I'm no birder, but I've stumbled upon Get Birding with Sean Bean (he shouldn't die in this series) and I am ABSOLUTELY here for it. youtu.be/m9aroePaO90?...

Seeing this quote today reminds me of something from Harlan Ellison, “Sat cito, sat bene: It is done quickly enough if it is done well.”

AI as Co-Teacher or AI as Replacement? Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com “Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community.”— Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? There’s a moment in Philip K. Dick’s novel when the line between human and machine doesn’t shatter—it…

The danger isn’t that AI can’t teach. It’s that it can simulate teaching well enough that we stop asking what’s been replaced. www.eclecticeducator.com/p/ai-as-co-t...

AI Schools and the Illusion of Efficiency mikepaul.com/ai-schools-a...

AI Schools and the Illusion of Efficiency Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Pexels.com A recent investigation into Alpha School, a high-tuition “AI-powered” private school, revealed faulty AI-generated lessons, hallucinated questions, scraped curriculum materials, and heavy student surveillance. Former…

Well, this was certainly a learning experience. Heck, it still is. I'm working on a couple more articles, so I guess I'm going to get more practice :) Yes. I am now officially published. This was a team effort, and I'm so glad I had the opportunity.

This week's hallway quote from Ursula K. LeGuin...

Why Do They Fear Dragons? I've been reading a lot of Ursula K. LeGuin lately. Whether or not it's because I hadn't read much of her work before I read The Dispossessed last year, I'm not sure. But I wish I had. I'm working through her essays published in The Language of the Night and am transfixed…

Why We Still Need Shakespeare’s Words Before we argue—again—about whether Shakespeare is still relevant, it’s worth watching a three-minute clip that does more to answer the question than any curriculum guide ever could. On The Late Show, Ian McKellen closes an interview with Stephen Colbert by…

Starfleet Academy, Season 1, Episode 5. I won't spoil it for anyone, but DS9 fans will enjoy it. I know I did.

The Building is Closed, The Vibe is Open The first great snowstorm of 2026 hit Kentucky last week and sent many schools either to pure snow days or Non-Traditional Instruction (NTI) days. So, I spent most of last week sitting at my desk, unshowered, unshaved, and low-key fiending for in-person…

My post-holiday TBR stack has overtaken my desk at home. Working here is... problematic, at best. Perhaps I should adjust the stacks in a more productive arrangement... No, 'tis best not to disturb the tomes before they are ready for me.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Belonging Is a Design Choice Belonging is one of the most talked-about—and most misunderstood—ideas in education. We often treat it like a feeling that students either bring with them or don’t. If students feel disconnected, we respond with posters, slogans, or one-off activities meant to “build…

Engagement Is the Outcome, Not the Goal mikepaul.com/engagement-i...

Engagement Is the Outcome, Not the Goal For years, we’ve treated engagement like something teachers should be able to manufacture on demand. If students aren’t engaged, the assumption is often that the lesson wasn’t exciting enough, interactive enough, or energetic enough. So we add activities. We…

New Semester, New Quote mikepaul.com/new-semester...

New Semester, New Quote I have a small whiteboard outside my office door. Being the inspirational do-gooder that I am, I change out the quote at least once a week. Sometimes the quotes are fun, sometimes more meaningful. I though this was an appropriate quote for our first week back to class. "I'm…

New Tools I'm Trying in 2026 mikepaul.com/new-tools-im...

New Tools I’m Trying in 2026 Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels.com I'm revisiting some of my everyday tools as we head into 2026. Why? Because... reasons... Mostly, I'm thinking about how I move through my days and how I combine analog and digital tools to keep my monkey brain moving and…

MP Daily Telegraph: October 16, 2025 Photo by Amsterdam City Archives on Unsplash New Oklahoma Superintendent Rescinds Bible Mandate: Oklahoma's new superintendent, Lindel Fields, will not enforce the previous mandate to place Bibles in public school classrooms. This change marks a shift away from…

MP Daily Telegraph: October 15, 2025 The Atlantic Telegraph 1866 via Internet Archive Illustrative Math’s CEO on What Went Wrong in NYC and Why Pre-K Math is Up Next - Illustrative Mathematics created a K-12 math curriculum used in many U.S. schools, but its rollout in New York City faced…

A Quick Zine Resource Guide for Teachers I've been on a zine kick for a while now, and recently had the chance to walk teachers through making their first zine. We worked on creating their own zines, which was fun and made many of them uncomfortable, which is perfectly OK. I compiled some quick…

MP Daily Telegraph: October 14, 2025 1938 advertisement for the Daily Telegraph via Internet Archive “Enshittification”: Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It - Big tech platforms like Facebook and Google get worse over time because they focus on profit,…

All In on Selling Out Collage time. I took an image from the most recent Wired politics issue from a Steven Levy article about the decidedly traitorous Silicon Valley denizens whom people like me used to look up to and thought were disruptors and fearless resisters to the status quo. Turns out…

Prophets of a Future Not Our Own Photo by Zhimai Zhang on Unsplash A friend made this prayer into a short video and, while the focus is on the work of Christians (real Christians, not the power-mad Christian Nationalists currently trying to ruin literally everything in the world), I can't help but…

Reading activity for the day: Just go read the foreword to Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" and see if you get a chill. Not the good kind of chill, that chill you get when something slides past you in silence, something you know is... evil...

Apple TV Pulls 'The Savant' - a show about domestic terrorism mikepaul.com/apple-tv-pul...

Apple TV Pulls ‘The Savant’ – a show about domestic terrorism In a move likely to spark accusations of bowing to the powers that be and their ongoing battles with media companies and programming that doesn't fit their narrative, Apple TV+ has pulled The Savant, a show about domestic terrorism…

Continuing my Robert Redford watches (last week was a rewatch of All the President's Men, SO GOOD!), I finally sat down last night and watched Sneakers. HOW IN THE HELL HAVE I NEVER WATCHED THIS MASTERPIECE BEFORE NOW!

All school shootings are political violence.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Remember the West Wing episode after Bartlett was shot and CJ listed *all the other people* shot that day and closed with “lest anybody think a gun would have prevented these crimes, let’s remember that the President was shot while surrounded by the best armed bodyguards known to man.”

Tonight's reading materials...

My kiddo has a project coming up based in a past time period. She thought about the 60s or 70s, I suggested splitting the difference. So... we're now watching The Trial of the Chicago Seven to prep.

I just gave my almost 13yo son a 5 minute speech on how the rise of Hot Pockets over Stouffer’s French Bread Pizza is an indication of the decline of western society and, I think I may have a problem.

Nice little milestone this evening.

Saturday mornings are ruff...

Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.

It's about time. Apple Music tends to have better sound quality than Spotify, which is a big deal for me. The exodus of artists is also a good thing. pitchfork.com/news/apple-m...

People saying flag burning is "clearly constitutional" have not met this Republican Supreme Court, a court which changes the rules of the game every day so Trump can "win." If they *want* to make flag burning "un"consitutional, they certianly *can.* My latest in @thenation.com

They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.

Constructing Your Own Education More students (and teachers) should grasp this concept. School is a great thing, to be sure, but so is learning on your own. If we can bring that type of learning into our schools… oh, what a time we could have. But it’s like Jim Henson said: “Your kids… don’t…

More students (and teachers) should grasp this concept. School is a great thing, to be sure, but so is learning on your own. If we can bring that type of learning into our schools… oh, what a time we could have. open.substack.com/pub/austinkl...

AI literacy without Critical AI literacy is AI hype in disguise