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Jerod Quinn
@jerodq.bsky.social
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Teaching Center Director, Educational Psychologist, PhD’er, Teacher & Learner, Online, Higher Ed Lingerer, Sometimes Luthier, Writer, Outside Enthusiast, and voted "Most Likely to Die on Every Hill"
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Took some advice from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social book The Last American Roadtrip. On our own family roadtrip and stopped at the Cadillac Ranch.
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club
I'm gonna keep on dancing down in West Hollywood
I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club
Pink Pony Club
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Using my nerdy new mug my daughter gave me. 🤓

Got it from here: smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/goo...
Coffee mug with text printed on it. Says, “not significantly different from a good dad” which is a statistics joke. Mug with Normal distribution curve printed on it that has “good dad” in the middle, and “you” printed a little off center far from the two tailed critical region of significance testing.
September 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A friend from Facilities brought this hat by for me that he made. It’s a sharp looking hat and a really kind gesture. While I do miss working from home, going to the office does have its perks sometimes.
Maroon trucker cap with a Stephens College seal hand punched onto leather and attached to the cap. Looks sharp!
September 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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My educational developer monster from the really wonderful session, Who's Ideal; Whose Ideal? from the Leading with Our Values conference. sites.google.com/view/2025-vi...
My cartoonish monster. They are purple and round, with tiny lopsided horns, wide-set eyes, and their mustache and eyebrows match in look and anger. They are really just a round head with beefy arms and legs. They are yelling in all caps "MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES!!!!"
June 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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My city does an annual Art in the Park. It’s always pretty great.

I bought art.
I’m holding a metal sculpture in front of my face. It’s a pretty big moose head made out of a shovel, some hoes, spoons, wrenches, and other metal bits welded together. It’s amazing.
June 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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For the Materials:
Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty
Field Notes
Book Darts

These are always in use at my desk.
Crazy Aaron’s color changing thinking putty in a round, metal tin. Next to a Field Notes memo book with a Blue Jay illustration on the cover, next to a smaller round tin of Field Notes Brand book darts.
April 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Just picked up my pre-order from my local independent bookshop.
April 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Even my far-from-best seller work appears on this AI training list. I’m not sure why I feel shocked, but I certainly do.

That second entry is an academic article I was second author on. Geez.
Screenshot of the search for my name, Jerod Quinn. The first entry is my 2020 book, the learner-Centered Instructional designer. The second is an academic article I was second author on.
March 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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To the AERA reviewer who said my paper would benefit from a decision flowchart: message received and you were absolutely right.

To the AERA reviewer who said they couldn't see any significance of my work: 🤪
Scale development process flowchart noting the decisions made along the way in three sections; design, test, explore. Starting from the beginning the first four are under the design heading: Theoretical framework, test blueprint, expert review, and cognitive interviews. The next section is test and has three headings: field testing, CFA with three factors, 3 models tested. The lest section is Explore with four headings: data driven exploration, EFA with cross validation, 24 items two factors, and relatedness & competence. Each of the eleven headings has a short description of the decision made.
March 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Giving a workshop for students tomorrow on interviewing for jobs. I'm not sure which of these two slides is my favorite. But I do know that I appreciate being in a workplace where I can be me without second guessing myself.
This is a slide from a talk I will give tomorrow. Black background, magenta title that says, "Unsolicited Advice", and white text. There is an awkward closeup of a horse with its mouth wide open showing off its gnarly teeth. The four points of advice are: don't waste people's time, the aggravation to compensation ratio, wear something that makes you feel awesome, and work won't love you back. This is another slide form my talk tomorrow. A yellow background, with a tan French bulldog in banana pajamas with its nose in the air and an ear flipped out, giving the camera a hard side-eye. In big white letters, the text says "What do they ask in an interview?"
December 17, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Hmmmm. Just pulled them out of my pocket and now something is off with the audio quality of my AirPods.

What could it be?
My hand holding a single Apple AirPod and a rather lovely little pin oak acorn that’s about the same size as the acorn.
October 30, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Best political sign in the neighborhood.
Simple, two color sign. Has a 1950’s stylized illustration of a woman smiling on the left. On the right are the words “grab him by the ballot” and the “Kamala 2024” at the bottom.
October 24, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Help me out here as I’m not a beer drinker. I saw this beer RV on my drive home the other day.

What, specifically, about an oiled up, roided out, 90’s Hulk Hogan in a banana hammock and knee-high boots waving a USA flag makes people want a beer?

