Teaching a group is hard
Teaching a group is hard, so there’s a tendency to retreat to what works for individuals. Give everyone flashcards. Give everyone a computer. Every kid has a tutor. Every kid works on the app. This tendency is maybe especially strong in thinking about math facts, since they’re so heavily studied by special education and psychological researchers who tend to think in terms of individual support—the one-on-one intervention or study. The “Science of Learning” has a bias towards individual pedagogy.
This tendency should be resisted. Teaching a group is most viable when you’re able to teach them as a group. When you treat them as twenty single individuals, each on their own different path, the job also gets twenty times harder. Now, I’m not naive. I understand there are times when the different needs of students are too great for uniform expectations. But I think we’re often too eager to turn a class into a collection of individuals. Instead we can keep class vibrant, interactive, and engaging without asking everyone to retreat to their desks. The collective deserves more respect
Michael Pershan via Audrey Watters
Wow ok so I guess I should have guessed that with the Artemis II mission the flat earthers would come out of the woodwork but I don’t think I was prepared enough. Also what do they actually care about … how is the shape of the earth of any use when we are destroying it anyway with our emissions…
A nice page of inspirational form pairings - www.fontshare.com/pairs
If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, then LLMs are like e-bikes. They let a lot of people go distances and tackle hills that they couldn’t before, and they’re better for all of us than cars, but they’re a menace to both pedestrians and traditional cyclists, more harmful to the environment than what they’re replacing, and have given companies yet another way to hollow out local businesses. (Neighborhood restaurants know that cheap delivery services are killing them slowly, but if they don’t play, they’ll just die more quickly.)
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This flat pack shed build has almost killed me. It’s a good job I could get on the wall and lean on the roof to put in the screws on the very top middle !
So I decided I am away for a couple of days and I will not take my laptop but iPad… let see if it actually manages to catch up sync with iPhone and mac… it always a nightmare when I haven’t used it in a while…
Wrath of Khan
When ed-tech fails to bring about its revolution – as it always does – a couple of things are sure to happen:
First, teachers get blamed for “doing it wrong.”
Secondly
students get blamed for “doing it wrong” – in this case, not asking the chatbot the right kinds of questions.
Students didn’t want to use Khanmigo (Ai)
So “now Khanmigo (Ai) is incorporated directly … because ‘students were not seeking out Khanmigo’s help as much as we had hoped.’” Don’t want it? Too bad. It’s part of the curricular infrastructure now, suckers.
Well @dajb@social.coop / @thoughtshrapnel shared this game with our gaming crew this morning playstarfling.com which is very cool. Simple idea super well executed. I then found Hacker News Arcade! hnarcade.com setting aside time to browse !
Even Frankenstein has games and comics !
Flipping heck this is not good! Another loss!! This is called cutting it too fine!!!!
I hate Sky anyway and I got a hotel with Sky and basically Sky Arts is the only channel with anything worth watching at all… The Cure live! Which was worth it … for the hotel 😂
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