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Teacher and writer based in Northeast Ohio. Former expat. Aspiring luddite. Mostly apolitical. Gustatory learner. Pilot G2 Pens Distinguished Educator.
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Here's a, I hope, nuanced piece on A.I. in the classroom. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Trying to get back into good writing habits. Here's a recent piece I wrote for my Substack - Working Classroom Hero - reconsidering an article I wrote six years ago about students and politics. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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I've really been enjoying this album over the past few days. Sort of a throwback to 90s alternative, it also brings to mind the indie folk Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

My school is closed for the next two days due to the cold! No matter how old I get, this is always an amazing feeling.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Out with the old and in with the new. Happy new year, everyone.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

This one is in honor of Jimmy Carter for a life of kindness and service to humanity 🌊🌊RIP

submitted 64 days ago • 289 comments

My favorite podcast of 2024 (other than the excellent narrated news articles on Apple News +) was Hysterical. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

didn't listen to enough new music in 2024 to have a take on album of the year. I loved the new Cure album, of course. Here are a few others I really enjoyed this year. Neva Dinova - Canary Advance Base - Horrible Occurrences Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More Idaho - Lapse

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Here, as always, is my year-end reading list. I read 60 books this year. My picks for the best books published in 2024 are... Fiction: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Nonfiction: Morning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles goodreads.com/user/year_in...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Not photoshopped

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

As Bluesky attracts more activity, particularly from those fleeing Elon Musk’s X, it is facing the price of success: tough moderation decisions and a growing number of bad actors.

submitted 72 days ago • 13 comments

can we not do the "die hard is a Christmas movie" thing here please. "remember thing that wasn't entertaining or edifying on twitter but just a non-argument about which even the most bored person alive could not credibly be thought to actually care" can we not. for my Christmas present. please

submitted 79 days ago • 777 comments

Last weekend, I judged and coached high school creative writers at the JustWrite Ohio Laurel Regional Tournament. Eight of our eleven students qualified for the state tournament in May, and our division II team (grades 11/12) finished in 1st place overall.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

"Here's proof that the extremely online radical wing of your movement has said some horrible shit!" "Oh yeah, well HERE'S proof that the extremely online radical wing of YOUR movement has said some horrible shit!" Guys I think you're SO close to figuring out something

submitted 79 days ago • 22 comments

I really think people (especially well-intended ones) underestimate the transactional nature of education right now and how this is pouring gasoline on that fire. www.cbsnews.com/news/how-kha...

submitted 81 days ago • 8 comments

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

submitted 82 days ago • 155 comments

following anyone for any reason is problematic. why can't you mind your own business and be happy just reading your own tweets

submitted 85 days ago • 239 comments

I'm not sure we even need fiction anymore.

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submitted 84 days ago • 106 comments

Sorry I put aviator sunglasses on the baby Jesus in your nativity scene and started singing “Highway to the manger zone.”

submitted 84 days ago • 437 comments

Civility is good as a positive moral value. When people sneer at it or trample it, I turn elsewhere. More than anything, I think this sentiment explains my alienation from the populist left and the populist right. The cultures they build revel gleefully in ugliness.

submitted 85 days ago • 5 comments

Oh bring us some figgy pudding but also what is it

submitted 85 days ago • 44 comments