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What Does It Mean to Educate Human Beings in the Twenty-First Century?

Austin Kleon didn't write a book about education—but he may have written one of the most important books educators can read this year.

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Mike Paul's Field Notes 001 - Don't Call it Art by Austin Kleon

Download Field Notes No. 001 and discover what Austin Kleon's Don't Call It Art can teach educators about authentic learning and creativity.

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Austin Kleon Accidentally Wrote One of the Best Books on Teaching

Austin Kleon's Don't Call It Art isn't just for creators. It's one of the most insightful books on curiosity, learning, and teaching.

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Fan Favorite Factory Visits | Compilation | Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

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Greatest Hits (Herald Classics): Ellison, Harlan, Straczynski, J. Michael, Khaw, Cassandra: 9781454953371: Amazon.com: Books

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If AI Can Do the Assignment, Maybe the Assignment Isn’t the Learning

"Eighty-three percent of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier." That's one of the headline findings from this opinion piece based on a recent MIT Media Lab preprint that has already begun making the rounds in education circles. Participants were divided into groups and asked to write SAT-style essays. Those using ChatGPT reportedly struggled to recall exact lines from what they had written. OK... Now let's ask the question every researcher should ask before panicking: Compared to what? How many SAT writers in 2005 could quote a line from an essay they had just finished?

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The One Study to Rule Them All (And What It Actually Found)

Remember in Ready Player One when literally everyone in the world was convinced that finding Halliday's Easter egg would solve all their problems? Full-on societal obsession. People abandoned real life to hunt for a magic answer that would fix everything if they could just get their hands on it? Yeah. That's basically been the school phone ban debate for years. Legislators, parents, and a surprisingly loud chorus of researchers have been on a high-stakes quest for the One Policy to Rule Them All — the intervention so powerful, so obviously correct, that anyone who questions it must secretly want children to suffer.

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F*ck Your Chicken Strips *Vine*

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The Problem with The Anxious Generation — and What the “Ban All Screens” Movement Gets Wrong About Education

There is a real crisis in children's mental health. I believe this because I see it daily in the schools I work in. The data supports it. The children themselves are telling us. On this point, Jonathan Haidt and I agree completely. Where I part ways — and where I think the current panic about technology in schools is leading us somewhere counterproductive — is on the question of cause. And because cause determines response, getting this wrong has real consequences for real kids. Let me be direct: The Anxious Generation…

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Richard Feynman's Notes For Self-Education

"…I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and there are many things I don’t know anything about."

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Teacher Side Hustles That Actually Fit Your Life (From Someone Who Gets It)

This post contains affiliate links. If you buy something through one of them, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. The national average teacher salary is $74,200. That sounds okay until you account for the fact that most teachers spend hundreds of dollars out of pocket on classroom supplies each year, work 50+ hour weeks, and bring a graduate degree to a job that still can't cover the rent in most major cities. I've been in education long enough to know: the pay conversation isn't changing fast enough.

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Book Review – The Lies of Locke Lamora

There is a moment early in The Lies of Locke Lamora where Father Chains — the blind priest who is not actually blind, and not actually a priest — explains to a young Locke Lamora exactly what kind …

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How to Read and Take Notes Like a PhD Student (From Someone Near the Finish Line)

Photo by Lina Kivaka on Pexels.com I wrote an earlier version of this post in 2023, partway through my doctoral program. Looking back at it, I can see the problem immediately: it reads like a summa…

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You Can Just Print An Air Purifier

I don't have the time right now, but when the ol' dissertation is done, I can easily see a 3D printer getting heavy usage around these parts... 3D printers are one of the few pieces of technology in the last 30 years that are as revolutionary as they were pitched. It is easy to miss that fact, in part because 3D printing itself is a dorky little habit that produces a lot of embarrassing trinkets with visible layer lines, a technology that launched a thousand Iron Man cosplay masks. But the quality and speed of these machines improves yearly, and you can get a fantastic printer that handles multiple colors for less than $600 dollars and even cheaper if you go with eBay or know someone who is moving at just the right time.

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Artemis II Astronauts Witnessed 6 Meteorites Colliding With the Moon | WIRED

The shock and awe on the face of the folks at Mission Control as they chatted with the astronauts as this happened... During their flyby of the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft saw as many as six flashes emerging from the lunar surface. Surprisingly, they were witnessing small meteorites impacting the ground and producing brief flashes of light. NASA's control room recorded the team's surprise during the mission livestream, although the cameras did not pick up the flashes. According to the astronauts, the flashes were white or blue-white and lasted less than a second.

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Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii | Bryan Keller’s Dev Blog

Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list. Source: Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii | Bryan Keller’s Dev Blog

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The World’s Longest Outdoor Escalator Just Opened in China

More impressive infrastructure coming out of China... The longest outdoor escalator system in the world is now running in Wushan County, China. At nearly 3,000 feet long, it carries pedestrians up 800 feet in elevation—around the height of an 80-story skyscraper. The system is known as the “Goddess” escalator, and it’s made of 21 individual escalators, 8 elevators, 4 moving walkways and several pedestrian bridges. Riding all of them takes roughly 21 minutes. “As far as I know, there are no similar projects nationwide, either exceeding or equal to ours, either under construction or already started,” project design lead Huang Wei, an engineer at China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group, tells the Financial Times’ Thomas Hale and Wang Xueqiao. “It’s the first of its kind.”

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AI doesn’t write well, but neither do most people

Giles Turnbull has some thoughts on AI-generated writing: First of all, I’ll come clean about where I stand, generally speaking: I’m an AI sceptic, especially on using AI for writing. I can see it being useful for other things - but that’s because I’m a writer, right? I see AI generated text and most of the time, I think it’s rubbish. It’s dull, it’s derivative, it always sounds like a thousand other things I’ve read before. Because the AI has been trained on those thousands of things, all now easy to find on the internet.

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Artemis II Mobile Wallpapers

Fear not, true believers. We can take our fascination with all things Artemis II on our phones. NASA has made a dozen mobile wallpapers available. Here are a couple I enjoyed: Source: Artemis II Mobile Wallpapers - NASA

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Never Ending School Reforms..

From Larry Cuban.. As students, professionals, and parents, in the 20th and early 21st centuries, I, and most readers, have been the objects of these reforms, their implementers, or simply observers. School reform, then, is not something distant or far removed from our lives. We have experienced school reforms repeatedly. So, for me, school reforms have been as normal as breathing, eating, walking, reading, and writing posts for this blog. Source: School Reform Again, Again, and Yet Again | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

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