joannenelson.bsky.social
Music teacher, NBCT, oboist, mom, cookbook lover, avid reader, nerd.
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Part of the problem that I see is that one of the most prominent groups pushing for AI in schools and running teacher training is based at MIT, so their credibility isn’t questioned because if it’s from MIT it has to be great. What this group has to gain isn’t questioned.
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I assumed you were talking about the consultants who run professional development sessions, not the kids.
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I wonder if he had a problem with all the Mothers Day posts honoring pet owners and people who are childless by choice? (Both valid decisions, but not what the day is for)
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I’m not sure that most administrators recognize how the things on the rubric look in some classes. To a math teacher, it might look like there’s no formative assessment in a music class, but we hear them and give feedback every time they play. Just no exit ticket or whatever.
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This wasn’t some random official playing a recording, it was the army’s rock band who chose and rehearsed it. Musicians are experts at using music to troll and military musicians are excellent. It was absolutely intentional.
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Those musicians absolutely know what that song is about. Expert trolling, and the fact that it went over a lot of official heads makes it funnier.
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I might have to use this for my high school band.
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If some official played a recording I wouldn’t be sure.
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I would bet it was intentional. It was an army band, right? They had to choose it and rehearse it. They could’ve played anything. Musicians are experts at using music to troll, and the musicians in military bands are excellent.
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I need a stronger word than disgust or rage for anyone who’s flippant about school shootings.
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One of my freshmen the other day sweetly said that she wasn’t going to buy any more books until she finished her TBR pile. My most bookish senior and I looked at each other and burst out laughing.
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Thank you for this! I’m going to look for some of these for my 12 year old.
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Oooh! That was part of our “voice major” Halloween costume in college! We’d pin an “I’m on vocal rest” sign to our shirt and carry the biggest bottle of water we could find. And wear a pretty scarf.
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I was running a car wash with my high school band students. Deborah Jo Rupp came over, gave us $20, and very politely asked us not to touch her car.
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Is he able to keep track of schedules and supplies and tasks at his job?
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I’m Gen X and I’m not 50 yet. How old do they think we are?
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Boo!
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I’m jealous. I’m in through next Monday.
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I hope they tell all their friends back home. Maybe they’ll believe someone they know.
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Is the conductor a pianist?
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Yessss!!!!
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I use “OK, folks” when I’m trying to get their attention. A colleague uses “friends,” but she’s nice enough to pull that off.
It’s not difficult.
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My first job was harvesting. The people I worked with from other countries were the hardest workers I have ever seen. I’d be collapsing after an 8 hour shift, they’d eat a quick sandwich and go back out to do another. As a nation, we would starve without them.
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Tuba players are laid back. Imagine if she pissed off flute world.
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I’m always confused by how much power these people think we have in the classroom. They seem to think that kids are raptly listening to everything we say, eager to hear our opinions. If a kid hasn’t learned basic manners at home it’s hard to get them to even listen to basic instructions.
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The ones around here are sometimes just in jeans and camo, heavily armed, nothing on them says ICE or Police. We’re just supposed to assume they’re official when they won’t identify themselves or who they’re working for. It’s exactly the kind of stranger danger we were taught about as kids.
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I would love to see what Mozart would’ve painted. I’ll bet it would’ve been dirty.
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Cue the required trainings led by AI salespeople on professional development days, when what we really need is time to plan with our colleagues.
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And a similar rollout. When smartphones were new we were encouraged to incorporate them into our classes, to “meet students where they are.” Most teachers didn’t agree but we were shouted down. Now the negative impact is so obvious many schools are banning them with good results.
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I’m not optimistic that they understand that Massachusetts isn’t just the Boston area and that the western side of the state doesn’t have the same public transportation infrastructure.
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Do you think he just really wants people to know he had sex in college?
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That one hurts.
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I see adults do the same thing.
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Every training on “how to use AI in the classroom” skips the first step, which is an informed and thoughtful conversation about IF we should use it at all.
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I think it’s being shoved down our throats at least in part because these AI salespeople are presenting it as a one size fits all “solution” to professional development trainings. Admins can send us all to the same thing without having to come up with something meaningful or listen to our requests.
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I can’t remember who said it, but I remember hearing “I saw Star Wars but that doesn’t mean I know how to direct a movie.”
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The most valuable thing they could let us do is have the day to talk with each other and work together on what we need, but then they’d have to trust us.
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Please give more credit to middle school students.
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Maybe I’m just sick of reading about the things that schools “aren’t doing” when we’re running ourselves into the ground doing them.
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The title is “This Year We All Realized That Kids Aren’t Reading Books in School,” but the article talks about you teaching a great work of literature. Kids in other schools also read great lit. Of course reading challenging books in school is crucial, that’s why we do it.
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It also pushes the idea that students don’t read books in other schools.
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We do teach books in schools. If you want to know what’s happening in schools, please ask current teachers.
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Did the journalist ask anyone who is actually a teacher about this? My own kids and my students definitely read books in our public K12 school. Should I file this with the under researched “schools are failing because other people said schools are failing” articles?
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June 16. It feels very far away.
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I’m very anti-AI, but declaring that someone shouldn’t be teaching based on one question in May when we’re all completely fried is pretty harsh. Remember that administrators and PD consultants are shoving AI down our throats and pushing us into AI trainings over our objections.