Its ALWAYS bout the money, not the kids. Josh Cowen Jennifer Berkshire Jen Jennings, PhD

What exactly is the pedagogy we can see being practiced by ChatGPT-4o? What is the pedagogy of the omnimodal? A short thread reflecting on Sal Khan and son's demo video:
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This is my favorite video game.

Happy to see this important paper in print!

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'Most voters don’t know much about education policy, and having them decide what can be taught in schools is a bad idea' calmatters.org/education/k-12…

Oh look . . . this is pretty much what Max Eden admitted in court.

Wow. Fiona Apple is a real one. Watch this video. Calling for donations to bail out Black mothers for Mother’s Day. Her fans already came through w donations & spreading the word. Over $30k! Let’s “fetch the bolt cutters” & support even more. I just gave. givebutter.com/nHSrnp

Disturbing example of how school vouchers are being used to undermine the entire civil rights architecture. Here's a publicly-funded school that not only doesn't accept LGBTQ students but promises to expel students with gay family members

NC's Millersville Christian Academy got $863,953 in public voucher funds this year.

MCA bars admission to LGBTQ+ students, and if a student is even discovered to have an LGBTQ+ family member they'll be expelled.

Public dollars shouldn't subsidize discrimination.
#nced #ncpol

Shorter: Conservatives on the Supreme Court say it’s ok for cops to steal your stuff no matter how innocent you are.

I want to go into a helping profession. Which do I choose?

'If this had been a rally in support of Israel, they'd have been out there serving them lemonade & finger sandwiches. This is obviously a state-generated policy that they're going to go out & make all the arrests they can to try to appear tough.'

The same people say a homeschool registry is “too much government”

Maybe we ought to make having children more affordable.

School absences 🧵

In light of ongoing discussions about student absences, I'm searching around for data to try to distinguish increases driven by illness from those resulting from cultural shifts, as Nat Malkus & others have suggested. Feedback needed & welcome.

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Conservative org thinks this is outstanding academic achievement.

Learn why student outcomes are the worst in cyber charter schools and how your children will fall behind and have a dismal chance of going to college.

Post-racial society, right?

No need for DEI, right?

All the talking heads you ever wanted to hear from--me, Jennifer Berkshire, 𝕁𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝔼. ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕤, Jess Piper, and Luke Mayville--all talking about school privatization and rural schools: dailyyonder.com/republicans-do…

Scored an 11 on the troll measure.