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Nick Covington@covingtonedu.bsky.social |
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Dad. 10 years teaching high school social studies.
Creative Director @ Human Restoration Project🛸#restorehumanity
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Kevin M. Kruse
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The many manifestations of racism — slavery, segregation, etc — were an integral part of not just African American history, but American history. Denying that reality and pretending racism wasn’t a serious problem is, in itself, racist.
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Katie Mack
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It’s constantly astonishing to me how determined nearly every major cultural and governmental institution is to pretend not only that the pandemic is over but that it never happened at all
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John Warner
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The venture capitalist enthusiasm for AI in education should make us inherently suspicious. How they talk about education should be a blaring klaxon to do the opposite of what they advocate. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
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costrike
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We need to demand what we do and don't want from it. (Largely the latter, from where I sit.)
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Nick Covington
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One way to take our power back can be to limit/eliminate individual and organizational use of AI tools as much as possible until those demands are met, and make those demands explicit. Even image tools like Adobe Firefly have been responsive to concerns about gen-AI as a plagiarism machine.
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Nick Covington
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The current state of "AI" is that it is making demands of us that we collectively cede it massive amounts of energy, water, and capital in exchange for an imagined future we play no active role in shaping! This is clearly not a tenable position.
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Nick Covington
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A Luddite Praxis is about organizing our collective response to new tech, like "AI", that will determine it's trajectory for how it will be used for the future. So if we want a more "ethical AI", if such a thing is possible, we need to make the collective demand for just that.
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Nick Covington
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They don't even need to go all in, they just say DEI now as a one to one replacement.
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Nick Covington
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Personally, I feel optimistic about America's political prospects because never before has an octogenarian institutionalist clinging to power in the face of a cynically mainstreamed extremist party gone badly.
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Charles Logan
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Helps explain the desire for the chatbot to succeed: it was "the property of the school district, which was set to receive 2% in royalty payments from AllHere 'should other school districts seek to use the tool to benefit their families and students.'" www.the74million.org/article/chat...
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher!
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Interesting: wicked problems of education unlikely to be solved using "traditional mono-methods approaches to research (i.e., quantitative-only inquiry or qualitative-only research)." Solving the real problems of schools will likely need mixed methods approach (intro to a special issue)
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Ralph Pantozzi
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“now there’s even more to learn about how non-Western societies have been seeing the world mathematically that many of us haven’t yet tuned into” #iTeachMath science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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Nick Covington
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Hester/Stick 2024
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Nick Covington
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Everything I know about the Red Hot Chili Peppers was learned against my will.
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Nick Covington
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Is this Kiedis-posting?
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Nick Covington
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Is man small or book big?
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Nick Covington
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The combination of anxiety + ADHD unlocks the incredible superpower of worrying about more things simultaneously between 2-5am in a single night than most people can fit into a lifetime.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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“By what fraction of a degree have I raised the temperature of the earth in asking this question?
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Nick Covington
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Mine is definitely not a Blackstone BUT it's very satisfying to use nonetheless. We got rid of my old, crappy traditional grill when we moved in April and decided to go flat top for the next one. Surprisingly versatile.
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Nick Covington
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Staying up late every night during the week because I'm going to a show on Friday and need to build up my tolerance for being awake past 10pm like Westley from The Princess Bride.
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Nick Covington
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How in the world are tortie cats so weirdly bisymmetrical??
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Nick Covington
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Today was Iowa chops and a whole mix of veggies w/ Polish sausage that I could have just injected directly into my veins.
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Nick Covington
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I ate two of them back to back and had another for lunch the next day. Perfection.
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Nick Covington
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I made the Oklahoma fried onion burger earlier this week and it was life changing.
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Nick Covington
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I recently got a flat top griddle so I've been getting recommended a lot of not-unwelcome hamburger related YouTube content (naturally), and my hamburger hot take is that no good burger has ever been improved by putting a weird, slimy, lukewarm slice of tomato on it. Get it out of here.
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Nick Covington
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I mean, it's just actual Nazi propaganda at this point.
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Nick Covington
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Some days are great and you get to pet a lil dog.
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Human Restoration Project
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2022 was a system reboot...
2023 broke the doom loop...
This year is all about turning Vision Into Reality.
