NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month.
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
I am def not pushing Just the opposite Im finding myself redirecting folks from overhyped tools But we should have asked more questions of earlier edtech that paved the way for this
Want to set up a language exchange? Could make one of those blue sky lists and match us up based on fluency and languages we want to hear
#EduSky folks probably looking for these resources
Hey #EduSky If you have the means you can support our local Chicago public school in building out a creative media lab www.donorschoose.org/project/help... code "LIFTOFF" gets your donation matched up to 50 bucks
I am seeing my #EduSky feed fill up with branded and organization accounts 🤔
It isn’t just AI that is “jagged” So many of us arent aware of the jaggedness of our assumptions and knowledge when we interact with AI. When users aren’t aware of Dunning-Kruger effect, they fail to catch where AI falls short
Dont disagree, but how do you define Mindful? Just came back from conference and I see tons of teachers trying AI but missing some big questions about privacy, foundational models and impact on learning
🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does.
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
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Hey #EduSky where do you all get your news updates on here - following individuals, outlets, or a feed?
Looking for the best place where resources are shared for student projects using Adobe Illustrator. Please direct me to people to follow, groups to join, or sites to visit. Please help me get started! #digitalArt #EduSky
At least in Chicago we def have clear policy and protocol, but Im sure its incredibly intimidating facing those officers
We also using Figjam since its free for educators
Sorry I miss it, I would love to learn about how teachers are making space for healing and socio emotional learning
I cant imagine any educator that would open the door to this fascist crap, but we need to talk on #EduSky about how to support those who may be pressured to
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
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For my Chicago folks
Protect each other
Protect our neigbors
#EduSky
This is why we won’t back down
Here are four things we're amplifying! We won't back down / Immigration Resources from NNN Members / What We're Reading / Join the beloved community We Won't Back Down The work of educational justice and democracy building isn't just when things are going well. Our…
Seems like the blueprint leaves all the most complicated questions to educators and policy makers.
Now we happen to be doing some of the work already but I wonder about these companies willingness to invest in our public schools, instead of using new tech for privatizing schools
I hope teachers on #EduSky and beyond are paying attention to local politics. We have to organize and protect our students
Stuff like this can have bigger immediate impact than any hypothetical Dept of Ed closure
blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/09/2...
In Chicago the district has shared a bunch of communications with families outlining steps that protect students from whatever is to come Are other districts doing this?
My interest is that we keep trying to grow micro credentialing in Chicago but don’t see many models for adult learners in K-12
Netflix’s “views” might look impressive on paper (even Sweet Girl, the TNM starring Jason Momoa as a vengeance-seeking survivalist whose MMA-trained daughter takes up his cause, was viewed 6.7 million times in the first half of 2024), but these figures remain a sham. To get to 6.7 million, Netflix first tallies the film’s “viewing hours,” the total amount of time that users have spent streaming the movie. Here, Netflix makes no distinction between users who watch Sweet Girl all the way through, those who watch less than two minutes, and those who watch just a few seconds thanks to autoplay, or skip around, or watch at 1.5x speed. All this distracted, piecemeal activity is rolled into Sweet Girl’s total viewing hours (12.3 million at last count), which the company then divides by the program’s runtime (110 minutes, or 1.83 hours) to produce those 6.7 million views. According to Netflix’s rubric, two users who watch the first half of Sweet Girl and close their laptops equal one full “view” — as do 110 users who each watch a single minute.
Such sleight of hand would be illegal in any other industry. Ford could never tell its shareholders that it sold two hundred thousand F-150 trucks over a single quarter, when in truth the company sold one hundred thousand F-150s to married couples who co-owned their vehicles. But for Netflix, a movie is an accounting trick — a tranche of pixels that allows the company to release increasingly fantastical statements about its viewership, such as the absurd notion that Leave the World Behind, a dubious Julia Roberts apocalypse movie produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, was “viewed” 121 million times. How could anyone believe that?
Netflix’s claims about how many times a given film has been viewed, it turns out, are a complete fabrication. They quite literally add up all the partial viewing time including seconds something has been autoplayed and then divide by the length of the film.
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Oh wow How awesome
Has anyone built a micro credentialing starter pack on #EduSky yet?
The fine print is giving existential dread
Crtl+Q or Command+Q to close the whole thing Ctrl Shift W to close tabs but keep Chrome running
I hear you but I disagree, I don’t think relatability is something we need to solve for, I also am concerned about edtech deciding whose story is worth telling. There is a reason Night at the Museum isnt a key text in our history curriculum