I appreciated this piece, but it feels incomplete without asking critical questions about the perceived value of work we ask students to do. Yes, free ChatGPT encourages our students to cheat, but so does their perception (!) of meaningless tasks to complete. www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-o...

Before my email account was promptly shut down, I received a few kind notes from students I had gotten to know in my (now Previous) position. In addition to whatever learning gains come from relationships, the idea that you made an impact can be a deep source of meaning. pcad.edu/ctl/relation...

#opentowork after a frustrating week. In the meantime, I’ll lift, hike, and continue learning to play organ. I have my family, my health, and music. Thanks to all of the Ed devs who have contributed to my sense of community in this work. Here’s to whatever’s next … #workwontloveyouback

The right is calling Charlie Kirk a martyr for free speech as they demand a violent crackdown on progressive dissent. More from senior correspondent @ericlevitz.bsky.social:

Damn. Well done. @audreywatters.bsky.social 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-watch-li...

I'm only 6 months behind, but this was a balm... In my first job, I had a consult where a graduate student said "I thought you were gonna tell me what I did good and not good." The expectation was there, and we have to change our behavior to change the expectation. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way 🔗 www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Chewing on this as I consider another blog post... do we model a 'grind' mindset for students, when other approaches might be better for them (and for us)? What toxic approaches to 'getting things done' have you inherited from workplaces, supervisors, dissertation chairs? www.vox.com/even-better/...

As a former employee of this institution, this is embarrassing (and yet unsurprising): www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A week after honoring the labor of teaching, a follow-up on honoring the labor of learning. Shoutouts to @thetattooedprof.bsky.social (distinction between intellectual and logistical rigor) and @bbarre.bsky.social (the course workload estimator). We need to talk about time! pcad.edu/ctl/honoring...

“The book has done so well all over the world because…it addressed something that [people] already saw happening..." Translates as: confirms an intuition that many people already have in a textbook case of confirmation bias. @ifbookspod.bsky.social took care of this... www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Shoutouts to @biblioracle.bsky.social and @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social for their words. Per the title (of their books, and this post), writing is 'more than words,' in more ways that one. Here's hoping our sense of 'writing' can expand to encompass more than term papers. pcad.edu/ctl/writing-...

I don't like to say 'well, duh!' but... well, duh!

I'm wondering who else is reading (has read) 'The Caring University' by @kevinmcclure.bsky.social. Here's hoping we can see that faculty and staff are on the same team (and that it takes a team to promote student success). Would love to read this with a group. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Still not as scary as a largely unvaccinated populace during flu season … thanks for nothing, HHS

This wins the internet.

This one ... goes places ... www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

Screams into void

Plenty of bad news to go around. I don't mean to 'positivity post' in the midst of ICE raids and other disasters natural and human (re: Trump) made, but I was sorry to miss a sing-along K-pop demon hunters for the Little League World Series final. Best song? Soda pop. www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social it wasn’t a minor league park, but my family and I cheered on Taiwan in the LLWS finals. A shutout win for them in a beautiful ballpark …

“The bubble bursting was never going to be one event, but a series of sentiment shifts against technology that has never proven its worth outside of specious hype” @edzitron.com

Chef's kiss: "If you think that morality is declining, then you must think that some switch has been flipped in society... No doubt you would want to un-flip that switch ... None of that is going to reverse the trend, because the trend doesn’t exist." www.experimental-history.com/p/the-illusi...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Lest we forget: the cruelty is the point. www.npr.org/2025/08/22/n...

In working on two blog posts on honoring the labors of teaching and learning (respectively), I've arrived at the conclusion that honoring the labor of learning means not just manging the quantity of work assigned but also the quality. More authentic, meaningful assignments and less busywork.

Hear the iconic voices of Liam Neeson and Cate Blanchett in Hayao Miyazaki's PONYO, playing in both English & Japanese August 23-27! 💖 brnw.ch/21wURFC

Kudos @jessgrose.bsky.social for delivering a piece that, rather than engaging in satanic panic around AI cheating, points to a more fundamental reorientation from traditional teaching approaches (lectures, readings, take-home papers) and replaces it with meaningful/authentic work. Who'd have thunk?

