10 years ago, teacher Twitter was extremely helpful to me. There's the #teaching hashtag here, which is nice, but are most people still on X? Or worse, Facebook?
Trying to build that side of my timeline back up. Boots appreciated along with recommendations of who to follow.
I've noticed a big shift toward, "We should be teaching kids how to cite AI."
That's antithetical to citations. A citation points you to the original source. Citing AI is effectively erasing original sources in a misguided effort to "teach students how to responsibly use AI tools."
Responsible use is teaching people that AI tools are plagiarism machines. Period.
I'd love to have an ecologist, particularly someone who studies biodiversity, talk with my environmental science class. They've just started their own long-term research projects on the diversity of the stream nearby.
Anything along the lines of research design, data collection, reporting...what does real science look like.
Virtual is great, we're US/EST
If interested, you can leave a note here or send an email to bbennett@buchananschools.com
Does anyone teach a new media studies class that goes through the entire discography and music video library of Rage Against the Machine as a curriculum?
I'm building out some routes to get and edit some database objects. These objects are children associated to a parent in a collection.
For the URL, is it better to have a hierarchical address like /parent/<parent_id>/child/<child_id> than to just do /child/<child_id>?
My thinking is yes because I can filter DB objects based on the parent ID and the associations which already exist, but then looking up a child directly is also fast. Thoughts?
Does anyone who uses #OpenTracks on #Android know where marker photos are stored? I took some pictures on a ride today, but I can't find the actual picture anywhere outside the app.
Another apparatus question: anyone know what this is?
Two glass bulbs connected by a glass tube. Watery orange liquid inside.
**Edit: It's called a "pulse glass" or "Franklin's palm glass."
A liquid with a very low boiling point is sealed. Holding one bulb will boil the liquid and it will flow to the opposite side. Used to show vapor pressure, IMFs, etc. Very cool piece of old equipment.
One of the delightful side benefits of being a teacher is learning all kinds of new stuff either from what your students bring or from researching questions your students ask.
Every few weeks, I have an existential crisis with my grading methods and I want to tear the system down to build something new. Each time, I talk myself out of it, but I'm not sure it's because:
I'm in a system with external expectations for grading
I have an implicit bias to not trust students to track their own learning
I have an insecurity about how to communicate what I see in terms of student learning
@joel@dm i only use newpipe on my phone. It's frustrating sometimes when it breaks, but I have to remember it's a small team fighting Google's antics and that maybe I don't need to be on YouTube at that moment anyways.
This American take on cookie banners drives me fucking mad.
No. The issue isn’t the cookie banners. It’s the companies tracking via cookies.
Take the blinkers off your eyes and see what the legislation was for and that every single site you visit that has banners is a company that chose to try and sell you as a product to other companies.
The solution isn’t removing banners. It’s making tracking illegal, in its entirety.
