Katherine Bomer’s The Journey is Everything about essay writing and Hidden Gems about assessment. I also edited a book about teaching writing in wicked ways in the era of accountability. Teachers who have read it told me it engages theory effectively while being grounded in classroom practice.
I knock the bottom out of wine boxes (often free/cheap at the liquor store) and then grow carrots in those. Fill them with decent dirt and set them on top of the terrible clay we have. Works great.
What he said. Bans are bad, full stop.
Banning anywhere makes institutions everywhere more leery of buying the book.
Get active in your local school and library boards! Vote in elections for your state board of ed! Pay attention to your state house reps and senators. Get loud, get local.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Very disjointed to read “wearing them seems like a violation of the social contract” next to a breakdown of price and battery life.
Excellent headline.
I think teachers and professors should start publicly grading work. The standards are based on facts, logical arguments, demonstrating ethos, and clear language. Bonus points for evocative language. No deductions for spelling and zeros for LLM use.
The Islamophobia in the testimony at the State Board of Ed meeting about ELA and Social Studies was awful. I guess I can hope that the GOP runs so hard on this that they lose the general?
#knitting
I do think PhD’s are likely over-represented among knitters and fiber artists. There’s probably a dissertation in there.
TPPF will make Texas schools even lower performing than they are.
“Close Down Schools of Education and Recommend Best Alternative Teacher Certification Track: Proposes eliminating university schools of education, which are seen as centers of ideological activism and poor teacher preparation…”
One of the more important ones, honestly.
Why does Texas have to Texas so hard sometimes?
The Texas Rangers have unveiled a controversial new statue modeled after Jay Banks, a former Texas law enforcement officer known for enforcing school segregation.
The unveiling preceded the MLB’s celebration of Jackie Robinson Day, which commemorates the first African American MLB player.
It's a vibe... and not a good one.
Yeah, people talk about how Mackenzie Scott is not a "good" billionaire because if she was, she wouldn't be a billionaire anymore. And like 99.9% of the time that is true.
But we also built a system where you can't actually give your money away fast enough to avoid how fast it is growing right now!
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
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It's the worst. I had one where the company reached out and wanted phone verification and I was like, "Um, I have no idea if this is legit or a spoof, I don't believe you, so I'm not going to talk to you." They seemed annoyed. Just, ugh.
San Antonio Students for Peace have been organizing ICE out walkouts at schools across the county for months. They organized 3 years ago around Gaza. C'mon, my dude, do better.
Worth noting: in an ecosystem like this Khan-TED-bs, students can't build cultural, social, and political capital like when they become part of a community at a college or university.
Always acting like that community doesn't matter is a neoliberal logic that will almost always deepen inequity.
"The other good news is that higher education has something to offer that the Khan TED Institute cannot, opportunities to be in genuine and meaningful community with others as each individual develops their unique intelligence."
My instructional intention for this year was that every student in every class would have a meaningful interaction with at least one other classmate. On the one hand, this wasn't a stretch for me, on the other, having it as an intention made me dig even deeper. I can see and feel the difference.
Oh, no.
The Texas science STAAR test had a question today about tiger shrimp from the Gulf of America.
This is why fascists come for schools. They impose their reality.
There were fewer than 30 ppl at the school board election forum today.
Y’all, schools need reality-based people involved.
However, we also found that the program improved participants’ artistic output, including the time they could dedicate to their art and their satisfaction with the quality and the impact of their work.” ‘What art could we produce as a society if our artists could invest more time and money in their craft?’ Stephen Roll The GI program was found to reduce financial stress and debt; increase artists’ ability to invest time in their art; increase motivation and productivity; and improve mental health, while showing no reduction in other sources of income.
2,400 artists in NYC got $1,000 per month in basic income for 18 months beginning in 2022. Same as in Ireland, the results were overwhelmingly positive. Artists spent more time on their art and became more satisfied with the quality and impact of their work.
DO UBI
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We are about 10 days away from the deadline for the MMLA Permanent Section on Comics and Graphic Novels (which I just so happen to chair). The theme is After the Archive, so I am particularly interested in any sort of archival research into comics. Here's the CFP and please hit me up with questions.
The closing of a college is deeply sad in the moment, but is a long-term rolling catastrophe. What happens to the buildings, grounds, and extended footprint of the campus? How does it gut the local economies that routed through its stability? What happens to the validity of its past diplomas?
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
Six big-picture conclusions from Orbán’s smashing defeat – and what it all means for the transnational struggle against rightwing authoritarianism.
I wrote about why Hungary matters – and why nothing about rightwing authoritarianism is inevitable.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
The SciArt Feed here on Bluesky is gated so I can keep Gen AI out.
If someone posts AI, I boot them and it disappears. I think it’s happened twice in 2.5 years. A worry-free feed.
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