Yes. Yes. Yes. Students use LLMs because they have never, not just now, had enough time & space for learning. And they are frequently missing knowledge about how the various resources work. We just skipped right over that to "they're going to use it anyway so we have to integrate it into pedagogy."

One of my favorite things is when a teacher wants to share a celebration about something that's going well in their classroom. I love that my job gives me a chance to be a part of those moments, even if it's just to witness them and gush with the teacher about how great it was after.

Unbalanced forces problem solving stations—today in 10th grade Physics! :) #modphys #iteachphysics #scichat 🎢

This piece does a good job breaking down how the actual process of boys’ gender anxiety actually gets triggered in academic settings. There’s a tendency to treat “provide & protect” masculinity as positive, but to be maintained it requires a femininity that needs protecting.

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Disability education should not be put into HHS because it's not a health issue, it's an education issue. The idea that disability = health is dehumanizing and, frankly, simply wrong.

One of the neat things about NSTA this week has been running into a few people who had a short, but significant impact on my career and getting to let them know. And running into people who’ve shared the short but significant impact I had on them! A good reminder of how important community is.

One of the reasons I love Minnesota

As we learn more and more about the costs associated with GenAI, I continue to wonder how institutions and their leadership decide that yes, incorporating anything OpenAI produces into the lives of educators and students is worth the harms.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

A little over a year ago, I started commuting by bike when the weather and my schedule allow. Even though my morning ride is chilly and dark right now, it's worth it every time.

If you are struggling with polarization and its impact on your school staff, might I recommend my book Becoming an Everyday Changemaker? I have a whole chapter on cultivating both/and thinking as a skill for school change! www.routledge.com/Becoming-an-...

AI in education amplifies existing biases against marginalized or vulnerable groups AI in education is not evidence-based but based on speculation and proof of concept claims

I think we have to start teaching information from AI as a type of adaptation. The information you get isn’t first hand: it’s all filtered through an algorithm’s lens, and it’s important to interrogate the algorithm and the lens if you want to learn something.

I'm excited to be facilitating this! Apply to do some learning together! #ITeachPhysics

WHEEWWWWWWWWWW: "When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers . . . We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

As a Minnesotan, I think I'm obligated to root for #hematite in #MinCup25

The world's largest snowman is right by the district center where I'm based and some fog this morning has him looking a little menacing

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Make no mistake, linking tylenol (paracetamol) to autism is simply an attempt to suggest that neurodivergence is not a 'natural' part of life (which it is), but instead to 'other' the condition and attempt to shift the 'blame' for it onto mothers.

But I've been told students must learn to use GenAI because it's the future of work or something.

Something I see often in defenders of "AI" in the classroom (especially those who discuss "responsible" uses) is that, in using LLMs and then "critiquing" its output, we can then teach students to become more AI literate. This irks me to no end. 1/

If you need high filtration respirator masks that fit your face securely & cannot afford them, contact a nearby Mask Bloc to request free PPE. Worldwide directory: maskbloc.org If all you have are surgical masks, close the gaps against your face by adding a mask fitter brace like www.fixthemask.com

🧵 New #openaccess pub just dropped: "Teachers' subjectivities in responsive instruction: When ambitious instruction encounters challenging teaching situations" by me, Yeliz Günal Aggül, Shuqin Li, and Christine Hood #AcademicSky #EduSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trying a #Teach180 this year, but for my non-classroom role. I’ve been the HS science curriculum specialist, but adding MS science and 6-12 digital learning specialist this year, so lots to learn!

We shouldn’t be relying on AI to plan our lessons or find our teaching voice.

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

The Science Teacher recently published an article I wrote for teachers about my research on what kids think it means to be good at science and how we can help them expand what they think being good at science looks like. Here are 50 free downloads. #iTeachPhysics www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KJ3RR...

Abandoning trans people is absolutely unacceptable. This lazy approach when we are watching the GOP target marginalized people with an expanding target ... It is gross negligence, and cruel and wrong besides

This is exactly what I tell my first-year students every semester! I teach all majors at SUU and I tell students that all majors have value. Study what you like!

Every time I get a revise & resubmit decision on a paper, I'm glad my advisor taught me her strategy for responding. It doubles as a way to break the revisions down into concrete tasks, which always makes revising feel so much more manageable to me.

This is where my crusade began. I told a teacher to stop insisting that a child call everyone in class her friend. It’s demonstrably not true and that’s okay. We use other words in our family! They refused.

There's a lot of reasons I'm glad to be done with grad school, but boy do I miss my university library access

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

In all seriousness, this has been a motivator for me to care more about local politics. Quality bike lanes, mixed-use trails, and other bike infrastructure happen at the local level!

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Keep remembering all the things that the Supreme Court found legal that were later determined to be morally-and often legally- wrong. Start with Plessy vs. Ferguson and legal segregation. The law is not the arbiter of rightness, it often hoards power. Protect trans people at all costs.

This combined with the Supreme Court ruling means the world just got a lot scarier for trans kids and their loved ones. And there are going to be cis adults treating this as a win.

it would be so awesome if yall didn’t only wear masks at explicitly political actions and instead saw your choice to wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces at the political action it is: one in direct opposition to the eugenic policies we’re being forced to live under.

Teaching about and against AI means working with students to analyze the connections between AI and environmental racism. In addition, educators, students, and community members can build coalitions for civic actions against Big Tech and its plans for more extractive, harmful infrastructure.

This affirms the science teacher practice of asking students to write descriptions and explanations “in their own words.” We know vocabulary list words can hide understanding gaps.

do i love hearing about the ACIP dissolution? absolutely not. this is awful. but i am imploring you, reader, to not merely hang wring, but direct people’s energies to what CAN be done to prevent disease even as our government fails: ventilation, filtration, far uv, & MASKS. we are not without tools.

These testimonies reinforce exactly what I'm hearing as I go present at schools and universities about how to adapt to teaching writing in an AI world. 1. Schools and institutions embracing the technology while also requiring instructors to police academic integrity is a disaster. (cont.)

I’ve noticed an uptick in dismissals of the concerns of teachers about AI. Some say that it’s *their* job to find a way to evaluate work that AI can’t replicate. I would just ask that you talk to real teachers and really listen. I’d also suggest reading a bit about writing and the brain.

These are harrowing testimonials. Yet, I'm thrilled to see multiple Philly teachers' voices uplifted here, and that there is growing collective and active resistance coming from teachers against AI rather than passive acceptance encouraged by the "AI is inevitable" crowd

🧵STEM ED Research: I'm coming back from a week of interviews with math teachers that my team & I have been working with through a partnership funded by the NSF. The interviews are something qualitative researchers do as they are working on their analyses of what happened in the intervention. 1/

Part of my journey as a writer was realizing I need to give myself permission to write something crappy before I can write something good. This seems like a delightful example!