Mary Beth Hertz

Influencers created with AI are landing major sponsorship deals and lots of money for their creators AI-built characters are raking in cash for their creators on social media

What is "real?" What is "human?" Who is asking for any if this? www.techradar.com/computing/ar...

I have no words. I depend on Libby on a daily basis....

New post on the blog:
Self-Awareness and Human Connection

Poem next to an older radio. "I'm learning to tune out the chatter-- adjusting these rusty antennae to the still calm of static. Glorious white noise in a cacophonous world."

Taking a break from social media this week. See y'all in the other side

I can't help but notice that he has "scaring," not "scarring" from a gunshot wound.

@typhaneyb.bsky.social

This is a wonderful description of how to address students' use of AI in a caring, productive, and open way.

Check out my list on Amazon

I don’t take for granted how many ppl make my students’ reading possible. We are still on the market for copies of Pet by Akwaeke Emezi! We’ve grown the project to every sophomore! If you 🤬 Amazon, I’m placing a Bookshop order. All 💵 = heymrsbond

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Hi! Need help in a BIG way. The English 2 team is freedom-dreaming and they want to teach PET by Akwaeke Emezi. We need all the copies. To end the year with this book would be a dream come true!!
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I find myself trying to explain to the young ones that what they consider "cool 90s" now made us unbelievably uncool back then. I've never been so cool in my entire life.

Screenshot of the audiobook "Deacon King Kong" by James McBride in the Libby app.

This is a very good book. I stumbled onto James McBride's "Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" and fell in love with his writing and the amazing narration by Dominic Hoffman.

What a tremendous resource Bill was for the educator community. Thank you for your kindness and contributions.

The work must continue. Today was energizing....as long as it's not a stand-alone event.

I protest because it's safer for me to do it. I show up for folks who can't. Today's march in Philly was unbelievably white in a city that is not.

Photo from Philly Hands Off protest featuring crowds and signs in front of City Hall.

Protester holding up a sign that says "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."

Crowd marching east from Philadelphia City Hall holding signs and chanting.

Photo of a group of Philadelphia Federation of Teachers marching down Market Street in Philadelphia wearing red shirts that say "Philadelphia Federation of Teachers"

Philly represented today! Thanks for speaking truth to power @rweingarten.bsky.social and for coming over to say hi to our PFT coalition. #handsoff

City Hall Philly anti Trump rally

City Hall Philly anti Trump rally

City Hall Philly anti Trump rally

Hands off!

There’s a good chance a Hands Off! event is happening near you tomorrow. Please join us: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Please do not register for protests. I'm big mad that this is even being asked of people. You know where and when to be. Show up.

Or how it protects the Jewish professors and scientists who now fear losing their jobs and their life's work....

YouTube video by International School History Hawley–Smoot Tariff - Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

I'm surprised my TL isn't full of this clip.... youtu.be/yuOHbyuanbY?...

This is like watching Sen. Cory Booker's brain right before he falls asleep when your brain spins and revisits all the conversations you had that day and all the things you wish you had said. It's brilliant to watch and hear how brilliant that brain is.

Happy to connect with anyone interested in learning more. I am a graduate of Walkabout as well as the ED and it completely changed my life.

Walkabout Education

This is something I've been working on here walkabout.org and in my work in my current school as the experiential learning coordinator.

(2/2) Instead we tell them they are lazy, unmotivated, incapable or broken in so many other ways. The traditional path to success that we take for granted is and has been blown apart for years. They are unmotivated to play the game we are selling. Time to change the game.....

OR maybe the story we've been telling and the aspirations WE hold and imposed are NOT the same for this generation. I've found that, deep down, the young people I work with have dreams but they need opportunities and structures to explore and discover their strengths. (1/2)

I believe @schoolfinance101.bsky.social would like a word on this nonsense 🤦🏻‍♀️

<<Yells from mountain top>>

I have no idea how old that woman is supposed to be if that's what a mid-to-late 40s woman is purported to look like I must be woefully out of style 😬🤣

This was always the place where I could "nerd out" on stuff that when I try to talk to folks IRL about their eyes glazed over. I lost that for many years while juggling teaching and 2 young children and now I'm dabbling back in but it's definitely not the same.