Fleury's mask honoring Native Americans nixed https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/38970420/nhl-nixes-marc-andre-fleury-mask-honoring-native-americans?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NHL #SchwartziesSports
Today is #BlackFriday but more importantly #NativeAmericanHeritageDay !!
Looks like the perfect day to shop #Native owned businesses instead of big brands😊
Today is a good day to give to local Indigenous tribes or nations, or otherwise support them rather than purchase things we don't need to feed consumerism.
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"Train derailments are common in the United States, with more than 1,160 such accidents in 2022 -- or an average of more than three per day -- according to the Federal Railroad Administration."
If you've been noticing an uptick in laws proposed and often passed, that are criminalizing nearly all forms of protest, it's because the oil companies are paying politicians to make the peaceful fight against climate change impossible. #environment
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/study-fossil-fuel-industry-lobbying-anti-protest-bills/
Opportunities to participate in an Emerge Book Circle experience, or learn how to facilitate one from the lovely Theresa Destrebecq
offered through Equity Unbound
(books we may read include Art if Gathering & Emergent Strategy)
Register here if planning to commit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/equity-unbound-book-circle-fallwinter-2023-tickets-755572396377?aff=oddtdtcreator
#edutooter #edutooters @edutooters
Given the excitement with Open AI, I think it's worth remembering that AI tools are already, and have for some time been marketed and sold in K-12 settings by snake oil salesmen with little input from teachers with big promises and few to no actual tangible results other than dehumanizing teaching.
Reminds me of the silicon valley elite opening all those high tech schools and keeping their own kids the heck away from them.
This is a good time to speak up teacher folx.
AI tools are billed as time-savers for educators, but what are we "saving time" for, anyway? Chris & Nick put AI-powered robograders to the test to see what, if anything, they are good for. Does an AI generated essay pass the robograder? https://youtu.be/UX5DfqtgXEI #restorehumanity
Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.
And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).
The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the only woman on the old board was replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.
#phdlife #phdchat
Going to make a few posts over the next couple of days about #PHD programs and being a grad student, especially as it relates to the unwritten curriculum of becoming and being a PhD student. My experience is primarily in the US and in the social sciences, but I have worked with some STEM PhD students as well.
If you have questions or thoughts please share them.
I will start with one that I often discuss and argue about with many, especially now during application season. I will argue that for the majority of students, it makes more sense to experience the world after graduating from college at least for a couple of years before entering a PhD program. I know many successful grad students who have not done this, but here are a couple of thoughts:
1) to what extent do you really know what you are interested in studying just out of college? Working in the field, or engaging in pre-phd for a couple of years can provide valuable experience that a) makes you a better PhD prospect, and b) helps you firm up your PhD journey before a 5-7 year commitment
2) some students are not ready at 22 or 23 for the mental transition from college life to PhD life (I certainly was not). I have seen a couple of main issues here. First the college grade and course focuses mindset doesn't match PhD program expectations. Second, the general stress and lifestyle of PhD students is so different.
More to come
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These are actions right out of the 1800's. And to which I attribute to the far right's unspoken but actually intended aim to lower the age to hire workers. Young workers are easily manipulated and cheap to hire.
@ZingerLearns @edutooters When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
America is addicted to policing as a solution to all social problems. Not enough housing? Sic the police on the homeless people! Inadequate mental health care? Sic the police on the psychotic and depressed! Not enough resources to handle disabled children? Sic the police on the kids!
@ZingerLearns @edutooters Local cop shot a kid in a road rage incident. Defense pointed to his work as a school "safety" officer. "Treated those kids like his own children." Turns out he had domestic violence record as well.
@edutooters @ZingerLearns Related… The Kids of Rutherford County
“For over a decade, one Tennessee county arrested and illegally jailed hundreds, maybe thousands, of children. A four-part narrative series reveals how this came to be, the adults responsible for it, and the two lawyers, former juvenile delinquents themselves, who try to do something about it.”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kids-of-rutherford-county/id1707247008
STEM teacher educator. Humanizing teaching and learning. Believer of student brilliance. Luddite. Disbeliever of silver bullets. Nobody is coming to save us. #Edutoot #Ungrading #STEMed
@ungrading @STEMed