Deanna

My critical edtech origin story is that I was in the process of becoming a Google-certified teacher when I began reading Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard and then abandoned any desire to attach my identity to a tech company and while I've changed in the past 10 years Google definitely has not.

We have created three distinct certifications tailored to key audiences: Gemini Certified Educator: for teaching innovation and student success. Gemini Certified University Student: for academic excellence and professional preparedness. Gemini Certified Student (K12) for responsible, informed use by high schoolers. Please note a foundational course completion is required before the assessment can be taken.

Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...

It amazes me the number of adults who give their children unfettered access to the internet and smartphones but have issues with public school.

Professional degrees no longer classified

Education. Makes me wonder about the folk in classrooms at every level who grow the very people every other field comes from - but it's no longer professional. 🤔

It’s really something

Thank you! I am off! Going to try to rest.

i did not have electropope on my bingo card, ngl

The way my bag has been packed since lunch time so I can run out the door with the kids at dismissal 😂

Nothing like an active shooter drill on your last day before break. Really brightens the mood.

/s

I let my students vote on which movie to watch today, and they all voted for Good Burger. I am pleased.

Thinking about how hard management fought us at the bargaining table over limiting AI use.

Yep! And for the past few years I’ve been telling students to write down recipes and record or write stories from their elders.

That is such a great idea!!!

OpenAI made a free version of ChatGPT for teachers OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teachers is a secure version of the AI assistant designed for school employees.

Free shovel to dig your own grave.

I don’t give work over break.

I don’t want to be expected or obligated to work over break so I won’t do that to my students.

We all need a break.

One of my students: You have study hall. You don’t study in study hall????

Me: preach

Always deserving of a reskeet.

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Thank you! I feel a bit better this morning.

Thank you! I feel a bit better this morning.

Optimistic by Sounds of Blackness on Apple Music Song · 1991 · Duration 5:18

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AI-generated music on the pop charts seems like a much bigger deal than the collective lack of reaction seems to suggest?

Thank you!

This was my first read by the author. I have All the Sinners bleed so I will be reading it soon.

The cooties got me. I feel terrible.

I finished it today and it is SOOOO good!

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby might be the best book I’ve read so far this year. #blackbooksky

This is the dystopian bullshit so many of us feared. It's not coming, it's here.

Thank you!

Thank you! Hope you feel better too.