ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

Shameful to see the College Board cave to the demands of DeSantis and white supremacists, especially as we kick off Black History Month. Just shameful.

Many of my CA educator colleagues have expressed the belief that the mania for book banning is unlikely to happen here. After all, it’s California: free thought, free speech, etc

Check out this report from Orange County.

Where efforts to capture local school boards and are effective, it can happen. School systems and libraries have existing policies for materials review. These efforts are about circumventing existing policies by fiat.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/orange-unified-suspends-digital-library-after-parents-book-complaints/ar-AA16WSfS

Starting Black History Month by caving to whiny white people regarding Black history is just the perfect example of where we are in this stupid era we're damned to live through.

Please Share: Recruiting for Senior Editor (STEM Education)

Cogent Education - Applications Due Feb 6 - Role formally begins March 2023.

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruitment/senior-editor-required-for-cogent-education-stem/

🧐 Teens in abusive relationships are 4-6x more likely to become pregnant.

⭐ February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.

❓ What are your schools during this important awareness month?

#TDVAM #TDVAM2023 #publichealth #abuse #domesticviolence @edutooters @sociology @academicchatter

With the announcement of the new #ChatGPT text classifier OpenAI also published a new page in their documentation library specifically aimed at educators.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/chatgpt-education

The word #privacy appears only once.

They say that student privacy is a concern.

[rageface]

Congratulations to Exxon Mobile for earning $56 billion net profit in 2022. Against all odds, they found a way to make record profits

$6.3 million per hour
$1,750 per second

But don’t worry. That didn’t stop Exxon Mobil from getting subsidies from our government. Since FY2000

Texas gave them $1.4 Billion
Louisiana: $500 Million
The federal government: $5.4 Billion in bailout money

Does anyone want to know why we are speedrunning to climate crisis?

Can't wait for every uni to buy an enterprise subscription while immiserating their adjuncts even more

@academicchatter

Trying not to shed tears from the overwhelm I’ve caused myself based on where I am research-wise and where I should be. #realthoughts #phdlife

The median age in the US Senate is 65
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/01/30/house-gets-younger-senate-gets-older-a-look-at-the-age-and-generation-of-lawmakers-in-the-118th-congress/ #PewResearch

Hostile reminder that when JK Rowling is done with trans people she will move on to promoting conversion therapy and trying to squash all other LGBTQIA+ identities, as she has in the past

✨ NEW OPEN ACCESS RESEARCH ARTICLE ✨

Want to learn how to design #SciEd instruction that engages youth in the speculative design of AI and other technologies to promote #RacialJustice?

Check out this 🔥 work led by Kathleen Arada and Anastasia Sanchez!

✨ Youth as pattern makers for racial justice: How speculative design pedagogy in science can promote restorative futures through radical care practices ✨

🌿 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10508406.2022.2154158

#NGSS #NGSSchat #CSforAll #MultipleWaysOfKnowing @edutooters

There's evidence of social-class bias in teachers' assessments, but there's also a systemic component: https://bit.ly/3GJQOdx. It's not just individual attitudes but the type & purpose of assessment itself: When teachers must use grades (that can "select the best students") rather than feedback (to "help students learn"), their evaluations unconsciously favor privileged students.
Thus, an emphasis on "meritocratic selection might actually contribute to the reproduction of social inequalities."

Nobody:

Absolutely nobody:

Me: You know if someone took out Nestle in advance we could probably stave off the impending water wars by like 5 years-

One day I’m going to teach a course called Cringe 101: Please, Just No and this will be part of my curriculum

I ended class by framing an assignment for individuals and groups to conceptualize and design a disruptive encounter for a specific everyday context. This is our first effort as a class to take up an educational design stance in response to the subject matter of the course or our own life experiences.

The goal is for individuals to select an injustice to disrupt in some creative way in an everyday encounter or context. It could be a provocative thought, a counter-story, a conversation, etc.

Who is going to join me for the NFC championship: #Eagles vs #49ers today?

Let’s keep mastodon sports growing!

#NFL