David Knuffke

It feels pretty disingenuous to position some articles about the novel-panic as similar to a technology that is both social in nature and deliberately engineered to keep you from turning it off. 🤷🏻‍♂️

If only the US government was in a position to…provide flights….🤯

VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER: the fish doorbell is open today

Hegseth says Iran won’t be a ‘politically correct’ war as he lays out US objectives Hegseth criticized the media, allies and former President Joe Biden during the 40-minute press conference

So this means we’re already committing war crimes, right? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Here’s all of the activities I use in my #APBio class when we’re having discussions about course material. For you, under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license: drive.google.com/file/d/18hyy...

You Should Shadow A Student A day in the life of a ninth-grader at my school.

A rare weekend piece appears! Last week I shadowed a student. You should also do this, if you have any capacity to do so: davidknuffke.medium.com/you-should-s...

Adults can hold the twin notions that a country’s government sucks and illegally murdering their head of state is a really bad idea in your mind at the same time. Now is a moment to be an adult.

It endangers every American abroad.

Life is farce now.

trump announcing a military strike on Iran while wearing a truly stupid ball cap that says “USA” on it.

This is the smallest issue of the current moment. But why is he wearing this hat? Why is everything so painfully stupid now?

I don’t have any sympathy for the Iranian regime, which is all the more reason why any action against them needs to be highly competent. This, on the other hand, is an illegal clown show.

How long can the current trump regime continue to negotiate with other countries in bad faith before everyone else stops listening to anything we have to say about anything?

An Honest Truth I don’t care what you think about my teaching if you don’t teach.

Poking some bears this week: davidknuffke.medium.com/an-honest-tr... #edusky

I think this is true of the typical vanilla chatbot interface. I am not as convinced it is true of pre-prompted and wrapped generative AI applications that are constructed to push cognition, rather than offload it.

The Novice Burden AI Chatbots and the Developmental Constraints of Learning

Three+ years on, here’s what I think useful generative AI for students (at least as far as their learning goes) looks like: davidknuffke.medium.com/the-novice-b...

This is a solid argument for teaching from a systems perspective.

Are you a person or student with dysgraphia (or do you know one)? I’m trying to make an app that helps with Math. It’s not even beta yet, but if you can kick the tires and give me notes and share it around, that would be helpful: dysgraphimath.com

Coming back from New Zealand to Singapore really does feel like two different visions of what life can be like. I wish more Americans could travel (or wanted to).

Breaking News: I have repealed gravity and no longer need to buy airplane tickets.

And, also, I sadly expect the eventual democratic nominee to have a relatively feckless position on this topic 🙄🙄🙄

For sure. I’m voting g for whomever is pushing criminal sanctions for anyone who has abetted this regime in any official capacity.

I’m not clear why we should expect America to reckon with the current horrors given the track record of not reckoning with all preceding horrors…

I’m sorry this happened, both the inculcation of a belief in math deficiency and the one around the notion of “good” STEM programs.

e got talking about how some people were selfish and some weren’t, and the difference between right-wing people and left-wing people. You said it all came down to imagination. Conversative people don’t usually have very much, so they find it hard to imagine what life is like for people who aren’t just like them. They can only empathise with people just like they are: the same sex, the same age, the same class, the same golf club or nation or race or whatever. Liberals can pretty much empathise with anybody else, no matter how different they are. It’s all to do with imagination, empathy and imagination are almost the same thing, and it’s why artists, creative people, are almost all liberals, left-leaning." a character in The Steep Approach to Garbadale: Iain Banks.

Whenever this question comes up, I think of this quote by Iain Banks (RIP):

There’s only so much stupid that most people can take before they lose their stupid tolerance.

Why is the Chair Empty? On requisite humility for entering leaders

I’ve had this week’s meditation on leadership ready-to-go for a few months now. But I’ve been writing in other topics of late. Here, during Interim Semester week, it’s has bubbled to the top of the queue: davidknuffke.medium.com/why-is-the-c...

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

My greetings to you from our Interim Semester school trip to the North Island, where we saw 2 juvenile orca and an adult about 15 meters off the shoreline at the beach in Tauranga today.

How eagerly Big Tech has given itself over to MAGA-fascism is really, really worth writing down in the big book of never forgetting. I am not super-hopeful that it will actually be remembered.