2024-12-19: Control and Thinking “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.” – The Mis-Education …
2024-12-18: Breaking News: TxASCD Closes Its Doors #EduSky #Texas A breaking news announcement from Texas ASCD organization: December 18, 2024 Dear Texas ASCD …
2024-12-17: AI Grading: A Few Thoughts #ethical In the AI for Teachers Facebook group, Richard Noble shared the following: Is it unethical for …
2024-12-16: Value in the Friction AND #AI Skills #EduSky This quote from Nathaniel Myers: “I want them to undergo the writing process for themselves in ways …
2024-12-10: Eat your Veggies, Avoid Depression Fascinating… A high intake of both fruit and vegetables was associated with lower depressive …
2024-12-05: The Power of the Pen #Handwriting #EduSky One of my favorite quotes is, “What the hand does, the mind remembers." It’s a reminder …
2024-11-27: The Scientific Consensus: Ed Tech, SAMR, etc Fashion isn’t my thing. I wear similar outfits from day to day, often with boring uniformity. …
2024-11-27: MyNotes: What is Stoicism? #Stoicism An impulse purchase, I picked up a copy of Tanner Campbell’s and Kai Whiting’s book, …
2024-11-27: Ed Tech Backlash #EduSky #edtech Ouch. Is there a backlash against Ed Tech going on, a realization that the evidence for Ed Tech is …
2024-11-26: From One Uncertainty to the Next Over the last few weeks, I’ve been reflecting on the issue of AI. My problem is that my …
2024-11-26: Federal Court Ruled Against Parents in #AI Case Will this be celebrated by those who favor parents' running schools or not? You know, those parents …
2024-11-22: Indoctrinating Texas Children Bradford Vivian writes on BlueSky: Bible-based alternatives already exist throughout the nation—in …
2024-11-17: When Learning Matters, Don’t Use AI “The essay is a method for thinking… AI can generate an essay in response to a prompt, …
2024-11-17: #AI: Expertise Paradox #Edusky Associate Professor Jonathan Boymal highlights a new study. Here is one excerpt that jumps out me: …
2024-11-16: If Adam Picked the Apple Poem I shared this poem with my daughter. I got a laugh and a moment of reflection… Text in Image …
2024-11-16: The Games People Play What Is the First Thing Remarkably Successful People Do? Figure Out Which Game They’re Actually …
2024-11-16: A Principled Stand Against #AI #EduSky As a whole, this piece (Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies) was unconvincing. I found it stuffy, …
2024-11-13: What Americans Wanted Americans are getting what they want. Who am I to speak against the overwhelming majority? The …
2024-10-27: Fear of Fascism “Two major media companies, the Washington Post and the LA Times, made decisions to capitulate to …
2024-10-27: A Mesh of Possibility Where we were apart, we are now together, a dense mesh of possibility. -Stephen Downes Love this …
2024-10-26: How To Vote: An Instruction Generator for College Students How To Vote: An Instruction Generator for College Students This Ai-powered app draws a custom …
2024-10-24: A Hoard of Ideas “Ideas that are hoarded help no one. Success follows generosity.” -James Clear, The …
2024-10-23: The Last Barf Bag: A Tribute to a Cultural Icon Hi, I’m Peggy Reimers. I look forward to receiving the Staff Picks email from Vimeo. In the …
2024-10-22: ETHICAL: Test Quandary Scenario I was out today and got an email from my sub. I’ve never gotten a note like this and I …
2024-10-22: ETHICAL: Lack of Response Here’s yet another application of the ETHICAL model. As you may recall, I dropped the ETHICAL …
2024-10-21: ETHICAL - Office Drama #ETHICAL This has been too much fun. Let’s take a look at a fresh scenario through the lens of the …
2024-10-21: ETHICAL: Jane and John #ETHICAL I created a Perplexity Spaces area equipped with ETHICAL mode for decision making. Then, I shared a …
2024-10-20: Infographic: About the ETHICAL Decision-Making Model This infographic captures the main steps of the ETHICAL decision-making model. Overview of Model …
