ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

On this day in 1956, white citizens blocked Mansfield High School to prevent Black children from enrolling. They also burned a Black effigy at the top of the school’s flagpole.

To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history.

Mansfield images, 1956 · Mansfield Crisis, 1956 · The Crisis at Mansfield:
https://mansfieldcrisis.omeka.net/exhibits/show/mansfield-during-1956/mansfield-images--1956

Billionaire fascist of the day is from Australia.

Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: "We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."

#UnionsForAll
#unionsNow
#ReaganEraTaxRatesNow
#EndCorporateWelfare

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-blasts-lazy-tradies-and-calls-for-275k-aussies-to-lose-jobs-061616789.html

Getting started with CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) in your science class this year? Explore this roundup of CER resources.

#tcea #science #education #edtech #CER #ScientificMethod #tcea #tceajmg

https://blog.tcea.org/cer/

These little fuckers are playing with people's lives by throttling Covid info on their social media sites. I with them NOTHING good.

@ZingerLearns @Ulrich_the_Elder @StillIRise1963
This is ALWAYS the case when the goods being privatized consist of a monopoly on a product mandatory for life and/or health, such as water, power, medical care, drugs, food, shelter.

Water required by data centers is increasing considerably with the advent of generative AI. Large language models trained on vast amounts of data need considerable cooling.

While some may argue that water can be reused, it is often pulled from water supplies in times of considerable heatwaves, when residents are in need of it as well, and supplies diminsh faster.

In July of 2022, Microsoft pumped in about 11.5 million gallons of water to its cluster of Iowa data centers, according to the West Des Moines Water Works. That’s around 6% of all the water used in the district, which also supplies drinking water to residents.

Meanwhile, the energy required is of course not recycled – and it’s to be expected that energy use is growing as well. The companies behind the tools are just not disclosing how much their AI investments are costing when it comes to their carbon footprint.

”In its latest environmental report, Microsoft disclosed that its global water consumption spiked 34% from 2021 to 2022 (to nearly 1.7 billion gallons, or more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools), a sharp increase compared to previous years that outside researchers tie to its AI research.”

https://fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-chatgpt-usage-fuels-spike-in-microsoft-water-consumption/

I’m really struggling with where I want to be socially in the post-Twitter eduverse.

Obviously any question asked directly on a platform will be biased toward people ON that platform, but still I want to know: where are you finding engaged teachers these days?

@ZingerLearns @StillIRise1963 Go talk to the brexit survivors in Britain whose water system was bankrupted and broken by private ownership. It is now in ruins as none of the record profits were used for anything but lining billionaire pockets. You should at the very least desecrate thatcher's grave. FFS!!!

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/110901448144850455

"There's something ironic about people in charge of education not knowing enough to critically determine which books are good or bad to include in curriculum, only to outsource the decision to a system that can't understand books and can't critically think at all," Dr. Margaret Mitchell, chief ethicist scientist at Hugging Face

_At Hugging Face_

#llm #america #BookBanning

@ZingerLearns @StillIRise1963

That's a _really good_ documentary, for anyone seeing this who hasn't watched it.

@ZingerLearns I agree with you. It's frightening how a resource for all has been sold and is now owned by the few.

What it takes to empower employees is rarely what companies do when they say they want to empower employees https://theconversation.com/why-managers-attempts-to-empower-their-employees-often-fail-and-even-lead-to-unethical-behavior-210757

Privatize means rig.

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I understand that most people don't really care about online #privacy, but since we're at the start of the school year, I'm going to give it a try and leave this here: #NoMoreSocialMediaPressureInSchools

"To this day, the cumulative per capita death rates from #COVID19 in countries that embraced the face coverings, such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, are a sixth of Anglo-Saxon countries like the US and UK that balked at community masking."

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/it-s-aerosol-stupid-the-professor-who-challenged-medical-chiefs-20230814-p5dw8p

Western Australia is hopelessly captured by the fossil fuel industry. They control a large chunk of the news media, and they (along with other mining interests) bankroll government. We have to find ways to combat our conversation into a petro-state.

Link to ABC news story:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-10/mark-mcgowan-phone-call-epa-emissions-targets-tom-hatton/102800212?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

#StateCapture #auspol #ClimateEmergency #Climate #WesternAustralia #markmcgowan

Working on a public talk about climate change impacts in the United States and thought I would share one of my slides - always a striking comparison...

[Data from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/. As usual, the rest of my slides will be available on my website by next week.]

please join me for a learning series webinar on classroom observation tools. i am looking forward to this conversation on 9/28... i always learn so much!

more information at this link:

https://cadrek12.org/resources/cadre-learning-series#observation