I think this is important for faculty to recognize. It is absolutely possible to promote academic integrity without using AI detectors, TurnItIn, or similar products. They are not the only way.

just finished and oh my I have so much to say about that ending but at the same time nothing at all... (start Of Mice and Men tomorrow with juniors, though, so timed it pretty well!)

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · last mo.

Students show up Wednesday so this might be a bad idea but going to open this for the first time today—we will see what happens…

"there's a bunch of misinformation out there about what we're doing that's totally off-base so we are going to cave to it" —the University of Michigan (Also: university presidents just having the most disappointing decade ever, aren't they?) thehill.com/homenews/edu...

"Too many students have learned to see through these empty promises." This entire piece is gold but the reframe @mrneibauer.bsky.social arrives at in the closing? It is poignant—and it matters. adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/teaching-o...

There are easy/obvious critiques to this—and I'm sure the point of writing this was to farm off those easy/obvious critiques—but I do think there is an underlying, more-important critique to the argument this piece is trying to make around "action" with social media.

John Gruber@gruber.foo · 2d ago

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

Going to be full of strawman arguments and over-simplifications to fit the story. The trailer seems bleak.

It is hard to put into words the impact that teaching expertise makes when people step into leadership roles in education. But I think everyone sees it and everyone feels it. And I wish it was more of a priority.

At the K-12 level, aside from quite-rare outliers, the vast majority of us (*raises hand*) aren't even close to equipped to respond to the impact of agentic AI.

Marc Watkins@marcwatkins.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's telling how little education has responded to agents. Most of the frameworks about AI in edu are locked in 2024 thinking about chatbots. With agents, discernment & transparency means more than simply checking an output. marcwatkins.substack.com/p/discernmen...

If you know, you know. (Also: this season of Survivor is pure ridiculous joy and it is exactly what the doctor ordered this October!)

Your Girl Slothy@slothymcslothface.bsky.social · 3d ago

#Survivor51

This really resonates as the skill I’d want to cultivate in novice T’s as an intention: “Eventually, each teacher builds a repertoire of things to notice and a larger pool of ways to respond.” We need to name the repertoire/pool for novices to help them begin naming those things for themselves.

Even as a veteran teacher, hearing useful classroom engagement and management techniques others use is so helpful! Thank you @mrrablin.bsky.social and @edutopia.org 👏🏻 for this podcast episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Maybe the most important lesson the past several years have offered in education is that, far more often than not, efficiency is the opposite of presence. Yes, we tell ourselves that if we’re efficient with A then we’ll be more present with B. But if we’re honest with ourselves…

Wouldn’t that be amazing and the results would be impressive! I wish there was an easy way to help the public and politicians understand this.

"Experience has taught me that responsiveness isn’t abandoning the plan. Responsiveness is teaching the students who showed up in class rather than who I imagined when I wrote the lesson." 🎯 🎯 🎯 Imagine if we designed schools for this type of responsiveness?

What I appreciate about this "move" is that sometimes, when things aren't going well, we assert more control in response as teachers—which, predictably, can make things worse. More choice/agency for students though? Can be a powerful shift, and also a timely one!

Love this move: designing for joy/good in the times you are going to need that joy/good. Savvy but also meaningful. ✔️

Jim Grayson@jimgrayson.bsky.social · 3d ago

I intentionally place some of my favorite material in October and March on the curriculum map. It gives me something to stay excited about, even when the kids and I are sick of seeing each other. I also take my first personal day of the year at the end of Oct, as a little reward for surviving.

I've had MANY conversations with students who see this in themselves and friends: "persistence is reduced because AI conditions people to expect immediate answers thereby denying them the experience of working through challenges on their own." Arguments re: how could be used ≠ how it is being used.

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d ago

You can lie to yourself every day that this horseshit doesn't make you lazy and stupid, but reality comes at you pretty fast

October is a month you 100% feel as a teacher. In every way. What’s something you do to get through the more-challenging stretches of this work?

The other thing I'd add: hearing a classroom teacher talk about classroom management and what works is so much different than hearing someone who is no longer in the classroom share these same strategies. There's an authenticity to this @edutopia.org conversation—and that matters. (A lot!)

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · 4d ago

1. I'm walking into school on Monday with several students I'm going to use the 2x10 strategy with—it's gold. (Especially in October!) 2. Listening to this episode/reflecting on your classroom is about as good as it gets when it comes to PD. (Especially in October!)

1. I'm walking into school on Monday with several students I'm going to use the 2x10 strategy with—it's gold. (Especially in October!) 2. Listening to this episode/reflecting on your classroom is about as good as it gets when it comes to PD. (Especially in October!)

Tyler Rablin@mrrablin.bsky.social · 5d ago

This was a more emotional recording for me than I expected. We like to make classroom management sound so straightforward, but the reality is that we are complex beings working with a room of complex beings, and sometimes that’s lovely and other times so very hard. www.edutopia.org/podcast/9-si...

Any governor accepting these vouchers is taking a position against traditional public schools and that, especially thinking about 2028, should be disqualifying.

Bucks County Beacon@buckscountybeacon.com · 4d ago

9 Reasons Why Governor Josh Shapiro Must Say ‘No’ to Trump’s Federal School Vouchers | The Democratic governor has shown himself to be voucher-curious in the past, writes @palan57.bsky.social.

It’s been almost 20 yrs, but I remember using Apples-to-Apples to teach something about language, when this quiet and aloof kid, responding to the target word “fresh,” played his card “beets.” After a couple minutes of wondering silence, he goes, “What? My beets is fresh.” Brought the house down

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · 4d ago

Funny thing is: several years later and I remember that exact moment like it was yesterday—who said it, who else was in that classroom, how immediately/comprehensively we all melted down. What I don't remember: what the exit ticket data was from that lesson. 🤷‍♂️ (And I think that's the point?)

Funny thing is: several years later and I remember that exact moment like it was yesterday—who said it, who else was in that classroom, how immediately/comprehensively we all melted down. What I don't remember: what the exit ticket data was from that lesson. 🤷‍♂️ (And I think that's the point?)

Edutopia@edutopia.org · 4d ago

@marcusluther.bsky.social

Spent nearly an hour today reading through a collection of different surveys: anonymous check-in responses, peer nominations, group discussion results. It was one of the most meaningful hours I've had as a teacher this year in getting to sit with what students said and prepare responses.

Students reflected on how they think they did on their first math test using @marcusluther.bsky.social's Sticky Thoughts poster. I asked students to think about what they felt most confident and least confident about going into the test. #TeacherSky thebrokencopier.substack.com/i/169304658/...

Soooo how did signing that agreement work out Brown?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Vance: "Some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents. There are 9 universities in particular we believe merit an investigation. Those are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburg, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT."

as a HS teacher, I will admit: I believe there is important ”thinking“ that happens in timed, in-class writing—especially compared to what happens within the distracted, over-scheduled lives of students outside of class. there are limitations! But there also is a lot of good.

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 5d ago

This. If we see writing as a way to "assess" students, blue books may seem like a solution. But if the "problem" that writing was solving was helping students think through a problem or question, weigh evidence, read widely, figure out what they think, then blue books don't work and students lose.

Circling back after school to confirm that it is indeed October and this is indeed true.

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social · 6d ago

October is such a weird month as a teacher in that somehow things get better and more difficult at the exact same time in the classroom.

Gina Hinosoja getting lots of praise for running one of the most effective campaigns in the land. But key to her success is that she's torn up the centrist/hot taker playbook on how Dems should talk about education

October is such a weird month as a teacher in that somehow things get better and more difficult at the exact same time in the classroom.