Noah Arney
@ndarney.bsky.social
Higher education professional and PhD student interested in educational philosophy, policy, career development, student affairs, and a large amount of geekery.
Residing in Secwepemcúl’ecw
#highered #cdnpse #edusky #academicsky #sacdn
Residing in Secwepemcúl’ecw
#highered #cdnpse #edusky #academicsky #sacdn
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Noah Arney
@ndarney.bsky.social
· Nov 19
If someone didn't bring pie, they don't get to participate in the pie bringing event.
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Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To Work
For years, we watched Silicon Valley executives perform elaborate corporate theater about "values" and "belonging" and "bringing your whole self to work." If you were skeptical that any of that was real, well, congrats. Aaron…
For years, we watched Silicon Valley executives perform elaborate corporate theater about "values" and "belonging" and "bringing your whole self to work." If you were skeptical that any of that was real, well, congrats. Aaron…
Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To Work
For years, we watched Silicon Valley executives perform elaborate corporate theater about "values" and "belonging" and "bringing your whole self to work." If you were skeptical that any of that was real, well, congrats. Aaron Zamost, a longtime tech communications exec, has a piece in the NY Times that should be required reading for anyone trying to understand the tech industry's sudden, conspicuous rightward lurch.
www.techdirt.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To Work
For years, we watched Silicon Valley executives perform elaborate corporate theater about "values" and "belonging" and "bringing your whole self to work." If you were skeptical that any of that was real, well, congrats. Aaron…
For years, we watched Silicon Valley executives perform elaborate corporate theater about "values" and "belonging" and "bringing your whole self to work." If you were skeptical that any of that was real, well, congrats. Aaron…
Got to try out two of the ##ykaHotChocolateFest drinks yesterday. I loved the cinnamon hot chocolate (topped with crushed candy cinnamon hearts) from Amplified. The pistachio hot chocolate from Fresh St. Market was OK, but didnt blow me away, the pistachio flavor was too subtle.
February 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Got to try out two of the ##ykaHotChocolateFest drinks yesterday. I loved the cinnamon hot chocolate (topped with crushed candy cinnamon hearts) from Amplified. The pistachio hot chocolate from Fresh St. Market was OK, but didnt blow me away, the pistachio flavor was too subtle.
On how our bad ways of measurement and reward is leading to slopscience.
"We’re approaching what one might call an “epistemic collapse” — the point where the noise drowns out the signal so completely that we can no longer distinguish real knowledge from its simulation." medium.com/@ahintze_232...
"We’re approaching what one might call an “epistemic collapse” — the point where the noise drowns out the signal so completely that we can no longer distinguish real knowledge from its simulation." medium.com/@ahintze_232...
Slopscience: When AI Eats Academia
The Phenomenon
medium.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:45 PM
On how our bad ways of measurement and reward is leading to slopscience.
"We’re approaching what one might call an “epistemic collapse” — the point where the noise drowns out the signal so completely that we can no longer distinguish real knowledge from its simulation." medium.com/@ahintze_232...
"We’re approaching what one might call an “epistemic collapse” — the point where the noise drowns out the signal so completely that we can no longer distinguish real knowledge from its simulation." medium.com/@ahintze_232...
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Why I think that, with the right kind of push, Canadian higher education might be on the verge of a wave of good innovations.
Rays of Optimism, Paths Forward | HESA
Last Thursday and Friday, HESA held our Re: University conference in Ottawa. It achieved what we wanted it to achieve – to get people to have hard, tough conversations about what’s ahead and how to de...
higheredstrategy.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Why I think that, with the right kind of push, Canadian higher education might be on the verge of a wave of good innovations.
IIRC, the thing that works is giving opportunities to read and modeling of reading. So, having books of interest available, seeing parents and teachers reading (meaning teachers also reading during silent reading in class), hearing adults read to them (yes, even in secondary school)...
Setting aside elementary curriculum & instruction for the moment, we've known for decades much of what it takes to encourage reading in and out of school by secondary students regardless of gender, and instead of doing this, we've plied them with edtech, apps, test prep, and devices they carry 24/7.
Why Boys Are Behind in Reading at Every Age
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM
IIRC, the thing that works is giving opportunities to read and modeling of reading. So, having books of interest available, seeing parents and teachers reading (meaning teachers also reading during silent reading in class), hearing adults read to them (yes, even in secondary school)...
Oh wow, I knew it wasnt the magic bullet they claimed, but its so much worse. Some quotes: "Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it."
January 31, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Oh wow, I knew it wasnt the magic bullet they claimed, but its so much worse. Some quotes: "Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it."
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if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame
Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it.
You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby
Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it.
You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby
September 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame
Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it.
You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby
Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it.
You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby
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One thing that is true in this age of "AI" is that authenticity is going to be prized more than ever before. A single hand-scrawled sign is going have more impact than the smoothest "AI" image because the people seeing it knows it comes from someone's brain, not a tuned algorithm.
January 29, 2026 at 1:39 PM
One thing that is true in this age of "AI" is that authenticity is going to be prized more than ever before. A single hand-scrawled sign is going have more impact than the smoothest "AI" image because the people seeing it knows it comes from someone's brain, not a tuned algorithm.
Always interesting to see what Fraser Institute is talking about this week. Apparently they feel that to shorten the Ontario teacher education program it should remove the theory classes. #cdnpse
www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/o...
www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/o...
Ontario education minister should make teacher education more practical, less theoretical
To learn how to teach effectively, there’s no substitute for being in a classroom with real students.
www.fraserinstitute.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Always interesting to see what Fraser Institute is talking about this week. Apparently they feel that to shorten the Ontario teacher education program it should remove the theory classes. #cdnpse
www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/o...
www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/o...
