The Real Peter DeCourcy
@peterdecourcy.bsky.social
eLearning expert, Top-10 in Canada, First Generation, WCAG. I happen to know a lot. 25 years in online learning. Seen it all, mostly bad. I'm "working class" in the Marxian sense, not the popular usage. "Real" in the non-Lacanian sense.
Quite an interesting study by Yizhou Fan and colleagues presented in this video, "Learning and Regulating with ChatGPT: What an Experimental Study Tells Us." (youtu.be/YdWePjSYrzw?...). The webinar is especially interesting because it includes a clip of a subject using the experiment's interface.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Quite an interesting study by Yizhou Fan and colleagues presented in this video, "Learning and Regulating with ChatGPT: What an Experimental Study Tells Us." (youtu.be/YdWePjSYrzw?...). The webinar is especially interesting because it includes a clip of a subject using the experiment's interface.
An articulate post that attempts to move past the trad/prog debate. It's likely just talking into the void as pedagogical progressivism has such a tight grip on Ed Schools that anything but absolute support is largely rejected, but every bit helps.
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scienceoflearning.substack.com/p/the-scienc...
The science of learning is not the same as “back to basics”
How teachers can move past educational pendulum swings to a more evidence-informed future.
scienceoflearning.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
An articulate post that attempts to move past the trad/prog debate. It's likely just talking into the void as pedagogical progressivism has such a tight grip on Ed Schools that anything but absolute support is largely rejected, but every bit helps.
scienceoflearning.substack.com/p/the-scienc...
scienceoflearning.substack.com/p/the-scienc...
I should have learned the S1W's dance from Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" video. That would look cool to bust out on the picket line. #OldManMoves #OPSEU #CollegeStrike @opseusefpo.bsky.social
youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjg?...
youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjg?...
Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by PublicEnemyVEVO
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September 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I should have learned the S1W's dance from Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" video. That would look cool to bust out on the picket line. #OldManMoves #OPSEU #CollegeStrike @opseusefpo.bsky.social
youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjg?...
youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjg?...
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The Ford government is pushing Ontario’s colleges into severe financial stress, setting them up to fail so they can be sold off to wealthy friends. Outside of the unions, very few are standing up for the future of education. Wake up, Ontario! #ONPoli #ONCollegesStrike #UnionStrike #OPSEU
September 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Ford government is pushing Ontario’s colleges into severe financial stress, setting them up to fail so they can be sold off to wealthy friends. Outside of the unions, very few are standing up for the future of education. Wake up, Ontario! #ONPoli #ONCollegesStrike #UnionStrike #OPSEU
The NDP is apparently a grower, not a show-er, so...I guess there's that... 🤷🏼♂️
With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
April 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The NDP is apparently a grower, not a show-er, so...I guess there's that... 🤷🏼♂️
Maybe a truly agentic AI will realize it's senior management that's overpaid and unproductive and begin trying to democratize workplaces. 😏
April 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Maybe a truly agentic AI will realize it's senior management that's overpaid and unproductive and begin trying to democratize workplaces. 😏
I'm not sure if my research has become more specialized recently, but I've seen fewer Ed articles making misinformed references to Kuhn and "paradigm shifts" lately. This is good because most references indicated no informed use of that term. Keep up the good work! #EduSky
December 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM
I'm not sure if my research has become more specialized recently, but I've seen fewer Ed articles making misinformed references to Kuhn and "paradigm shifts" lately. This is good because most references indicated no informed use of that term. Keep up the good work! #EduSky
I found a copy of Bransford and Schwartz's "Rethinking Transfer: A Simple Proposal With Multiple Implications" in my document archives today, and it left me wondering: did Bransford and Schwartz EVER publish something fewer than 40 pages? 😏
December 11, 2024 at 10:50 PM
I found a copy of Bransford and Schwartz's "Rethinking Transfer: A Simple Proposal With Multiple Implications" in my document archives today, and it left me wondering: did Bransford and Schwartz EVER publish something fewer than 40 pages? 😏
If I attempt to present knowledge as a binary, the least effective criticism is that I've attempted to present knowledge as simple and binary. The attempt counts:
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Progs vs. Trads: The Ultimate Table
Progs Versus Trads: The Ultimate Table Note on the table: This table is meant to facilitate discussion and debate and to put isolated comments and beliefs perhaps into a larger context. It is meant to...
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December 7, 2024 at 3:44 PM
If I attempt to present knowledge as a binary, the least effective criticism is that I've attempted to present knowledge as simple and binary. The attempt counts:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Haben Girma: "The difference between accommodations for sighted people and accommodations for blind people is Ableism." I wanted to share Girma's point about our routine acceptance of "accommodation" for the able-bodied, but YouTube only lets a clip be 60 seconds: youtube.com/clip/UgkxZwA... #A11Y
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December 6, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Haben Girma: "The difference between accommodations for sighted people and accommodations for blind people is Ableism." I wanted to share Girma's point about our routine acceptance of "accommodation" for the able-bodied, but YouTube only lets a clip be 60 seconds: youtube.com/clip/UgkxZwA... #A11Y
This is a good start, especially the content. I might add a toggle with an optional explanation below each point. Thanks for sharing!
