Jenn Borgioli Binis
@jennbinis.bsky.social
Freelance editor, researcher, and/or fact-checker for education and academic authors. Writing a book about teachers. https://schoolmarmadvisors.com/ Luddite. Braver Angels. Newsletter: https://dissertate.jennbbinis.com/. r/Askhistorians moderator.
Teaching "about" is not the same as teaching "how to" - adults absolutely get the difference when it comes to sex ed but so many conflate the two approaches when it come to AI.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
These findings confirm my priors, so I am reposting this thread.
John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 16h agoWe're experiencing loneliness epidemic. Could AI chatbots help solve that problem? If you would have asked me up until recently I would say "probably!". But we don't know for sure. To answer this question, researchers in France recently ran a very cool experiment...
So thrilled that my future state assembly member was endorsed by Run for Something. Yeah @ryantaughrin.bsky.social!
Run for Something@runforsomething.net · yesterdayThe future of local leadership just got 44 candidates stronger. We're excited to announce our August endorsement class, featuring young, diverse candidates ready to serve communities and bring fresh leadership to local office. Meet the full class: https://bit.ly/3RLr4Hk
Today is the date of “There Will Come Soft Rains” …
Alex Wellerstein@wellerstein.bsky.social · yesterdayI’m not even sure if this will be my DOOMSDAY MACHINES update for the week, but I just learned about this short story by Ray Bradbury and for reasons that will become clear if you look at it, felt it was worth just writing up something very short about… doomsdaymachines.net/p/bomb-shado...
Today Utathya Chattopadhyaya joins us to discuss cannabis in British India over on @askhistorians.bsky.social! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
I am Dr. Utathya Chattopadhyaya, author of Ganja Matters: Empire & the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India! AMA!
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It remains one of my greatest hopes that people who write about school in America come to understand that there's no such thing as an American education system. (Blue states CAN'T do book lists! Sometimes by because there is a literal law saying they can't!) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | What Blue States Can Learn From the Texas Book List (Gift Article)
Educational traditionalism is not the same as political conservatism.
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Public comment matters, folks!
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2d agoExclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
I've now seen my third piece by a high profile 40-something poster who in the past only barely or peripherally wrote about education that includes the phrase "... my child's teacher..." They're all extensive "here's what's wrong with schools" pieces based on his experience as a Dad.
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Perfect timing for these! Very excited to see what others are going to be doing 👀 (Nice reflection for me, since we don't go back until September begins!)
Amir Taron Ayres@amirtaron.bsky.social · 4d agoEducator friends, tap in! 👇🏾 @edutopia.org is hosting two big back to school @teacher2teacher.bsky.social Jam Sessions *at the same time.*🔥 🤔Ask what’s on your mind. 💪🏾Share what you’re planning this year. 👀Take a look at what others are doing. Links to both sessions are in the replies.
A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d agoriley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos
And this is why we should cite Abby’s reporting and not other news outlets aggregating it 🙂
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d agoI first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.
WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO STUDY THIS STOP TAKING AN ANGRY WHITE DUDE'S OPINION AS FACT.
To a certain extent, gotta give the man props for holding onto a grudge for 10 years: "The Common Core was a bust, and everybody associated with it should be held to account."
Jenn Borgioli Binis@jennbinis.bsky.social · 3d agoIn a dramatic turn of events, a man who did not like Common Core from the go and wrote a book that included a lot of misleading and inaccurate information about the CCSS adoption process - especially in NYS - wrote an editorial claiming they're a failure.
In a dramatic turn of events, a man who did not like Common Core from the go and wrote a book that included a lot of misleading and inaccurate information about the CCSS adoption process - especially in NYS - wrote an editorial claiming they're a failure.
Annie Abrams@annieabrams.bsky.social · 3d agoOn a related/unrelated note, our FOIL requests to our town police and board about Flock are more than 100 days overview. The clerk and town lawyer have been responsive and apologetic - and we all know they're not the reason for the delay.
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d agoNew: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
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"Mildred Pitts Walter, a Los Angeles schoolteacher who grew up in the Jim Crow South and wrote award-winning children’s books focusing on Black characters, filling a void in her students’ reading material, died on May 19 in Redwood City, Calif. She was 103." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
Mildred Pitts Walter, Author of Books for Black Children, Dies at 103 (Gift Article)
Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.
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Continued evidence that staying on Twitter absolutely breaks people's brains - especially those in education circles. (But also, it's a wild feedback loop that a hateful Twitter account is being covered by a local media as if they have a valid point.)
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4d ago@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Observer A Wake County NC elementary school is under fire for hiring a nonbinary trans teacher after truly evil Libs of TickTok posted their name, photo, and principal's contact info. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
the google earth example demonstrates that they can turn AI shit off. the right thing to do is thank everyone who has shown how AI has caused, is causing, and will cause harm to people. acknowledge the harm done and make it right for those already harmed. but first of all: turn it the fuck off.
This thread is about writing but it articulates one of the key issues I have around AI by teachers - especially with curriculum planning and writing.
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 5d agoFor writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why
The deadline for submitting a comment in opposition to the Department of Education’s proposed changes to Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs is tonight, July 31, at 11:59 EST. This proposal has flown under the radar—make your voice heard now to protect these programs! How to take action: 🗃️
Action Alert: Protect International Education Programs - AHA
Tell the Department of Education to Protect Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs The US Department of Education (ED) has proposed eliminating the regulations (34 CFR Parts 655, 656, 657, 658, 660, 661...
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I really appreciate this framing.
Stephen Wild@stephenjwild.bsky.social · 5d agoSomething can be both a brute fact and a social construct. The distance between points A and B? Brute fact. Unit of measurement to describe the distance (cm, inches, rods, parsecs)? Social construction. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 7d agoChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
In light of the “good faith questions” discourse I just wanted to re-up @reveleth.com’s fascinating podcast about the complex (and frequently appalling) history and present of policing sexual biology in women’s sports.
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 2y agoHello new people! My latest project was a 10+ year labor of love and it would mean the world to me if you checked it out. www.tested-podcast.com It’s a narrative, deep, complex and suspenseful story of gender, sports, science, and “fairness.”
