Christina DiMicelli @MrsDi@qoto.org

Drag Queens. My take. People recently are against Drag Queen story-time. Why? Story-time is not a performance in a nightclub. Story-time is performance for littles. Drag Queens are consummate performers and their talent can enchant and enliven the littles. I am a retired librarian. Story-time is hard. Performing for the littles, presenting books with just the right amount of enthusiasm takes talent. The professionalism and talent the Drag Queens are donating at story-time is priceless.

How Are You Doing?

https://pudding.cool/2022/12/emotion-wheel/

“Learning styles” refer to a range of competing, contested theories that claim to account for differences in individuals’ learning. This includes the idea of “multiple intelligences.”

This idea has influenced education despite the lack of evidence that learning styles are real, or even that identifying a student’s learning style produces better outcomes.

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/about/learning-styles/

@edutooters
@science
@scienceteachers
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers

I remember when the INTERNET was the thing that would end education as we knew it. In response, #academia invested heavily in plagiarism detection software (& more recently surveillance tech) instead of reconsidering their whole approach to teaching. We don't have an AI issue. We have a pedagogy issue
#ChatGPT

Not bad, but illustrates that AI is very good at knowing what is known, but it cannot tell us what could be known next. #education #psychology #educationalpsychology

I think most of the debate around #ChatGPT / #OpenAI misses an important point: Yes, it should be very clear that it is not #Intelligence to replicate existing knowledge pattern with all their #bias and apply it on demand. But guess what? This is how human intelligence tests have worked for more than 100 years.

Finding genuinely new meaning in observations and data is essential for scientific and culutural progress but it has no clear place in contemporary #psychology. It feels a bit sanctimonious to only deride a flawed '#AI' concept while we are also struggling with the concept of what makes human intelligence.

Visit the #DisruptiveThink Pinterest board for a collection of 54 ideas and strategies to empower learners while future-proofing culture https://www.pinterest.com/esheninger/disruptive-thinking/ #education #edtech #teaching #teachers #educators #edutoot #edutooter #edutooters

As a blind individual, I have to say that #Caturday on #Mastodon is far far more enjoyable then at #Twitter, where the vast majority of cat photos are not described.

It is also been fascinating for me to hear descriptions written by those who sent the image, immediately followed by Apple image recognition’s attempts to describe the same image. Only rarely does that add anything to the ALT, & often directly contradicts it.

There is no auto magical solution to image description. It is something best done by a human, for only that human can explain the “why” of the image: the reason that image was chosen to speak so eloquently without words for those who can see it. ALT allows you to provide those words.

I get many questions, so:

Mastodon does not have verified accounts!

When you see anyone with a blue/green checkmark behind their name, that's just an emoji. Anyone can set that in their Display Name.

To avoid confusion, we disabled the emoji on Mastodon.world a while back.

If you want, you can still pay $8 like you can on Twitter. Just go to the donations page https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

Note: I've been told using emoji in your displayname isn't nice for people using screenreaders.

“What’s my favorite G Suite for Education tool?” asked a Google Educator Level 1 session participant. “Google Slides. You can do so much with it!” said another. Slides offers many exciting features that make it a versatile assistant for educators. In this blog entry, let’s take a look at five Google Slides hacks you may find useful. These may deepen your appreciation for Google Slides and increase your productivity. https://blog.tcea.org/five-hacks-for-google-slides/ #GoogleEDU #Teacher #Education #Edutooter #TCEA Be sure to check out this online course on Google Slides - https://courses.tcea.org

Earth at night viewed from space.

Credit: NASA Johnson

#space #nasa #timelapse #science

#teachers and #school persons: I can appreciate that #ChatGPT is a significant leap. But I can also appreciate that this GPT2 detector easily detects GPT3.5 outputs. Things are going to change, but some perspective is warranted #education: https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/