This shift to computerized state tests was made possible by schools' adoption of one-to-one devices. Which mostly happened with Covid. And yet, we rarely discuss the possibility that computerizing tests--without first teaching computing skills--might've contributed to subsequent test score declines.

David Adams@daveadams.bsky.social · 3d ago

My daughter’s middle school never taught typing, but the computerized state standardized tests included a timed essay section to be completed in a tiny text area.

Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

Legitimate answer: Who hangs out in a Nazi bar?

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Legitimate question: Leftists and socialists on Twitter (I'm not talking about moderates or even conservatives, of course) are far more pro-Platner, while Bluesky is far more anti-Platner. What gives? #MESen

I did a thing.

Being able to read isn’t just about being able to sound out words and literally understand a meaning of each one. It is also about being able to use context clues to obtain meaning from a text and make sense of its message.

At $1,000/hr, nonstop 24/7/365, it would take ~114 years to make a billion dollars. That would mean 114,000 years to make a trillion dollars. This thief is 54 years old.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2mo ago

Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Bear Down

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

Penn State Faculty Vote in Favor of Unionizing

Penn State faculty have voted to unionize in what was Pennsylvania's largest public sector organizing election in nearly 50 years. Organizers said on

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The recs in this framework are great, but we do not need GenAI to do them. They have been core to the work of the ELA classroom for many decades. This framework assumes the tech is inevitable, admits it is unwanted, and glosses over the ethical, environmental, etc. concerns. Disappointing.

National Council of Teachers of English@ncte.org · 3mo ago

Today we introduce the 48 ELA classroom teachers from 38 states and a wide variety of school contexts who were selected to work with the NCTE-led ELA AI Framework cohorts. Each cohort is facilitated by an NCTE member with deep expertise in teaching and learning with AI: https://bit.ly/3PagVT8

Gotta say, having been in the initial convening on which this framework was to be based, these recs feel way out of step with the serious concerns folks were voicing about AI's commercial capture of education, teacher deskilling, short-circuiting of reading/writing processes, environmental costs.

National Council of Teachers of English@ncte.org · 3mo ago

PRESS RELEASE: NCTE, with support from a national grant from Google.org, has published a working framework for ELA educators seeking to understand the appropriate role of AI in the discipline and help students think critically about AI. ELA educators can contribute feedback: https://bit.ly/4uOxpzD

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

As I said with my concert song today, you can see how quickly folks can move things when wanting to hold onto/gain power, usually at the cost for someone else, compared to doing things to help all folks or those lower in status.

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

Ypsilanti Township's board of trustees voted to put a moratorium on water for data centers. Los Alamos and UoM are set to break ground on an AI/ nuclear weapons data center on Monday

Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center

America’s nuclear scientists plan to break ground on an AI data center next week, but the Township where it’s being constructed just put a 365 day hold on providing it with water.

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Hey, that’s me

Ypsilanti District Library@ypsilibrary.org · 3mo ago

The finalists from Week 3 of our Poetry Contest are in. 🌱 Three takes on growth: reaching, noticing, becoming. Read them, pick your favorite, and drop your vote in the comments.

Palantir repeating a central myth behind speculative whiteness: white, western culture produces the high-tech future; other cultures regress into the past.

Speculative Whiteness

Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...

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Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out:

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

I am writing a talk in which I begin working out a positive philosophy of humanistic education for the left aiming at social freedom and human flourishing through gentleness (ethics), the ability to give an account of oneself (epistemology), and the cultivation of sensibility (aesthetics)

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4mo ago

2/ We see public and private schools in blue states all pivoting to the same "return on investment" discourse pushed heavily by the Obama Admin (through the dept of ed, but also the white house), in ways that embody the neoliberal consensus around higher education.

descriptively, lit studies is not a matter of virtues or ethics. normatively, i increasingly believe it ought to be part of our task pedagogically, in the classroom, to think in terms of the good life and human flourishing and to consider how close reading and cultivate associated virtues

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I waiver on this question because it’s obvious that not all literary studies scholars are virtuous. But that doesn’t mean that close reading isn’t an ethics. Maybe close reading is the only thing that stood between WK Wimsatt being annoying a department meetings & drowning puppies by the dozen.

movements don’t need heroes. history should never be built or taught around great men, or women. the collective is why change happens—that is what should be celebrated.

One of Marathon's best tricks? It dodges the "Blorko" problem that doomed Concord and Highguard. www.eurogamer.net/marathon-bun...

What’s most annoying about this is it assumes economic insecurity is a product of individual “skills gaps” as opposed to a structural condition of our political/economic systems. So now Ss are trapped in a system obsessed with job prep at a time when every company is gutting their future jobs.

Just saw a post dunking on semicolon placement as an outdated form of knowledge, and it’s honestly dispiriting at times trying to communicate how language works to people who don’t think the world exists as anything more than keys on a keyboard.

There's a fundamental attribution error here: does AI actually "do" research? It's an automated pattern-recognition, algorithm-drivem machine learning tool. It can't think, and anything it produces resembling "research" is in spite of, rather than because of, the way it's constructed.