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Understanding real-world contexts should come first in responsible AI development.

Laurel White features some of the projects Sadhana and I are leading UW-Madison Department of Educational Psychology to make AI useful for teachers and students.

UW–Madison School of Education WCER

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'Then, Mr. Trump will have to decide: Whose money will he use to pay his lawyers?' The New York Times nytimes.com/interactive/20…

𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 '𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 🏆

With a 3-1 win over Colgate, Wisconsin Women's Hockey secures a spot in the National Championship and a chance to defend their 2023 title.

After failing in TX, the dark money behind school vouchers is coming for TN. DeVos, Walton & Koch are dumping money in the state and deviously attacking Republican holdouts as supposedly opposing money for public schools too. 1/ tennesseelookout.com/2024/03/20/dar…

Famine is projected in northern Gaza, according to a new report from a global authority on food security set up by UN agencies and international relief groups. It has classified a famine only twice before: in Somalia in 2011 and in South Sudan in 2017. nyti.ms/3wSDimw

Famine is imminent in Gaza.

The international community should hang its head in shame for failing to stop it.

This includes a lot of the chaos-anchored blackface nativism being fuel injected into the social media muckstream.

After 161 years, land was officially returned to the Upper Sioux Community | MPR News mprnews.org/story/2024/03/…

“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 TWh annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” —Steven Gonzalez Monserrate | E.G. Condé thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering…

The long-held standard of 6 percent real estate commission will go away. The National Association of Realtors has agreed to a landmark settlement. How will things change? For starters, home prices will go down. My scoop for The New York Times (gift link):
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Current law requires schools to teach the history of Black, Latino and Native Americans. Asian Americans have been left out until now. When Gov Evers signs the bill, Wisconsin will be the sixth state to require AAPI history in schools. Details: buff.ly/4aa6XGj

We work incredibly hard to appoint the best candidates to every role, so to have these folks’ service to our state politicized like this just because they don’t bend to the will of certain politics or politicians—it’s ridiculous.

I wrote about those fake AI images of Trump with Black supporters, and why 'cheapfakes' could be as much of an issue as deepfakes in the 2024 election and beyond. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Macron pushes European military resolve in #Ukraine , suggests possible boots on the ground.⁩ “Should we delegate our future to the American voter?” Mr. Macron asked. “My response is no.” Insists on need to unsettle Putin through “strategic ambiguity.” nytimes.com/2024/02/28/wor…

It is hard to overstate this news after 12 years of drama & litigation (TM) in Wisconsin over partisan gerrymandering

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#sschat National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

Great collection of timely articles as we enter the 2024 election - including 🤖Omnibox Teachall🤖 piece focused on strategies for helping students reflect on social media culture and habits to combat the effects of #polarization

Rep. Dan Crenshaw hits GOP colleagues opposed to border deal: “The height of stupidity is having a strong opinion on something you know nothing about.' trib.al/SeoWMqY

#hockey school 🦡