If you are involved in educational research or you are interested in learning more from educational research, I strongly recommend watching this presentation by Dr. Sam Weinburg (via Dan Meyer).
Dan does a good job of highlighting the strengths of this video, however I have this to add: most academic writing might as well be written in Ancient Greek and buried at the bottom of the sea for all the good the research does society. If you write in language which is incomprensible to most people and only available to a very select few, you are doing very little to actually change your chosen field.
Fawn Nguyen says:
Once upon a time, and over a span of multiple years, I’d subscribed to Scientific American, even reading that was challenging. So thanks, David, for pointing out that "most academic writing might as well be written in Ancient Greek…"
February 18, 2013 — 11:14 pm