I had a great opportunity to be on @derekbruff magnificient podcast with two awesome co-guests, Michelle Miller & Dave Nelson where we talked about #GenAI research with its implications for #HigherEd & #Teaching:

https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/episodes/17689671-study-hall-with-lance-eaton-michelle-d-miller-and-david-nelson

#Oklahoma to test #political #leanings of #teacher applicants from #NewYork, #California

#POLITICAL #TEACHING :
YOU READ CORRECTLY. WHAT AN UGLY WORD...

I understand a teacher has some duties: #neutrality, #justice ..

But #political #teqchîg is #nazi thinking

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-test-teacher-applicants-new-york-california-radical-leftist-ideology/

Hello! I am interested in hearing from anyone who has (un)successfully made use of genAI in any shape or form specifically when teaching programming. I'm thinking specifically university at undergraduate level but happy to hear about any teaching related activities at any level.

Specifically what did you do? What were the challenges and opportunities? Could you have done the same without genAI?

Japan to employ AI to teach kids Japanese amid staff shortage – Anadolu Ajansı

Japan to employ AI to teach kids Japanese amid staff shortage  Anadolu AjansıThe Japanese government will begin to streamline local administrative work through the use of genera..  매일경제Gov’t to use …
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #AnadoluAjansı #artificialintelligence #Japanese #Japanesenews #news #schools #teaching
https://www.alojapan.com/1348941/japan-to-employ-ai-to-teach-kids-japanese-amid-staff-shortage-anadolu-ajansi/

https://www.alojapan.com/1348941/japan-to-employ-ai-to-teach-kids-japanese-amid-staff-shortage-anadolu-ajansi/ Japan to employ AI to teach kids Japanese amid staff shortage – Anadolu Ajansı #AnadoluAjansı #ArtificialIntelligence #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #schools #teaching Japan to employ AI to teach kids Japanese amid staff shortage  Anadolu AjansıThe Japanese government will begin to streamline local administrative work through the use of genera..  매일경제Gov’t to use AI to help teach Japanese to kids with foreign roots  eng

Warum ich niemals KI nutzen würde, Sie es dennoch im Studium lernen sollten

Absolut sehenswerter Videoessay von Kevin Schumacher (KIT-Bibliothek, HoC-Schreiblabor): https://lnkd.in/dNy2C7gw

"Every teacher of secondary and college mathematics should know the history of mathematics. There are many reasons, but perhaps the most important is that it is a guide to pedagogy." – Morris Kline (1908–1992)
#quote #mathematics #teaching #maths #math

A local after-school program has a clear and simple core principle: "Outside every day." This got me wondering, what are the clear and simple core principles of my #Math class?

Since the start of the #AI #ChatGpt Moral panic I have been saying it is possible to check if a student completed submitted work through the medium of a short conversation. This could be dressed up by using some latin e.g. Viva Voce….

In this podcast with Dylan William this is backed up by comparisons of education systems around the world and much other commentary on the use of AI in Education

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2241345/episodes/17663810-assessment-in-education-to-ai-or-not-to-ai

Yay let’s cut teacher education & social sciences! We don’t need people with skills in critical thinking, who understand how power works & can see when we are being manipulated by institutions designed to enrich the few while screwing the many.

This will end well .

The pernicious funding model our governments are using for higher education & research has consequences that will last a very long time.

Whose interests are served here?

#HigherEducation #FundingModel #SocialSciences #teaching #JobCuts #AusPol #EnrichTheWealthy #ScrewThePoor #WeSeeYou

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/16/uts-academics-describe-culture-of-fear-as-enrolments-put-on-hold-for-nearly-a-fifth-of-courses?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Today’s Friday Frivolity provides a perhaps useful hypo on joke offers: the case of the man who fell for an April Fools prank and got the letters KRUD tattooed on his forehead.

#law #contracts #Television #teaching #AprilFools

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/08/plaintiff-wins-510000-claim-after-falling-for-april-fools-prank.html

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Speaking of teaching:

(1) ICE will be on our school campuses this Fall. Some Superintendents & principals are saying they won't cooperate, but what happens when the storm troopers force their way into our classrooms or nab students and parents from the curb before school? Are teachers trained & ready to resist?

(2) Trump has refused to allow $8 billion of Congressionally-approved money to come into California's school system. This will harm the most marginalized students in our schools-since that is where most federal funding goes.

(3) Curriculum attacks will continue, both with Trump's demand that we end all "DEI" programs & curriculum AND witht SCOTUS ruling allowing parents to opt their students out of specific lessons.

I've decided to drop #Canvas and just use a static website for my course this fall. I'm still using #Gradescope for grading since I haven't found a drop-in #FOSS replacement yet and the fall semester starts soon.

I was also wishing for a self-hosted learning management system in a previous post. I didn't know about #Moodle. We used #Blackboard when I was in college. Since this might be my last year at this postdoc, I don't want to change too much, but I'm definitely going to consider it in future years. It looks like Moodle does have some kind of homework grading functionality, so maybe that should replace Gradescope. When I looked at the Canvas version of this feature before, it was terrible, so I'm not sure how much I can hope for with Moodle.

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

AI Tag Suggestions

My #Moodle #qbank #bulktags plugin allows the quick update of multiple questions with the same tag. There is a Moodle 5.0 compatible branch that has a setting for #AI #LLM suggestions based on the question text. It will work with either the core AI subsystem or Local ai_manager from ByCS Learn Platform.

Read more about bulktags AI Suggestions here

https://github.com/marcusgreen/moodle-qbank_bulktags/wiki/AI-Suggestions

First day with students back in the building. Our state has decided that we must eliminate cell phone use in all schools. This should go over well. #teaching

August is National Inventor’s Month and we’re celebrating The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. This Netflix film is based on the true story of William Kamkwamba, whose creativity, persistence and courage as a schoolboy provided a solution to devastating drought for his family and eventually many others in his country of Malawi and beyond.

We offer a Discussion Guide and a Curriculum Guide with classroom-ready lessons for this film, to make it easy to work with in different settings. Students can learn more about wind power and the physics of generating electricity, as well as lessons in English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film Studies and more. These are powerful resource to inspire young inventors in your classroom!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind/

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What we're reading:

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white, a new study shows."

We know that educators are bombarded with (VC-funded) hype about AI tools as magical solutions. Please don't take these claims at face value and do your own due diligence. 1/4

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/ai-teacher-assistants-promote-racial-bias-study-finds/

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