Antites Unite: Screen Time Ban Grows
Richardson ISD limits screen time for students.
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A Question of Judgment
Explore the gap between AI use guided by judgment or not.
MyNotes: Cognitive Surrender
Reading this KQED post on "'Cognitive Surrender': Faster Solutions, Lower Test Scores Show How AI is Eroding Math Skills,") , I was not surprised to see this assertion: Many students appear to be completing assignments f
MyNotes: Texas Parks and Wildlife Data Breach
TPWD says a vendor breach exposed data for about three million Texans, including people with state issued hunting and fishing licenses. Stolen information may include driver’s lice
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
MyNotes: Gemini Price Drop
Will you be upgrading to Google Gemini? The Register reports
MyNotes:Doubling Growth ai
This was an eye opening assertion: Two studies independently concluded that the capabilities of the l
MyNotes: Cisco 4k Job Cuts
This is an eye opener for those who rely on one of the standards in n
MyNotes: Scientific Consensus - Screen Time
Given the concerns
MyNotes: Execution States
This article just blew my mind (sigh, I need a new
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: You Don’t Have to Keep Up with AI
Reading Mike Kentz' blog entry, The AI Will Wait, again this morning, I found this particular section (BO
MyNotes: Handwriting Again
[The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typ
MyNotes: More AI Use, Less Confidence in AI
This is about the same for many who push Gen AI
MyNotes: AI Risks in K-12 Education
The image above is an attempt to assign th
MyNotes: Retool College into Plumbing and Electrical Centers of Learning
Why not retool universities into a solution that meets the needs of the American workforce? Teach humanities, logic, philosophy, and critical thinking in the morning with Gen AI li
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
MyNotes: Ai Slow Drip of Insights and Three Things
It was startling to read t
MyNotes: Prompting Tips for GenAI
Paging through my notebooks for gems: Gen Ai transcription of notes: Prompting Tips for AI 1.
MyNotes: Blue Books as Formative Assessment
Students write in blue books with robot watching I found [this account of a reimagined approach
MyNotes: Gen AI Claude Data Storage and Training
It was inevitable, just like Thanos in the Marvel movie where he says that. Gen AI, no matter the p
MyNotes: Microsoft AI
This article captures my opinion on Microsoft’s efforts to push their vision for an AI powered des
MyNotes: College Student Brain Drain
This piece hits home as I bid farewell to a family member leaving for university outside of Texas.
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
MyNotes: AI as Cognitive Infrastructure
Wow, this piece by Carlo Iacono blew my mind. What a cool way to describe GenAI
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
MyNotes: AI as Critical and Cultural Practice
I enjoyed this piece from Michael G. Wagner. You will want to read the whole piece but here’s a t
MyNotes: A Banking System of Education
Like some of you, I read Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
MyNotes: BoodleBox AI EdTech Education
BoodleBox Optimization List My BoodleBox Bots BoodleBox Posts
MyNotes: Cybersecurity Dismantling
It’s challenging to watch dismantling of effective services for political reasons: …proposed bud
MyNotes: Leave GenAI Fear Behind edtech
Dr Susan E. Ray makes some points
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
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
MyNotes: Unreliable AI Ethics
This is fascinating reading… The purpose of the experiment…was to explore ChatGPT’s conception of humanist ethics. Doing so using a sensitive topic such as religion underscores
MyNotes: Centaur AI- Predict and capture human cognition
Wow! Fascinating: Establishing a unified theory of cognition has been an important goal in psychology1,2. A first step towards such a theory is to create a computational model th
MyNotes: Context Engineering AI
Here’s that term again along with a cool diagram via Philipp Schmid, a Senior AI Relation Engineer at Google DeepMind:
MyNotes: AI Privacy
As you look at this chart, you might ask, “How well does using a GenAI model via API safeguard your data?” This question is relevant for schools and individuals who need a higher l
MyNotes: AI skills aren’t just for tech majors
Five takeaways from Ariel Gilreath
MyNotes: Blocking Email Trackers
I love using these tracker blocker type ext
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: ICEBlock
With a motto of "See something, Tap something" this iOS only app is available: ICEBlock is an innovative, completely anonymous crowdsourced platform that allows users to report I
Reading Simple Things
When I was in second grade, on account of learning two languages, and having a terrible teacher who didn’t teach, I failed second grade. I ended up in summer school at Ft Clayton A
MyNotes: Dropping AI Cost: Doom for Average Workers?
With the release of the AI 2027 report, the rhetoric or storytelling is amping up: The AIs of 2024 could follow specific instructions: they could turn bullet points into emails,
MyNotes: Carnegie Learning's State of AI in Education EduSky
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to watch and listen to the Carnegie Learning AI in Education webinar
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
MyNotes: Exploring BoodleBox AI metaAI QuadrantOutline
Earlier today, I had a chance to chat with Zach from BoodleBox AI. Wow, what an incredible conversation about an amazing tool. If you want to try Boodle Box AI out, I've included
MyNotes: Obsfuscation of School Data Breaches EduSky
Great piece about a timely topic: ...district leaders across the country have employed a pervasive
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
MyNotes: The Ethics of Consent
This was a great read from Slate. It is relevant to schools and how AI is foisted upon everyone.
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