It’s almost as if the existing evidence suggests teachers should refuse GenAI. See this paper from Melissa Warr and Marie K. Heath: "Findings reveal that LLMs exhibit implicit biases, such as assigning lower scores when students are said to attend an 'inner-city school' or prefer rap music."

Congratulations to Drs. Alan Sears and Carla Peck on the publication of their new book, Rescuing Reason: How History Education Can Help Save Democracy (UTP, 2026)! utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/... @carlapeck.bsky.social @ualbertaed.bsky.social

Thinking Historically in the news: Dr. David Scott recently spoke with CBC News about Bill 25: An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

What a treat today, having Dan Parker’s grade 9 students come up to VIU to help Michael MacKenzie and me test democracy games. Students playing “mobilize” convinced people on campus to show support for their transportation policy wish, by being photographed holding a sign. Fun! And good learning.

1/3 A small but provocative new study finds that students with the ability to formulate sophisticated questions - which is an important marker of, and contributor to, deep thinking - did better on an open-ended project but *worse* on a standard multiple-choice course exam: is.gd/KFHZfQ

This is giving Vancouver Canucks 2011 riot kissing couple vibes

I love Nanaimo beaches during the herring run. Lots of visitors

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

Irony is in 10 years there’ll likely be more jobs teaching traditional crafts to seniors—occupational therapy—than coding jobs or most careers parents urge their kids into. The best advice you can give a kid today is “The job you’re going to have probably doesn’t exist yet so study what you love.”

First time burmashaver, in support of her teachers and #redforbced

First time burmashaver, in support of her teachers and #redforbced

My colleague Michael MacKenzie and I like designing, field testing, redesigning, and testing (etc) games for teaching democracy. This was us cutting and folding and pasting for 45 min today. Then he came back from trying it out and had 4 changes to make. Into recycling you go…. #iterativedesign

My colleague Michael MacKenzie and I like designing, field testing, redesigning, and testing (etc) games for teaching democracy. This was us cutting and folding and pasting for 45 min today. Then he came back from trying it out and had 4 changes to make. Into recycling you go…. #iterativedesign

Not looking to dunk on the poster but… don’t do this. The report is based on a Leger poll using methodology that is transparent in the article, not something made up by the newspaper. You can look at the methodology and critique it, or disagree with voter sentiments but this is just wishcasting

When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.

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you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices. ... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.

It would happen no matter what. The US President is basically a Roomba. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction. Sooner or later he always circles back, though.

A map mystery! Elementary Social Studies Education students making inferences about why this map was made and for what purpose. I learned about this map a few years ago when @benbradleyca.bsky.social shared it online. See link to map via @vanarchives.bsky.social next post.

A map mystery! Elementary Social Studies Education students making inferences about why this map was made and for what purpose. I learned about this map a few years ago when @benbradleyca.bsky.social shared it online. See link to map via @vanarchives.bsky.social next post.

This is Dumpling. She got her very first sweater and promptly deactivated. 12/10 (TT: jmw495)

Reflecting on the first week of the new semester teaching Social Studies Methods to future teachers. Somehow I have been doing this for 10 years! I always start the first class - before even looking at the syllabus - with an activity about teaching democracy. This work feels more urgent this year.

Reflecting on the first week of the new semester teaching Social Studies Methods to future teachers. Somehow I have been doing this for 10 years! I always start the first class - before even looking at the syllabus - with an activity about teaching democracy. This work feels more urgent this year.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Could be true. I started writing circa 1952, still at it, still here. Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges theconversation.com/writing-buil...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Give Vladdy even more money. #Jays #WorldSeries

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

How long before Koufax pitches? He’ll be 60 years rest.

Turn on this World Series game if you’re not watching it. Incredible drama

No it does not @theathletic.com

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

It’s that time of the semester when it’s lunchtime and I can’t remember what the opening activity was for the 3 hour class I taught this morning. I have 24 minutes until I teach the same lesson to another cohort. Any guesses, haha?

Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)

Soon the rainy, shorter days and higher daytime tides will make it hard to get to the dog beach. Until then, I will be lucky to take time off from screens to be here. #Nanaimo

Build Canada Homes is a step in the right direction, but we're here to present a 🧵on why building more homes will never be the silver bullet many Canadians are hoping for. Read on for info and links! (1/11)... #cdnpoli #buildcanadahomes www.gensqueeze.ca/build_canada...

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

"The education system needs to be fully funded. When we do that, we can teach [and] feel respected within that work." BCTF President Carole Gordon discussed the top issues for teachers on CBC News yesterday. Watch the full video here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3

The latest from @acoyne.bsky.social arrives just in time to land on the syllabus of my contemporary threats to democracy course. Was looking for exactly this sort of up-to-the-moment summation of the state of play in the states. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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"General sense of doom."

Taking advantage of free access to National Historic Sites this summer. This is the Fisgard Lighthouse at Fort Rodd Hill.

This was an amazing few minutes of baseball! What a story. Glad to have caught it on tv while it was happening.

Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...