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DESCRIPTION:
We're obsessed with being efficient. But is it really all it's cracked up to be?



CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
02:51 - Part 1: What is efficiency?
16:58 - Part 2: The Waste Problem
33:43 - Part 3: The Effectiveness Problem
56:58 - Part 4: Where do we go from here?
01:05:01 - Outro



SPECIAL THANKS TO (in chronological order):
------ ‪@SKTheCrusader‬ (   / @skthecrusader  )
------ ‪@MainelyMandy‬ (   / @mainelymandy  )
------ ‪@Salari‬ (   / @salari  )
------ ‪@BABILA.‬ (   / @babila.  )
------ Neil of ‪@TheLeftistCooks‬ (   / @theleftistcooks  )
------ ‪@BrigitteEmpire‬ (   / @brigitteempire  )



SHORTER VERSIONS:
------ 5 Minute Version:    • Efficiency is Bad, Actually  
------ Short 1:    • If they REALLY wanted to raise test s...  
------ Short 2:    • Efficiency Sucks #shorts  


SOURCES:
------ 2022 K12 Edtech Safety Benchmark: National Findings – Part 1 (Internet Safety Lab; https://internetsafetylabs.org/resour...)
------ "College Students Say Crying In Exams Activates "Cheating" Eye Tracker Software" (Futurism, Lonnie Lee Hood; https://futurism.com/college-students...)
------ Education and the Cult of Efficiency (Raymond Callahan)
------ "Goodhart’s Law: Recognizing and Mitigating the Manipulation of Measures in Analysis" (Stumborg et al; https://www.cna.org/reports/2022/09/G...)
------ "Learn Different: Silicon Valley disrupts education" (The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...)
------ "Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is making this the ‘year of efficiency’" (The Verge, Alex Heath; https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/1/235...)
------ "Murders in the Rue Morgue" Edgar Allan Poe
------ "Risking Ourselves in Education: Qualification, Socialization, and Subjectification Revisited" (Gert Biesta)
------ "Silicon Valley’s obsession with efficiency is fundamentally rooted in sexism" (Quartz, Lux Alptraum; https://qz.com/906115/silicon-valleys...)
------ "Study: Stricter School Discipline Policies Have Long-term Negative Effects on Students" (Campus Safety, https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/...)
------ Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning (Audrey Watters)
------ Team Human (Douglas Rushkoff)
------ The Marxification of Education (James Lindsay)
------ The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime (Bacher-Hicks, et al; https://www.nber.org/papers/w26257)
------ The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Nicholas Carr)
------ "Why 'What Works' Won't Work: Evidence-Based Practice and the Democratic Deficit in Educational Research" (Gert Biesta)
------ "why “what works” won’t work and why “what works” may hurt" (Human Restoration Project, Nick Covington; https://www.humanrestorationproject.o...)
------ Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2011-2021 (CDC; https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data... )

FURTHER READING:
------ Audrey Watters' Blog: https://hackeducation.com/
------ Sketchplanations of Goodhart's Law: https://sketchplanations.com/goodhart... (and BONUS Campbell's Law: https://sketchplanations.com/campbell...)
------ "The Californian Ideology" (https://www.metamute.org/editorial/ar...)


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