What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Apparently Hulk Hogan has his own “Real American Beer” company and this is the image on the back of the RV peddling this shit around town. The description is just horrible, but it in the text of the skeet and I can’t bring myself to type it’s hideousness out again.
October 22, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Made it!
October 20, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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We talk a lot about the dangers of preemptive compliance to authoritarians and other petty jerks. I L-O-V-E the stories of folks who push back.

🙌 to Cards Against Humanity as they push back against dehumanization, exploitation, and preemptive compliance.

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We have terrible news. Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump's very stupid wall. Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire⸺Elon Musk⸺snuck up on us from behind and completely fucked that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage.
September 23, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Fun footnote: They seemed to really enjoy seeing my hand-written + screenshot notes and note taking system that I developed during my PhD. One comment about the most memorable aspect was "How much you had wrote down in the big binder." 🤣

Dude, I love students. They are the best.
My three binders full of mostly hand-written notes from my PhD program which I finished in May. These aren't from the ancient 1980's, friends. A slide from ym talk with a picture of my actual notes from a program evaluation statistics class. I have hand-written notes on one side, including drawing and cartoons to highlight memorable parts. On the other side, annotated screenshots of stats software output and what to pay attention to.
September 18, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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One thing I DIDN'T accomplish in 45 minutes is to provoke conversation about study skills with their friends outside of class. If you hear something cool or wacky or helpful or cute, you tell your friends about it. I want to provoke some conversations outside the session around study approaches.
Only 35% of participants talked about their study habits with their friends after the session.
September 18, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Takeaway 3: You can only accomplish so much in a 45 minute classroom talk.

But holy hell, sometimes you do better than you think! I was NOT expecting change people's reported behaviors. But I needed to ask. The VAST majority of students reported that they tried something different after my talk. 🤩
60% of participants said they made a good faith effort at trying retrieval practice after the talk. 50% of participants said they made a good faith effort at trying spaced practice after the talk. 65% of participants reported changing how they take notes because of what they learned during the talk. 85% of participants reported chaining some aspect of their study habits because of what they learned in the talk.
September 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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I think another help here was that I also acknowledged that cramming sessions work...if you are tested right away after the session. I think it was good to acknowledge that sometimes we don't prepare very well and get away with it. But to remember something over time takes repeated practice.
my slide of a nighttime road with cars zipping by that simple says, "Cramming leads to quick learning and quick forgetting."
September 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Takeaway 2: Student know lots of study approaches, but not always which ones are more effective.
In the open-ended feedback they mentioned knowing about study practices but the session helped clarify when to try what. One mentioned using the methods already but enjoyed learning why they work
I asked if retrieval practice was already part of their study routine. 25% said yes, and another 50% said sometimes. This is the pie chart breakdown of those responses. I asked if they used spaced practice before the talk. 20% said yes, and another 35% said sometimes. 30% said rarely and 15% said no. This is the pie chart breakdown of those numbers.
September 18, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Takeaway 1: Practical is Good.
I know a lot of CTL folks have a talk like this. I know the learning science is super cool to explore. But I'm not convinced students care about that. I focused on two things and made them dead practical. Retrieval practice and spaced practice. Ended with note taking.
Slide form my talk. Mentioned 2 best options as retrieval practice (with interleaving as bonus) and spaced practice (with scheduling as bonus). There the Mr. McMahon meme where he makes increasingly outrageous exciting faces until he bursts into laser eye mode. Starts with retrieval practice with definition, in your own words and examples, interleaving topics, and lastly with spaced practice.
September 18, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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I recently did a Study Skills workshop for a biology class of about 25 students. It was a prototype and I wanted to test some ideas to see if they might work. What's the point in talking about studying if nobody actually tries the advice? Got some feedback 2 wks later. Heres my 3 main takeaways
This is a slide from my talk. Graffiti wall with Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue with all kids of colorful tags around him. At the top my heading says, "Why study? Seriously."
September 18, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Looks like I'm #407,432.

Probably would have been sooner but I gave 🦣 I try for a few months. That was a swing and a miss for me.
I'm number 407,432 of over 10 million Bluesky users.
September 17, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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Ummm, this is a little on the nose, Apple News.

I turned 43 yesterday. 😬
Apple new article dated September 9 with the selection “For You” in big, bold letters at the top. Leads with an article from National Geographic titled, Your body ages rapidly in two ‘bursts,’ at 44 and 60. Here’s how to prepare.
September 9, 2024 at 2:03 PM