I am so exhausted and exasperated. It's strange and weird how things have come to be. With all the tools, etc., the capacity for human indifference is astounding.
Anyway, no sense in being a tinder-box.
I am so behind in the work now, that I dont know what to do about it. I get the sense in layoffs. I think a big part of burnout is because there is a lot of ineptitude that is being absorbed in the name of wokism and people who actually can do the work are carrying the weight of those who can't. Or don't. Or won't.
I see now a need for industry-wide certification. My field is too diffused. In a nutshell, what would make someone a good instructional designer is many things. But what makes someone competent are maybe 5 things:
1. Ability to chunk and present content.
2. Acumen to align material with lesson objective and learning outcome. (Needless to say, it is important to know the difference between the two. It's the same stage but the spotlight is on different things. For lesson objective, the spotlight is on the material. For learning outcome, the spotlight is on how the material is put to use. It's a crude and basic distinction but something to begin.)
3. Ability to design, create, and test assessments.
4. Ability to write with some elasticity. For example, you may need to stretch a 5-sentence into an hour long learning or surmise the essence of a 100-hour program into 85 words.
5. Pulse for the narrative of teaching - which means ability to think clear and hard on how to prune material to pick details that teach. Steady, simple, systematic and seamless - what the approach should be.
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