My first English prof when an undergraduate student warned us away from false elegance. Apparently the AI assistants who are there to help improve our writing had a different professor.
Both society and technology exert strong and active influences on how human brains develop. The humans who enter classrooms as students have, even in their short lives, experienced culture and technology that is much different than that experienced by their parents and teachers.
“the signs were clear that NCLB was just another educational reform initiative rich in rhetoric, but fundamentally bankrupt.” Yeah, those of us working in schools at the time knew this.
Basic operations of computers and managing classroom technology have both largely disappeared from professional development as technology has become more familiar and as technicians have been hired in schools. I think we need to bring it back.
One reason I like science: The supremacy of observation. All disputes in science are resolved by evidence and observation, and evidence and observation must follow the rules of logic.
"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty." — Stephen Jay Gould
Educators spend their days in rooms filled with young people. It can be a glorious existence, it can be a dreary existence. It is an existence dedicated to providing those young people with experiences that prepare them for an unknowable future.