Authentic connection requires vulnerability. And how wonderfully brave it would have been for you to allow another person an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the real you. The possibilities! But here we are.

I too can not read

Real world "AI literacy" = product adoption, as always. Reduced cognitive load comes from fluency/practice. Context switching to mete out tasks to software *is* cognitive load (see calculator use). Also, you're not "deep thinking" if you're not doing the thinking! :o

Venus and Jupiter in the post-sunset sky, from 9500 feet over southern Ontario.

When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.

“Long term cognitive effects of AI use are not known” should be instantly disqualifying for its use in educational settings.

ISO teachers and administrators in the following Texas school districts: Beaumont, Connelly, Lake Worth, Fort Worth, and Houston. Considering putting together a SXSWEdu panel about the impact of state takeover on our schools

Most people will experience mental and bodily differences at some point in their lives and likely care for a person with a disability, making it one of the most relatable subjects a museum can engage with.

Every staff update in every university right now: 1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms. 2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death.

Happy birthday to autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940), shown here with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮 #histsci Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died when she was 4. Her mother 🧵

'Woman wiring an early IBM computer' from the 'Documenting Science' series (1938-58) by US photographer Berenice Abbott #womensart

Two post thread. Eloquent and spot-on.

Poppies In The Rain. 14°C and heavy showers. Starlings.

Democrats, Republicans, university administrators, K-12 administrators, all in firm agreement about this. And it’s terrible for kids.

I'm guessing that the first 20% of students alphabetically who submit A-grade work will get As, and the remainder who also submitted A-grade work are shit out of luck and should have had the foresight to be born with a different surname

UDL in action!

Wordle in 4. ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️🟨⬜️ ⬜️🟨🟩⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"Literacy isn't just about reading words." @drshante.bsky.social "talking about why literacy is becoming one of biggest class divides in U.S., why access to info is not the same as knowledge, and why the people building tech we scroll all day make sure their own kids don't touch it". #BlackSky 🌱

This week I saw a course proposal by a newly minted “faculty” at one of the new centers across the state. All the mandatory books are published by the American Enterprise Institute or a think tank. The faculty has zero academic experience. 😎

Important & urgent: "concerns about reproducibility should not trump concerns about confidentiality or harm...particularly when efforts to ensure reproducibility have the potential to place inequitable burdens on qualitative researchers and to further erode...willingness to participate in research"

The need for information in advance is a vastly under recognised/under appreciated aspect #neurodivergence (especially #autism): clear, accurate information in advance massively increases our capacity to join in and enjoy something. 1/3

I remember an interview with a cameraman who covered war zones once, & the way he explained it fits with this article. “You can’t smell it,” he said, when he talked about how viewers experienced the images he had taken. An image you can see & maybe hear, it isn’t lived experience. We confuse it.

Neuroanatomy today. Some of it is review, & some of it is definitely not. All the AI stuff makes me want to do is think about people things. 🔥 🧠

There are so many things I would never get to experience if I hadn’t put forth the effort to learn a foreign language. For many translation is enough, but it is not for me

Pure profit motive for human services is incompatible with the wellbeing of human beings, & frequently, those who are most vulnerable are subject to things like this. At some point, we might want to consider that it’s antisocial.

A way to resolve the (false) dichotomy between the Enlightenment-era concept of the social contract & human rights: If you think about humanity as the in-group, with no one in the out-group, there’s no problem.

India’s exam fiasco fuels rising youth discontent ft.trib.al/BUD4sfR

If it’s 6 June, it must be 194 years to the day since Jeremy Bentham died, stipulating in his will that his body should be preserved at University College London so he could be wheeled in to attend every council meeting. Except most of the stories about his remains aren’t true 🧵

Also who gets to learn a language, especially the languages of antiquity and tell a story has always been political because equal access to education isn’t available to us all.

And if you think Google Translate will be sufficient, understand that you may end up acting out* a Monty Python skit. The bias is built into the tool & use of the tool, & the bias is that cultural understanding doesn’t matter. * translate = written, interpret = spoken ** ** works both ways, though

In the spirit of my dad's "let's figure it out" I told the kids each of them could pick something interesting to learn this summer and we would do our best to learn it for free. A trick: it doesn't matter how much of the thing you learn if you learn that you can learn more about anything just bc.

Here's an ugly little shed. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #rust #decay

If you ever need a place to think about the miniscule importance of your existence, the Lake District is a good place to start

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” —Maya Angelou

Brighten up your day by watching this ingenious little bumble bee spontaneously solving a novel object manipulation task. Source: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 😊🐝🧪

Crossing the bar

I feel like feeding your students’ work into ChatGPT to generate evaluative comments is, among other things, a massive intellectual property violation.

I’m sketching rhinos today for a very lovely book project, and while the finished artwork will be done digitally, I couldn’t resist a quick Neocolor scribble of the subject. #pbillustrator #sketchbook

I have a lot of thoughts about this. A LOT. I am acutely aware of this phenomenon from a number of angles. I can’t seem to type a coherent thought about the many ways it can be seen in practice, ironically enough, because of space limitations. Would be able to talk your ear off about it, though! 😂

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

this claim does not reflect to me an interest in high academic standards

Sudoku 1’49”

"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it." What a star Marjane was...

What's going on with PhD admissions in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, English Language and Literature, Linguistics, Music (composition), Philosophy, Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance, Slavic, East Asian, and South Asian Languages and Civilizations?

Real world constraints exist. #UnpopularOpinion #Apparently

Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort.

Does he think the pool will be vertical?

Children's voices -speaking -singing

Collective action is the most gratifying part of the reform movement. Grassroots groups like the many Many Manys are the most wonderful manifestation of it. Driven by curiosity and purpose, researchers come together to solve big problems with creative collaborations. That's why I science.

what a great privilege to be part of a panel “Shaping the Future: Young People and Artificial Intelligence” this morning at launch event of this hefty report on AI and youth by the National Youth Council of Ireland. the kids are alright!