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Cutting federal funding. Weakening civil rights protections. Injecting God into the classroom.
Here are some of the ways Trump’s Department of Education could upend public schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-department-of-education-changing-public-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Trump #School #Teaching #Parents #Family #Children
Estimated 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.
"the original sin was to sell higher education to policy makers as ‘skills training’ or ‘investment’ "
#HigherEd #teaching #research #edchat #students
https://politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-now-for-britains-universities/
Estimated 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.
"the original sin was to sell higher education to policy makers as ‘skills training’ or ‘investment’ "
#HigherEd #teaching #research #edchat #students
https://politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-now-for-britains-universities/
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Public #Schools #Teaching #Family #Children
As the Trump administration dramatically reshapes the U.S. public education system, ProPublica’s reporters are investigating how these changes affect people across the country.
Help us track developments at schools and colleges in your area 👇
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-report-on-education
#Education #Teaching #Parenting #Family #Children #Schools #Trump
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Public #Schools #Teaching #Family #Children
A couple of sample #NotebookLM notebooks related to #AIEd:
* The Nature and Mitigation of AI Sycophancy https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/27e7fbd9-8dcc-43f0-8156-b64c25ba380c including a note (under Studio tab) on implications for college #teaching
* College Success (OpenStax textbook) https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/3aa47a4d-ed3c-4c73-b11e-793d8ce95627
You could upload your textbook (if #OER ) or course notes and share the link with your students to make a course-specific AI resource. While not required, Gemini Pro is free for a year for students https://gemini.google/students/
#EdTech
Asset-based Approaches to Student Success
https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/asset/
In the past, I’ve shared strategies that have been shown to improve #StudentSuccess, but none of those are effective if we or our students have a fixed mindset (belief that intelligence is fixed) or deficit thinking (focusing on what students lack instead of what they bring to the table). The alternatives are growth mindset (intelligence can grow with effort) and asset-based approaches).
#EdDev #HigherEd #Teaching #EdReform
Introducting: `stormcheck mypy --edu` , type check your code, and learn #Python fundamentals at the same time!
The error messages themselves are ordered by difficulty level, and each category has a dedicated tutorial built-in to the CLI!
My goal was to create a tool that can teach beginners as they work, but still be useful to professionals who already know their craft.
We call this Compassion-Driven-Development
Once finished, I plan on putting this on all my open-source projects to help contributors who are new to Python.
Soon: RUFF checking as well?? What else would a tool like this benefit from?
#OpenSource #CLI #mypy #education #programming #teaching #learning
Introducting: `stormcheck mypy --edu` , type check your code, and learn #Python fundamentals at the same time!
The error messages themselves are ordered by difficulty level, and each category has a dedicated tutorial built-in to the CLI!
My goal was to create a tool that can teach beginners as they work, but still be useful to professionals who already know their craft.
We call this Compassion-Driven-Development
Once finished, I plan on putting this on all my open-source projects to help contributors who are new to Python.
Soon: RUFF checking as well?? What else would a tool like this benefit from?
#OpenSource #CLI #mypy #education #programming #teaching #learning
This looks interesting
LAMB - Learning Assistants Manager and Builder
"LAMB (Learning Assistants Manager and Builder) is an open-source web platform that enables educators to design, test, and publish AI-based learning assistants into your Learning Management System (LMS like #Moodle without writing any code."
Teaching Tips: The First Major Exam or Assignment
https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/first-exam/
A sampling of some research-based practices you may find useful for before, during, and after your first major assessment to improve student success and help struggling students turn things around afterward.
#EdDev #Teaching #HigherEd #StudentSuccess
This looks interesting
LAMB - Learning Assistants Manager and Builder
"LAMB (Learning Assistants Manager and Builder) is an open-source web platform that enables educators to design, test, and publish AI-based learning assistants into your Learning Management System (LMS like #Moodle without writing any code."
there's still time to submit (Sept 19) your AI-infused approach/strategy/activity for teaching and learning! Please consider contributing to this open-access resources!
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/traiil/
Fediverse! I’m trying to pull together a small library for my high school students. My hope is to find adult / young adult books they might enjoy and read for fun. What I need are book donations (if you want to pass along novels you love) and recommendations. I don’t need monetary support at this time. If you HAVE books to spare, message me and I’ll give the school address. Feel free to boost. #teaching #bookstodon
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What I found was interesting.
I've been writing questions to assess knowledge and prevent the student trying to BS their way through from succeeding.
For example, I ask a specific example about what dopamine does in a made up experiment that is close but not identical to one in the literature. If the student understands reward-prediction-error* and works through it carefully, they get the right answer. If they just make the analogy to the older experiment, they get the wrong answer.
Truth be told, I originally did this because a lot of students work like AI/LLMs themselves, and a lot of my goal is trying to teach them not to do this. So I started developing questions that if you understood it you got it right, but if you just work by analogy to the examples, you get it wrong.
Turns out this is good for preventing AI from getting good grades.
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* Yes, DA >> RPE, but this is an intro theory class and that part of the class is about understanding how we get to RPE so we can go beyond it later.
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