#teaching

NEW: Gov. Greg Abbott spent years trying to make school vouchers a reality in Texas, even pushing to unseat rural Republicans who stood in the way. Some lawmakers believe the effort contributed to his party's historic demise in the midterms. #News #Texas #TX #Education #Congress #TXPol #USPolitics #Schools #Teaching #Parenting

Ten years of teaching GIS and remote sensing, and the hardest concept is still the same one: students learn buttons, not data models. Once someone truly gets what a raster is — a grid of measurements with a CRS stapled on — half of remote sensing follows on its own. Fellow geo educators: how do you teach the leap from software clicks to spatial thinking? #GIS #GISchat #RemoteSensing #Teaching #HigherEd

Join our next #DigitalAutonomy Fair on 27 October. 🔗 https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/policy-and-strategy/digital-autonomy/calendar/261027-digital-autonomy-fair From #OpenSource alternatives to self-hosted digital infrastructures, discover tools for #research, #teaching and #communication that help you take back control of your #digital academic life, feat.: ➡️ #Nextcloud, incl. our uni's own version of it: Unishare ➡️ #Matrix ➡️ #Linux workspaces ➡️ Open Journal Systems #OJS ➡️ #Mastodon and #Peertube It's going to be inspiring and fun - and there will be stickers!

AI teachers? Already in play. https://www.newyorkupstate.com/schools/2026/07/upstate-ny-school-district-will-deploy-a-humanoid-robot-teacher-this-fall.html #teaching #AI #Humanoid #Robots #Realbotix

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧠👁️ Around 10% of #students experience #aphantasia, a lack of mental imagery that can make #science harder to learn. A study across seven #Sydney private schools found load reduction instruction boosted test scores by about 20% for these students. The #research recommends physical models and concrete language over “imagine this” prompts. 👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-assume-students-pictures-minds.html #education #learning #teaching #neurodiversity #classroom #psychology

In Beyond Clean-Ups, Professor Ria Dunkley discusses her recent research into "wasted-edgelands" as opportunities for ecopedagogy 🌎 👇 https://www.briefecology.com/life-after-waste-brief-ecology-32/beyond-clean-ups-joy-discomfort-and-ecopedagogy-in-wasted-edgelands #Ecology #Pedagogy #Biodiversity #SolarPunk #Teaching

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how. https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reporters-private-school-owners?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#Journalism #School #Teaching #Education #Children #Regulation #Media

#Memes are a good way to get the attention of students. Not mine, but it worked in class… #FediTeachers #FediLZ #School #Teaching #Literature #datacenters #AI

First lecture in a course that I have taken over and teach for the first time. A very large class, second-year students who are eager to learn and who are also anxious, as the course was taught very rigidly before. I have discarded slides altogether and develop the material on the whiteboard, as I used to do. So liberating. 10-20 minutes for setting the scene, then I give them a mini case to work through with their neighbours. The students are wonderful. The room buzzes in eager discussions between them; they compare notes, check each others calculations, argue earnestly with each other. Live discovery of fundamental truths, in a shared space. The subject is alive and speaks to us. After the session I release my notes, which put all the micro insights together. Real teaching, I and Thou, is possible. I am lucky to be a teacher and to have these students. Life is good. #teaching #lectures #HigherEducation #IAndThou #AcademicChatter #StopTheAICorruption

I’m about to start a week I’m really not looking forward to. I’ve tried to get the money from the people who literally owe me money. They said they couldn't. I’ve done everything else I can reasonably do. And I’m still short. Quite a bit short. So, one last try. This is my donation link: [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=14] This explains what is happening to translators thanks to AI: [https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Machine-Ate-My-Job-and-Apparently-Im-Suppose-A6V725QY58] It’s not for a holiday. It’s not for some shiny new toy. It’s to help me keep standing while I fight to keep my fully human, AI-free translation and teaching business alive. I’m still here. Still translating. Still teaching. Still stubbornly insisting that humans are not obsolete just because someone put a language model in a server rack. But right now, I honestly don’t know what comes after this. I'm literally with my back to the wall now. If you can help, thank you. If you can’t, please don’t feel guilty. I’m just putting one more flare into the dark. 🟣 #SupportHumanWork #AIFree #HumanTranslation #Translation #Teaching #FreelanceLife #SmallBusiness #KeepGoing #MutualAid #QueerBusiness #Berlin

#3GoodThings

1. Did a hard refresh of my instance and can now once again see images of my favorite #hashtags, #DogsOfMastodon and #Bloomscrolling! Thank you @lexipenia@zirk.us.

2. Talked about #teaching yesterday to a group of postdocs and faculty. It was fun.

3. My kids had a great time selling their #plants at the Rose Bowl flea market in #Pasadena. Here's a cute IG post about it.

How to prepare our kids for a future we know next to nothing about? At school: teach both (how to solve problems using AI & how to solve problems without it). Test both. When choosing a career: follow your interests. Sounds like sound advice to me. Excerpt from new book by Daniel Susskind #AI #teaching #kids #careers

Goblin mode but for course prep #teaching #iykyk

On this final Friday of my summer break before I return to begin a new school year, I’ve got turbulent thoughts swirling in my bewildered head. I start the year #teaching #Frankenstein and will have to find a way to temper my growing urge to rant furiously about the parallels to the #AI monster the tech bros have created. But unlike in the Mary Shelley universe, we’ve allowed this monster born out of hubris to seep into our reality and destroy us from within instead. #literature #Bookstodon

Question for teachers/instructors: Has anyone ever assigned students to research the Fediverse or join a Mastodon instance as part of a class project? I'm designing a course project and am curious what other folks might have done. #teaching #coursedesign

English Version of "How to read Mathematics?" on the ArXiv now: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24136 German Version here: https://web.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/ggt/schwer #math #teaching #highereducation #mathematics

How to keep an ancient text interesting to students? Make it a summer blockbuster https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-5903075/odyssey-movie-english-teachers-school #Education #Teaching #Literature

"Upstate NY school district will deploy a humanoid robot teacher this fall" https://www.syracuse.com/schools/2026/07/upstate-ny-school-district-will-deploy-a-humanoid-robot-teacher-this-fall.html I remember the good old days when this idea was simply an easy hook for a satire plot. #NewYork #Robotics #School #Teaching #Facepalm

A woman who sexually abused a minor. Boxer Mike Tyson, who served time for rape. Both of these people successfully launched private schools that collected public money. As the voucher system grows more popular, few states have guardrails in place. https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-growth-florida-arizona-west-virginia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Education #School #Parenting #Teaching #Children #Florida #Arizona

This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It. --- Despite multiple complaints — and videos — of physical abuse and mistreatment of students, Arkansas' Delta Institute continues to receive public funds. It is just one of hundreds of private schools taking state money with little oversight. https://www.propublica.org/article/arksansas-private-schools-vouchers-delta-institute-developing-brain-autism-harm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Arkansas #Education #School #Children #Parenting #Teaching