As the number of World War II survivors continue to shrink with the passage of time, young activists in Japan are working to preserve their memories to pass on to future generations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/02/japan/war-experience-storyteller/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #students
Students at Haebaru Junior High School in the town of Haebaru, Okinawa Prefecture, experienced a unique peace-learning workshop about two weeks before Memorial Day marked the end of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/japan/okinawa-peace-education/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #okinawa #wwii #students#highschools #juniorhighschools #education
@massimofavaro : they do speak up about some modern genocides.
I wrote about it in https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/115080945308893583.
#NeverAgainJewsOnly#DaniDayanIsWrong#AvnerShalevIsWrong#BoostCattle#KlikVee#Hasbara#AuschwitzZionists#FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight#IsraelisAterroristState#Genocide#GazaGenocide#Gaza#WestBank#Lebanon#Syria#Yemen#Iran#Apartheid#Terrorists#Pagers#Starvation#BombingChildren#ShootingChildren#StarvingChildren#NotSinceOct7_2023#Since1948#Nakba1948#AntiSemitism#DefinitionOfAntisemitism#IHRA#DaniDayan#BeautyContest#SelectionProcess#HumanSelection#BoostBabyBoost#Students#POW#ConcentrationCampGaza#WestbankConcentrationCamps#GazaIsAConcentrationCamp#SS#Nazis#SSnazis#Facebook#Zionists#NoOtherLand
Alex Akselrod
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Total moron
#Trump said on Monday that he would lead a movement to eliminate #MailinBallots & would sign an #ExecutiveOrder to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Trump has long opposed mail-in voting & said it was a source of fraud during the 2020 election, though his AG at that time said that his assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.
#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html?smid=url-share
#Trump also wrote that he wanted to get rid of voting machines, which he described as inaccurate & expensive [wrong. Far more accurate than hand counting]. He claimed, incorrectly, that the US was “the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting.”
His post did not elaborate on what the #ExecutiveOrder would say. It was also not immediately clear whether the Trump admin could stop the use of mail-in voting, which is largely entrusted to individual states.
His post did not elaborate on what the #ExecutiveOrder would say. It was also not immediately clear whether the Trump admin could stop the use of mail-in voting, which is largely entrusted to individual states.
#Trump argued in his post that #states were “merely an agent’ for the #FederalGovernment in counting & tabulating the votes.” [he is so unbelievably ignorant]
“They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them,” Trump said. [whatever happened to the #StatesRights party?]
#law#ElectionLaw#Constitution #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
Total moron
#Trump said on Monday that he would lead a movement to eliminate #MailinBallots & would sign an #ExecutiveOrder to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Trump has long opposed mail-in voting & said it was a source of fraud during the 2020 election, though his AG at that time said that his assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.
#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html?smid=url-share
#Trump has maintained his opposition even after #Republicans in the 2024 #election made significant gains in mail voting when the party encouraged its supporters to make use of the practice.
On Truth Social on Monday, Trump posted: “THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!!”
[IOW if people #vote, he & his candidates lose]
#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
Total moron
#Trump said on Monday that he would lead a movement to eliminate #MailinBallots & would sign an #ExecutiveOrder to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Trump has long opposed mail-in voting & said it was a source of fraud during the 2020 election, though his AG at that time said that his assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.
#law#ElectionLaw #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html?smid=url-share
Several companies, organizations and government agencies have been holding tours for female students in Tokyo this summer in the hopes of breaking down gender stereotypes in the fields of science and technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/18/companies/japan-tech-firms-female-students-office-tours/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #tech #students #fujitsu #nvidia #nec #mitsubishielectric #microsoft #tokyometropolitangovernment
joene 🏴🍉
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Imagine a world in which you can lose your job for calling someone by their chosen name. Welcome to today's world of teaching. In Florida, you can be fired for calling your students by their chosen name without parental consent. That's what happened to Melissa Calhoun.
Her district's superintendent said that parental input can’t be ignored. But what if the parents are just plain wrong?
No matter. SCOTUS gave a ruling earlier this year that essentially made parental input is the ONLY thing that matters. Parents across the nation can now exempt their child from any and all curriculum that "goes against their religious beliefs." This would allow parents to exempt their kids from any of the standards, including evolution, in biology, or the Civil Rights movement, in U.S. history.
From the teachers' and schools' perspective, this completely throws the concept of teaching standards out the window. It makes it pointless for teachers to plan curriculum in advance since they wouldn't know until the last minute which students, if any, would be allowed to learn it. And it would significantly increase teachers' workload since they must create alternative curriculum for students who are exempted.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-education-desantis-fc8c37368bca9cfd33b6676576c78f06
#transrightsarehumanrights #lgbtq #transphobia #education #schools #students #freespeech #censorship #fascism
Imagine a world in which you can lose your job for calling someone by their chosen name. Welcome to today's world of teaching. In Florida, you can be fired for calling your students by their chosen name without parental consent. That's what happened to Melissa Calhoun.
Her district's superintendent said that parental input can’t be ignored. But what if the parents are just plain wrong?
No matter. SCOTUS gave a ruling earlier this year that essentially made parental input is the ONLY thing that matters. Parents across the nation can now exempt their child from any and all curriculum that "goes against their religious beliefs." This would allow parents to exempt their kids from any of the standards, including evolution, in biology, or the Civil Rights movement, in U.S. history.