2024-10-20: ETHICAL: Jerry's Quandary #ETHICAL Ok, so I’m ready to apply ETHICAL decision-making framework to a real life situation. Ready to …
2024-10-19: ETHICAL: An AI-Powered Decision-Making Model #ETHICAL Ok, so yesterday, I mentioned that I consulted Perplexity.ai to help me understand or develop a …
2024-10-18: Logical Approaches to Every Day Decisions #ETHICAL One of the challenges I struggle with involves figuring out how to make decisions. You know, you …
2024-10-01: Dawn of AI Era Report Our new report, “The Dawn of the AI Era: Teens, Parents, and the Adoption of Generative AI at …
2024-10-01: Free AI Audio Transcription and YouTube Script Generator For another blog focused on Ed Tech, I explore the answer to a question a lot of educators are …
2024-09-27: Handwriting and the Brain “The most surprising thing was that the whole brain was active when they were writing by hand, …
2024-09-12: AI Summarizer: Roundup on GenAI An AI summary of Paris Marx' article, ** Roundup: Will generative AI have many long-term benefits?** …
2024-09-12: AI Summarizer: 3 AI Trends That Will Impact Your Job In 2024 The following is summarized by AI from Rachel Wells' article, ** 3 AI Trends That Will Impact Your …
2024-08-30: Infusing Biblical Teaching into Texas Public Schools “Teaching about the influence of religion in our history is an important part of a well-rounded …
2024-08-30: AI Humanizers and AI Bias Want to sneak your AI generated text in under the radar? Try UndetectableGPT, an AI Humanizer …
2024-08-29: Alas, Meta It appears that two days after being suspended from Facebook, I have been permitted back on, all …
2024-08-29: Smartphone Bans Make Sense to Someone Over on Mastodon (which I’m spending even MORE time on since Meta cancelled me for …
2024-08-28: AI Coded Game - Tower Defense What fun to use AI to design a Tower Defense game (ASCII). It’s been a few thousand versions. …
2024-08-28: Proton Docs: A New Word Processor A longtime user of Proton’s version of secure, encrypted Mail, Proton Drive storage, as well …
2024-08-27: AI-Coded ASCII Star Trek Game Well, wow. My mind is blown. Ever since I was 13 years old, I have wanted to play this Star Trek …
2024-08-27: Hasta la Vista! Facebook and Meta (Update) Oh oh, goodbye Facebook. Time to bid my education Facebook account, Instagram, Threads adieu. Good …
2024-08-24: My AI Breakthrough This was a really interesting set of pie graphs from a SectionSchool webinar featuring Greg Shove I …
2024-08-21: Passive Oppression The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable …
2024-08-17: Fences, Not Ambulances From Dr. Pamela Snow: Fences at the top of the cliff, not ambulances at the bottom. Every. Time.
2024-08-15: Student Use of AI …when students rely on a generative A.I. tool like ChatGPT to outsource brainstorming and …
2024-08-12: 3-2-1-: Cell Phone Bans in Texas Schools This is sure to be a hot topic for many of us in ed tech spaces. This online publication frames the …
2024-08-07: Handwriting And Paraphrasing support students in generating high quality notes and help them to engage in paraphrasing, for …
2024-08-02: Free AI Survey course Available Announced a few days ago… A free survey course on LLMs, taught by practitioners…[on] …
2024-07-17: MyNotes: Strategies To Apply Post-PD Summary by Perplexity.ai The article “Just Did Some Professional Development – Now …
2024-07-17: AI’s Impact This chart is a great tool for reflection as all of us use AI and other technology. Via …
2024-07-15: Belief or Delusion?
2024-07-13: How to Write with Style: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word – The Marginalian …
2024-07-13: Not that anyone cares except myself and a few friends, but I added to, and updated, my list of …
2024-07-13: MU geoscience camp uplifts girls in STEM Middle school girls from the Columbia area attended Geoscience Summer Camp for Girls on July 10-11. …
2024-07-09: Deciding to Learn in spite of #AI #education “…the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting” …
2024-07-06: Anyone know how to post Micro.blog Bookmarks via RSS or get an RSS feed for Bookmarks?
