I think an important metric for how effective AI is in education is seeing how well students can demonstrate understanding without AI after having learned with it. Very little of the discussion I've seen treats AI as a scaffold rather than a crutch. #EduSky

How can you have a movie titled The Wrecking Crew and not have it be a Matt Helm reboot?

Who Would Jesus Kill?

If you ever complain that your TBR pile grows faster than you can get through it, guess what you could be doing instead of doom scrolling here?

Call your reps and tell them that if they don't put forward and support a no confidence vote in the current leadership, that you will support, both financially and by volunteering, their opponents to the best of your ability in the next election.

I read this at the beginning of last year, and it felt like it might be the best thing I'd read all year. I'm not sure it was, but only because I've enjoyed so much of what I've read this year.

Breakfast in San Pancho

I'm off to go watch a football game in a minute, so these are just first thoughts. I think the locus of lines connecting tangent points of all possible planes with two spheres creates a cone whose axis goes through the center of both spheres. After that it's just arithmetic.

My conspiracy theory is that this Netflix NFL thing is only being done to make ESPN look good in comparison.

Silly #Desmos thingy inspired by the spinning wad of burning steel wool image. www.desmos.com/calculator/b...

Even though I've been happily married for decades, I will still eat bachelor chow. Grilled ham&cheese:

Tornado warning? In Southern California? (And apparently we're right in the risk area).

I was just thinking that, as a creative tool, drugs have a much better track record than AI. There are countless geniuses in a variety of fields who used mind altering substances to work their craft. Yet I hear no one clamoring to help our students effectively do that...

Fuck these homer announcers for the Cowboys game. I'm glad their team is getting their asses kicked.⚡

I had a former student visit. She has, in the four years since I've seen her, completed two bachelor's degrees, transitioned, and developed an enthusiasm for the whole breadth of human experience that I find wonderfully endearing. It's why we do this job.

I wouldn't trust an economist, period, after watching them for several decades. But I'm also reminded of Feynman's rather flawed take on psychology. He just couldn't handle anything that wasn't as deterministic as physics.

This is me.

Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel

My shingles vax was nothing compared to my typhoid vax, and that was really mild compared to any actual illness I've had in the past five years. Hell yeah I'm getting all the pokes.

Not only are we forced into "one size fits all" curricula, but then we are directed to differentiate our instruction. It makes no sense.

I will never get tired of Butker missing wide right.

Watching the Sunday night NFL game intro with the Kansas City chant, and it sounds like they're itching to start a "Celebrate Racism" campaign.

Reading this right now, and I'm loving it. Somehow, rather than triggering me, watching Selena develop a narrative to cope with gaslighting and emotional abuse is helping me do the same, and take another step forward in my life. Plus, the characters are just so charming (for a horror story).

I can't be the only one whose kids insist on referring to ω as double-u. #iTeachPhysics

Teaching momentum and collisions, and while I don't teach this, I feel like KE=pv/2 is such a cheat code for both elastic and inelastic collisions. I'm worried that if I do every teach it, they'll focus on that rather than the founding principles. #ITeachPhysics

I hate these stupid Thursday night football circles. Sure AWS is handy, I guess, but that's a really not helpful use for it.

Finally made it out to the Husky Memorial after having it pinned on my map for a couple of years. I love how stuff like this starts from one small thing and then grows organically into something even bigger. . . . #HuskyMemorial #HuskyMonument

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

And then they cut away to a commercial during a non time out before anyone could say anything bad about Nazis.

Gotta point out that the opposite of a Social Democrat is an Antisocial Autocrat, and anyone who thinks that a debatable choice should be launched into the sun.

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESkF...

Paper on how AI can help (primarily below average people) perform better, but how it also impairs self assessment among even the above average - basically nullifying the experience part of the Dunning Kruger effect. The implications for education feel serious. #eduSky arxiv.org/pdf/2409.16708

This is why we're still together. He was fixing to cut fruit for his lunches this week. I came back into the living room and this is happening. On the right, apples. On the left, knife sharpening jig. Lower left, digital magnifier. Of course we nerd out over our tools!

I would love to have an optional mode for #desmos (maybe in the scientific calculator?) that let you include units for values. My students do good with units at the specifying end, but just completely forget about them as soon as they start punching in numbers. #iTeachPhysics #ITeachChem

Our school is giving the PSAT/NMSQT today. It seems like every access code the College Board is giving us has the dreaded number pair in it. Just what you need at the beginning of a test. #eduSky

"Tell me your worst opinions" has got to die as a content mill

This morning, my car's transmission refused to go into drive. I had to turn it off, and then turn it on again. This is the state of the world right now. We are so fucked.

Things that don't show up in your teacher evals: Giving up your Saturday night plans and staying late to support and comfort a kid who is going through a suicide risk assessment because you're the adult they trust most on campus. #eduSky

Why is it that these mandatory district trainings are shining examples of pedagogical worst practices?

Therapy Good News: My EMDR treatments from this summer continue to be effective. I can now get through our district's Suicide Prevention Training without repeatedly dissociating. Doesn't keep the training from being completely horrible and soulless. OMG it's bad.

I think Aaron Rodgers with a really porous O line may be my favorite thing.

Reflecting on this and the fact that cocaine is cheap right now because so much is getting into the US, folks I think President business might be pro crime actually

I started @scalzi.com's latest last night. It brings back an earlier side character who turns out to be a Ripley level badass woman following Retief's career arc and level of snarkiness and I'm here for it.

I got another one if those letters today. Former student. Thanking me for being the one who cared, who gave them room to be a person instead of a cog in the edumachine, and through that the strength to get out of an impossible situation.

I knew Mac Jones was bad, but this is something else. I'm just disappointed that my team⚡ doesn't get to play them.

The four points (0,0,0), (1,0,a), (0,1,b), and (1,1,a+b) are all coplanar and form a parallelogram. What is the area of that parallelogram? #iTeachMath #MTBoS #MathSky

I don't use the mute function a lot, but boy howdy have the bad takes been getting bad.