Jeffrey Fisher

jeffreyfisher@tldr.nettime.org

I'm a teacher/professor, researcher, and writer. I'm totally a dilettante. I can't stop thinking. Sometimes it's a problem. on Substack at <a href="https://jeffreyfisher.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://jeffreyfisher.substack.com/</a>

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Post #2961562
If the record-high levels of voter participation in the last three elections are any indication, Americans are more engaged — even if they don’t know more — than they ever have been. If the close elections of 2016 and 2024 are any indication, the public is deeply divided. And if Biden’s uniquely decisive win in 2020 is any indication, Trump is just not that popular, despite the intensity of his cult following that can make it feel like the whole country loves him. They don’t. He can be beat. Bu...
Post #2961561
The problem I want to highlight is that one central reason student evals don’t work is that we don’t really have a clear, concrete, specific, universally applicable framework for identifying “quality instruction” in the k-12 or higher ed environments. I would argue that we not only can’t have one, we shouldn’t even want one and shouldn’t be trying to make one. When people teach, they teach like a person. Insofar as they are working with people and not widgets, that is to be desired. Students wil...
Post #2961560
And in case you thought there weren&#39;t enough hot takes on sam altman&#39;s recent freudian slip, here&#39;s another one. but how many have you read that talk about Douglas Adams and Deep Thought? https://jeffreyfisher.substack.com/p/more-human-than-human-sam-altmans?r=2g7xpl
Post #2961559
Now that we&#39;re out of the in-fighting over Chomsky&#39;s culpability with respect to Epstein (I did not even have a horse in that particular race), it&#39;s worth taking a look at what it tells us about how elite people get along even when they disagree in ways that matter. https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffreyfisher/p/bring-back-commitments-to-communities
Post #2961558
Alexander Kustov&#39;s complaints about academics resisting AI (&quot;Academics need to wake up about AI&quot;) seem to be getting a lot of play, even as they drive a lot of hostility, but while he is right about quite a bit, he is also very wrong about some very important things. the narrow (and exclusive) definition of academia in terms of knowledge production is a dead end and fatal to the idea of education. when you say “academics,” most people don’t think you mean “but not the...
Post #2961557
Alpha School is complete BS, from their education model to their employment model to their revenue model. If you ask me, this is the obvious end-result of education as production and customer as product. https://jeffreyfisher.substack.com/p/alpha-schools-education-coaches-are