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Bay Area raised Top Dog enthusiast. Currently residing in Tokyo. Software Developer, edtech co-founder, occasional basketballer. Raising two curious, bilingual (Japanese/English) kiddos. blabberize.com
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MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 21 days ago • 594 comments

Khan Kids got my daughter wanting to learn Creole 😮

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Empowering Education Leaders: A Toolkit for Safe, Ethical, and Equitable AI Integration (Department of Education, Office of Education Technology) tech.ed.gov/files/2024/1...

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Just noticed Chrome dev tools has #gemini built in to help with CSS. I haven't had a great experience with #ChatGPT when it comes to CSS help; curious whether Gemini will be any better.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

The message that needs to be shared again and again!!!! Cause so many don't learn 😢 #Japan #travel #CommonSense

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

Has #science ever been apolitical? Time to ditch the idea it is and get into advocacy before others write the story - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible. nyti.ms/3V6GVia

submitted 165 days ago • 121 comments

One of the things I love about primary school here in Japan is that they really emphasize understanding the role of the local community, and one's own role within it. My daughter goes on regular field trips to local establishments - small businesses, preschools, even Shinto shrines. She learns

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

My daughter is learning her times tables in school, and I’m supposed to help her drill. Cool, I got this. But it turns out in Japan, they have to learn a very specific way of pronouncing every equation. Sometimes you say the “equals” as “ga,” but other times you just omit it! Sometimes instead of

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

A record 146,000 public school students in New York City were homeless last year, data shows. Almost all of those students were living either in shelters across the city or “doubled up” temporarily with friends or family.

submitted 168 days ago • 42 comments

If you're familiar with #Japanese, you know there are a lot of borrowed words that came from English. For example: corn -> kōn computer -> kompyūtā label -> raberu One of my favorite things is when my #bilingual kids learn the Japanese (borrowed) version first, and then at some point try to

submitted 167 days ago • 2 comments

Nine out of ten Amazon addictions can prob be traced back to the Scholastic Book Fair.

submitted 169 days ago • 907 comments

What's a nonfiction #book that does a good job covering topics or research from your field? Looking to expand my #reading. Or just a good book in general, preferably nonfiction? 🧪👩‍🔬🥽 #chemsky #physics #biology #chemistry #education

submitted 169 days ago • 18 comments

When I tell people I played basketball at MIT, their first reaction almost always is, "MIT has sports??" Yes they do, and they're damn good at a lot of them. The women's bball program is a lot stronger now than when I was there, and there's some real talent that's been coming through the program.

submitted 169 days ago • 1 comment

Question for #teachers especially #mathteachers: why are kids required to copy down the actual word problem question for homework? As in, not just rewriting it as an equation, but word for word copying the question. Is this meant to help with the understanding somehow?

submitted 171 days ago • 1 comment

the portland crowd is cheering louder for yuki kawamura than they have all night absolute madness every time he touches the ball listen to them after he makes a free throw

submitted 176 days ago • 10 comments