Join our 3rd annual virtual Conference to #RestoreHumanity🔭 - July 22-25
humanrestorationproject.org/conference
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8gn...
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Nick Covington
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Microsoft, I know you think you're being clever, but I only ever want my files to be organized by Name, Type, or Date Modified and never by Contributing Artists, Album, #, or Album Artist.
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Nick Covington
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This is probably not an original thought, but I saw an ad for Slash on FB and it's wild to think he put on a top hat 40 years ago and that just became his whole thing. Do you think he knew it at the time, like, "this is it, guys, this is the hat I'll die in" or what?
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Nick Covington
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When I studied at Jagiellonian University in Krakow the city certainly had a nice stadium for the local Wisla Krakow soccer club, but no similar facilities I'm aware of associated with the university.
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Nick Covington
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I mean, is there an equivalent for something like this anywhere else in the world for high school, or even university, athletics?
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Nick Covington
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It's an identity crisis. I definitely support extra curricular school athletics & activities, but many in the US also want American academics to be competitive on international measures with schools that don't have the same emphasis on non-academic activities.
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Astrid D
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Once again I bang on my drum labeled "there are many studies showing how humans learn best and traditional public school not only does not put that information to use, it often does the opposite, creating an environment that is actively hostile to real learning".
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Stimpunks Foundation
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Agreed.
Many of us @stimpunks are highly monotropic & rely on getting into flow states to do high memory state zone work. Periods wreck that. They are like meetings: forced interruptions.
Reading:
oolong.medium.com/craft-flow-a...
paulgraham.com/makersschedu...
stimpunks.org/2024/06/25/t...
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Mike Drucker
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lol it’s going to be so stupid in ten years when exclusive schools for rich people brag that they use real human teachers
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Rima I Anabtawi
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"Some children think that their legs might grow again. This is one of the saddest things that we hear on a regular basis.”
The war in Gaza makes life nearly impossible for disabled people.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Nick Covington
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The story of modernity in so-called Western society has been trying to "fix" childhood. I'm sure we'll get v2.0 with the next patch update.
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Nick Covington
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"I do wish to question whether the task of schooling is exhausted by the idea of subject-related learning...Given that a curriculum can never be all inclusive—we have to concede that a given curriculum is always only a particular selection of what might be possible." - Gert Biesta
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Nick Covington
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It's no wonder the traditional school schedule is built around ranking & sorting because it's certainly not made to support the brains of adolescent learners. 😬
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Nick Covington
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My own HS teachers would probably not appreciate what I never learned in the first place and what has stuck around into my late-30s, yet I'm a college-educated, reasonably (IMO) functioning adult (again, I imagine, much to their surprise). 😅
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Nick Covington
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Jack Schneider uses the analogy that you can't really speed up, say, a performance of Beethoven's 5th anymore than you can speed up child development by cranking the Learning Dial to push more content on ever earlier ages. It's still gonna take 10 years to grow a 10 year old!
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Nick Covington
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It's why I've always been skeptical of the purpose of instruction-as-memory-management. It's building your edifice on shifting sand. We really don't have a lot of control over what sticks, what students will take away, and what will actually be remembered across years & decades.
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Nick Covington
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If we assume that learning moves at the speed of memory, what does that mean for the "vitally important" pieces of content that are natural & inevitable casualties of the speed of schooling?
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Nick Covington
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If we assume that learning moves at the speed of memory, what does that mean for the "vitally important" pieces of content that are natural & inevitable casualties of the speed of schooling?
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Nick Covington
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In a 7-8 period day, even the best managed course is up against a full stack of new content each day. Even if we allow that students are managing 7 items in STM at any given time (assuming they are school related at all), which ONE piece of content from your course makes it?
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Nick Covington
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It's actually a miracle any learning happens at all. The first thing I would do to design a healthier high school built for learning is throw out the traditional bell schedule in favor of at least one large interdisciplinary period.
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Nick Covington
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It's no wonder the traditional school schedule is built around ranking & sorting because it's certainly not made to support the brains of adolescent learners. 😬
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Nick Covington
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Doesn't the best case for cognitive load management also end up arguing for a radical restructuring of the typical 7-8 period HS school day, which seems is perfectly designed to overwhelm w/ task-switching & too much info in STM?
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