2024-06-30: Time Saved, An AI Illusion Will AI really save time overall or just push us to complete tasks more quickly so we can do more …
2024-06-30: Assessment in the Age of AI This piece in Forbes by Dan Fitzpatrick makes some interesting points about assessment, quoting …
2024-06-27: Project 2025: Guidebook for Christian Nationalism This is concerning: Project 2025 operationalizes the tenets of white Christian nationalism on such …
2024-06-26: Yikes, AI is Coming for Your Data We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine …
2024-06-25: Claude.ai Lets You Organize Chats into Projects Woohoo, as you can see above, Claude now lets you organize your chat support documents, or whatever …
2024-06-25: Quote: Books For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had …
2024-06-24: 3-2-1: The Unknown Toll of AI This morning, while reading this response on Threads on my new, consolidated account, I found myself …
2024-06-24: What the Hand Does... “What the hand does, the mind remembers." Not sure where I ran into this quote, but what …
2024-06-23: Image: On Scientists and Horror
2024-06-23: Texas’ Teacher Org, ATPE Data Breach This is crazy, shocking, even if data breaches are the new inevitable normal: More than 400,000 …
2024-06-21: 3-2-1: Need to Teach on a Global Hot Topic #ClimateChange #science #ShowYourStripes New survey info shared today (with me) via the National Center for Science Education, Inc. email: …
2024-06-20: Putting Claude 3.5 Sonnet Through Its Paces Anthropic’s Claude launches a new AI model, Claude 3.5. Perplexity.ai reports: Claude 3.5 …
2024-06-19: Miscellaneous Utilities (MISCUT): Windows OS “What should I load on my new Windows computer?” asked a friend, knowing I would have an …
2024-06-19: Delaying AI’s Impact On Educators Can legislation slow a technology innovation? That is the question implied in a post by Jason Gulya …
2024-06-18: Embracing The Experience in the Face of AI Ease This piece about AI in education is one I find myself agreeing with. Whether you call it “friction” …
2024-06-15: Redacting Science: #Texas Censorship A school district in Houston {Cypress-Fairbaks ISD} has voted to redact chapters on vaccines and …
2024-06-15: Authentic Writing vs AI Writing Is it safe to say, without evidence, that most writers don’t write for the pleasure alone, but for …
2024-06-14: AI Fears: #AI is Not Friend to Higher Education Professors #HigherEd #Education #EdTech #AI I have to admit I love the doom and gloom of this article, Memo to Faculty: AI is not your friend. A …
2024-06-14: Remote Work Rocks While I certainly understand why any organization or business wants its employees to do their work …
2024-06-14: AI in Education and Environment This was an interesting article that dealt with more than AI’s impact on the environment. See …
2024-06-06: The Power of Another Think Anyone who read Stoic philosophy knows about “The Painted Porch.” Not THAT painted porch …
2024-06-05: Print over Tech This ought to make edtech advocates pause on pushing ebooks into children’s hands…as an avid reader, …
2024-06-04: Concealed Handguns in TN Schools What do you think? More guns in schools or not? My opinion is simple. Given the choice of being …
2024-06-03: Say Its Name: Flipgrid Wow, this was a tough read for folks who have grown fond of Flip. The shock and surprise are still …
2024-06-02: AI: Water Guzzlers Anonymous It is imperative to remember that as we use AI, there are profound consequences. Should AI Tech …
2024-06-01: Share Knowledge with Perplexity Pages (Updated) Amazing announcement from Perplexity today: Perplexity Pages, a simple way to turn your research …
2024-06-01: Done with Teaching Someone on Facebook wrote: I think I am done teaching, any suggestions on a good career change for …
2024-05-31: Panama Relocation #ClimateChange I have often wondered how Panama would be affected by climate change. See pictures in this news post …
2024-05-31: Symbolic Logic Course for Teens I may need to get this…$15! Learn how to make sense of complicated arguments with 14 video lessons …
2024-05-30: Quote: Not Organized Around Science Love this quote shared via Mastodon: Source
2024-05-30: Anthropic AI Agents Over at The Verge, Kylie Robison writes: Anthropic is releasing a new feature for its AI chatbot …
2024-05-30: AI In Schools: Misalignment of Values Image source: Someone in a Facebook ChatGPT for Teachers group Great news, right? Custom GPTs will …
2024-05-29: Quote: Ignoring Ignorance This quote resonates with my own life experiences. At Another Think Coming, I can really see how …
2024-05-29: Thinking, Fast and Slow I love Abir Haddoud’s post about the book, so I am reposting it from social media (LinkedIn) below: …
2024-05-29: AI: Privacy is a Perk It’s all about your privacy perspective, isn’t it? Free account? Expect none to little privacy, or …
2024-05-27: 20 #AI School Scenarios: Scary or Not? What are some of the problems with AI in schools? How would you resolve them? The Student’s …
2024-05-27: Teacher Use of AI for Grading I loved this response to an educator’s question about AI use by teachers vs students. It is concise, …
