Pivoting from service learning to community-based engagement

"You can have sway in the short term through your army and your treasury. But if you want to last forever, make something beautiful." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

"It turns out that how you get stuff [knowledge] matters no less than what you get." #howibecameaconstructivist cato.org/policy-report/…

In Lyon, an artist nicknamed Emem fills the pavement holes with mosaics. A man calls it the art of flacking - filling the sidewalks with small colourful ceramic tiles. In France it is called a ′′ pavement surgeon ", who heals the wounds of the city streets since 2016

The world wants you to be normal. Our systems and institutions are all designed to make it easy to be normal. Maintaining your distinctiveness is possible, but it will require effort - painful, constant, relentless effort. But stay the course. You’ll find it’s worth it.

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that. As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

Perfect multiplication for computers, but for humans? Nonetheless highlights the necessity of reconceptualizing math education through the lens of computational thinking. #csk8 #iteachmath #MTBoS

Owning a tool is qualitatively different from borrowing/renting it short-term. When a tool is continuously accessible, you come up with new opportunities to apply it. It's almost as if the tool itself pulls project ideas out of you!

If I'm understanding this right, the app... - Scans a random pile of LEGOs - Computes everything you could build - Pulls up step by step instructions - Shows you where in the pile each brick is 🤯

build more nuclear reactors now

What makes life good? Some of us want a happy life, while others want a meaningful one. But still others want something else - an interesting life. Now in press at PsychRev, Shige Oishi & I make the case for the psychologically rich life as a desirable overlooked alternative 1/n

Had the opportunity to host a Math Institute for new Ts with two awesome colleagues Sanna Erzinclioglu (she/her) Tyson Spraul A day well spent unpacking our math curriculum, visiting classrooms, observing and learning from each other, and so much more!

Pro Tip: Anyone who says they know how to “fix education” is wrong.

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“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” – Attributed to Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn