reader.theoregonian.com/google-searc... Who would have ever thought anything bad would happen from testing an unknown technology on kids? /s We're at a point where we should just ban Google from schools. They have repeatedly shown they do not care about safety or privacy.

Google Search AI poses ‘unacceptable risk’ to kids, report finds

The artificial intelligence features built in to Google Search failed to detect suicide risks, said an eating disorder symptom was normal and provided instructions for creating deepfakes.

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reader.theoregonian.com/doj-levies-f... These Morrow officials absolutely need to be held accountable for the obfuscation of this Windwave's value. The accounting firm that helped hide that value also needs consequences.

DOJ levies fresh allegations in data center ‘scheme’

The state alleges officials lied to watchdogs as associates “rubber-stamped” the deal.

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Here's my conspiracy theory: Mitch McConnell has already died on August 3rd. Yes, I know it's July 25th, but Mitch McConnell has already been declared dead after a long battle with pneumonia(?) on August 3rd or maybe August 4th.

I wrote up some thoughts about the new required list of literary works that Texas just adopted including ways to resist: www.ryansmits.com/2026/06/thou... They don't go into effect for a few more years, but now is the time to start thinking about how to respond. #Texas #censorship #EduSky

Thoughts on Texas' 2026 Literary Works Requirement

Thoughts on the   2026 Texas Literary Works List   The State of Texas just adopted a new policy where they are going to require specific t...

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I enjoyed the #CivicsOfTech book club meeting today, and I encourage anyone and everyone who is interested in learning more about the role of technology in our lives but particularly in education to check out their website or join a book club. I had a few days warning for this one...

Why am I watching Zac Brown talk about spearfishing on #Survivor?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/r... Quick article about how people build replicas of Thoreau's cabin and what "Walden" means to them. Could be a good way to introduce Thoreau and transcendentalism. I could imagine this in a unit asking, "what does it mean to live deliberately?" #edusky

They Went to the Woods Because They Wished to Live Deliberately

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"Hamnet" was an incredible movie and that ending was poignant. Jessie Buckley delivered an incredible performance as did Paul Mezcal, but that ending with Agnes reaching out is going to stick with me. Such a beautiful movie about love, loss, grief, and expression.

@edzitron.com has been saying it as long as anyone has listened, but looks like the mainstream is finally coming wise to the inevitable AI crash... The whole thing is a house of cards www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b... #AIBubble

As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary

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I'm new to Oregon, but this certainly seems like a pressing issue. Based on the reporting, the universities here do seem to be teaching future teachers according to best practices. Of course, there are outliers. Going to keep following. reader.theoregonian.com/is-teaching-...

Is teaching future teachers the way out of literacy crisis?

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www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/l... Just learned about these photo prompts from @nytimes.com, and I'm so delighted to have these in my back pocket for ELA journal prompts. #EduSky

144 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing (Published 2023)

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Can we please remember this? "Large language models like ChatGPT don’t 'think' in the human sense—when you ask ChatGPT a question, it draws from the data sets it has been trained on and builds an answer based on predictable word patterns." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #AI #Sceptic

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

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"Evolution primed us to see minds everywhere; nature never prepared us for machines this adept at pretending to have them. Already, the mimicry is good enough for some—the lonely, the imaginative. Soon, it may be good enough for almost everyone." #AI #Sceptic www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem

The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

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Not a threat? Using AI for "brainstorming creative projects" and "summarizing long texts" is even more of a threat to student learning than using it to generate text. And yes, it is cheating -- Cheating students out of actually learning to read and come up with their own ideas. 🤢🤮🤢 #edusky

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Most students are using AI to write, but not necessarily to cheat. They’re brainstorming, revising and thinking critically with tools like ChatGPT. A writing professor says this isn’t a threat – it’s an opportunity, rather than a loss.

Maybe it is less about tools saving teachers time and more about taking less time to learn relevant practices and tools. Ask any teacher what they want from PD. Most start with: Will it help students? Yes, they want to save time, but helping students comes 1st. #EdTech #Teaching #EduSky

Finally! The Search for More Money!

Mel Brooks@officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · last yr.

I told you we’d be back

Seems accurate

More needs to be said about the environmental effects of AI. Select use of AI I'm all for, but people don't need personal generative AI devices, and such devices will be harmful beyond imagination. Here's a good quote from Kyle Chayka describing the energy demands:

Doing this with AI and doing that with AI to improve blah blah blah can be accomplished by working with another human, too... And, get this, you get to develop a relationship with someone whom you can trust and depend on. Quit using AI for human tasks #EduSky

Every time I pick up an Ursula K Le Guin book I'm blown away by the force of her writing. The opening lines of 'The Left Hand of Darkness:' "I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Little happy ant hill!

Passed my dissertation proposal defense this week, and I'm feeling pretty good about that. Is this how Sisyphus feels when he gets to the top of the mountain? #phd #phdsky #academicsky

"But no amount of peer-reviewed scholarship, no data set, can resolve the central questions that confront every human being: How to live? What to do? How to face death?" From Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

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So did DOGE cut the person that was supposed to onboard everyone onto how to send a secure transmission? Signal and then Gmail??!

Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... I really enjoyed this and thought it was a very well put argument against universal standards.

Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient

From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics?

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We are training people to think more like machines every time we use #AI. Make like a #Luddite and consider the social costs—break out your proverbial hammer. Do you want to live in a world where everyone goes to the mean? Some might...I don't. #EduSky

So many ARD meetings where the "accommodations" are just good teaching practices. Thanks #UDL for putting inclusion first into lesson design.

Lee Ann Jung@leeannjung.bsky.social · last yr.

🏗️ Universal design is like a ramp: necessary for some, helpful to all. Embed it into every lesson, and watch everyone thrive. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #UDL #InclusiveEd #EdLeaders

1/2 Good article from EdWeek on the moral considerations of using Gen-AI to grade: www.edweek.org/technology/i... And here is the Archive.org version of the article for those who cannot access: archive.is/Qpqb7 They're asking some good questions in here that I think we all should consider. #EduSky

Is It Ethical to Use AI to Grade?

The technology gives students more feedback, more quickly. But some warn that using AI to score writing could have unintended consequences.

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I might sound like Socrates over here whining about the alphabet, but what of our ability to think are we giving up with so much focus on the splendors of AI? Maybe we should notch up the criticality a touch? It seems like every time I open #EduSky it is just singing the praises of AI miracles...