2024-05-26: Revisiting Rusty Rivers and Streams #ClimateChange Source: Projected changes in the water cycle. Source: USGCRP 2009 Ugh. This had almost slipped from …
2024-05-25: Flow Chart: Should I Go or Stay? #Mermaid This was the Mermaid code that Perplexity.ai generated for me, introducing me to Mermaid: Code …
2024-05-25: Joplin App for Notes and Mermaid for Diagrams and Flowcharts After struggling with Dropbox as my sync home for Joplin App notes, I finally plunked down the 3.99 …
2024-05-22: Perplexity has reached capacity?!? The outage is on web and mobile; I became aware of it at 9:24 AM (Central) this morning when I tried …
2024-05-22: 3-2-1 Brain Science and Effective Teaching Interesting article, What Brain Science Says about Teaching Teens via EdSurge, on teenage brains. …
2024-05-20: AI Fears: Lacking Evidence, Part 4 In previous blog entries, I shared a list of AI fears. Did those fears have any evidence? This is …
2024-05-19: AI Fears: Lacking Evidence, Part 3 In a previous blog entry, I shared a list of AI fears. But, when I ran it through …
2024-05-19: Comment Hoist: Attracting GenZ to Teaching In a response to the post on Attracting GenZ to Teaching, responding to the question of “What …
2024-05-19: Attracting GenZ to Teaching In this article, EdSurge asks , how to attract GenZ to Teaching. But the article went on and …
2024-05-18: AI Fears: Lacking Evidence, Part 2 In my previous blog entry, I shared a list of AI fears. But, when I ran it through …
2024-05-18: Taking the Plunge Wondering if GNU/Linux is worth investigating? Check out retired educator, Bob Irving’s …
2024-05-18: An AI in K12 Panel Someone asked if I might consider serving on a panel discussing AI in K12 education. It occurred to …
2024-05-18: AI: Going Nuclear for Energy building water- and energy-hungry datacenters to fuel the AI boom comes at the expense of our …
2024-05-17: AI Fears: Lacking Evidence, Part 1 In an online course I co-developed, an educator wrote via AI the following question: What are we so …
2024-05-11: ESSER Funding Expiring “Over the past four years, we’ve relied on $30 million in ESSER, or COVID relief funds …
2024-05-11: MyNotes: Writing by Hand The verdict is in…again? it takes a lot more brainpower, as well as cross-talk between brain areas, …
2024-05-11: 3-2-1: Four Day School Week I heard or read about this topic in news earlier this week. I was hopeful because 4-day work weeks …
2024-05-10: On AI-Generated Content I don’t disagree with this… For my own part, I see no problem with AI-generated content if …
2024-05-09: SAnews: Alamo Colleges Offer Bachelor Degrees Great announcement: Exciting news! You will soon be able to earn your Bachelor’s degree at any of …
2024-05-09: AI Leads to Lower Academic Performance, Procrastination, Memory Loss Is it time to stop pushing AI in schools? Research study: excessive use of generative AI tools like …
2024-05-09: Climate Disaster Coming This is a tough read about a harsh future ahead: “The enormity of the problem is not well …
2024-05-08: AI Thinkers: Identifying Core Competencies Photo Credit: Undisclosed colleague “Why should we use coconut-plant liners in metal baskets …
2024-05-08: Prelude to AI Thinkers From my perspective, these were the best insights from a brilliant article. The article is Our …
2024-05-06: Writing and Thinking Connection The struggle of turning inchoate thought into readable sentences and paragraphs is a powerful …
2024-05-05: The John Decker Supernatural Series of #Books I stumbled onto the John Decker Supernatural series of books one weekend. From werewolves to weird …
2024-05-05: The Fortune Cookie “Working out the kinks today will make for a better tomorrow.” - Fortune Cookie A …
2024-05-05: Panama 🇵🇦 Faces Water Shortage Yikes, climate change impacts Panama’s water supply. This in turn impacts the Panama Canal, and …
2024-05-04: Iterative Mindset What an interesting idea… Iteration is the antidote to the performance mindset’s toxic grip. …
2024-05-04: Lack Of Freedom for #Missouri #Texas #Arkansas Women Ajax and Cassandra by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1806 via Wikipedia Why does our culture …
2024-05-04: A Parable for Your Consideration TexTeacher offers the Parable of the Two Towers. It is worth a read: Once there were two young …
2024-05-03: AI and Audible This is worrisome news…I love the audio stories via Audible, especially narrators like R.C. Bray and …
2024-05-02: GB1: Harnessing #Adobe Express: The Blogger's Ultimate Toolkit for Content Creation Photo via Pexels Guest blog by Leo Krause, Outreach Coordinator at Adobe Express In the fast-paced …
2024-05-02: Dropbox Breach Oops. How many is this now, Dropbox? We’re reaching out because on April 24th, we became aware of …
2024-05-02: Guest Bloggers Welcome Welcome to the Guest Blog category. This area will feature guest blog entries from colleagues as …
2024-05-02: Writing by Hand Reach for paper and pen… a paper published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests, concluding that …
2024-05-01: 3-2-1: Med-Gemini #AI “Could the problem be pleurisy?” I was standing at the emergency room of a local …
