Lisa Ann Gates

New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.

Under no circumstances should we allow OpenAI to become the self-authorized educational research evidenve source that it is trying to be. Vendors must not be research authorities. openai.com/index/unders...

How is this not illegal?

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I enjoyed this conversation with @marcusluther.bsky.social as always 😊

How do we handle writing outside of school as AI shifts the sands? Full episode on The Broken Copier is out today.

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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?

Absences of three days or fewer at age 13 can affect Leaving Certificate results - ESRI The Economic and Social Research Institute found that school absenteeism can impact educational outcomes, health, wellbeing and social connectedness.

Linking absences to future failures as though it's the absences that caused the failures rather than an external factor causing both, is not a logical thing to do. This is a good example of why relying on statistics alone will never give you a full picture.
www.thejournal.ie/absences-of-...

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One of the most basic and most devastating consequences of tech is that it has made people forget that knowledge is valuable and hard-won

General Curtis E. LeMay (1965): "My solution to the problem would be to tell them [North Vietnam] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Ages".

Deja vu on regime change?

"The war... eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that the hierarchical society needs. [ ... ]The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. " George Orwell, 1984

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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If We Worship Toni Morrison, What Do We Lose? YouTube video by Cannonball with Wesley Morris

@marcusluther.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com
In case you haven't seen this about Toni Morrison

youtu.be/0koqUtCS32o?...

Thank god we have moved past the cell phone conversation to the broader conversation about screens in schools. Can we back off of AI mania now, please?

Kentucky Supreme Court rules that charter schools law is unconstitutional The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional.

'The mandate implicates state education funds are for common schools and for nothing else,' the justice wrote."

KY voters rejected vouchers in 2024. The Supreme Court reaffirms that using taxpayer dollars for schools that evade public oversight are unconstitutional.

Vietnam War veterans sue to block construction of Trump’s triumphal arch The veterans argued the project would encroach on the nearby Arlington National Cemetery.

Vietnam War veterans sue to block construction of Trump’s triumphal arch

The veterans argued the project would encroach on the nearby Arlington National Cemetery.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

sorry Pink Floyd, turns out that we needed education. a lot of it. all of the education, really

Gemini in Chrome takes a test on my behalf YouTube video by Anna Mills

For all of those who have moved their courses and learning activities onto LMS platforms like Canvas, watch this from @annamillsoer.bsky.social:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8b...

Goodness.

KING HENRY IV
…They say the Bishop and Northumberland
Are fifty thousand strong.

WARWICK
It cannot be, my lord.
Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo

Excited to share my upcoming article! In some ways, it’s the culmination of work I’ve been wrestling with since I started my doc program (written with the #literacies scholars who inspired me to join it). In others, it’s a single, tiny step towards questions I’ll be exploring for a very long time.

Yesterday I observed a second grade classroom as part of some consulting work I'm doing. I was really reminded of how incredible it is to watch teachers' brains process about eleventy billion different inputs at the same time. It's the same feeling you get watching the Olympics - master of the craft

Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!

If this is happening with AI in the medical world, what mishaps with AI are occurring in the classroom ?

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Thoughts become words Words become actions. Actions become character Character is everything

Mitchell Trio feat. John Denver- "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood KKK" 1966 [RITY Archive] YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66

As they say, history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

I stumbled upon John Denver in the Mitchell Trio's 1966 recording of "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan."

It speaks to so many things happening today that it gives me new respect for John Denver.

“It’s not the painting, it’s the energy BEHIND the painting.”

Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥

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