of YouTube—means that people may not be getting the practice or putting in the effort into literacy, which we have reason to believe was one of the drivers of the Flynn effect and of cognitive sophistication in general.

@HumanProgress

[Northwestern Softball @NUSBcats]

With the tying run at the plate, one out, we've reached a drop-dead time due to Oregon's travel...

FINAL | #17 Oregon 4, Northwestern 2

[Tayvis Nation 🏈🫶🏻 @tayvisnation]

this is one of the best speeches she’s ever given

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

For whoever needs it, a great thought here on what you're really craving

[Melissa Y. Kim @melissaykim]

It was an emotional postgame presser for @HUMensBB as Bryce Harris and Ose Okojie shared their final thoughts about Howard HC Kenny Blakeney and how's changed their lives.

Their answers are almost ten mins long (which obvs speaks to KB), but here's a little snippet:

[via @atrophicbtrfly]

i would pay so much money to never hear about AI or weight loss drugs ever again

[David Hines @hradzka]

“a lot of kids are coming to school already addicted to heroin”
“right, let’s give the entire class that, then”

[Jackie Wickham Smith @jacwic]

@karlykingsley unfortunately years from now, if this continues, humans will have lost the skills to be put back into everything

[Jackie Wickham Smith @jacwic]

@NUMensBball @B1GMBBall @N_Martinelli1 the second team selection is questionable but the graphic design work here is elite

[Northwestern Basketball @NUMensBball]

Associated Press, you know ball.

Nick Martinelli has been named to the AP All-Big Ten First Team 🤌

[Jackie Wickham Smith @jacwic]

@JasonFitz1 maybe consider using a word other than bombed for this particular race?

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Overlooked reason for the literacy crisis is that media has stopped pushing reading entirely. As recently as the 1990s books were at the center of culture. As kids it was drilled into us that to be successful, you had to read. We need a national campaign to make kids read again.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Internet brain is making us all profoundly dumber. Digital slop is destroying our attention spans. Study after study shows declines in focus, critical thinking, and literacy. One of the most counter-culture things you can do right now is read a book.