2024-05-01: Technology in Schools: A Long History of Issues Should we even be using AI given the negative impact on climate, the environment, on disadvantaged …
2024-04-30: Evidence vs Certainty and The Constitution of Knowledge As I’ve shared in the past, one of the reasons I started Another Think Coming was how often I …
2024-04-28: Book Bans: History Cover Up Ruby Bridges on book bans: The excuse that I’ve heard them give is that my story actually makes, …
2024-04-28: Relief that Makes You Weep What relief I have as a parent that my children made it through college, one of them persevering …
2024-04-28: The Impediment: Where Your Heart is Set Doesn’t this sound familiar? “Remember that it’s not only the desire for wealth and position …
2024-04-27: What Starts Here Changes the World #education #politics #protest This image from by Michael Minasi of KUT Austin is an eye-opener. via Nerve Endings Firing Away
2024-04-27: AI at Work despite many generative AI tools being readily accessible, most people don’t know how to apply …
2024-04-27: Banning LGBTQ+ Teachers #Texas “…banning educators who fall under the umbrella of being trans, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming …
2024-04-27: Survivor's Guilt: How Do You Handle Coworkers' Layoffs? In education, I’ve noticed how important is for people to always be upbeat and positive. …
2024-04-26: Dark Use of #AI in School Setting What a shocker. The principal who was targeted actually got removed from work for a bit. Baltimore …
2024-04-25: UNESCO released a 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO released a 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report. As you might suspect, the report makes …
2024-04-25: Meta.ai Launches: Guardian of Privacy? Ok, you’ve heard that Meta.ai is now available for free. The question is, “What features are in …
2024-04-25: Ruthlessly Evaluate Every Classroom Tech Tool I love the title of this article by Jessica Grose: Every Tech Tool in the Classroom Should Be …
2024-04-24: Ads On My Windows 11 Machine? To offset this foolish trend by Microsoft, I have been testing living 100% in Linux Mint on a …
2024-04-24: The Budgetary Cliff: 2025 This has to be the scariest article ever…what will the impact be on all those professional learning …
2024-04-24: AI: A Snake in the Academic Garden of Eden That tempter of old has crept again into the garden offering forbidden knowledge, knowledge unearned …
2024-04-23: All is Well “All is well” by Henry Scott Holland
2024-04-22: Reports of #AI Being Dumb Shouldn't Stop You Image Source: Generated in Bing’s Image Creator AI, then modified with Sketch.io. Based on …
2024-04-21: Inflammation and Long-Term Memory Connection When your students say, learning hurts their brain, believe them… New research reveals that the …
2024-04-21: HellDivers 2 Teaches Lessons In the screenshot of above of my son and I, in transit to a mission, he’s the one determining …
2024-04-21: Drink and Eat for Life is Brief #Food #FriedEggs #SanAntonio #Texas What a wonderful wall decoration featuring this saying, or “dicho:” It says, “Eat …
2024-04-21: Books Unbanned: A Shameful Account of American Censorship I don’t understand why some folks engage in censorship, especially here in America. When I read …
2024-04-21: Moving Files Around Interested in moving large files from one device to another? I know I was after setting up an …
2024-04-20: Converting RSS Feed to OPML with Claude.ai Perhaps, I’m easily amazed at how AI makes hard things easy. I stumbled across a micro.blog …
2024-04-20: Attitudes Towards Evolution, Evolve Evolution is an old debate, and every year, I learn something new about it. I still remember …
2024-04-20: Reputable? Yes! National Center for Science Education In an upcoming blog entry on evolution attitudes changing, I cite some info from the National Center …
2024-04-19: Burn It Down. Goodbye, Windows 10 Have a Windows 10 device in your life? Then it may be time to look for that exit strategy. Running a …
2024-04-19: AI Creators Are Not Responsible for What Harm May Result #AI #mgshare Leonardo da Vinci failed, if he hoped to keep men and women in ships safe: … I do not publish nor …
2024-04-19: Changing Image Creation Dates #TechTips #ImageModification “How do you change the time a screenshot was created?” asked a friend yesterday. What a …
2024-04-19: Do Hard Stuff Daily What about dental care? David Truss writes this sermon about doing hard stuff. But is dental care …
2024-04-18: Image: Make your Teaspoon Count Reposting this from Neil DeGrasse Facebook group: Imagine I said something profound connecting our …
2024-04-18: What Is Valued at Work vs What Matters The things bad managers value in their employees? Technical skill Lack of complaints about stupid …
2024-04-18: Slack Adds AI Features Slack adds AI features… A quick summary via Perplexity recap: Recap Feature: Start your day …
2024-04-18: Criminalizing Being a Librarian Unbelievable…. library-friendly measures are being outpaced by bills in mostly red states that aim …
2024-04-18: What To Do: Chronic School Absenteeism What is high-impact tutoring? Could it involve more human relationships and connections, more …
