I'm begging you Google, stop moving settings

I always think of Charles Winchester from MASH: I do one thing at a time, I do it well, and then I move on.

Y'ALL

I'M HIRING A PSYCH FACILTY POSITION

Come work with wonderful students, kind colleagues, and a boss who I like to think is a decent human (it's me...I'm the boss😂)

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It really is the best

Well currently I'm reading papers about AI in education and annoying my students by critiquing the papers loudly and at length...

If your evidence base for AI in education is "Students feel better", please consider digging deeper

It's so good to have a friend to talk teaching with.

...as we've read the book. I've learned so much listening to her thoughts and reactions, getting her insights, hearing her response to my own thoughts. I think I've finally wrapped my head around what role AI has in my professional life, and I see a scholarly path forward.

We're finishing "More than words" by @biblioracle.bsky.social . I've been All In My Feelings about AI for years, and steadfastly antagonistic to even do a lit review about how it could show up in my class. But Leanne and I have been having our feelings and our thoughts at each other for months...

Wanted to publicly thank @racicotleanne.bsky.social . We've been reading books together for years now. Our book club is slow - a chapter or three every couple weeks. We have long rambling discussions motivated by the reading and leading to whatever we need to work out.

Literature deep dive I should do but don't know when I'll find the time: desirable difficulty and student perception of learning

Every time I see someone trying to use AI to make learning easier, it feels like the same thing. The goal isn't for students to complete the problem, the goal is for them to learn to complete the problem. If the AI is making it easier, so often the student is working less and learning less.

I see this all the time in coding-in-chemistry projects, where the prof writes a script that students use, and publishes it as students learning to code. The wrong brain did the coding there.

But you didn't need to struggle to understand if you used this worksheet. It took a high degree of understanding to *make* the worksheet, but very low level understanding to use it. I remember thinking that the wrong brain had done the work.

At BCCE some years ago (2018?) I remember a talk where the presenter was sharing a nifty worksheet. If students followed the instructions on the worksheet, they would always set up stoichiometry questions correctly. The presenter was so proud of how error-free the worksheet was.

I spent an hour yesterday afternoon talking with a pair of lovely students. AI use, technology and learning, pedagogy to support community, they had so many thoughts. Students are the best.

Year 2, Week 16 Apr 11-17 - tomato/xitomatl

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 

Apr 17 (Year 2, Week 16)
- new CDC director nominated w/ credentials!
- closure of Hampshire College. Other schools at risk
- changes to federal loans for grad students
& much more

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Work projects this week highlighting how little resources we devote to pedagogy, curriculum mapping, and other similar non-tech parts of my job

over here wondering if I can print to not-pdf

Cat training update: all three cats come to towels when called. Two let me trim their nails, the third lets me touch her foot. We're also working on eating when queued by Wait For It from Hamilton and going into their carriers without fear.

TFW you're trying to write your own bio and you can't remember if any of your institutions have commas in their names

That's exactly my current approach. But there's continuous pressure to 'modernize', and a lot of folks assume that because I like computers I must like AI. I'm trying to be open to AI assist, but right now I can't see how it'd help students learn.

At it's core I have a really straightforward question: should I encourage students to use AI code assists while they are learning to code? But finding evidence for how to approach that is Not Easy

Yeah I'm seeing so much of that - low level thinking that might be interesting but isn't want I want to guide large scale implementations.

I have *so many feelings* but I want to see what research grounding there is out there.

Looking for paper recs on AI as a teaching tool. I'll take anything you've got, but my specific interests are:
- Higher ed
- Science
- Programming

Starting my Monday off strong having a photo shoot with a mortar and pestle to find it's good side

definitely didn’t think we’d still be getting so much mileage out of american idiot

One thing I appreciate about reading this every Saturday is that it reminds me to move beyond the terror of the week to focus on things I have more chance of having effect

There is nobody under the age of 55 who remembers seeing astronauts return to earth like this