The 25th Olympiad, Lucerne, Nov 1982. Garry Kasparov is seen with members of the Soviet (all-Georgian!) women's team - Maia Chiburdanize, Nana Ioselani, Nona Gaprindashvili & Nana Alexandria, as coaches Aivars Gipslis & Eduard Gufeld look on. (📷B. Kaufman, Novosti Press.) #chess

Of all the things I've been wrong about, the failure of edtech is the most disappointing. I was so taken with Khan Academy's notion of the "flipped classroom" (world class lectures online, collaborative work in the classroom), but a combination of the disastrous Covid-era

The OECD just published an important report on the impact of AI on education. This should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in the topic. According to this report, Gen AI has huge potential to help both teachers and students, improving their creativity, productivity

"There are no Amish with autism" There are "Vaccines aren't tested against placebo" They are "MMR has never been studied as a possible cause of autism" It has. It's not the cause. I apparently need to say this stuff over and over and over and over again. And again.

Estoy un poco HARTA de las frases que arrancan "la neurociencia demuestra que", a continuación suele venir la p3lotudez más infernal.

As a teaching assistant at Harvard, I was told that the lowest grade I was allowed to give was a C. It doesn’t matter how badly the student actually did, anything lower than a C would inundate the faculty of record with a bunch of paperwork and meetings with administrators.

Cursive is making a comeback go.nature.com/3Mk7E9C

Desafortunadamente, la preocupante deriva educativa no se explica sólo por una legislación ininteligible. Entre el profesorado han calado una serie de creencias y actitudes que ahondan la disfuncionalidad: 1. La tenaz idea de "corregir" al profesorado sin incidir en el alumno.

“At Stanford, almost no one talks about the system with shame. Rather, we openly discuss, strategise and even joke about it. At a university of savvy optimisers, the feeling is that if you aren’t getting accommodations, you haven’t tried hard enough.”

Claire Lehmann I have decided to be more selective in what I choose to have an opinion about.

Transhumanists claim they want to take human beings to the next step in their evolution. Trouble is, they don't even seem to have a competent grasp on what a regular human being is.

Yo en primer grado le pregunté a mi vieja si antes el mundo era blanco y negro como las películas, respondele y listo qué tan complicado es.

Acá está corregido, la pobreza del Chaco no logra alcanzar el sueldo de Adorni.

Grades are simultaneously treated as a sacred status symbol and meaningless as a measure of learning. Schools accomplish this contradiction by sending two separate messages to two separate groups. To high achieving students: grades are life-or-death, the only thing that

On this day in 1973 - ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal (USSR) & International Master Coen Zuidema (Netherlands) analyse their final-round game at Wijk aan Zee. Tal won this game, to finish clear 1st with 10½/15. (📷: B. Verhoeff / ANEFO, via nationaalarchief.nl.)

Tel Aviv International, 1966. In Round 1 (played 17th May) Bogdan Śliwa (1922-2003) faces Yedael Stepak (b. 1940). Śliwa, a 6-time champion of Poland, was born 104 years ago today. (📷: F. Cohen, via gpophotoeng.gov.il.) #chess

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Remembering the amazing Karen Carpenter who passed away at age 32 on this day in 1983.

To understand the history of a pair of supermassive black holes, astrophysicist René Hudec goes old school, examining glass plates that date back to 1896. quantamagazine.org/how-modern-and…

Helene Appel Sink (With Dishes), 2024 Acrylic, oil and lacquer on linen 49.5 × 39.5 cm