2024-04-17: AI Jobs: Adapt and Learn Worth keeping Ruben Hassid’s assertion below in mind for AI…but what evidence is there he is right? …
2024-04-17: 3-2-1: Parental Rights in Education 3 Ideas I. “Parental rights in education are essential for fostering a collaborative …
2024-04-14: Generating Images with Perplexity Pro I have relied on Perplexity Pro ($20 or $10 with this referral link) for awhile now, but had not …
2024-04-12: #AI: Towards a Sense of Ethics Doug Johnson introduced me to a new quote from Christopher Hitchens. I’d first run into …
2024-04-12: MyNotes: Trashing the Earth #ClimateChange What a warm winter it’s been. That’s on top of a hot hot hot summer. It’s no …
2024-04-11: 3-2-1: The Cost of Higher Education Paying for college as I approach retirement isn’t something I hoped for, but it is something …
2024-04-11: The Obstacle is The Way...and there is more than one #stoicism #stoic Have you encountered obstacles in achieving your goal? Do you imagine that once you achieve a …
2024-04-10: Video: Logical Fallacies Open Culture features a video on logical fallacies. They say: a rapid-fire introduction to many …
2024-04-10: 3-2-1: Abnormal Florida Fish Behavior #ClimateChange Could this be due to climate change? Or is something else going on? The National Oceanic and …
2024-04-09: MyNotes: Pew Research on Teaching Yep. Accurate. More than half (52%) of educators tell Pew Research Center that “they would not …
2024-04-09: MyNotes: Carl Sagan This is a book I need to read by Carl Sagan…”The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the …
2024-04-09: MyNotes: Carl Sagan This is a book I need to read by Carl Sagan…”The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the …
2024-04-09: MyNotes: Teacher Pay Incentives Research …researchers studied what happened in…Dallas, Texas, – when teachers were offered significant pay …
2024-04-08: Finding Less Expensive Alternatives to Blog, Podcast, Notes Type Services: A Solution Imagine if you could get the benefit of a blog platform (5 blogs), bookmarking app with archived …
2024-04-07: MyNotes: AI Leads to Smaller Workforce “A survey of senior biz executives reveals that 41 percent expect to have a smaller workforce in …
2024-04-07: Louisiana HB 777 : Criminalizing #Librarians and the #ALA Over at Book Riot, this unbelievable piece of news: HB 777 was introduced March 25 by …
2024-04-06: MyNotes: Harmful or Helpful, ChatGPT …use of ChatGPT was likely to develop tendencies for procrastination and memory loss and dampen the …
2024-04-05: #BookReview: Teach Like Socrates #mgshare Review “Think Like Socrates” is an inspiring guide to using Socratic questioning in the …
2024-04-04: Go Lyrical So fun to see one’s work through another’s eyes. I was playing with words, as writers do, and …
2024-04-04: 3-2-1: School Shootings and Licensed To Carry Are you licensed to carry? I often reflect that it’s better to stay home and not go out given …
2024-04-03: The Problem with Anecdotes #CriticalThinking #Prevagen Awhile back, I wrote the following about Prevagen, that memory drug commercial. They keep running it …
2024-04-03: UT at Austin Lays Off #DEI Employees #Texas #fascism This is unbelievable but oh so bad. Vote them out isn’t working. The University of Texas at Austin …
2024-04-02: Interrogate Your Anger “How do you stay so calm?” It’s a question I get often. The truth is, there are …
2024-04-01: #DailyHaikuPrompt - Silkworm Source: Britannica Encyclopedia Bred to spin your thread Mindless Imprisonment, yes, Tireless toil …
2024-04-01: The First Story Transcription: Quote “Most people will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are …
2024-04-01: Banishing the Specter of Personalization Image Source: Amazon Books Over at The Corridor of Uncertainty, Alastair Creelman highlights the …
2024-04-01: Systematic Disconfirmation: Smartphones in Schools This is an AI-generated post that applies the process of systematic disconfirmation to smartphones …
2024-03-31: A Nightcafe creation
2024-03-31: MyNotes: Teach Like Socrates I loved this quote from Shanna Peeples’ Think Like Socrates: Our students need to ask questions now …
2024-03-31: Tapestry of Thought In I miss snow, Doug Johnson laments the absence of snow, an old companion and giver of work. He …
2024-03-31: HW #2: Silence or Absence
2024-03-30: HW #1: Sacred Space #handwritten My first attempt at a handwriting a blog entry…instead of typing it. Follow this category (or …
2024-03-29: Privacy and Encryption Tips Although it’s often out of our hands due to various services suffering data breaches or …
2024-03-28: Hasta la vista, Documents app #iOS #app #skyjos #readdle Over the last few YEARS, I’ve kept Readdle Documents app on my iOS phone. It’s been a …
2024-03-28: Quote: Take the Rest as It Comes #stoicism These are great suggestions to adopt: Rejoice in what you have, cease worrying about things which …
2024-03-28: 3-2-1: SEL and Critical Race Theory (CRT) Anyone who watched a teacher work through the pandemic, facilitating remote learning, knows how …
2024-03-27: MyNotes: Three signs You’re a Scientific Thinker I often think that I will be learning about and how to apply critical thinking for the rest of my …