From the teachers' and schools' perspective, this completely throws the concept of teaching standards out the window. It makes it pointless for teachers to plan curriculum in advance since they wouldn't know until the last minute which students, if any, would be allowed to learn it. And it would significantly increase teachers' workload since they must create alternative curriculum for students who are exempted.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-education-desantis-fc8c37368bca9cfd33b6676576c78f06
#transrightsarehumanrights #lgbtq #transphobia #education #schools #students #freespeech #censorship #fascism
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.
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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’ 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.
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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
New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues
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The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to release its own records.
#News#Texas #Uvalde#SchoolShooting#School #Education#Safety#Students#Lawsuit
Japanese students are increasingly looking away from London and New York in favor of places such as Seoul and Taipei when considering their plans to study abroad, due to economic reasons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/japan/japanese-students-asia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #universities #students #education #taiwan #malaysia #singapore #southkorea
Ulrike Hahn
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The gap between student GenAI use and the support students are offered
I argued a couple of days ago that the sector is unprepared for our first academic year where the use of generative AI is completely normalised amongst students. HEPI found 92% of undergraduates using LLMs this year, up from 66% the previous year, which matches AdvancedHE’s finding of 62% using AI in their studies “in a way that is allowed by their university” (huge caveat). This largely accords with my own experience in which it appeared that last year LLMs become mainstream amongst students and this year they it to become a near uniform phenomenon.
The problem arises from the gap between near uniform use of LLMs in some way and the the lack of support being offered. Only 36% of students in the HEPI survey said they had been offered support by their university: a 56% gap. Only 26% of students say their university provides access to AI tools: a 66% gap. This is particularly problematic because we have evidence that wealthier students are tending to use LLMs more and in more analytical and reflective ways. They are more likely to use LLMs in a way that supports rather than hinders learning.
How do we close that gap between student LLM use and the support students are offered? My concern is that centralised training is either going to tend towards banality or irrelevance because the objective of GenAI training for students needs to be how to learn with LLMs rather than outsource learning to them. There are general principles which can be offered here but the concrete questions which have to be answered for students are going to vary between disciplinary areas:
- What are students in our discipline using AI for, which tools, at what stages of their work?
- Which foundational skills and ways of thinking in our discipline are enhanced vs threatened by AI use?
- When does AI use shift from “learning with” to “outsourcing learning” in our specific field?
- What forms of assessment still make sense and what new approaches do we need in an AI-saturated environment?
- What discipline-specific scaffolding helps students use AI as a thinking partner rather than a thinking replacement?
Furthermore answering these questions is a process taking place in relating to changes in the technology and the culture emerging around it. Even if those changes are now slowing down, they are certainly not stopping. We need infrastructure for continuous adaptation in a context where the sector is already in crisis for entirely unrelated reasons. Furthermore, that has to willingly enrol academics in a way consistent with their workload and outlook. My sense is we have to find ways of embedding this within existing conversations and processes. The only way to do this I think is to genuinely give academics voice within the process, finding ways to network existing interactions in order that norms and standards emerge from practice rather than the institution expecting practice adapts to another centrally imposed policy.
#higherEducation #technology #university #academic #students #generativeAI #malpractice #LLMs #HEPI
The gap between student GenAI use and the support students are offered
I argued a couple of days ago that the sector is unprepared for our first academic year where the use of generative AI is completely normalised amongst students. HEPI found 92% of undergraduates using LLMs this year, up from 66% the previous year, which matches AdvancedHE’s finding of 62% using AI in their studies “in a way that is allowed by their university” (huge caveat). This largely accords with my own experience in which it appeared that last year LLMs become mainstream amongst students and this year they it to become a near uniform phenomenon.
The problem arises from the gap between near uniform use of LLMs in some way and the the lack of support being offered. Only 36% of students in the HEPI survey said they had been offered support by their university: a 56% gap. Only 26% of students say their university provides access to AI tools: a 66% gap. This is particularly problematic because we have evidence that wealthier students are tending to use LLMs more and in more analytical and reflective ways. They are more likely to use LLMs in a way that supports rather than hinders learning.
How do we close that gap between student LLM use and the support students are offered? My concern is that centralised training is either going to tend towards banality or irrelevance because the objective of GenAI training for students needs to be how to learn with LLMs rather than outsource learning to them. There are general principles which can be offered here but the concrete questions which have to be answered for students are going to vary between disciplinary areas:
- What are students in our discipline using AI for, which tools, at what stages of their work?
- Which foundational skills and ways of thinking in our discipline are enhanced vs threatened by AI use?
- When does AI use shift from “learning with” to “outsourcing learning” in our specific field?
- What forms of assessment still make sense and what new approaches do we need in an AI-saturated environment?
- What discipline-specific scaffolding helps students use AI as a thinking partner rather than a thinking replacement?
Furthermore answering these questions is a process taking place in relating to changes in the technology and the culture emerging around it. Even if those changes are now slowing down, they are certainly not stopping. We need infrastructure for continuous adaptation in a context where the sector is already in crisis for entirely unrelated reasons. Furthermore, that has to willingly enrol academics in a way consistent with their workload and outlook. My sense is we have to find ways of embedding this within existing conversations and processes. The only way to do this I think is to genuinely give academics voice within the process, finding ways to network existing interactions in order that norms and standards emerge from practice rather than the institution expecting practice adapts to another centrally imposed policy.
#higherEducation #technology #university #academic #students #generativeAI #malpractice #LLMs #HEPI
Alex Akselrod
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#Trump issued a directive that would require #colleges & #universities to submit reams of new data on #students to check whether they are complying with a #SCOTUS decision that ended race-based #AffirmativeAction. The White House also intensified its campaign against #UCLA which it stripped of hundreds of millions in research funds over a list of issues.