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A Reverse Poem Worth Reflecting On

I ran across this on Facebook and thought how apt it was...it is a reverse poem, which means, read it from the top for one perspective then read it from bottom up for another. Whic

Partnership is Key

Larry Cuban shares this perspective... In short, I learned that any successful district reform was as much building political coalitions within the system while mobilizing public

MyNotes: Bertrand Russell on Opinions

One philosopher that I immediately ignored early on? Bertrand Russell. I read he was an atheist, and thought, "Why would anyone read an atheist's thoughts on anything?" I doubt my

The Liberal Decalogue

I am posting these here. They remain quite relevant and appropriate today: Bertrand Russell’s “Liberal Decalogue” is his set of ten “commandments” for clear thinking, int

Paper Book vs Digital

[Manga reading on paper vs. digital devices: Prospective effects on core and su

MyNotes:Doubling Growth #ai

This was an eye opening assertion: Two studies independently concluded that the capabilities of the l

Supporting Stephen's Web

If you've missed this fount of ideas and info, then you are missing out! Be sure to explores Stephen's Web, and [drop a few dollars](

Hackers Win, Schools Lose

I hate reading stories like this with quotes like this: ...in May 2025, the ed tech provider’s school district customers received individual extortion threats from either the sam

When Is It Time

I found myself reading and reflecting...do you ever ask yourself this ques

Profit Over People

It is a recurring theme, isn't it? Many in business choose profit over peo

MyNotes: AI Job Impact Potential

This is fascinating. People losing their jobs over the POTENTIAL of GenAi's ability to do that work: ...findings suggest that the phenomenon of AI taking jobs and reducing hiring

MyNotes: Misinformation

I read this from the AI School Librarian and just had to share it and g

MyNotes: Learning with AI

I loved Dr. Philippa Hardman’s article on “ [How Your Learners Actually Learn with AI](

Craft Prompts, Evaluate Outputs #ai #education

This study looks interesting… …educators need to prompt AI carefully and use their own professional judgement when deciding if AI outputs match their students’ needs. “The gr

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Ever find yourself wanting to share what you've read or podcasts you listened to with others? I know I have. I'll be in the middle of a conversation, and want to point somewhere on

MyNotes: Handwriting Trumps Typing Anecdote

What fun to read this…against the backdrop of pushing Gen AI in K 12 for student use. When we know better, do we really do better? To help sell this policy, I presented in the fi

My Notes: A Societal Necessity

This quote caught my eye. What do you think? "Critical thinking, long considered an academic virtue, is now a societal necessity. In the past, it may have been seen as a metaskil

Make a Bot for Your Problem

Need to do something but you can’t code? Vibe code it. That’s what Dan Rezac did: I really lik

AI as Soylent Green

Wow, what a great connection to make: I came to feel that large language models like ChatGPT a

Support Public Media

This was a compelling reminder of each person’s responsibility to safeguard public media. The pr

Writing to Think

This is a fantastic piece on why writing to think is so important and how it’s not GenAI’s fault that we are all engaged in formula writing. ![](

MyNotes: #AI Jobs

It’s like watching a train wreck in real time. 60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire… In fact, 43% of managers surveyed went on to re

The King and His Hawk

I love this story…loyalty betrayed. A lack of understanding. Piercing sorrow. A nun told me the tale. Be the hawk. ![](

MyNotes: Don’t Judge Tech

This is an interesting take and I need to explore it further:. Also worth exploring is the Call for AI Ethics. “There are no such things

Fight for Workers #AI

This was an interesting read at Gizmodo: [Bernie] Sanders sees the rapid advancement of AI n

#GenAI In the Fullness of Time

"For the vision of AI in the halls of learning shall come in the fullness of time appointed. Though the rulers of thy schools do tarry in their embrace thereof, cease not thy pre

An Existential Crisis

Why when I read articles like this, do I feel they should be shorter? Evidence, perhaps, of what this article asserts: …the death of critical reading harms the sentient minds of

Limits on GenAI

Nice to see someone, somewhere will have limits placed on big tech: The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, deliver

#AI in Marketing

This research report blurb, AI Content Is 4.7x Cheaper Than Human Content [+ New Research Report] , caught my attention…another data point to plot [via Ryan Law](

Those Entry-Level Jobs #AI

“She’s applied for over 50 jobs,” he said. No doubt, finding a job is tougher today than before. Meeting with a friend and retired colleague yesterday, the info about AI use by mid

The AI Proficiency Report

Over at section, they are doing an amazing job exploring how AI can fit into business. One of their publications, The AI Proficiency Report , is worth checking out. You can [d

AI Literacy

Well crafted points on this topic by Miriam Reynoldson: Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating . It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing

Texas Bars the Higher Ed Doors

When I read this, I may have expressed dismay at the short sighted behavior: Texas colleges face uncertainty after ruling ends in state tuition for students without legal statu

MyNotes: AI in the Writing Workshop (P1)

While attending a STEM related workshop in Austin,Texas, I read a fascinating take on AI and writing. As you probably know, this is a hot topic. I have often asked myself how I mig

MyNotes: How Memes Control the Brain

How fascinating… Daniel Dennett insightfully described how ideas can control minds when he said, “The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is it

PubMed Goes to Europe for Safe Harbor?