2024-03-27: Play Climate Change Bingo - #AI #ClimateChange #Education #mgshare Watching news on television, reading articles about how the melting polar ice caps are changing the …
2024-03-27: Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic Wow, this is…so wrong. Given that Snapchat encrypted the traffic between the app and its …
2024-03-27: Remembering Daniel Kahnemann: System I and II Thinking Quotes Bummer. Daniel Kahneman died. He was the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow. You can read an overview …
2024-03-26: Psychics and Pseudoscience (PASTOR) In every town, there’s a street with a sign board with a huge hand. The hand beckons …
2024-03-25: AIDA: Scientific Consensus I honestly hadn’t ever heard the concept of scientific consensus before reading about it while …
2024-03-25: MyNotes: The Scientific Consensus on a Memory Aid Drug Prevagen…a proven memory aid to help you remember stuff, or a well-funded example of …
2024-03-23: Pencil and Paper...Rules? Earlier this week, I had a chance to revisit my thoughts on educational technology in the classroom. …
2024-03-22: Micromanagement: Two Images to Reflect Upon Love these two images from Eric Partaker that highlight concerns about management that I am sure …
2024-03-22: Not Intelligent Enough What a fascinating perspective and from Aldous Huxley. I don’t recall learning about this …
2024-03-22: Overcoming #AI Addiction and AI Detox Strategies How fast does it take people to get addicted to AI? How many minutes does it take to get addicted? …
2024-03-22: MyNotes: Keep Moving, Avoid Dementia In World War Z movie, Brad Pitt’s character says to a family in Spanish, “Movimento es vida,” or …
2024-03-21: 3-2-1: Book Banning Here’s a 3-2-1 on book bans in libraries, which National Public Radio (NPR) reported as …
2024-03-20: AI-Powered Health Trackers (PASTOR) #AI #health Problem I was a few days ago old when I discovered my smart health tracker also keeps tabs on my …
2024-03-20: MyNotes: Limit Screen Time Limit that screen time for younger humans, including television time…new research suggests… a …
2024-03-19: Free Opportunity for Teachers: LEGO® Build the Change My colleague, Lindsay Zilly, shared this opportunity…Check it out: LEGO® Build the Change and Take …
2024-03-19: Cybersecuring Smart Home Devices Attention Smart home devices get compromised every day. Whether it’s your security camera to a …
2024-03-19: AIDA: Chaplains in Schools Attention “Your teacher said you misbehaved in class. Bow your head and pray for guidance and …
2024-03-18: NAACP Ban on States with Anti-DEI Policies What a disappointing development, if not for sports, for America’s claim to prizing diversity: …
2024-03-17: AI Tools: A Quick Round-Up and a Scope and Sequence 1st Draft Someone asked me recently for AI resources and a scope and sequence. I couldn’t help but …
2024-03-16: MyNotes: Computational Thinking and AI Need something to read? Check out this book, Computational Thinking Education in K-12: Artificial …
2024-03-16: Critical Thinking, Not AI, is Essential for Curriculum I found myself scratching my head over this article. Something about it rubbed me wrong. Then I …
2024-03-15: Smell The Roses, If You Can Reading over one of my old blog entries from Around the Corner (I hope to get it back on track at …
2024-03-14: 3-2-1: AI in Education One of my favorite emails is what I get from James Clear. I like the 3-2-1 format. That said, it …
2024-03-14: SimpleNote Woes, Joplin Revisited: Digital NoteTaking Wish you had ONE place to post your digital notes? While I keep a handwritten notebook or 10 around …
2024-03-13: Clarifying Meaning I stumbled on a selection of writing earlier today. It had appeared in an online publication that …
2024-03-13: Comparing School-Focused AI Tools Microsoft CoPilot generated image One of the questions I have, even after attending a recent 2024 …
2024-03-12: Sorting through Bias We’re coming up on a ton of political campaigns, and it was those that spurred me to take a …
2024-03-12: MyNotes: How To Say Anything to Anyone “Is there a way to share feedback and ideas with one another that works well?” The …
2024-03-11: Diet Soda Bad, Water Good Yikes, diet sodas are bad for you. I’m still able to buy them everywhere I go. I may have some …
2024-03-11: Implications for PD Facilitators Figuring out what to present on is always fun for conferences and events. In educational technology, …
2024-03-11: A Blogging Resurgence? Establishing a writing hub, a space to save your digital writing, has become all the more necessary. …
2024-03-11: MyNotes: Listening and Reading to #CriticalThinking #education #mgshare Looking for amazing books to read? Well, so am I! I found myself on a bit of a buying spree when it …
2024-03-11: Handwriting: Extra Processing Helps Your Brain The more research I read, the less inclined I am to reach for a keyboard when taking notes. …
2024-03-11: MyNotes: Critical Thinking and Knowledge Here are some quick takeaways from Why Content Knowledge is Crucial to Effective Critical Thinkingby …
