ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

This year over the holidays, did you do…
@academicchatter

Wake up, peeple

Still one of my all-time favorite education quotes: “Measurable outcomes may be the least significant results of learning.” -Prof. Linda McNeil

(My extended take on why that's true: https://bit.ly/3G1jaj8.)

If you pay attention to my boosts, you probably know by now that I'm a big fan of @alfiekohn's work. I'm happy to see him become a more regular poster here in the last couple of days. If you're interested in #education, please check him out and consider giving him a follow.

“For decades, black walnut [trees] were essentially protected from development because they tend to grow on steep hillsides. But in recent years, as LA housing values have soared, it’s become profitable to develop even those accidental refuges. Now, Coyotl + Macehualli is using the tree’s protections to simultaneously achieve several goals: limiting gentrification, fighting extreme heat & deepening the community’s relationship to its ecosystem.” (#HighCountryNews)

https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.1/south-social-justice-how-protecting-trees-can-fight-gentrification

Today is the day Mastodon goes over 9 million accounts! 🎉 #Mastodon

RE: https://bitcoinhackers.org/users/mastodonusercount/statuses/109626104722895684

New Data: Female College Enrollment Drops at Twice the Rate of Male Students

Significant declines in female freshmen enrollment since fall 2020 pose issues for women’s long-term economic security

https://www.the74million.org/article/new-data-female-college-enrollment-drops-at-twice-the-rate-of-male-students/

#HigherEd

Happy New Year! Thanks to everyone who watched our videos & helped our YouTube channel grow in 2022. Looking forward to learning & growing alongside all of you in 2023!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Jx-TemWioDQtFAUTg2CDA

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
-Isaac Asimov (Today is his day.)
#bookstodon

Basically every discourse is ruined by our fixation on individual actors rather than the systems that reward and punish them

Police in the US killed 1,176 people in 2022, which is more people than they have killed in any other year in the past decade. Police do not make people safer. Black people are 3x more likely to be killed by police than white people and 1.3x more likely to be unarmed when they are killed.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/

Saying not to bother with the favourite button on mastodon because it doesn't affect any algorithm is like saying not to say thank you to someone because no one else will hear.

Stop thinking in those old social media ways of engagement and visibility and algorithms and reach and audience and start thinking about being social.

America’s culture warriors are going after librarians: librarians across the country are under threat as efforts to ban books about marginalized groups reach a fever pitch

HTTPS://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/war-on-librarians-united-states/

“Adopting such [forest management] practices would fundamentally alter forest industries, Simard admits. It would mean logging less, using fewer wood-based products and investing more in restoring battered ecosystems. It would require people to behave a bit more like creatures of the forest — to recognize our interdependence, to learn from elders, to take less than we give.” 🌿 🌍 💚

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2022/suzanne-simard-mother-trees-climate/

Masks aren't perfect, no one single measure is, which is why we need to keep advocating for multiple measures including ventilation, next gen vaccines, and better treatments.

But we are in a surge now that is keeping our most vulnerable locked out of society. We can't keep people at home indefinitely, unable to access essential needs. Mask mandates will instantly open up society to millions more people, while we work on longer term solutions.

#COVID #COVID19