Seeking doctoral students for Fall 27 admissions at UND CEHD!🎓 education.und.edu 1/n

What am I missing in the "agreement" between Microsoft and AFT? Where things like "customer data ownership? and "meaningful consent and transparency for families" not happening already? cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/m...

Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars

Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · 3d ago

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

Did you know that JVET Conference 2027 offers bursaries for graduate students? Each bursary includes: Full conference fee Accommodation and scheduled meals Up to £500 towards travel costs Find out more here: www.jvet.uk/conference2027 #JVET2027 #JVETConference

It is quite a time to be teaching ed tech to preservice teachers.

ummm....

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 4d ago

As part of boot camp, Alpha School students apparently have their heart rates monitored as they watch recorded videos of their parents critiquing them. This activity takes place in front of their classmates, and students must keep their heart rates within 10 percent of their baseline to pass.

It is quite a time to be teaching ed tech to preservice teachers.

AERA reviews completed on time!

I suspect other states would look similar on the issues.

Both the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 3w ago

I mean, c'mon. What this data shows is (a) there's a huge number of students using AI and not studying for very long compared to peers; and (b) negligible "benefits" for students who did study for comparable time periods and used AI.

I keep seeing higher ed commentators saying that students and employers are demanding short-term certificates and other credentials but where's the evidence?

Why is it that Ed Tech integration has traditionally been a school- or district-level issue, but genAI issues have (largely) fallen on K-12 teachers?

Revising a paper and checking cites that include federal documents and finding several links gone. Is there a way to find permalinks to documents that existed, say, during the Biden administration? I have several I can find at the bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov domain but not under Dept of Education

I am the type of education scholar that tries to stay connected and do work that impacts policy and practice. A nice little run of good news at the end of summer boosting these efforts. 1/n

I am the type of education scholar that tries to stay connected and do work that impacts policy and practice. A nice little run of good news at the end of summer boosting these efforts. 1/n

Two NoAs, one day!

Seems to me there is a coalition forming with fever dreams of 2008-2012 K-12 education reform. Same players, mostly.

"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it." —Joseph Weizenbaum

Can the Classroom Ever Be Automated?

Long before AI, teaching machines promised to make education more efficient. Their forgotten history reveals why that dream keeps falling short.

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Since we're heading into academic job market season, a reminder: I've collected some advice (esp. for new grads): www.paul-bruno.com/2021/07/tips... And reach out if you'd like to set up a time to chat about the job market and how to navigate it. I'm not an expert by any means, but happy to talk.

old alma mater keeps stepping in it

New paper out in the Journal of Education Resources! We use nationally representative data to profile the U.S. Career and Technical education (CTE) teacher workforce from 2004–2018- one of the 1st studies to do so at this scale.🧵 w/ @edutuan.bsky.social, Andrew Diemer, & @cameronanglum.bsky.social

Every district interested in screen use ought to conduct similar studies!

Tracy O’Connell Novick@tracynovick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

it took a little poking around, but the Cambridge Public Schools' study on screen use written up in the Globe is online here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Cj7Z... (And for pete's sakes, LINK TO SUCH SOURCES, please!)

it took a little poking around, but the Cambridge Public Schools' study on screen use written up in the Globe is online here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Cj7Z... (And for pete's sakes, LINK TO SUCH SOURCES, please!)

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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Read the Weingarten transcript from this morning. She is very clearly not speaking to teachers. So, who is she talking to? Any why now? www.aft.org/sites/defaul...

When the self-paced course on digital "Protecting Student Privacy" gets retired but lots of AI courses show up at the same org...

My hot take on this thread: The modal years experience for US teachers is 1. When i was in school, it was 15. This means that teaching is a profession of novices who don't get to hone their craft, get better at reaching kids, etc. Turnover is worse in lower income communities. #EduSky

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧵as I read this piece. My first thought: Teachers and professors have long been sounding alarms about declines in student skills, knowledge, and behavior. But test scores are all political and school leaders attend to. This attention cuts all ways, as I'll come back to. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

Her model paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Developing maker activities to enhance adolescents’ self-directed learning: A systematic review

With a greater emphasis on technology and innovation, developing self-directed learners has become a predominant goal in 21st century education. Maker…

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THE EFFECTS OF SCHOOL PHONE BANS: NATIONAL EVIDENCE FROM LOCKABLE POUCHES www.nber.org/system/files... Evidence! Not so simple, huh?

"frequent makerspace participation showed a significant positive relationship with STEM career interest only among men (Frequent × Men: β = 0.89, OR = 2.44, p = 0.002), while women’s predicted career interest remained essentially flat across participation levels." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

High school makerspace experience and college STEM affinity: building STEM identity across genders but advancing STEM career interest only for men - International Journal of STEM Education

Background The number of makerspaces in the world has been doubling approximately every 18 months, yet research has focused primarily on STEM skill development rather than on the potential of makerspa...

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