{"id":6706,"date":"2017-11-04T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T16:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2017-11-04T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T17:01:01","slug":"artspeak-meet-edspeak-same-s-different-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2017\/11\/04\/artspeak-meet-edspeak-same-s-different-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Artspeak&#8221;, meet &#8220;Edspeak&#8221; &#8211; same S#!+, different pile."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/aidontheedge.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/jargon2.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. \u2014George Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That art at least discusses &#8216;artspeak&#8217; is refreshing. Education should take a lesson and take a cold hard look at &#8216;edspeak&#8217; too. Ed-types are forever coining new terms that almost instantly become &#8220;THE&#8221; new thing that everyone-who&#8217;s-anyone uses and knows about.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. &#8211; John Ray, naturalist<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Whether it&#8217;s <em>actually<\/em> new or not seems to be irrelevant.<\/li>\n<li>Whether or not there is any actual evidence to support this new best thing, is irrelevant.<\/li>\n<li>One can almost guarantee that this new best thing is going to become a motherhood (edu-hood?) issue:\u00a0<em><strong>everyone<\/strong><\/em> will begin to talk about it and\u00a0<em><strong>everyone<\/strong><\/em> will be doing it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. &#8211; William Penn<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A few examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flipped Classroom (can you say,\u00a0<em><strong>apprenticing<\/strong><\/em>?)<\/li>\n<li>Multiple Intelligence (no evidence, but VERY popular)<\/li>\n<li>_______-Thinking (fill in the blank with whatever you like &#8211; as if we can teach &#8216;ways of thinking&#8217;).<\/li>\n<li>Blended Learning (isn&#8217;t ALL learning a blend of multiple approaches?)<\/li>\n<li>Edutainment (code for crappy software that teachers think\/wish\/hope is &#8220;fun&#8221; &#8211; even though many educators believe that education and fun are incompatible).<\/li>\n<li>Mutil-Modal Professional Learning (Would anyone ever claim that they DON&#8217;T do this?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who &#8216;ligate&#8217; arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well. \u2014Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Note: There IS an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencegeek.net\/lingo.html\">Edspeak Jargon Generator<\/a> (SHHHHHH! Don&#8217;t tell the fine folks at the Ed conferences.) It&#8217;s kind of telling that it was produced by science teacher. I&#8217;m pretty sure almost NO education academics would dare do something like this. They could never bear to expose just how thin most of their &#8220;theory&#8221; and practice actually is, and how devoid of actual meaning much of their jargon is.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ~Hippocrates<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>ATTENTION &#8220;Educationists everywhere (but ESPECIALLY those in the Academy):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">If I make a loony statement \u2013 &#8220;chronormativity both negates and releases binary hegemonies&#8221; \u2013 then follow with an in-text citation (Authority, 2017), it looks as if I am referring to established fact. But I may be referring to a sessional instructor at Simon Fraser who published in an online journal called Radical De-Everything<em>.<\/em>\u00a0The source and its persuasiveness needs to be addressed in the text itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Let&#8217;s stop pretending this language reflects &#8220;research.&#8221; Let the reader decide whether an idea is plausible or implausible by explaining it, not by presenting it as established fact. Let&#8217;s have an end to academic artspeak \u2013 and while we&#8217;re at it, start letting art speak for itself.<\/p>\n<p>The reader should decide whether an idea is plausible or implausible by explaining it, not by presenting it as established fact.<\/p>\n<p>The point of this dialect, the researchers claim, is simply to show insider status, to exclude those without the proper credentials or background from the conversation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/lets-stop-pretending-academic-artspeak-reflects-actual-research\/article36785084\/\">Let\u2019s stop pretending academic artspeak reflects actual research<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6706'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6706);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6706);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6706);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. \u2014George Orwell &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2017\/11\/04\/artspeak-meet-edspeak-same-s-different-pile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9,369,24],"tags":[388,389,15,393],"class_list":["post-6706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-higher-education","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-educational-technology","tag-higher-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1Ka","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6994,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/08\/13\/just-in-time-for-the-start-of-term-the-guide-to-simulations-and-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":6706,"position":0},"title":"Just in time for the start of term&#8230;The Guide to Simulations and Games","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Available for a limited time for $9.99(US) with this coupon.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4798,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/18\/walking-the-talk-signature-pedagogies-and-metateaching-in-graduate-level-education-courses\/","url_meta":{"origin":6706,"position":1},"title":"Walking the Talk : Signature Pedagogies and Metateaching in Graduate-Level Education Courses","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another fairly recent talk, also from CNIE 2014. [P] Presentation Becker, K. (2014) Walking the Talk : Signature Pedagogies and Metateaching in Graduate-Level Education Courses, CNIE 2014 Confluences: Spaces, Places & Cultures for Innovative Learning, Kamloops, BC, May 13-16, 2014 Canadian Network for Innovation In Education (CNIE) Abstract Many\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6944,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/07\/16\/the-guide-to-computer-simulations-and-games-now-available\/","url_meta":{"origin":6706,"position":2},"title":"The Guide to Computer Simulations and Games NOW AVAILABLE!","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We have regained the rights to our 2011 book, The Guide to Computer Simulations and Games, originally published by Wiley. We are in the process of updating it for a new edition, but in the meantime we are releasing the first edition on LeanPub (e-versions only; no print versions). 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We need to get rid of compartmentalized grading entirely, and quit blaming the students for responding appropriately to an unreasonable assessment system.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6716,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions\/6716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}