In other words, the left needs more than 'abundance politics.' www.vox.com/on-the-right...

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

"Still, data is cold comfort for faculty members faced with conspicuous cheating in their classes, and students who witness classmates cheat without consequence." How is this not similar to our responses to crime data? crime is not good, but neither is ignoring data for anecdata of rampant cheating.

Appreciate the idea of 'character amnesia,' and want to push the disourse into considering the value of writing as a learning tool par excellence: let go of how we do it, in what format, and focus more on how it provides opportunities to surface/crystallize learning. www.wired.com/story/the-en...

Had fun recalling a highly choreographed first day of class from J. Peter Burkholder in my music history survey at IU. pcad.edu/ctl/may-the-...

Great, instructive framing here. Clarifying the 'mentalist effect' without blaming the rube. Thinking of of Shankar Vedantam's (host of @hiddenbrain.bsky.social) 'useful illusions' as a counterpoint... how do we understand what LLMs afford their users/believers? softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Best movie I've seen this summer (besides K-pop Demon Hunters, obvs). The emotional undercurrents, the way this damage fractures community, the way that 'evil' (no spoilers) preys upon damaged/fractured individuals, it speaks to 'our moment' w/o preachified answers www.denofgeek.com/movies/weapo...

@mraleosays.bsky.social Mr. Aleo says it well: "Charging blindly into an edtech-captured future is no better than retreating into an idealized analogue past. Both impulses are reactionary. Both undermine learning. Neither serves us nor our students." trevoraleo.substack.com/p/against-sc...

Congrats to @allisonpugh.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor. I'm honored that she'll be participating in an Author Q&A with our #podnetwork summer reading group tomorrow. If you'd like to join, please message me and I'll add you to the meet. www.newswise.com/articles/the...

👀That byline tho www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

As an educator tired of 'kids these days' grousing, I love the context here: rather than thinking about personality in a vacuum ... consider how context supports (or potentially undermines) prosocial traits. The idea that conscientiousness might be related to self-determined goals is *chef's kiss*

TL:DR / Uncredited work is not going to be highly valued by people driven by an institutional imperative to do only work that ‘counts’?

Had to get ahead of the newsletter/blog schedule due to some vacations in our comms department... For the record, the good (enough) place is definitely not the same thing as the medium place (which is a foul place ... with warm beer ... and bad movies ... and not much else) pcad.edu/ctl/course-d...

Course design involves knowing who your students are (and separating that from your beliefs about who you THINK your students (aka, 'kids these days') and who you think they should be). Separating fact from fiction and getting to know them as individuals is where it's at... pcad.edu/ctl/course-d...

Back after a hiatus. Making posts to align with the 3-day course design work I'm doing with a small group of faculty here. Trying to distill course design into a user-friendly process inclusive of affective/cognitive objectives. Parts 2 & 3 forthcoming the next 2 Fridays. pcad.edu/ctl/course-d...

www.nature.com/articles/s44... For scientists, this is clearly about valuing human thought and ingenuity. When it comes to thinking about teaching/learning: if writing is thinking, can we engage with it as such, rather than writing being genre performance/academic cosplay/LARPing of original ideas?

I appreciated this. Most critiques of 'Grading for Equity' tend to take a 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' approach... dismissing the desire to promote equity as 'sacrificing rigor.' Here, averages are shown to be not very helpful: they're often junk statistics, obscuring variability in data.

The players with a clear message during warmups.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

The LL is for Labor Loves Cool J

What magic happens in cursive that doesn’t with handwriting? They can read the declaration ? www.abc27.com/pennsylvania...

Shoutout to @jenaecohn.bsky.social for an intivation to think deeply and imagine (to... speculate!) on what's possible for education/educational development. Imaginging possible futures where our relationships are less formal, less meidated by being 'the expert' was a welcome change #Gather2Resist25

Thanks to John Oliver for wading into the (AI) slop. This seems like a way to bring up the ethics and real-world engagement of AI (recognizing how much idealized AI literacy discourse we're privy to). Always looking for popular culture ways to engage w/ stakeholders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg...