Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

The Nex Playground is AMAZING. It is easy to set up. My kids (ages 3-17) all love it. This is not sedintary video game playing. They are jumping, running, racing, and dancing with no controller. They also included adult exercise games. The games are mostly collaborative. This is privacy forward.

What an odd thing.

Yikes. techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/i...

There was already a reviewing crisis.

My favorite people of the weekend: 1. People that work at board game stores. I called ~12 different board game stores searching for a specific game. EVERYONE looked, had suggestions about other stores to contact, offered to special order it. They were all super nice.

My FAVORITE YouTube genre is older people (often men) who video their repair techniques, step-by-step. What a way to give back, right?

Living a block away from Seattle's best toy store is a blessing and a curse.

3 year old is perplexed by saying 'are our...' (towels in the laundry). This is adorable and reminds me that English is awful.

WaPo picked up on what was happening 2+ years ago!

It took 3 episodes of Heated Rivalry for t.a.t.u.

I glanced at this (unopened, just subject line) and saw The End of Organization, @davekarpf.bsky.social

I had hopes that with heavy scaffolding, I wouldn't see as much AI writing in student work. I was totally wrong. And it is so annoying to read. There are literally 7434232113299 things I'd rather be doing right now.

Observation - students working in groups nowadays aren't willing to step in and 'clean up the messes' or 'fix' issues that other students made, even if it will harm their overall grade. While I kind of respect that, it does make for more difficult grading. I suspect the peer evals will be juicy.

My brain is split between Katseye and grading.

I feel like I'm about to reach a breaking point in grading. BUT THERE IS MORE TO COME.

BlueSky just asked me for my birthday. And the age-gated internet comes to Washington state, even.

Wow. Chatgpt is now making suggestions like this.

The nice thing about being in a large city, I rarely hear 'Hi Dr. Pearce' but when I do, it is almost ALWAYS at a time that I'd rather not chit chat with a student.

A pattern I've seen this quarter in group projects. Despite having as much scaffolding built in, SOME individual students (probably) used AI to write up paragraphs.

​François Arnaud is a great actor and everything but we can all hear his Canadian accent right? Isn't he supposed to be American in this show?

Where is chatgpt Santa mode? I need it!!

Sometimes the internet is good.

Randomly decided to watch Orphan Black on my parents' Netflix. It is one of my faves. Spouse pointed out that in the era of facial recognition, this wouldn't work at all.

Looking for some comedy for the Thanksgiving weekend? Perhaps not one to watch with your boomer parents, but Rufat Aghayev's new special is out. I encountered him because he is half Armenian and Azerbaijani, but stayed for the comedy. youtu.be/wb2LatT16Ok?...

Dropbox doing a major update that requires a re sync of everything, right before a holiday, is not wise.

I don't cite newspapers often, so just out of curiosity I asked asked ChatGPT for the APA citation of this (I'll obv go to OWL Purdue). And I knew IMMEDIATELY it was wrong. OMG.

There is a lot of joy in reading undergraduate work where you can tell that they WANT to be a good writer and they really are trying. Giving feedback to help support them in expressing themselves better is realllllllly one of the best parts of my job.

For the past few years I've been encouraging undergrads to write for a "naive but interested" reader/viewer/listener. I want them to explain what terms mean (and demonstrate that they understand) as well as develop skills in expressing ideas.

Toy sizes are complicated.

This was fun! www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is seeking volunteers to be mentors at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Faculty from all ranks are welcome. CAT/Mobile membership is not required, but faculty should be aligned. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

I did what I thought was an interesting activity in my undergrad class yesterday. Students looked at packaging, manuals, press stuff for various home surveillance devices (cameras, meta glasses, toys, etc.). And they had to write up the "marketing" "appealing" phrases that mask privacy concerns.

Google Wallet is bringing in numbers and codes from Gmail. 🤔 (So of corse I don't know which is which family members').

I'm not the first person to search this, I'm sure.

For teaching - Annual Reviews has a public facing "magazine" that has some really good stuff! knowablemagazine.org

AI is very good at overstating research findings - quant and qual. I see this. Would AI reviewing tools see it too? I'm worried about the future.

When people have a baby, I buy them a packet of poster board, sort of as a joke. Like, one day, it will be 8:15pm and your kid will say they need a poster board for a project due tomorrow. And you'll have these and be glad.

A small reminder - when doing your #ICA26 reviews, please remember that ScholarOne TIMES OUT. So compose your review "offline" (in a document, notepad, etc.) and paste it into the fields. If you're typing in the fields on ScholarOne and it times out, there is a risk that your review will disappear.

I can't do screenshots easily on this, but if you are reviewing a #ICA26 pre-formed panel "Session Proposal" - you first click on the ID number and that will give you a pop up with the SESSION title, topic, and rationale.

Another #ICA26 reviewing tip. FYI: You MIGHT be reviewing pre-formed session proposals! But they aren't in the same place as regular papers. This is the left side of the Reviewing screen and you'll need to click on Session Proposals. In @icacat.bsky.social we email to warn people, but YMMV.

A little ScholarOne tip for #ICA26. The review choices look like this initially:

My least favorite ScholarOne feature is that I pasted in my review, it "saved" but rejected it quietly, showed me this, making me THINK that it saved, but when I click on it again, it is empty. #ICA26

Will I be the oldest person at this show? Yes. Do I care? No.

6 year old said 'their with ir means they own it' and I almost cried.

#ICA26 reviewing problems

Yes both countries start with an A, but come on.