This bit of info caught my eye…especially given the backend changes the current administration may have made or may be making: So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup o

Wake Up, America.

This came as no surprise from Republican lawmakers in Texas, glad to joust with windmills they perceive to be giants, albeit all in their imagination… Sen. Brandon Creighton has

The Pursuit of Wisdom #AI #EduSky

What a fantastic read from Alan Noble. Are we asking too much from children to pursue wisdom rather than efficiency? And, even for adults who are deep into their careers, should we

Diversity Study from Scientific American

This is a super simple summary, perhaps oversimplified, of a Scientific American study: 1. People saw real data showing strong support for diversity. 2. This changed their belief

GenAI Effects: AI Summary

Some developments: Key statistics and concepts from the paper “ [The Labor Market Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence](

MyNotes: Skipping Generic AI in Schools #EduSky

Dr. Philippa Hardman is spot on with this analysis. I suspect we are all moving very quickly from generic AI (simple included models in tools like Google Workspace and Microsoft 36

Handwriting Study Update

Oh, bother. Can't they get the study right? Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes? The answer is not so simple. You will want to read the whole piece: "w

CPSENERGY DATA BREACH

Proton reports the following about a CPSEnergy.com data breach which I haven't

Apple's Betrayal of Trust

This is shocking, even if not unexpected or a surprise...our technologies are always listening, sell

MyNotes: AI Impact on Human Evolution

Fascinating... Evolutionary changes over many generations could well change or even diminish some of the human traits we cherish most, including friendship, intimacy, communicati

ChatGPT Search Tool -Potential Issue

\ OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool may be open to manipulation using hidden content, and can return malicious code from websites it searches, a Guardian investigation has found. via \

Control and Thinking

\ “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.” – The Mis Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson via [ Elisabeth Glassco ](

Value in the Friction AND #AI Skills #EduSky

This quote from Nathaniel Myers: “I want them to undergo the writing process for themselves in ways that aren’t immediately turning to a tool that’s helping them write, because t

#AI: Expertise Paradox #Edusky

Associate Professor Jonathan Boymal highlights a new study. Here is one excerpt that jumps out me: 1. The Expertise Paradox: “The paradox of expertise is that while generative Al

The Games People Play

What Is the First Thing Remarkably Successful People Do? Figure Out Which Gam

A Mesh of Possibility

\ Where we were apart, we are now together, a dense mesh of possibility. Stephen Downes Love this quote!

Dawn of AI Era Report

\ Our new report, "The Dawn of the AI Era: Teens, Parents, and the Adoption of Generative AI at Home and School" out today shows that teens are quickly adopting generative A

Handwriting and the Brain

\ “The most surprising thing was that the whole brain was active when they were writing by hand, [while] much smaller areas were active when they were typewriting,” van der Meer

AI Summarizer: Roundup on GenAI

\ An AI summary of Paris Marx' article, [ Roundup: Will generative AI have many long term benefits? ](

Proton Docs: A New Word Processor

A longtime user of Proton's version of secure, encrypted Mail, Proton Drive storage, as well as the original Google Docs (even before Google acquired it), I was pleased to see this

Passive Oppression

\ The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people

Student Use of AI

\ ...when students rely on a generative A.I. tool like ChatGPT to outsource brainstorming and writing, they may be losing the ability to think critically and to overcome frustrati

Free AI Survey course Available

Announced a few days ago... A free survey course on LLMs, taught by practitioners...[on] Mastering LLMs, a set of workshops and talks from practitioners on topics like evals, r

Untitled

Not that anyone cares except myself and a few friends, but I added to, and updated, my list of Windows programs, iOS smartphone apps, and browser extensions. [ Find it onlin

MU geoscience camp uplifts girls in STEM

\ Middle school girls from the Columbia area attended Geoscience Summer Camp for Girls on July 10 11. The camp focused on natural disasters and how geoscientists are able to provi

Time Saved, An AI Illusion

Will AI really save time overall or just push us to complete tasks more quickly so we can do more tasks without saving time? If you have eight hours, you finish 20 tasks instead of

Yikes, AI is Coming for Your Data

\ We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this p

Quote: Books

\ For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except for firsthand experience, almost everything we kne

AI in Education and Environment

This was an interesting article that dealt with more than AI’s impact on the environment. See included table

Print over Tech

This ought to make edtech advocates pause on pushing ebooks into children’s hands…as an avid reader, anecdot

