kate-powers.bsky.social
First and foremost an educator. But also! Cats! Chemistry! Pottery! Cooking! And last but not least, exclamation points!!!!
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BUTTERDOME
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Anyone else remember the "Year of the MOOC?" That was fun, wasn't it?
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Why do some facts just bring that tickle of joy in your heart?
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*this
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Those is one of the reasons I tell people I love ceramics! I get to be catastrophically bad at things regularly, and it’s just part of the process!
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Working in higher ed, I’ve only seen DEI initiatives lift up everyone on campus. Not just students of color. Equity and inclusion make the educational experience better for ALL students.
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Oh, and I should be clear: this isn’t the way to fix it. There are ways to fix it, and they are pretty reasonable. But we may just go over the cliff and be unrecoverable.
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Wow, amazing!!! Sculpting is definitely my weakest skill in ceramics!
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I love him!!! I’m curious about your process. Do you sculpt each little fellow, or do you make a slip mold? I really love how delicate they all are!
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I guess I sensed that!!!!
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Just seeing pictures of your work brings me joy! They are almost the physical form of joy!
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That brilliant young woman is able to start Physicians Assistant school in a few weeks because you are still working hard, despite everything that is happening around you. 2/2
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I have a hard time understanding the reasoning behind the major AI support at my university (I don’t want to speak for other institutions). And I think students generally agree with me. They are the first to say they aren’t learning when they use LLMs to complete assignments. But they do it anyway?
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I work with graduate level students in health sciences . It is considered a done deal that every task they do will eventually be controlled by AI.
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I work in higher ed and have been chastised and punished for pushing back on the use of LLM by students and faculty (it’s the way of the future!!!). If students write using a LLM and faculty grade their writing using an AI tool, what is the DAMN point?!?
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Factory work isn’t necessarily inhumane. And Americans are not “better than” factory work. But inhuman, exploitive factory work shouldn’t exist anywhere on our planet.
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Yes! All humans deserve fruitful and safe lives, where their work is appropriately compensated and allows them a reasonable lifestyle. Our goal shouldn’t be to keep inhumane practices away from our country but to abolish them in every country. Why is that not part of this discussion?
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Quality over quantity! Oh wait…
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According to this post Springer publishes 14,000 books a year. That can’t have any goal other than money. Our academic system is broken. I’m rowing upstream.
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Just watched the episode of White Lotus where the three friends go out with the three Russian friends. I am STUNNED that they are alive to continue with the plot line the next morning. If I stayed up that late drinking, they would be flying my home in medically induced coma.
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Wow! Love the wiping back technique you use! Did you have to experiment a bunch to get there?
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These are a true treat, and very unlike any other muffin I’ve had: www.davidlebovitz.com/nancy-silver...
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It’s fate. I saw this post just as I was about to pull up Nancy Silverton’s bran muffin recipe for some breakfast baking.
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I take a very colorful CTA train every day. There are a lot of things for sale going up and down the aisles. I’m never offered the items. BUT the other day a lady got on and looked at all the passengers, and then headed right to me to ask “where is the nearest library?” She read me like a book.
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As someone who takes the Forest Park leg of the CTA blue line everyday, can we move the urine comment to number one?
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Or under this tall to slip in unnoticed…
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And while we’re at it, can any true Canadians explain name The Real Canadian Superstore? Was there at one point imitators out there?!