Miguel Guhlin 🦉 🇵🇦 🇺🇲 @mguhlin@qoto.org

Big question alert: In about ten days I get to be part of a focus group in my district to give input on the vision for 2030.

What do you think I should be asking my district to work toward? What should school look like in 2030?

We are already 1:1 with chromebooks, but I see great needs in tech PD for teachers, equity based grading practices, adulting skills, more parents on campus again...

Open to other thoughts or suggestions...

@edutooters #education #edtech

Virtual Storytelling is back! Sign up to join in the fun on December 21st. We will be using YouTube Live & are looking for presenters/readers/performers. Think about having your students perform! Sign up here: https://forms.gle/4MakGWdryNSXiehg9 #tlchat #edtech #edutoot #edutooter
@VirtualGiff

This is an excellent podcast episode about #NativeJournalism. I think about this so much. If I hadn't gone into science, I wish I had gone into journalism. We need Native #journalists who can cover news in rural Alaska and urban Native issues alike.
https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/decolonizing-journalism-8RPJdLuJ

Red pandas like to snooze in trees in the monorail position. Because they apparently feel the need to up their cuteness quotient to off-the-chart levels. #RedPanda

I figured I haven't done #introductions. I'm Carmela/ Carms, (she/her), a family/community #medicine doctor from the 🇵🇭. I'm interested in #publichealth #science. But this acct is for #nerdingout. I love #books #music #art #literature #poetry #anime #manga #stationery #fountainpens #movies #tv shows #dogs #cats #j-ent #kdrama, etc. My fandoms are indicated in my profile but in short they are: #TheSandman #Dune #StarWars #LOTR. I engage in #politics & believe in #socialjustice #humanrights.. 💗

Here is an abductive argument from beauty for the existence of God I am working on.

Fact: we experience nature as beautiful. Wherever we look—waterfalls, the starry sky, rivers, oceans, sunsets, flowers and trees of all kinds—we find beauty. Now why is that? Why should we find nature beautiful, often to the point of awe? Even atheists such as Steven Weinberg observe that 'sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.'

Naturalistic accounts for the origins of this experience will either say it is a product or a byproduct of evolution. Either we experience natural beauty because various natural elements were instrumental in our evolution (the "biophilia" hypothesis) or awe at natural beauty is derived from other adaptive awe experiences.

Both naturalistic accounts rely on a questionable hidden premise, namely, that affordances themselves can figure in the subject's perceptual experience. This assertion inflaties the perceptual content, or even making it mysterious, endowing it with non-phenomenal properties. Cf. https://www.scielo.br/j/man/a/8RDr6HtxjJjkBYjTJNzPkPF/

Now, supposing there are no satisfactory naturalistic accounts of the fact that we experience nature as beautiful AND the existence of God is a viable explanation for that fact, then (we have defeasible evidence that) God exists.

#philosophyofreligion @philosophy @religion @theologidons

"Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."
- Hannah Arendt

A month after being on #Mastodon is like being in a new relationship: breathlessness, giddiness, excitement, and joy of starting something new intertwined with wariness and pragmatism from past experiences and repetitions. I’m sticking with #HopefulFutures #TwitterMigration

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mastodon-isnt-twitter-but-its-glorious/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90808984/using-mastodon-is-way-too-complicated-to-ever-topple-twitter

Today's #StandingStoneSunday features a dolmen from northern Germany: The Alversteen is located on the island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea. The camera had a very low position for this picture to capture the light shining through.

Rain splatters on glass
Twisting newness into life
Rinse my world anew

#haiku #poetry

Trust

We are the whole world made miniature. We are each comprised of the entire cosmos intricately and meticulously condensed to person sized scale.

"This tremendous whirling of energy is exactly one and the same energy that is looking out of your eyes, that is running along inside your brain, that is breathing, and that makes noises when you talk. The whole energy of the universe is coming at you and through you, and you are that energy." (Alan Watts)

#Writing #reading @bookstodon

@ct_bergstrom Maybe we need to start setting exams where we tell students to use the cheat-bots and paste in the answers, but then the actual exam is to GRADE THE BOT’S ANSWERS and explain which answers are wrong and why 🤣