Why are rich people jealous of poor people?

Looking over the new draft of the computer science standards, I'm not sure where to start. I'm so tired of being expected to read and give feedback on software-generated text. That doesn't even get into the problems with the substance of it. I'm so demoralized. #EduSky #TeamCompSci #CSed

No! But this was going to revolutionize education, and we were going to be able to go on field trips to Ancient Greece and inside volcanoes and stuff. Will we have to look at each others' faces again? Or even worse, use our imaginations?

What exactly is she supposed to be "grateful" for? Also, I wish we'd stop make being married to someone who got a job also a job. When you hire someone, you shouldn't get their spouse as a freebie, or expect them to do work for you or owe you anything.

A teacher who’s thought about how to counteract the harm reliance on AI does reading and writing has done infinitely more for their students, and has adjusted more informedly and critically to “the challenge of AI,” than the umpteenth online pundit saying “it’s here, employers want it, so use it.”

This entire thread is fascinating, particularly in the implications of how we help students build mental models of complex concepts. Models don't have to be "right" to be useful. Reminds me of @janewaite.bsky.social's talk on @lctcentre.bsky.social semantic waves / unplugged activities at CSTA. 1/2

Everyone who is enabling this man should be getting on a spaceship right now. 👋

A Simple Recipe for Blissed-Out Kids | Edutopia A 2025 study showed that more recess time means less stress for students, suggesting that play is not just a nice-to-have—it’s essential for children’s well-being.

I think the increasingly important workplace skill is to explain why pushing these tools on people is a bad idea in both the short and long term. Not sure what this person thinks "education is traditionally for" so can't comment on that.

I love being at a school where kids don't have phones. They play sports during lunch. They play card games and make crafts and chat with each other. Mostly, they are present in the moment with the other people who are in the room with them. #Edusky

I want to learn how to do this.

It's so telling that the critiques of people calling out fascism never seem to contain any explanation of how it's not fascism, just that it's mean to call it out.

"Some people say that this is dehumanizing, but other people say that being a human is hard."

Dropping in and out on what I thought was a discussion of tech ("AI"), hear someone saying they won't talk about current politics, just ancient political philosophies, because there's "no way" to know the impact of current political policies. Just... what an bizarre and incredibly privileged take.

On a related note, I tried to get text to speech on a paper when I was on a road trip, and it defaulted to making a PODCAST of the paper instead of just reading it to me. Is there anyone who goes to read an academic paper and thinks, "Maybe an inaccurate podcast instead?"

I already thought it was ridiculous that people would use software to summarize a document that already came with an abstract, but this is just making me rage. By the people who really should know better.

The current theory of reporting seems to be that hearing very powerful or very rich people’s words is a self-evident public service. I think things are often quite the opposite; it’s a service to them, and often to nobody else, that their words alone are treated by journalists as the stuff of news.

"i have moderate views on LLMs"

more power to any Dean who makes the case that their discipline-specific standard for AI is refusal, and AI refusal will be what they integrate into the curriculum

Does anyone seriously believe that language is "what makes us human"? It's a big part of the human experience, but isn't there more to us? The second half about metalinguistic abilities is run-of-the-mill AI hype drivel.

How long would it take someone to axe this if they actually thought through the implications of sending creepy messages into people's kitchens? This is not grown up behavior.

I was gratified to see our newsletter, covering an "AI in Education" conference, discuss the value of productive struggle. The technodeterminism was a disappointment. Educators have a responsibility to own up to our role in creating our collective future, not just accepting it. #AIinEducation

"It makes a certain kind of information free." "What kind?" "...the confidently wrong kind." 👍

The devaluation of human effort and the devaluation of human life are near akin and have many of the same partisans

Tech values are not educational values. We can't treat our students like widgets to be optimized. They are human beings, and schools are communities in which they live. #Edusky #EdTech

Interrogating?? Isn't that just 'critical thinking'?

I love this so much. Now I'm thinking PE/CS collaboration.

This is so awesome. I think I'm going to print it out, annotate it, and give it to my admin. #Edusky #CSed

Any budding computer scientist should read 'The Machine Stops', a short story published in 1909 by EM Forster of period drama fame. How reliant on computers should we become? How important is dependability? Here is my CS4FN article inspired by reading it in school English cs4fn.blog/2025/11/16/t...

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

The job that has increased so much is going into companies that have bought "AI" products and making the products actually do something useful. So, de-automating automatization. Great topic for social impacts in #CSed.

Reviewing proposals for a conference, and you can really spot a lot of the software-generated text because it just goes on and on and barely says anything. I'm so frustrated having to deal with this from grown adults. Why do they deserve my time/feedback when they didn't even write it?

Giving up on writing and having software generate text instead doesn't seem like a great solution to the problem of writer's block. You may as well just say, "Don't write."

Reminds me of Grace Hopper on parallels between automobiles and computers: "When we built [automobile infrastructure]...we forgot transportation as a whole. We've done a lousy job of managing transportation as a whole."

Student: "Do we have to do the challenge problems?" Me: "No, but you might feel left out, because a lot of people are doing them." Student: "That's okay, I have JOMO." Me: ... "Joy of missing out?" Student: *grins* #EduSky

This is the first time I've ever had a real line at a polling place! I didn't realize it'd be so busy on an off year.

Quantum is the new AI...

How messed up does a school have to be for IXL to cancel its contract? At what point does an ed tech company look at what you're doing to kids and say "Yikes, I'm out"? The liability concerns must be off the charts. www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

So many horrific things in here. The one that stands out the most is the little girl who'd been losing weight from stress and reported being told by adults at school that she couldn't have her snack until she'd meet her learning metrics. Heartbreaking.

These powerful people want this to become the model not just for private schools but for public schools. The push toward AI in K-12 has to be understood as the desire to dehumanize education in every sense of the word and to turn children into grunts ready to sacrifice themselves in the workplace.

Just saw that @csteachersorg.bsky.social has changed their presenter guidelines such that representatives from companies or non-profits aren't eligible for the normal submission process and must pay-to-play. I've got mixed feelings about this. (1/2) #CSed #TeamCompSci #EdTech

Vibe vacationing.

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Impacts of technology on cognition in general, with some nice analysis of #EdTech "It’s only software developers and drug dealers who call people users."

Got kindly warned by a colleague today that my position on computing technologies being 'cultural artifacts that reflect and reinforce cultural values' was dangerously left, and I should be careful. At least that's the most 'left' thing I've said at faculty meetings. It's standards-based... #CSed

The fact that it’s billionaires telling educators and students this is a tool that empowers and democratizes should be more than enough to make you skeptical. Young people already have tools they need support developing and using—their minds, bodies, and voices.

I'm so befuddled by people who do this to summarize academic papers. There's an abstract right there at the beginning.

Why are the people who are doing this even teachers? If you don't think it's worthwhile to engage with student work, why choose this profession?

A student today: "Are we going to learn how to do that thing where the computer makes code and then you fix it? I think it's...vibe?" #CSed #AIinEdu

so what will it look like when the industry implodes and researchers cannot help but conclude that this stuff is junk; but simultaneously, states are still keenly paying for it, subsidizing and underwriting it, and even changing laws and regulations to make space for it?