Uch I don't *want* go back to work after a two week break, when I have too much time left in my 8th grade class and not enough for 6th and especially 7th grade. #teaching #whining

One for the algorithm! What do I like?

- #Videogames
- #WorldofWarcraft
- #DungeonsAndDragons #DnD
- #AncientGreece
- #ClassicLiterature
- #Fantasy
- #Teaching
- #Musicals
- #StephenSondheim
- #Cinema
- #StarWars
- #ComicBooks

Reposts more than welcome, just like follows!

Does awareness of intuition's fallibility help people avoid faulty intuitions?

#Teaching students #DualProcessTheory didn't help them avoid faulty intuitions about #physics problems.

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.21.010135

Amazing.

https://badgraph1csghost.neocities.org/computers_index

I've been struggling with how to approach hardening my class against generative AI abuse by students. @RobertTalbert has a helpful post on what he did and what he learned in a college-level math course this spring that I feel like validates some of the choices I've made.

https://blog.ohheybrian.com/2025/04/my-ai-driven-grading-approaches/

Today, I was able to test the audio-to-midi service that Music Blocks contributors made last summer together with my students. Here's what they made:
* "Music Blocks Band" by four of my students (group project): https://musicblocks.sugarlabs.org/index.html?id=1744917848164324&run=True
* "Sigma Boy" by Wesley: https://musicblocks.sugarlabs.org/index.html?id=1744919173856994&run=True

(Just like this post whether or not you understand it. The kids did great!)

They also made a video that I hope to share later.

Looking for Earth Month films for younger students? Our Nature Collection for grades 3-7 features film-based lessons about whales, chimpanzees and insects, plus an empowering lesson on recycling. Pick and choose the ones you want to use.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/celebration-of-nature-lessons-activities-for-grades-3-7/

#EarthMonth #EarthWeek #EarthDay #StemEducation #Education #Teaching #Homeschooling @education @edutooters @stemed

I’m increasingly convinced the myth continues because #educators conflate “learning styles” with “it is good to use different methods.” Varying #teaching is good, perpetuating learning styles... not so much.

Looking for Earth Month films for students? Check out the lesson plans for environment-themed films from around the world in our Environmental Studies Collection. Great for teaching environmental education this month and all year round!

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/environmental-studies-lessons/

#EarthMonth #EarthWeek #EarthDay #EnvironmentalStudies #EnvironmentalEducation #Education #StemEd #Homeschooling #Teaching @education @edutooters @stemed

Give your classroom a creative kickstart with our new warm-up series: Watch and Write!

What you get: a super-short film plus a prompt for writing or discussion. The films are as short as one minute. The themes span the curriculum. (Yes, STEM teachers, there are short films for your classes, too!)

This is a great way to get students engaged and focused. It's also a fun creativity booster for writing groups or individual writers.

Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/watch-and-write-new-classroom-warm-up-tool/

#WritingPrompts #Writing #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Teaching #ShortFilm @writers @education @stemed @edutooters

Happy publication day @drlangraad!
How could I be prouder?
#writingcommunity #authorlife #books #writing #math #education #teaching #mathematics #bookstodon #booksofmastodon
https://a.co/d/5p7KppG

Yesterday team members @enorouzi Gunjan Singh and Marzieh Moghaddam presented our teaching offers (ISE lecture, project course and seminars) as well as our research and potential master/bachelor thesis topics at the WiWi Modulcafé at KIT to the new students.

#teaching @KIT_Karlsruhe @fiz_karlsruhe @lysander07 @tabea @GenAsefa #SemanticWeb #SemWeb #knowledgegraphs #AI #generativeAI #digitalhumanities #ise2025

I know I'm getting old, or dare I hope to say, wise, because I can't shake the feeling that any and all demonstrable #productivity gains generated by the use of #AI could be outweighed by simply #teaching people to use and manipulate structured plain text efficiently.

Likewise, teaching new #engineers to do those basic things well instead of jumping straight to "this is how you install the latest framework".

#chemistry people:

We're working on pH and acid base equilibria in one of my classes. If I had them do a lab where they prepare two solutions - acetic + ammonium hydroxide - at known concentrations, measure pH, and then calculate Ka/Kb, are there other extensions that would make it more rigorous?

We have not done buffers or weak titrations yet - I'm slowly working my way there.

Hey #history and #maritime and #shipping expert people:

Here's a dataset about #whaling with some variables I don't understand (neither do the students using it for an intro #statistics project). If you have any insight into what these variables/terms mean, will you share that?

• Number of whales struck (does this mean "harpooned," maybe?)
• Number of whales tried out (no idea)

The data are here:

https://whalinghistory.org/av/logs/coml/whales/

File formats as Emoji: 0xffae

by @beet_keeper

tldr: https://emoji.exponentialdecay.co.uk

File Formats As Emoji (0xFFAE or 0xffae) might be my most random file format hack yet. Indeed, it is a random page generator! But it generates random pages of file formats represented as Emoji.

The idea came in 2016 with radare releasing a new version that supported an emoji hexdump. I wondered whether I could do something fun combining file formats and the radare output to create a web-page.

Along came a spare moment one weekend, some pyscript, and bit of sqlite, et voilà. File Formats as Emoji (0xFFAE) was made a reality.

If the #teacher still sets the goal, plans the work, controls feedback, and is the sole evaluator... is it really active learning? #education #teaching #EducationConversations

#TShirts #Teaching #Science

From a site called Teachers Gram. They sell literature and science-based T shirts.

Check out my new blog post, “Martian Perchlorates in Minecraft Education”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/04/12/martian-perchlorates-in-minecraft-education/