How can we design an #accessible #learning resource as educators?
Recognising the challenge of navigating guidance like UDL & WCAG - we made this resource as a one-page guide!
#AcademicSky #Accessibility #Equity #Inclusion #HigherEd #loveLD #LTHEchat #Diversity
designingfordiverselearners.info
Recognising the challenge of navigating guidance like UDL & WCAG - we made this resource as a one-page guide!
#AcademicSky #Accessibility #Equity #Inclusion #HigherEd #loveLD #LTHEchat #Diversity
designingfordiverselearners.info
December 3, 2024 at 2:51 PM
This is a good start, especially the content. I might add a toggle with an optional explanation below each point. Thanks for sharing!
I don't know. Literature on gaining student attention comes with an unspoken proviso of "acceptably." One could wave a gun around a few times during a lecture to imprint memory; after that, it would lose effectiveness. #edchat Better left in the faculty lounge: www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...
Is This a Real Science Textbook Introduction?
Advanced physics textbooks are not generally known for their jocularity.
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November 29, 2024 at 10:54 PM
I don't know. Literature on gaining student attention comes with an unspoken proviso of "acceptably." One could wave a gun around a few times during a lecture to imprint memory; after that, it would lose effectiveness. #edchat Better left in the faculty lounge: www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...
As a graduate student, we had an Iranian student in our class as we all "critically thought" about power and our government. Several people "challenged" the Iranian student at times to denounce her government. She finally cracked and put all our privilege into place:
November 28, 2024 at 4:13 AM
As a graduate student, we had an Iranian student in our class as we all "critically thought" about power and our government. Several people "challenged" the Iranian student at times to denounce her government. She finally cracked and put all our privilege into place:
The problem with Bransford and Schwartz's contrasting cases is A) Coming up with meaningful contrasting cases, and 2) Are the cases at a didactic factual level or at a conceptual level? #TimeForTelling
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aaalab.stanford.edu/papers/time_...
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November 24, 2024 at 3:20 PM
The problem with Bransford and Schwartz's contrasting cases is A) Coming up with meaningful contrasting cases, and 2) Are the cases at a didactic factual level or at a conceptual level? #TimeForTelling
aaalab.stanford.edu/papers/time_...
aaalab.stanford.edu/papers/time_...
Yes, I have an AI recipe that I use that writes questions in Respondus 4.0 format to import directly into D2L. Pulling video transcripts for content is the latest thing I've been trying. 😏
I use AI to create many quick multiple choice quizzes for review. For instance, I'll paste in content and have it write 30 questions from which I select/tweak 10-20.
I use #Moodle, so I have ChatGPT write those in XML format which I can paste into a doc then import. I use 5 random questions.
I use #Moodle, so I have ChatGPT write those in XML format which I can paste into a doc then import. I use 5 random questions.
November 16, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Yes, I have an AI recipe that I use that writes questions in Respondus 4.0 format to import directly into D2L. Pulling video transcripts for content is the latest thing I've been trying. 😏
Since I'm new here, I will repeat my previous self: every education credential should START with @dlabaree.bsky.social "The Trouble with Ed Schools." I struggled to understand why the field was such a mess for years.
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt... #EduSky
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt... #EduSky
The Trouble with Ed Schools on JSTOR
American schools of education get little respect. They are portrayed as intellectual wastelands, as impractical and irrelevant, as the root cause of bad teachin...
www.jstor.org
November 14, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Since I'm new here, I will repeat my previous self: every education credential should START with @dlabaree.bsky.social "The Trouble with Ed Schools." I struggled to understand why the field was such a mess for years.
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt... #EduSky
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt... #EduSky
30 years ago, some urban planners decided that #BladeRunner had a cool aesthetic and delivered Dundas Square in Toronto and Times Square in NYC. With AI and the last vestiges of resistance to corporate control swept away, we are 3/4 of the way there. Yay, dystopia!
November 14, 2024 at 3:37 AM
30 years ago, some urban planners decided that #BladeRunner had a cool aesthetic and delivered Dundas Square in Toronto and Times Square in NYC. With AI and the last vestiges of resistance to corporate control swept away, we are 3/4 of the way there. Yay, dystopia!
I've enjoyed what I've seen so far from Riffbot.ai, the AI chatbot that aids students with reflections, from Standford's dSchool. The bot can email both a summary of your conversation and a full chatlog. Apparently, in educator mode, you can see students replying in real time.
November 12, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I've enjoyed what I've seen so far from Riffbot.ai, the AI chatbot that aids students with reflections, from Standford's dSchool. The bot can email both a summary of your conversation and a full chatlog. Apparently, in educator mode, you can see students replying in real time.
My "The Intellectual History of 'The Matrix' and How It Failed Democracy" is coming soon when a major publisher gives me a big advance.
November 9, 2024 at 3:37 PM
My "The Intellectual History of 'The Matrix' and How It Failed Democracy" is coming soon when a major publisher gives me a big advance.
I took the Purple pill.
November 9, 2024 at 3:25 PM
I took the Purple pill.