Gotta love when Math teachers & ELA teachers hit on a classroom mechanism that works for both. Math 🤝 ELA Standing at whiteboards (… however the hell that meme is supposed to go)

I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life

One trouble with the bsky Discover tab is that (a) it’s fun to sprinkle Likes on the “yay me!” posts of complete strangers, but (b) you occasionally find you’ve Liked work that is wayyyy out of your zone. Oh well, congrats, person who’s sexually explicit comic is getting bought in bookstores!

The way to "sound like you" is to figure out what you think and say it. All of us who teach students need to talk to them about this message that sounding "like you" means "AI drafting, summarizing, and revising" because this message is on every platform every day.

Y'know, 'grok' was such a good, nerdy, iykyk kind of word. God damn him for hijacking it. 😠

You've spun your last doctor.

here's a counter-narrative I hope reaches enough people before it's too late: Companies that lean too hard into AI right now are going to go out of business. Some firms "behind" in AI adoption now will weather the coming storm precisely because they are. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when...

It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:

I have a confession. I originally started this for @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #PromptCombo last week but time got away from me. However I finished it which reflecting on the new @rfsmith.bsky.social topic of #Defined so I think it works! 🤞 🩶🩶🩶

I'm running a book giveaway over on LinkedIn, and this is my line: "Beyond the stagnant debate between traditional transmission and progressive constructivism, Teaching Meaning offers a third way: a fresh vision rooted in enactivism." www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

Wow, was I ready for today's Blue Glasses Math episode! Breathwork for teachers, with Ashlee Livingstone. Great one, @pambrett.bsky.social! ✨ www.blueglassesmath.org/podcast/epis...

Now this is a concert. 🎵

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

I call this one "Jeez". I think we all know at least one person like this. #vss365 #remnant #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

Hey #csk8 #computationalthinking friends, ever do “binary bracelets”? Me too. Read this post and consider some of the ways we could push *more firmly* to get students thinking.

Nowww we’re talking. bsky.app/profile/kebm...

Eep. I must be hockey-addled. 🥴 I briefly thought this was Marty St. Louis.

Just *imagine* the 250 Music Fest that could’ve been. All the American roots music, bluegrass, jazz, soul, gospel, folk, rockabilly, and on and on. I hope some folks do it properly at the local level. 🇺🇸❤️‍🩹

Black, brown, and Indigenous queer (small) businesses! Drop your links so we can buy the things! #PrideMonth

My thoughts on discovery learning in math

TAXES ARE THE PRICE YOU PAY FOR CIVILIZATION I'm so tired of this idea that taxes are a punishment that you get. No. They're the annual subscription for "living in a society"

New in Honest Names for LLMs: "Fact-Flavoured Processed Text-Food Product" - Josh Giesbrecht @ thoughtlost.org (h/t @karencampe.bsky.social )

Farrell has been teasing this for months and it’s fantastic

The paperback has finally been published! If Cognitive Load Theory tells us how to avoid overwhelming students, what comes next? Perfectly clear explanations don't guarantee deep understanding. Teaching Meaning, explores what works when telling isn't enough. mybook.to/teachingmean...

Relieved for many reasons today that I’m no longer in higher ed IT. The high wire act of self-hosting a super high-volume LMS (2002-12) gave way to the trust questions of the cloud … I don’t envy them. 😬

Another great Honest Name for LLMs: “glorified Clippy” 📎 via @eclesis.bsky.social

Andreesson understanding LLMs pretty much the way my retired boomer dad does. Great. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[email protected] (citizenmath.com) just did something wild. The entire library -- every one of their thoughtfully, beautifully crafted lessons -- is now free.

Reminder: it’s always a good time to re-watch A League of Their Own. ⚾️🧡

Ok, so the Habs and Sabres tied this year, 2-2. Monty and Fowler each took a loss. Dobeš got both of the wins. 70 shots faced, 66 saves. .943 save %. I like those odds. #GoHabsGo 🚨

New Post: ● The Transmission Trap: What information theory tells us about teaching Shannon's information theory was groundbreaking. As a fundamental theory of communication, it can also tell us something crucial about teaching. #EduSky #UKEd christianmooreanderson.com/the-transmis...

I'm at the Claude w/ Code event in San Francisco, and I'll be live blogging the keynote here: simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/c...

What is it that makes some people spell "technical" words in all caps? Asking in preparation for a ZOOM meeting. 🤔

To whoever is hacking Scratch, a web-based visual coding program for kids, to insert a virus that deletes the projects your kids are working on, you are a supreme asshole. muffin.ink/blog/scratch...

There’s a famous Usenet story about a programmer (Mel) who refused higher level abstractions.

 It was the late 1950s, and even in that era, Mel was…well today we’d call him a boomer.

 Mel only wrote in raw hexadecimal. He didn’t approve of compilers, and refused to use optimizing assemblers.

Last day for free streaming! www.democracyundersiegedoc.org

I launched an indie webcomic hosting platform several months ago that offered a free and a $4/mo paid plan. This was purely to cover the cost of the infrastructure. But in seeing it grow, I'm no longer worried about the cost. So yeah Webcomic Studio is now free. webcomic.studio

New #SlowRevealGraph: Impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Black Representation in the US House of Representatives

"Talking about problems matters, but so does sharing our good stories—if and when we can." Going into Teacher Appreciation Week, I wanted to lean into the value of sharing the good things that happen in the classroom (even in really difficult months like April) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The crazy part is that the LLM illusion comes for us all. If your instincts and theory of mind have helped you get where you are--"successful" or even just an everyday smart person--you're susceptible to it. You gotta learn, then *constantly* remind yourself, the right way to think about LLMs.

"Yes, this worked. That does not mean that it's ALL that works." ... nicely put in a recent teacher youtube short by @hashtagjrupp.bsky.social. Narrowness-of-focus + self-certainty = claims that are more broad than they have the right to be. Don't fall into the trap.

Another Honest Name for LLMs: “improv machines” H/t: @amyhoy.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/amy....

Fun activity to try with students, after reading @nsrnicek.bsky.social’s Platform Capitalism: ask them to draw the “water cycle” of platform capitalism

The pre-formulated questions are a perfect example of why this shit is so annoying. Those are *exactly* the wrong questions for the purpose for which I want to share the article.

Just seen: online ad for a rice cooker "✨ with fuzzy logic✨". So ... it's back to the 90s now, and we DON'T call things "AI"? 🤣

We hope you'll join us at the OAME conference in London, ON from April 30 - May 1.

New, in Honest Names for LLMs: “Human expertise laundering machine” -Jon Stewart on the @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social

As an old-school software dev, brought up on detailed code reviews, exacting standards, and precise documentation, seeing the new world of vibecoding is completely baffling. That it also doesn't work makes it double baffling. I'm used to "stupid but it works" but "stupid and also crap" is 🤯

Deep breath. Just took the snow shovels in off the front porch. #montreal #hubris