Pearl Harris

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social's latest in the Chronicle - on welcoming AI critics to the table when deliberating on policy - is spot on: www.chronicle.com/article/some...

This Year, We All Realized That Kids Aren’t Reading Books in School. Only the Right Is Offering a Solution. Common Core and the College Board are my enemies. But the classical education movement is not my friend.

I'm late to this, but @annieabrams.bsky.social recently wrote a great piece on the stakes involved in reading and teaching literature, and it's essential reading for understanding what the "classical education" and charter-school "great books" people are actually trying to do.

Hmmm, it's like everyone wants to do global history without actually doing the work 🤔
(I, too, get grumpy about this)

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled Egg! Happy Glorious 25th of May everyone. How do they rise up?

A 2.5 inch screw extends well past the end of a plastic wall anchor. The anchor and screw were to attach a towel rod. The anchor is split in half

Doing some home repair and this is just dumb...like why would you think this is how to do this?

At my institution we have similar arguments being made from colleagues in the tech/science/business side. It is frustratingly shallow and intellectually short sighted

As an elder millennial I feel like Word is my version of peak 'back in my day'
Ie - back in my day we had to format our footnotes by checking a book!
Back in my day there wasn't an auto save function!

Kids these days don't appreciate how much easier it is to write a paper 😆

a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay

Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America."

Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"

It is a good time to see that part of the country...(Less fun in say July and August when scenery is just walls of green and the temps are miserable)

Today in history class we discussed that societies in the past generally did not have freedom of speech and the construction of roads was as much for armies as for trade...
Thank goodness we don't live in that era...

Every day on the internet makes it abundantly clear that some people have never had a single person turn around and say to them, ‘Cite your sources’ because, and I say this with every ounce of love I can muster as a teacher: while you are entitled to your opinion, that does not make it fact.

Lacey says "throw the Frisbee mahm!!"

A student gave me dry erase markers and it's seriously the best teacher present ever ❤️

Bald eagles on the Potomac...for such big birds they have such a cute chirp...

Holly on the beach

Looks like Young's River Falls outside of Astoria ❤️