You know the parachutes we played with in kindergarten as a class? If I bought one and took it to the park do you think I could use it to befriend other adults?

Me annotating my grad school readings

Well this is also horrible.

There are only "24 specific behaviors that we take to exemplify safe and effective human-AI collaboration," so, come on, K-12 teachers, get at it.

My spouse suggested my memoir be titled, "I Always Leave Twice" because it sounds mysterious but it's actually because of how often I forget something when I leave and have to come back for it.

yes I think I have to write something about 'failing quietly' vs 'failing loudly' when the electricity in your house goes out, that is failing loudly. you know at once. when an AI fails, it mostly fails quietly. the bad incorrect answer gives no warning that it is different to the good useful one

Today a kindergartener saw me walking to work and asked me about it. I said I chose to walk. She said, "But it's COLD! Don't you have PARENTS?!"

What channel is the Bad Bunny SOTU on?

This video is a good video: Snow Shoveler Bhangra || Maritime Bhangra Group || Halifax,NS || Canada https://youtu.be/eHhKMu8jrfw via @YouTube

“Children don’t mature at the same pace, & a statewide list of banned books can’t reflect the needs of hundreds of thousands of unique students … Parental guidance respects these differences; government restrictions do not.”

Begging my fellow printer paper people to understand that your IMPACT can be harmful even when your INTENT was not to be. The road to hell and all that. Gonna start referring to it as the white pavior complex.

Somebody who used to work as a phone interpreter for deaf people told me that clients would sometimes ask whether the person they were speaking to had "Black voice," even when it had absolutely nothing to do with the conversation. Disabled people can be racist because we teach folks to be racist.

Nothing disincentives my FAFO impulses more than first aid training.

It's conceding failure in a way. Not of teaching and learning, but of values, priorities, budgeting.

The more I read and write about 360 degree video for this grad school assignment The more I want the Jim Henson company to make one where you can see what it's like to be the primary human in a Muppet movie

Not every inconvenience is a problem to be solved.

Not every Pope would given high fives, but I am confident the current Pope would under the right circumstances

Come on

One of my favorite kindergarten fashion choices is when they wear their Halloween costume again months later. Get your parents' money's worth our of it, plus you can be Princess Peach literally any day you want. Let's go.

Amplify jobs for vampire bats

Love love love how this guide to using computer code to make arty things still uses handmade drawings and handlettered charts. (Not exclusively, but importantly, imo.)

I switched to using a book planner instead of a spreadsheet this year for lesson planning and I think it's been working better for me, a technology teacher. Just because techier tools are available, it doesn't mean they're best fit for everyone and everything.

The other day at car rider dismissal, one of the kindergarteners said to me, "I have a date tonight! Wanna come?" Seems like as good a pickup line as any.

Kindergartener: You need some mouthwash. Me: What I actually need is a little more personal space.

This year for Lent, I will be giving up

There is, I think, a small but significant difference between the work that needs doing, and the work that needs done.

Bad bunny is also handsome.

I am once again of a mind to recommend the book "The Last Human Job" by Allison Pugh

I wonder when we'll be ready to talk about how schools are now full of gameified dopamine slot machine apps for learning times tables, science, even reading itself, that are priming an entire generation for gambling and gaming addiction.

Deaths are higher in emergency rooms of hospitals owned by private equity firms, per Harvard University. They did the math: It’s cheaper to let you die than save you with a procedure you can’t afford. This is what happens when it's profits over people.

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

To put this in perspective, the federal government spends *a combined* $33 billion each year on Title I (for low income families) and IDEA (for special needs students).

The specials teachers at my school all send postcards to one kid per day, since we don't get to interface with home adults as much as homeroom teachers do. Yesterday a first grader told me, "Thank you for sending me a postcard. It was the first piece of mail I ever got that was just for me."

First grader: I like this one block game, and this other block game.. Me: You like block games, huh? Does that make you a blockhead? First grader: ... Me: Sorry. That was a bad joke. First grader: You have circles on your head. Does that make you a circle head? Reader I am wearing a headband.

Sometimes kindergarteners don't say "good morning" back to you, instead they respond with non sequiturs like "TODAY I'M MAD AT BURGER KING" and that's their culture I respect it and it's beautiful.

airbud: pupski edition

this is the range of classroom temperatures in many school buildings as well

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make. The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression. They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

me before the halftime show: "Bad Bunny is American because he is from Puerto Rico." me after the halftime show: "Bad Bunny is American because everyone in this hemisphere is American."

the bushes were people 😂

No Kings includes Draft Kings

This is now a Bad Bunny fan account

Like Kendrick, political as hell precisely because it doesn't bother to acknowledge the haters. They're irrelevant, beneath attention. And nothing is more intolerable to fascists than the thought that their enemies are cool, enjoying themselves, and not thinking about them.

I am not overly familiar with Bad Bunny but the impression I got is that he centers his community.

I REALLY LIKED THE HALFTIME SHOW

And the thing that will have the most value for me is that people will see my name and know that a human being worked on this book and did her best to make it the best, and most meaningful, book she could.

It is never not funny to put wigs or hairpieces on little babies. It's always comedy.

"Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work." “Please don't put the headphone cords into your mouth.“

huh i would have assumed the red was @cpsc.gov “anchor your TV” posts

1) decide to do a task 2) think “I’ll listen to a podcast while I do it” 3) look around for headphones 4) accept side quest from villager 5) get killed on a mountain pass while stealing a wyvern’s egg