Honored to have help contributed to @cityandstatepa.bsky.social journalist Hilary Danailova and this important piece on this incredibly significant and rapidly evolving topic along with fellow PSEA AI Task Force members @msoskil.bsky.social & Marilyn Pryle. www.cityandstatepa.com/policy/2025/...

As AI enters Pennsylvania classrooms, teachers and students face a learning curve

Pennsylvania schools are racing to determine the role artificial intelligence should play in education – and when.

cityandstatepa.com

✊🏾✊🏻✊🏾 This 4th of July, we stand with U.S. educators fighting for inclusive public schools and for democracy. From around the 🌍, you have our #solidarity. ➡️ eiie.io/4lxMLUA #GoPublic4Solidarity @neatoday.bsky.social @aft.org @neapresident.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social @daveswords.bsky.social

What a pleasure to listen to 2025 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year Leon Smith keynoting the PA Educators Rising Conference. @pseaorg.bsky.social

I got a question from someone on FB questioning whether the US Department of Education has failed its mission since 1979. Here is my answer: First, there is no truth to the claim that test scores or US education performance has been declining since the opening of the USDoEd in 1979. 1/

Behave accordingly

Dismantling the US Department of Education will devastate students and rural communities like mine. The justification is that American education is falling behind other countries. So, let's examine what other countries do to get better outcomes so that we can implement those changes. 1/

It’s a great day for the PSEA Artificial Intelligence Task Force to have important conversations about how human educators can shape the future of education.

Using AI to scrub web pages and research studies based on banned keywords is the new book burning.

There is no ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in schools if that technology is controlled by for-profit companies operating in an unethical system that rewards immoral behavior. "A bad system will beat a good individual every time." - Deming

I’d like to talk about some of the changes we’re seeing locally due to attacks to/from the USDoEd, but the first rule of Fight Club prohibits me from disclosing anything. #BFC530

Dennis Dill@realmstrdill.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy Thursday! Time for #bfc530! With all the things happening at the Department of Education, are you feeling any changes in your space? Are you bracing for change? Be sure to add the #Bfc530 hashtag to your response.

#RedforEd

Another sign we are living in a dystopia:

When There’s No School Counselor, There’s a Bot

Is a human-AI texting service the future of mental-health care for students?

wsj.com

Someone asked me today to justify a claim that school vouchers are overwhelmingly used to subsidize wealthy families rather than helping poor children. You can go ahead and Google other states, but here is the data from Arizona to support that claim.

Another fantastic Second Breakfast from @audreywatters.bsky.social:

Automated Contempt

The political-technological crisis is only deepening in the United States, and I hardly know where to begin today's email to you, other than to say that I hope you're okay. And if you're not, do feel ...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com

With US leaders attacking the Ukrainian President and undermining our alliance with Europe, I am resharing this piece that Armand Doucet, Noah Zeichner, and I wrote for Education International after Russia invaded Ukraine. www.ei-ie.org/en/item/2639...

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Shows the Importance of Protecting Democratic Values through Education

The immediacy of today's vivid news cycle as Russia invades Ukraine has not spared our children. In our youth, caring adults often buffered us from disturbing topics like war, nuclear threats, and hum...

ei-ie.org

I’m really excited to spend time working with these amazing future teachers at the SPSEA conference next month! Also excited to have a bunch of fellow PA Teachers of the Year along side me!

Chris Clayton@chrisclayton32.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Learning Launchpad is here! "We Are" thrilled to announce that the annual Student PSEA State Conference and Convention on March 28-29, 2025 at the Penn Stater Hotel in State College, PA is now open for registration at: lnkd.in/eQ6Pp-Ut @pseaorg.bsky.social @msoskil.bsky.social

If you look up the bio of recipients of the US Presidential Award for Excellence in Math & Science Teaching on National Science Foundation site, you get this. Probably b/c we’re doing things POTUS finds abhorrent, like teaching actual science, giving all kids equal opportunity, & including all kids.

If your child has a disability, their legal right to accommodations is in serious jeopardy. Those accommodations are efforts to provide equal opportunity (equity - the E in "DEI"), which the current administration, & now 17 states, are vigorously attacking. theeducatorsroom.com/in-a-new-law...

In a new lawsuit, 17 states sue to do away with 504 protections - The Educators Room

A high-stakes lawsuit, Texas v. Becerra, is currently making its way through the courts, threatening crucial protections for people with disabilities under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Seven...

theeducatorsroom.com

Great post by @ddmeyer.bsky.social on AI and education. “You either bet on teachers or you bet on software, and if you bet on software, you eventually learn you have to build a teacher.” You can't build a teacher. #EduSky #AIinEducation #EduSkyAI danmeyer.substack.com/p/in-edtech-...

In Edtech, You Either Bet On Teachers Or You Have To Build One

No one has built one yet.

danmeyer.substack.com

Nobody is better than @audreywatters.bsky.social at explaining the intersection of edtech and AI with education and crony capitalism.

Audrey Watters@audreywatters.bsky.social · 2y ago

The AI Coup and the AI Line 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-coup/

If human-influenced climate change isn't real, then what's the need to delete all climate data from NOAA and other government websites?

A former university student reached out to ask how I used MSFT Powerpoint as a translation tool when I had a Ukrainian refugee ESL student in my elementary class. You can do this for many languages. For anyone who might need this, here's what I shared w/ her: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office....

My fellow educators (and anyone who cares about public education), we need to use our voices and take actions outside of social media spaces.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2y ago

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

If you are in #Pennsylvania and believe that billionaires should not be allowed to rig our democracy, you need to keep an eye on www.alleyesonyass.com, which tracks the way PA's richest billionaire is using his money to impose his agenda on working-class Pennsylvanians.

#AllEyesOnYass

alleyesonyass.com

Organizing and collective action are always the best way to fight against those who wish to use power, corruption, and division to exploit you. We have agency and power when we fight together. Find your people. Join a union. Volunteer to learn more and help. Don't dispair. Unite and act.

When we use "the future of work" to solely drive decisions in education, we prepare students solely for a future as "workers" rather than a future as citizens, community members, & unique individuals. We prepare them to be exploited by those with money & power rather than to shape their own future.

Teaching and learning are human activities. Technology, including generative AI, can be a tool in the process. But, systematically passing skills and information to the next generation will always be best accomplished by professional, qualified, human teachers. #edusky

Pennsylvania State Education Association@pseaorg.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 PSEA President Aaron Chapin today commended Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Dept. of Education for denying a cyber charter school application that would have replaced human teachers with AI to provide direct instruction to students. Read PSEA's full press release: www.psea.org/AICyberDecision

Welcome @unionjoe.bsky.social, @pseaorg.bsky.social, @aeaeducators.bsky.social, and @neunion.bsky.social to the Teacher's Union Leaders and Education Association Starter Pack, which now includes 105 great accounts to follow. We're stronger when we network together. go.bsky.app/AjeZG6X

💌 Virtual Valentines 2025 is OPEN! 💌 Join classrooms worldwide in a fun, creative global Valentine exchange! 🎈❤️ 📅 Register by Feb 9 🔗 virtualvalentines.weebly.com Create & swap digital Valentines, connect globally, and spread joy! 🌏💖 Tag a teacher & invite them to join! #K12Valentines