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American Teacher well away from America. Worker Bee. Pretty sure that I’m both imperfect and doing mostly the right things.

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The world is not on fire here.

14.03.2026 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I agree. And I also see strong value in using a tool to remind students of things while they are in small group or lab, time keeping for non-input lesson structures, etc.

I also think you are a better diagrammer/illustrator than 95% of teachers (conservatively).

14.03.2026 12:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The progressive unhinging of Sam Altman is a pretty good PSA on the dangers of overusing his product. I haven’t heard a cogent notion from him in years at this point.

13.03.2026 12:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know some. And they are lovely people.

13.03.2026 12:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hegseth’s Boasts of ‘Maximum’ Engagement Authorities Face Scrutiny After School Is Hit

It should be enough to just not want to kill kids. But even if you’re an immoral monster like hegseth, comitting war crimes is a massive strategic mistake. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

13.03.2026 12:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Makes it so much easier to ignore the active war crimes the trump regime is committing in our collective name.

13.03.2026 12:26 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The Netanyahu regimes years-long campaign of war crimes in Gaza is going to be the template for how much accountability the Trump regime takes for this, or any other war crimes it commits. Hard to see how congress does anything other than aiding/abetting via feculence.

11.03.2026 22:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Well if flying death robots were such a problem, why aren’t they illegal?”

It is absolutely exhausting trying to keep abreast of every fresh, new, hell.

11.03.2026 12:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a problem localized to very specific countries 😢

11.03.2026 12:00 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Of course we bombed that school. Of course Israel bombed that hospital. Of course wars are theaters for crimes against civilians. That’s why you generally do not want to start one.

10.03.2026 21:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

Banality of evil. newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

10.03.2026 20:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Greatest”, etc., etc.

10.03.2026 20:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Technocratic competence shouldn’t be a luxury, but alas. Glad you are safe!

10.03.2026 10:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Made Things: AP Bio In-Class Activities I am the kind of teacher who gets bored with the things I do in my classes every few years. That’s not better than other ways of doing, and…

Here’s a discussion of how I was able to smush all of my in-class discussion activities into an easily-updated .pdf and make it freely available. I don’t find any of this to be a problematic use of genAI 🤷🏻‍♂️ davidknuffke.medium.com/made-things-...

09.03.2026 21:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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David Knuffke The personal website and digital garden of David Knuffke.

Nice. I had everything archived from multiple iterations once it was on Squarespace. Then I just trusted to the wiles of the vibe code when I moved to davidknuffke.com If it got lost, it got lost 🤷🏻‍♂️

08.03.2026 09:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes. I also find that there’s a strong bias against the assistive nature of lots of EdTech due to the general ND/ableist bias that tends to accompany education discussions.

08.03.2026 04:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A good one. “Productivity” and “goals” are right next to “efficiency” here.

07.03.2026 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Correct. There will also likely be no consequences for the fascist heel-turn.

07.03.2026 11:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Knuffke, 2026- All AP Bio Activities.pdf

Hi science-teacher people. Would you like a year-long series of #APBio activities, structured to be chunked into you other lesson structures to keep your students engaged via variety of modalities? To both modify and share freely? Here you go: drive.google.com/file/d/18hyy...

07.03.2026 11:19 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

How is this not illegal?

04.03.2026 11:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🤣

04.03.2026 10:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It feels pretty disingenuous to position some articles about the novel-panic as similar to a technology that is both social in nature and deliberately engineered to keep you from turning it off. 🤷🏻‍♂️

03.03.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If only the US government was in a position to…provide flights….🤯

03.03.2026 21:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER: the fish doorbell is open today

02.03.2026 18:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Hegseth says Iran won’t be a ‘politically correct’ war as he lays out US objectives Hegseth criticized the media, allies and former President Joe Biden during the 40-minute press conference

So this means we’re already committing war crimes, right? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

02.03.2026 21:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Knuffke, 2026- All AP Bio Activities.pdf

Here’s all of the activities I use in my #APBio class when we’re having discussions about course material. For you, under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license: drive.google.com/file/d/18hyy...

01.03.2026 10:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You Should Shadow A Student A day in the life of a ninth-grader at my school.

A rare weekend piece appears! Last week I shadowed a student. You should also do this, if you have any capacity to do so: davidknuffke.medium.com/you-should-s...

01.03.2026 03:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Adults can hold the twin notions that a country’s government sucks and illegally murdering their head of state is a really bad idea in your mind at the same time. Now is a moment to be an adult.

28.02.2026 23:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It endangers every American abroad.

28.02.2026 11:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0