Better or worse that Blackboard shows me classes but sometimes hides the students?
11.03.2026 22:52
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Better or worse that Blackboard shows me classes but sometimes hides the students?
but apparently my philosophical critique is too philosophical to count...
I have some half-baked thoughts about Friere, teaching with community, the trend of ed-tech to enforce alienation, and how AI has accelerated that. There's no applications, just me connecting some things. I was thinking a 15min talk might be a nice way to firm up my argument...
USM is having a day-long showcase about AI. There are three tracks for topics, one of which is "Philosophical and Critical Conversations in AI". I was contemplating submitting some thoughts I had...but the rubric for acceptance includes a mandatory score for AI integration.
Looking for recs, hoping I can find the sweet spot of "parents of older kids" and "thoughtful educators". There's so much discussion of screen time in schools. I want journal articles or books on screens, ed tech, learning apps, and attention in elementary settings
It must be spring, I woke up to the lovely sounds of dirbikers drag racing on University
If want something that requires labor and you don't have the money for it, then you should think about it like a sandwich. A sandwich costs money. No money, no sandwich.
You want artwork? fieldwork? Someone to wash dishes in the lab? It costs money.
RIGHT I remember that now. And she'd title a section "Betteridge's law" or something like that
Screenshot from the newspaper The Baltimore Banner showing a couple stories, one of which is "Can AI-powered weapons detection protect school - without targeting students?"
Didn't Audrey Watters have a rule about answering "No" to all ed-tech question headlines?
I've built ref spot checks into grading work. I only review occasionally and it didn't seem necessary last time, but next review I'll probably add that to the list.
I dreamed someone had had to rearrange lab computers and bring back into service one of my older computers. When I went in to lab to work with students, I heard the sounds of a *dial up modem* coming from that computer.
I'd like to propose that we stop inventing new ways to log in
Chemsmy looking for recs: I wanna get some chem themed art for the conference room at work. Want cute, asthetic, not weird AI bs, not worried about it being cheap. What artists do you have to recommend?
Working out regularly and getting back into organizing have been good for my spirit. Annoying but true, lol.
Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪
Mar 6 (Year 2, Week 10)
- NIH revoking certification of early career workers union
- FDA 'chaos' & Prasad out (again)
- even more delay & interference in NIH funding
& so much more
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
I'm so in need of naps that one of my major tasks today is to figure out how to fit a couch in my office
For those of you who teach labs with TAs, how do you count your course load?
Today's low-energy life hack: put on Queen's greatest hits and dance around like you're Freddie Mercury while you get ready for work
Me tooooooo!
This is why teaching faculty should get a special topics course every now and again
And secretely they'd also be better learners
Each week we could discuss audience, rhetorical strategies, norms of the style of writing.
The connection between active learning and belonging
The connection between active learning and success
That four level model of finding truth whose name I forget but has to do with different ways a student sees acceptable ways of defining truth
John Warner on having a writing practice
Learning as biological brain change
Freire, the banking model, and learning as encounter
Contemplating teaching my advanced lab that's also writing intensive such that every reading is a greatest hits ed paper/book exerpt...
I've been wondering if we'll see you there.
How strange it must be to arrive at the ends of things, even this far after you're officially 'done'