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James Baillie
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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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I assume people have seen the new #google #chrome "Homework Help" button that shows up when the browser is pointed to educational websites.
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It doesn't do anything the student couldn't do on their own if they want, but it makes it really easy and puts the temptation there. (as if no one understood how cueing works!) What it does is access google lens, does OCR on the selected image and opens an AI sidebar.
This forced me to take another look at how #AI does on my exams....
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
Migod, keep those book recommendations coming! I'd also love some poetry and graphic novel ideas. Rose that Grew from Concrete is a student favorite. #teaching #bookstodon
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
Doug Holton
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Top Education #AI Tools: A Red, Yellow, Green List – Avoid Data Breaches #cybersecurity #education #teaching
I saw this image, Best AI Tools for the New School Year (below), making the rounds from EducatorsTechnology.com and wondered, "Is it accurate? Are those tools really ones educators SHOULD be using?" but my questions were from a, "Do these tools protect district data?" Anyone who has suffered a data breach because a third party vendor was hacked, mislaid a USB…
Top Education #AI Tools: A Red, Yellow, Green List – Avoid Data Breaches #cybersecurity #education #teaching
I saw this image, Best AI Tools for the New School Year (below), making the rounds from EducatorsTechnology.com and wondered, "Is it accurate? Are those tools really ones educators SHOULD be using?" but my questions were from a, "Do these tools protect district data?" Anyone who has suffered a data breach because a third party vendor was hacked, mislaid a USB…
Alex Akselrod
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We have free resources to help you talk about gun violence in your classroom and community.
The Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down film guides include tools for sensitive, productive conversations about gun violence. These guides are powerful, accessible and not political at all. The team that worked on them includes gun violence survivors and it shows.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/gabby-giffords-wont-back-down/
#GunViolence#SchoolSafety#US#UsNews#Shooting #Education#Teachers#Minneapolis#Minnesota#Teaching #K12
We have free resources to help you talk about gun violence in your classroom and community.
The Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down film guides include tools for sensitive, productive conversations about gun violence. These guides are powerful, accessible and not political at all. The team that worked on them includes gun violence survivors and it shows.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/gabby-giffords-wont-back-down/
#GunViolence#SchoolSafety#US#UsNews#Shooting #Education#Teachers#Minneapolis#Minnesota#Teaching #K12
priryo@linernotes.club
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Hi Mastodon, I'm excited to join this community! Professionally, I'm interested in #highereducation and #teaching and #learning. Personally, I am interested in #scifi and #comics. I look forward to connecting! (and if you have any good Mastodon tips, let me know! I'm figuring this out!).
#introduction
Hi Mastodon, I'm excited to join this community! Professionally, I'm interested in #highereducation and #teaching and #learning. Personally, I am interested in #scifi and #comics. I look forward to connecting! (and if you have any good Mastodon tips, let me know! I'm figuring this out!).
#introduction
ProPublica
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Texas’ education landscape is changing. That’s why we need your help.
Tell us what issues you believe require greater oversight, whether they are the impact of vouchers, misuse of public funds or anything else that is affecting how students learn 👇
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/texas-education-reporting-propublica-texas-tribune?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Texas #Journalism #Education#Teaching#Parents#Family#Students#GregAbbott
ProPublica
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Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
—
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Texas’ education landscape is changing. That’s why we need your help.
Tell us what issues you believe require greater oversight, whether they are the impact of vouchers, misuse of public funds or anything else that is affecting how students learn 👇
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/texas-education-reporting-propublica-texas-tribune?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Texas #Journalism #Education#Teaching#Parents#Family#Students#GregAbbott
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
—
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
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What we're reading:
"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white, a new study shows."
We know that educators are bombarded with (VC-funded) hype about AI tools as magical solutions. Please don't take these claims at face value and do your own due diligence. 1/3
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/ai-teacher-assistants-promote-racial-bias-study-finds/
What we're reading:
"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white, a new study shows."
We know that educators are bombarded with (VC-funded) hype about AI tools as magical solutions. Please don't take these claims at face value and do your own due diligence. 1/3
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/ai-teacher-assistants-promote-racial-bias-study-finds/