Winnipeg! That was a great conference the other year... 10 years ago... oh wow, am I old now?
January 28, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Winnipeg! That was a great conference the other year... 10 years ago... oh wow, am I old now?
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When people say they work from an AI first draft I don't know how that works, or if it even can work. That text has been developed without judgment. Information without judgment doesn't make sense to me. "I got this business plan faster because AI" means you got something produced without judgment.
January 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
When people say they work from an AI first draft I don't know how that works, or if it even can work. That text has been developed without judgment. Information without judgment doesn't make sense to me. "I got this business plan faster because AI" means you got something produced without judgment.
I was wondering when someone would try this and be upfront about it. Because this is going to kill people. And they know it too, they know that safety regulations are written in blood. So this is their statement that making things easier on themselves is more important than your life.
January 26, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I was wondering when someone would try this and be upfront about it. Because this is going to kill people. And they know it too, they know that safety regulations are written in blood. So this is their statement that making things easier on themselves is more important than your life.
I love it when my research comes out with a different result than I expected. And this is why in policy research its so important to have a good historical understanding of the 'problem' being solved and the methods being used to try to solve it.
January 24, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I love it when my research comes out with a different result than I expected. And this is why in policy research its so important to have a good historical understanding of the 'problem' being solved and the methods being used to try to solve it.
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/6 Watch, as this unfolds, two key things: (1) how blatantly the Gestapo will lie, and demand that you ignore what you can see plainly, and (2) how uselessly, how pathetically, how impotently the media will treat those lies and dither at this murder, craven publicists to evil.
January 24, 2026 at 7:36 PM
/6 Watch, as this unfolds, two key things: (1) how blatantly the Gestapo will lie, and demand that you ignore what you can see plainly, and (2) how uselessly, how pathetically, how impotently the media will treat those lies and dither at this murder, craven publicists to evil.
Anyone else read this as being one step away from 'if Canada doesn't agree to our terms we see no problems with using military force against them'?
Fun... /s
Fun... /s
Reading the new US defence strategy and honestly, I have a feeling that this was always the plan, but they are just being more open and jerks about it.
January 24, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Anyone else read this as being one step away from 'if Canada doesn't agree to our terms we see no problems with using military force against them'?
Fun... /s
Fun... /s
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Great illustration of something I've seen over and over as I've travelled talking about genAI and learning. Students want experiences that have them interacting with each other and that help them figure out their own lives. They crave agency. We can give it to them. (This was true pre ChatGPT too.)
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Great illustration of something I've seen over and over as I've travelled talking about genAI and learning. Students want experiences that have them interacting with each other and that help them figure out their own lives. They crave agency. We can give it to them. (This was true pre ChatGPT too.)
Threat of implied force is still force yall, this isn't a new concept. We all get it, we've all seen a mob movie, pretending you don't know what Trump means is silly.
Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
January 21, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Threat of implied force is still force yall, this isn't a new concept. We all get it, we've all seen a mob movie, pretending you don't know what Trump means is silly.
Book mail is the best mail!
January 21, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Book mail is the best mail!
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I asked this before but didn't get an answer, so as it is this time of year I ask again:
We all know the many published criticisms of student evaluations, and yet we have to go through this rigmarole again and again. So: does anyone know of good published defenses of student evaluations?
We all know the many published criticisms of student evaluations, and yet we have to go through this rigmarole again and again. So: does anyone know of good published defenses of student evaluations?
January 19, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I asked this before but didn't get an answer, so as it is this time of year I ask again:
We all know the many published criticisms of student evaluations, and yet we have to go through this rigmarole again and again. So: does anyone know of good published defenses of student evaluations?
We all know the many published criticisms of student evaluations, and yet we have to go through this rigmarole again and again. So: does anyone know of good published defenses of student evaluations?
I always taught Letter from a Birmingham Jail when I was teaching English. Its such a powerful piece.
"You deplore the demonstrations that are presently taking place in Birmingham. But I am sorry that your statement did not express
a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being."
a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being."
Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King Jr.
YouTube video by Justin Ashurst
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I always taught Letter from a Birmingham Jail when I was teaching English. Its such a powerful piece.
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Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:
January 19, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:
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If a Florida Panther gave me their Stanley Cup ring it would be a nice bauble that I could display. But I did not win the Stanley Cup.
January 16, 2026 at 3:05 AM
If a Florida Panther gave me their Stanley Cup ring it would be a nice bauble that I could display. But I did not win the Stanley Cup.
Kids read. But as they get older they are being told to do so many things (work, school, extra curriculars) that reading for fun gets dropped. And since reading full books, as opposed to short stories and excerpts, means less time for testing a wide range of specific outcomes its sidelined in school
How I fucking hate this bullshit premise.
It would be nice if students could actually read a book all the way through, though.
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Kids read. But as they get older they are being told to do so many things (work, school, extra curriculars) that reading for fun gets dropped. And since reading full books, as opposed to short stories and excerpts, means less time for testing a wide range of specific outcomes its sidelined in school
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I wonder if these people all forget their own schooling experiences, where people relied on Cliff's Notes instead of reading the assigned books - or watched the film adaptations. You know, pre-internet, supposedly "pre brain-rot" lol.
January 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I wonder if these people all forget their own schooling experiences, where people relied on Cliff's Notes instead of reading the assigned books - or watched the film adaptations. You know, pre-internet, supposedly "pre brain-rot" lol.