This is such a fun idea! I will try to follow along too and perhaps join in as well! Don’t think I can commit to multiple weekly posts … but monthly may be doable?

As I teach the reality of emotion and memory relations and dismantle the clinical lore around repression I have students who are also taking social work classes where VdK’s book is required reading. Terrible that students then have to “take sides” and perform for both classes.

Sad that degree/credentials aren’t enough to guarantee validity of content. Unraveling truth from fiction in the trade-book trauma literature is a daunting and uphill battle.

Of course he has (insert eye roll here). Def worth talking about authority markers more! My students minds are blown when we discuss publishing: they do not realize that trade books like VdK’s are rarely peer reviewed. They assume publishers fact-check.

An important and cogent counter-narrative here worth the read! While the peer review system isn’t flawless it does still serve a vital function of fact-checking and VdK has side-stepped it for many years with this book.

Important to keep a counter narrative in circulation! In addition to the summary critiques, the memory science that VdK’s premise rests on is flawed and has been criticized by both clinical and memory scientists for many years. By publishing in the popular press VdK sidesteps critical peer review

Thanks @timreha.bsky.social for the airtime! It was so much fun talking with you about our projects!

After many moments like you are having I created a fill-in-the-blanks template for their first go. After that I progressively pulled back the support. They tend to be so intimidated by the stats that they don’t see the template/script of it.

Agree! Was a definite highlight for us, talking with you!!

Shout-out to my fantastic course-design collaborator @jackiemchen.bsky.social too <3

We absolutely must keep our eyes — and politics— on AI and untested ED-tech creep. 💯 agree that the issue is more pressing for schools than HE.

Indeed— lots to think about in your report here. That’s a chilling vision you paint of AI-tech enabled edu in the UK. I don’t know a single teacher who wld be on board with that kind of new world order and the research I allude to in my post does not point to a vision like that either.

Totally agree with you that right now is the time to started establishing parameters on the value of human and AI interactions in educational settings. I know that this conversation is about higher ed, but there's great research happening on AI and Kids too, that can already inform decisions