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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

Bro, what.

LMAOOOOOOO

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Uh oh. He’s just going to have to shut this thing off.

Are you looking for a neuro-affirming autistic peer-support coach? The Autistic Peer Support Coaching Collective has coaches all over the world and offers dozens of free support groups online every month. www.autisticcoaches.com

Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.

GenAI is a fascist infoweapon, and techbros are a supervillain class.

Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · last yr.

New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots. After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips

Boosting! 😇 Would love to hear from those of you who teach any science, history, criminal justice, welding, media, nursing, ECE, etc. courses! 🙏🙏 #EduSky

Shawna Coppola (she/her)@shawnacoppola.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi! Do you teach at a community college? I’m looking for descriptions of ANY assignment you give Ss that involves writing. Trying to make my FYC course as helpful to Ss as possible so would love to see as many assignments from other CC courses as I can… please share!🙏 #highered #communitycollege

Boosting! 😇 Would love to hear from those of you who teach any science, history, criminal justice, welding, media, nursing, ECE, etc. courses! 🙏🙏 #EduSky

Shawna Coppola (she/her)@shawnacoppola.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi! Do you teach at a community college? I’m looking for descriptions of ANY assignment you give Ss that involves writing. Trying to make my FYC course as helpful to Ss as possible so would love to see as many assignments from other CC courses as I can… please share!🙏 #highered #communitycollege

Hi! Do you teach at a community college? I’m looking for descriptions of ANY assignment you give Ss that involves writing. Trying to make my FYC course as helpful to Ss as possible so would love to see as many assignments from other CC courses as I can… please share!🙏 #highered #communitycollege

The #autistic experience of suddenly understanding that your distaste for a whole lot of the kind of work you’ve done for the past 10 years is b/c it’s not what you *really* wanted to do—you were just mirroring what others in your profession were doing 🫠😭💔

PSA: Never ask a career community college professor why they don't teach at a better school.

the ai cycle: this will do things on it's own this will do things with human supervision well if we have a human go over everything it does we'll save some money turns out it actually can't do anything

Great job everyone

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last yr.

Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."

I think my access is denied b/c it’s from a Canadian journal, so if any of my CA friends can help, I’d be so so grateful! 🩷🩷#highered #EduSky #DoctoralResearch #femme #autism

Shawna Coppola (she/her)@shawnacoppola.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello colleagues! Is there anyone who has access to the article below, by chance? 🙏🙏 brill.com/view/journal...

My bold dream is that all who claim to be for equity & liberation muster the courage to denounce the genocidal atrocities being committed against Palestinians. #NCTE #NCTE25

Hello colleagues! Is there anyone who has access to the article below, by chance? 🙏🙏 brill.com/view/journal...

Two Saturdays ago, a high school teacher and I got 11 high school students together with 9 preservice teachers and had a big conversation about school and teaching and learning. Then, we drafted a collective op-ed. It was published this morning! www.news-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Our Turn | A call to 'strengthen the human connections at the heart of education'

An open letter, from an inter-generational mix of 23 Urbana High School students, preservice teachers and supportive faculty.

news-gazette.com

I really, really despise compulsory sexuality.

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said, "The power of the people is greater than the people in power." This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward. “I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now. Here:

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST

keep all your shenanigans in one place

lifeisasacredtext.com

It’s a common misconception that ADHD is just an inability to focus. Really, it’s a struggle to control focus. I can hyperfixate for hours on complex but pointless tasks and freeze on simple tasks. Some days, my brain’s a Lamborghini with no brakes. Other days, a rusty bike with a stuck chain.

I hope all the ⚪️ folks who for decades have said things like, “Oh, but I can’t IMAGINE they would—” have the day they deserve.

Mediocre white men should never be in positions of power anywhere or anytime.

a woman in a pink dress is making a funny face and saying `` i said what i said '' .

ALT: a woman in a pink dress is making a funny face and saying `` i said what i said '' .

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Individual teachers cannot be expected to solve this problem, and the challenge requires us to get to roots of a system that students see as purely transactional (for good reason) and for which AI can fulfill the transaction. Putting this on individual teachers is simply unfair.

Sarah Mulhern Gross@thereadingzone.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do as a teacher when students are using AI to write personal reflections. We can talk about assessing the process + including more metacognition-focused work, but if students have access to AI, they are using AI. #edusky

I’m not saying AI is evil — god forbid I be that moralistic and clear — I’m saying it is worse than that. It’s MID. Too mid to do much more than externalize some risk, produce some mid documents, and accelerate climate risk as a cute little benefit.

I would like to take this moment to formally thank @georgejaneteas.bsky.social for this period’s royalty check 😂🫡 🩷

*stares into the abyss*

Baller Alert@balleralert.com · 2y ago

A super easy action item: call your reps, regardless of party affiliation, and use this (or your own!) script.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2y ago

UPDATE: Called all my NY reps - national and state, as well as my city councilperson, to ask them to speak out for and fight for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. Here's a quick script if you need one and want to make calls yourself. You can find your reps here: reps.fyi

Sometimes it takes a bit for a book to find its audience. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on rn, but I’m sure as heck grateful for all of the love this lil’ book has been receiving lately. 🩷 I can’t WAIT to hear what your students and book group members have to say about it. #EduSky

Sometimes it takes a bit for a book to find its audience. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on rn, but I’m sure as heck grateful for all of the love this lil’ book has been receiving lately. 🩷 I can’t WAIT to hear what your students and book group members have to say about it. #EduSky

will someone go to my dentist appointment for me pls I’ll pay u

Finally, some good news 😀

Alex Berg@itsalexberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fox News reported that JD Vance had to move to an “undisclosed location” due to protests at the Vermont resort where he’s skiing this weekend. For inflicting misery on the world and here at home in America, this is exactly the energy that should greet Vance wherever he goes for the rest of his days.