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The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
Short answer: Yes.| CURMUDGUCATION
Adam Becker's More Everything Forever is a sobering look at our tech overlords, their crazypants dreams, and the reasons that those dreams are less likely than an actual autonomous automobile. It's a pretty depressing books because two things come through. | CURMUDGUCATION
There are just so many, many bad things being written about AI and the education world. So many unserious bits of advice being taken seriously. So many people who appear to be intelligent and well-educated who are harboring fantasy-based ideas about what AI is and what it does. | CURMUDGUCATION
You will recall that a couple of years ago, his head filled with fantasies about running for President as a smarter, more stable Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decided to take over small, liberalish New College and make it proof of concept for Unwoke Higher Ed. He put former Speaker of the House and then education chief Richard Corcoran in charge and sat back to watch the antiwokeness flourish.| CURMUDGUCATION
It's my high school graduating class's 50th reunion this weekend, and a class reunion is always something. I suppose some day, when the education "system" is a loose free market where people switch back and forth, the idea of a special event to get together with the people you spent your youth with-- I suppose that will be quaint and unusual. But for right now, it's fun. I missed out on part of the fun because I am also conducting the pit orchestra for a local production of "Singin' in the ...| CURMUDGUCATION
Yeah, the term they're searching for is "liberal arts."| CURMUDGUCATION
Ryan Walters announced Wednesday night that he was resigning as Oklahoma's Dudebro-in-chief for Education. He made the announcement, of course, on Fox. | CURMUDGUCATION
Jeremy Clifton has some ideas about how to understand human understanding of the world. Maybe they could be useful for how we teach students.| CURMUDGUCATION
"Should People Be Polite To AI?" is, unfortunately, a real question featured in the latest issue of Time For Kids. It is not an encouraging moment in juvenile journalism.| CURMUDGUCATION
After a few years of false starts, this week we finally had a contractor here to refurbish the Institute's front porch, which was about a century old and getting a little spongy. The new deck should be able to support several small moose in a hot tub (though we have no such plans). It also requires entering and exiting through the back door, but is otherwise a pretty exciting development here. Another week of work ought to finish the job.| CURMUDGUCATION
Meet the Civics Education Coalition, a group put together by the federal Department of Education and Secretary Linda McMahon, who firmly believes that education should be sent back to the states, where the federal government will do all in its power to make sure the states do what the feds want them to do. | CURMUDGUCATION
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The school choice movement is dead.| CURMUDGUCATION
Mike Petrilli (Fordham Institute) has started a substack of his own, and it only took the first full issue for me to disagree with him.| CURMUDGUCATION
We have a curb market in town. Once a week in the fall, local farmers and some other folks bring their wares to town and you can buy some fresh produce. Yesterday I took the board of directors up town and we got a big bag of apples (among other things) which they then snack on for the rest of the--well, a bag usually lasts two days.| CURMUDGUCATION
In Adam Becker's must read book about our AI overlords More Everything Forever, one chapter opens with futurist Ray Kurzweil's plan to resurrect his father. 50 boxes of his father's possessions, his letters and music. AI will send some nanobots to extract DNA from the grave. Nanobots will extract memories from Kurzweil himself. AI will put it all together and a program will reproduce the father's behavior, even in situations that he never encountered in his life.| CURMUDGUCATION
There's a theory out there that allowing families to sort themselves into separate schools based on shared values and ideologies would be a good thing. It's a bad idea, a dangerous idea, and we are exposed to the evidence all too often.| CURMUDGUCATION
There is a particular odious brand of commentary, a sort of cousin to the standard Kids These Days laments, which explains that the Youngs are unhappy and poor because they just make bad choices. These are simultaneously stupid and awful, and yet, we just had another one drop.| CURMUDGUCATION
Charter and vouchers schools are excellent at turning public dollars into private wealth. But they can also be excellent at converting public dollars into private assets.| CURMUDGUCATION
This week I brought home a new keyboard, this time with keys that are lit up. It's delightful. The office desk lighting situation here at the Curmudgucation Institute has never been particularly awesome, and sometimes I have felt as if I were typing in the dark on faceless keys; this just makes life so much easier. I bet I'm even slightly more accurate now. So we all win.| CURMUDGUCATION
Linda McMahon, current Secretary of Education, has headed out on a fifty state tour to help invent the wheel, proclaim the value of oxygen, and promote plans to have the sun rise in the East.| CURMUDGUCATION
School surveillance continues to be a growth industry, maybe because students don't have a lobby and some adults curl up every time someone says, "But it's for the safety of the children!" Nevertheless, it just keeps getting creepier.| CURMUDGUCATION
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
"Inspired by" Oklahoma's "America First Teacher Test, PragerU, the conservative propaganda mill, has a "Teacher Qualification Test," which, in their attempt to establish themselves as a player in the teacher cert game, is suddenly everywhere. Watch some of their videos, they invite, and then take the test-- "Pass, and you’ll earn your certificate—proving your commitment to truth and integrity."| CURMUDGUCATION
So this week, I had some arthroscopic surgery and took delivery of a new desktop computer to replace the eight-year-old dysfunctional one. This will be good news for those of you who are really bothered by my typos, which are exponentially worse on the mobile office laptop. | CURMUDGUCATION
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.| curmudgucation.blogspot.com
