abilancini.bsky.social
Teacher. I published some fiction during Obama's second term.
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Just placed a hold on it. Inter-library loan is a beautiful thing.
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I haven't, but, hilariously, I've had a tab open on my computer to either library or buy More Than Words for about a month.
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"You're cranking." Yes, totally.
I get the impulse behind the GM framing, but just focusing on growth (or at least sloganizing it) suggests a measurable value for all learning. Data can be great! But I think it pressurizes and narrows the process for students in ways that can be really harmful.
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Yes!!
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YES!
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This is overwhelming. (Which is the point, but still.)
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This is something that *feels* like it should be true in the way that smart phones are bad for kids' mental health feels like it should be true. But I don't know that it's a neat pipeline like that. Maybe a more realistic framing: teaching lit helps readers sit with questions with no clear answers.
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I misread that initially as "steals patience from the pipeline," but I think that might also be true, too. Nonetheless, I think this is a smart and concise take on one of the many problems of GenAI goop mucking up the movement of human thinking and work.
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I don't have a thoughtful answer to this question, but something that has stuck with me from a recent conversation with a veteran HS teacher in his final year before retirement was this: "The MBA-ification of K-12 education is nearly complete." And he said this with absolute conviction.
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Something I can't stop thinking about is Tucker Carlson's demon attack claim and how that language is going to seep more and more into mainstream politics as a way to collapse the possibility of good-faith discourse (not that that currently exists... but still).
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It's going to be really awesome when GenAI can feel our feelings for us. I look forward to the emotional offloading movement. It's going to help me remember my "why."
[Jesus Christ, this is bleak!]
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I can imagine a future where admins attempt to capture human flourishing as classroom data. I hate that future, but I can imagine it.
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This, this, a thousand times this.
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There's also a cultural capital element. A lot of students genuinely like that engaging with a book makes them feel like they're part of a larger conversation across time and space, especially when that book has been banned. Turns out, students like talking about subversive ideas!
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It's wild how vibes-only the scaffolding holding up the whole misogynist project really is. Zuck's "more masculine energy, plz" is really just "ew, regulations. Give me money." The tradwife hoodwink of "the 50s were better because housewife" really wants us to ignore those pesky labor protections.
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I was told at a family holiday party recently that my students wouldn't respect me if I didn't embrace GenAI in the classroom. The person who told me this currently works as a private, remote math test prep tutor. My response: "Well, I guess I'll have to accept that my students won't respect me."