2024-03-10: Fantastical Thinking: Christian Nationalism Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Quoting Greg Olear and Benjamin Cremer, William Lindsey shares the …
2024-03-10: How To Survive the AI Job Apocalypse How do you survive the AI Job Apocalypse that’s coming? For many of us in education or related …
2024-03-10: What We Think is True Photo by Emily Pottiger on Unsplash This was quite succinct explanation of the Scientific …
2024-03-10: MyNotes: How the Word is Passed Note: This is another book that really shifted my thinking and opened my eyes to the history of the …
2024-03-09: MyNotes: Exploring History and Culturally Responsive Teaching “Sure, have a bite, Adam, it’s OK to eat,” said the fantastical character, Eve, in …
2024-03-08: Alexa and Siri, Can't You Be More #AI? These days, I’m more apt to reach for Perplexity.ai Pro app over Siri or Alexa to answer …
2024-03-08: MyNotes: Cassandra Speaks Note: This is one of my most cherished MyNotes on a book. It really shifted my perspective on this …
2024-03-08: AI Quandary in Schools Source: MS CoPilot generated As powerful, useful, and helpful as AI is, my thoughts are divided as …
2024-03-07: Emotionally Intelligent People Use These 27 Expressions At Work and Avoid These 13 Insensitive Ones #mgshare #EmotionalIntelligence Crowding my feeds and digital magazines are these pernicious, worthless articles that are entitled, …
2024-03-07: Learning Something Anew Earlier this year (2024), I found myself looking at my print notebooks, aghast. How ugly my print …
2024-03-07: Self-Publishing Publishing your own work can be difficult, not that I’d know. I’ve read the story from …
2024-03-06: AI Expertise Over Tech Jobs This was an eye opener… Firms in the tech sector and beyond went on a hiring spree after the onset …
2024-03-06: A Few More Formula Writing Ideas Every few years, I revisit or reshare the list article. The reason why is simple. I don’t want …
2024-03-06: MyNotes: Phonics Instruction As much as I loved my graduate level professors, I have found their approach to teaching …
2024-03-05: #Writing, Structured #CriticalThinking and #AI #ChatGPT #edtech #education Given the resource I shared about writing outside earlier, I wondered if students might find writing …
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2024-03-05: The List Article Revisited My favorite approach to writing? It’s pretty easy to follow. When I walked into the …
2024-03-05: Writing Outside: A Resource Looking for writing prompts for nature? These YpsiWrites folks have put together a series of prompts …
2024-03-04: Making Custom GPTs with ChatGPT Plus #education #edtech #tcea Wanting to explore ChatGPT Plus and have even more fun with AI? Wait, before you say, “No, AI …
2024-03-04: Time Is Short: Sign Up to Present at #TCEA's ETC 2024 Today #edtech #education #conference “Should your PreK-5 student be using that technology?” It’s a question that pops …
2024-03-04: Token Latino? While chatting with a colleague, they made the following observation about my work as a K-12 …
2024-03-03: To Blog Roll or Not Blog rolls. They seem a thing of the past, an archaic habit consecrated by time long past. …
2024-03-03: Podcast #1: Magic Formulas For Speaking And Listening A few thoughts about speaking and writing with the magic formula. Transcript
2024-03-03: Ten Sayings: Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius are two people I hadn’t heard much about except the occasional …
2024-03-02: A Cemetery of Ideas: Dead Blogs Walk “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” …
2024-03-02: Stained Purple Have you ever run into someone taken by power that they will do anything to hold onto it? I have. …
2024-03-02: Is The Blog Dead? Photo by Soledad Lorieto on Unsplash “You’ll be happy to know, Doug, this isn’t a …
2024-03-02: Look Before You Leap Earlier this year (2024), I had the chance to facilitate a workshop on a topic I’d spent a …
2024-03-02: A New Blog Space - MGBlog.org Personal development is the idea that people constantly strive to improve themselves, whether …
2024-03-01: AI as Critical Thinking Scaffold: The Orwell Test A short time ago, I wrote about Pay for Student Performance. At the time, I felt I didn’t know …
2024-02-29: Wrestling with Old Questions When watching evangelicals on television, listening to incessant political adds of 2024, I am often …
2024-02-29: MyNotes: Powerful Teaching These are my notes on Powerful Teaching. I’d like to say I finished the book, but I only made …
2024-02-29: MyNotes: Writing in Middle School Science CER CERCA Looking for an easy way to introduce students to CER, or Claim Evidence Reasoning approach? You may …
2024-02-29: MyNotes: Christians Against Christianity Today, we must realize that schools are under attack by Christian Nationalists that are doing their …
2024-02-29: MyNotes: Good Without God Ok, this blog entry explores Greg Epstein’s book, Good Without God. Before that, though, I …
2024-02-29: MyNotes: Critically Examining History Thanks to Stephanie DeYoung, I had a chance to see again how history is hidden. Like the person in …
2024-02-29: Discovered Ignorance As I take the time to read the history of my Panamanian roots, I realize how much I don’t …