Today, Los Angeles Unified became the largest school district yet to move to scale back Ed tech in classrooms
YouTube will be blocked for students, PreK-1st grade won’t use iPads anymore, and the district is required to start tracking mins students spend on devices
www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
Today, Los Angeles Unified became the largest school district yet to move to scale back Ed tech in classrooms
YouTube will be blocked for students, PreK-1st grade won’t use iPads anymore, and the district is required to start tracking mins students spend on devices
www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
NEW: Los Angeles Unified, the second largest district in the country, just became the first major American public school system to pass a sweeping resolution to curb screen time and ed tech in classrooms
www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
what is the point of switching to AI for something so simple that's supposed to be a celebration??
edscoop.com/ai-voice-gra...
Great explanation by the SF Chronicle on how it reported out rumors of Eric Swalwell's sexual misconduct (before social media started talking about them)
More news outlets should do this! Good for transparency, and good for inspiring other journalists!
archive.ph/GwZVe
Trump admin has quietly given up on one of its biggest and most controversial moves regarding funding for universities and scientific research (altho few people outside of higher ed paid attention to it)
www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...
yes - it's even more notable that Gen Z were the first to jump on board using ChatGPT, and a few years in, this is how they (the group with the most experience with AI) feel about it
Scrotie did it for free
$50 per game
Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount Walton-GSV-Gallup survey finds young people are feeling angrier about AI, cautious about integrating AI in the classroom WASHINGTON, D.C. — April 9, 2026 — Gen Z is growing increasingly angry about the role of artificial intelligence in their lives. A new Gallup survey released today by the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures shows that a generation once seen as AI’s early adopters is now sounding the alarm on its risks, particularly in the workplace. While the majority of Gen Zers (51%) still use the technology weekly, growth has slowed to a crawl, increasing only four percentage points over the past year. This stagnation in adoption is accompanied by a sharp decline in positive sentiment. Excitement and hopefulness have dropped by 14 and nine percentage points, respectively, while 31% of Gen Z now report feeling outright anger toward the technology, up from 22% last year. Anxiety remains high, with slightly more than four in 10 young people continuing to report feeling uneasy about the technology’s trajectory. The Workplace Risk Gap Nearly half of Gen Z workers (48%) now believe the risks of AI in the workforce outweigh its benefits, a significant 11-point increase over the prior year. This skepticism persists even as 56% of Gen Zers acknowledge that AI tools can help them complete their work faster. However, this recognition of speed comes with a steep perceived cost: Eight in 10 Gen Zers (80%) believe that relying on AI to complete tasks faster will likely make learning more difficult in the future.
Inbox: new survey from Walton Family Foundation (supporter of govt funding for private schools) and GSU Ventures (big ed tech proponent) finds Gen Z skeptical of AI, and think relying on AI is going to be bad for them in the long run
How many FOIA requests does the state of New Jersey think is too many to file in a year and worth getting banned from filing anymore FOIAs for a year?
14.
Erik Simpson, a professor at Grinnell College who teaches British and Irish literature and digital humanities, said the narrative that students are clamoring to use generative AI while professors cling to tradition does not match what he sees in the classroom at his private liberal-arts college. “I’m sure some of that is true in some circumstances, but I’m seeing something else, especially in arts and humanities students,” Simpson said. His students voice concerns about the environmental costs of AI, the devaluation of human creativity, privacy risks, and what they describe as the corporate capture of the tools of thinking.
the kids are alright
www.chronicle.com/article/when...
Here's an investigation I did into one woman's sexual assault case at Bard, in which the college let the offender stay in class after finding he violated its sexual misconduct policy (he was indicted by a grand jury). The victim tried to overdose on pills.
www.huffpost.com/entry/bard-c...
In 2015, I reported on remarks that Bard College President Leon Botstein allegedly made to several students about sexual assault
www.huffpost.com/entry/bard-c...
"Dr. Botstein recently described Mr. Epstein as 'a truly evil man,' but in 2013 he had signed a note to him: 'Miss you.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...
there are a lot of journalists who say they think 14 or 17 hours a day of screen time is insane who also seem to post nonstop on Twitter and Bluesky all day and night...
growing up as a poor kid in Iowa, I knew when the N64 or the PS2, etc came out, I'd have to wait roughly a year for the price to drop before my family could afford it. not for it to go on sale; it's always been a predictable cycle that the console will become cheaper, but it never got more expensive
this is actually remarkable -- video game console prices NEVER go up AFTER they've been released
PS5 prices didn't even go up during the supply crisis it faced in 2020 to buttress demand
gamingbolt.com/xbox-series-...
Plans to bring a Google data center to a Tulsa suburb have sparked fierce backlash in Osage County, leading some residents to launch an effort to recall elected officials who back the project www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
The New Mexico trial is separate from the social media addiction case still awaiting a verdict in LA
The NM case was over whether Meta's design features enabled pedos to engage in child sexual exploitation on Meta platforms &kids being exposed to content that prompted eating disorders and self harm
(...cont'd - w/r/t Meta trial loss)
the jury had to assign a dollar amount between 0 and 5,000 per violation to decide the civil penalty. the jury picked 5,000 -- the max -- on both
according to jury instructions and their answers, that @nbcnews.com producers have, the jury ruled Meta willfully engaged in "an unfair or deceptive trade practice" 37,500 times, and "in an unconscionable trade practice" 37,500 times. (cont'd...)
JUST IN: A jury in New Mexico has ruled against Meta in a trial over whether it profited from its platforms exposing kids to sexual exploitation
They concluded that Meta committed 75,000 violations of the Unfair Practices Act, and ordered it to pay $5,000 per violation.
That's $375 million total
this actually has become pretty common in K-12 schools these days
