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Come for the Grammarly takedown, stay for the note about the military actively using Skynet to run their operations.
Here’s the crazy part about teaching that non-teachers often don’t understand (until they try it):
As you gain more experience, you’re just sorta expected to do more, but (often) aren’t given more pay, status or time to do so.
“Teacher tired” is real.
Props to everyone surviving March.
That has obvious political implications —and honestly, dem politicians in red states should be paying attention to the negative response to vouchers— but I also think it helps to remember that education can’t escape politics and yet the talking points from politicians aren’t meant to serve us. (2/2)
This was outstanding education reporting.
I was pulling a ton of quotes as I was listening, but I think Jack summarized it best near the end: the issue of vouchers clearly articulates how contradictory and convoluted the ideology of conservatives is right now. (1/2)
wrote about tanking and the taboo of not caring about it, russell westbrook and the prism of context, and america's latest forever war
From study:
“The LLM undeniably reduced the friction involved in answering participants' questions compared
to the Search Engine. However, this convenience came at a cognitive cost, diminishing users'
inclination to critically evaluate the LLM's output or 'opinions”
I had never heard this ”cognitive debt” term before, but I think it’s a powerful way to frame the conversation about whether to use AI in the classroom:
If you’ve accumulated the cognitive resources to pay off that debt, it could be useful … but if you haven’t yet, you’re going to go bankrupt.
Plenty of TFA folks are in it for the right reasons.
But there’s a strong argument that exposing resume padders to a culture that embraces charters as an answer to problems is not only dangerous but profoundly anti-public education in a time when that perspective needs no additional oxygen. (2/2)
TFA is very much its own worst PR and this critique is well-deserved, but I think it even misses something:
Yes, trying to “add prestige” to the profession, recruiting “high achievers”, and treating teaching like a resume line item is problematic; jumping in bed with charters makes it toxic (1/2)
“Shout out to the classics, but a book doesn’t need to be timeless in order to be effective for the generations that are reading it.“
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And have to share two @edutopia.org posts in a row because this one from @mrrablin.bsky.social is SO cool! I have never seen this seating-arrangement strategy before.
www.edutopia.org/article/clas...
anyone in education who supports this needs to leave right now and not look back
What’s most annoying about this is it assumes economic insecurity is a product of individual “skills gaps” as opposed to a structural condition of our political/economic systems.
So now Ss are trapped in a system obsessed with job prep at a time when every company is gutting their future jobs.
When we were talking about Iran in class, someone brought up the name - Epic fury - and two students nodded approvingly, saying, "oooh that's tough"
**THEY WERE 16 YEAR OLD BOYS**
That is who this whole campaign is designed to appeal to. This guy is narrating a video game but with human lives.
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Zaretta Hammond talks about talks about “strategy stripping” and I kind of think that’s what’s happening with the warm demander discourse — I see people cherrypicking aspects of it and trying to reduce it to a set of strategies when I think it’s a whole shift in our classroom disposition. (6/6)
You cannot succeed as a warm demander unless students view your demands and care as legitimate; that occurs within complex sociocultural interactions that I struggle to reduce to strategies. (5/6)
Why do those two things matter?
At the risk of getting too deep it’s almost impossible to separate the way someone inhabits power from the way they were raised / relationship to authority. Having a framework to interrogate one’s own upbringing is vital to holding a warm demander space. (4/6)
Second, I’m struggling with the idea of this being operationalized as a “pedagogy” as opposed to a “disposition” — I could give you all kinds of strategies for how to be a “warm demander”, but actually embodying that is way more about one’s own attitudes/beliefs/perceptions of the world (3/6)
First, I really think it’s valuable to consider Diane Baumrind’s parenting styles research in conjunction with (or even instead of?) the idea of being a warm demander. Situating oneself within whatever style they’re naturally drawn to / comfortable with is an extremely useful exercise. (2/6)
I’ve seen a growing number of articles / conversations about being a warm demander lately and I really feel that this conversation was actually emblematic of two rather significant things that are often left out of the discourse. (🧵1/6)
In the ed program I TA’d for, a prof came in and told students, “Every action you take has a theory. If you tie your shoelaces into a bow, you’re acting on a theory about shoe tying. However you choose to teach, it’s based on a theory. Our job is to help you articulate it.”
I think that’s valuable.
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"—the privilege of describing a thing vaguely, incompletely, dishonestly, is inseparable from the privilege of looking away" —Omar El Akkad
Never more true than the past few years, right?
Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.
Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, sitting alone on the surface of Mars.
It is 1991. I am 15 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2003. I am 27 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2026. I'm too old for this shit. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
Why do I feel like those very rational points will not stop that nonsense from spreading like wildfire…
Sing this from the top of every hill.
It makes me curious about how the hell they were raised… but I guess that’s in the book 🤷🏾♂️
My family is from DC and it wasn’t until I went to college in DC that I realized who the airport we always flew into growing up was named after and I was horrified.
How in the world are these our heroes?!?!? And how in the world do we just casually honor them in daily life?