In Defense of Inefficiency

Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: The first 100 to sign up will get their first month of the subscription covered by Wren for free! 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 () ------ @MainelyMandy () ------ @Salari () ------ @BABILA. () ------ Neil of @TheLeftistCooks () ------ @BrigitteEmpire () SHORTER VERSIONS: ------ 5 Minute Version: ------ Short 1: ------ Short 2: SOURCES: ------ 2022 K12 Edtech Safety Benchmark: National Findings – Part 1 (Internet Safety Lab; ) ------ “College Students Say Crying In Exams Activates “Cheating“ Eye Tracker Software“ (Futurism, Lonnie Lee Hood; ) ------ Education and the Cult of Efficiency (Raymond Callahan) ------ “Goodhart’s Law: Recognizing and Mitigating the Manipulation of Measures in Analysis“ (Stumborg et al; ) ------ “Learn Different: Silicon Valley disrupts education“ (The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead; ) ------ “Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is making this the ‘year of efficiency’“ (The Verge, Alex Heath; ) ------ “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; ) ------ “Study: Stricter School Discipline Policies Have Long-term Negative Effects on Students“ (Campus Safety, ) ------ 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; ) ------ 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; ) ------ Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2011-2021 (CDC; ) FURTHER READING: ------ Audrey Watters' Blog: ------ Sketchplanations of Goodhart's Law: (and BONUS Campbell's Law: ) ------ “The Californian Ideology“ () * To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ ---Join the Patreon! ➤ ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ---Join the Discord! ➤ ---Check out my second channel! ➤ @zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ @thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ This video was sponsored by Wren