Anthropic AI Agents

Over at The Verge , Kylie Robison writes: Anthropic is releasing a new featur

Thinking, Fast and Slow

I love Abir Haddoud’s post about the book, so I am reposting it from social media (LinkedIn) below: Quote

Teacher Use of AI for Grading

I loved this response to an educator’s question about AI use by teachers vs students. It is concise, to the

AI: Going Nuclear for Energy

building water and energy hungry datacenters to fuel the AI boom comes at the expense of our already over

3-2-1: Four Day School Week

I heard or read about this topic in news earlier this week. I was hopeful because 4 day work weeks are great

MyNotes: Writing by Hand

The verdict is in…again? it takes a lot more brainpower, as well as cross talk between brain areas, to wri

Climate Disaster Coming

This is a tough read about a harsh future ahead: “The enormity of the problem is not well understood,” sai

Prelude to AI Thinkers

From my perspective, these were the best insights from a brilliant article. The art

Writing and Thinking Connection

\ The struggle of turning inchoate thought into readable sentences and paragraphs is a powerful exercise for the brain. It's how you get better at thinking. It is thinking. vi

Iterative Mindset

What an interesting idea… Iteration is the antidote to the performance mindset’s toxic grip. Instead of fi

Writing by Hand

Reach for paper and pen… a paper published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests

Book Bans: History Cover Up

Ruby Bridges on book bans: The excuse that I’ve heard them give is that my story actually makes, especially White kids, feel bad about themselves… “I believe that it’s just a

Ads On My Windows 11 Machine?

To offset this foolish trend by Microsoft, I have been testing living 100% in Linux Mint on a Microsoft Surface\

Criminalizing Being a Librarian

Unbelievable…. \ library friendly measures are being outpaced by bills in mostly red states that aim to res

MyNotes: Understand More, Fear Less

\ “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie

MyNotes: Teacher Pay Incentives Research

\ …researchers studied what happened in…Dallas, Texas, – when teachers were offered significant pay hikes, ranging from $6,000 to $18,000 a year, to take hard to fill jobs. In D

MyNotes: AI Leads to Smaller Workforce

\ “A survey of senior biz executives reveals that 41 percent expect to have a smaller workforce in five years due to the implementation of AI technologies.” [via The Register](h

MyNotes: Harmful or Helpful, ChatGPT

\ …use of ChatGPT was likely to develop tendencies for procrastination and memory loss and dampen the students’ academic performance. Finally, academic workload, time pressure, an

#BookReview: Teach Like Socrates #mgshare

Review "Think Like Socrates" is an inspiring guide to using Socratic questioning in the classroom. Peeples shares relatable stories that show how this method sparks curiosity a

Systematic Disconfirmation: Smartphones in Schools

This is an AI generated post that applies the process of systematic disconfirmation to smartphones in schools. Mainly, the claim that smartphones enhance rather than detract from l

MyNotes: Teach Like Socrates

I loved this quote from Shanna Peeples’ Think Like Socrates : Our students need to ask questions now more than ever. To shield them from thinking and questioning in a mistaken

MyNotes: Three signs You’re a Scientific Thinker

I often think that I will be learning about and how to apply critical thinking for the rest of my life. 🤣 3 Signs You’re a Scientific Thinker 1. You follow the evidence. Philo

MyNotes: Keep Moving, Avoid Dementia

In World War Z movie, Brad Pitt’s character says to a family in Spanish, “Movimento es vida,” or “Movement is life.” In the midst of a zombie apocalypse, you have to keep moving to

MyNotes: Limit Screen Time

Limit that screen time for younger humans, including television time…new research suggests… a reduction in screen time for toddlers exhibiting sensory processing symptoms, couple

MyNotes: How To Say Anything to Anyone

"Is there a way to share feedback and ideas with one another that works well?" The question had come up at a particular group's team building getaway. Two of the participants sugge

MyNotes: How the Word is Passed

Note: This is another book that really shifted my thinking and opened my eyes to the history of the United States. As an American citizen born abroad (Panama), I absorbed America

MyNotes: Cassandra Speaks

Note: This is one of my most cherished MyNotes on a book. It really shifted my perspective on this topic. Image Credit: [Good News Planet](

MyNotes: Good Without God

Ok, this blog entry explores Greg Epstein's book, Good Without God . Before that, though, I thought I'd share how I came to be reading a book about Humanism. Morality vs Reli

MyNotes: Powerful Teaching

These are my notes on Powerful Teaching . I'd like to say I finished the book, but I only made it 3/4ths of the way through before

MyNotes: Writing in Middle School Science CER CERCA

Looking for an easy way to introduce students to CER, or Claim Evidence Reasoning approach? You may want to check out Scott Phillips slim text, [Writing in Middle School Science