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Education grad student and former math teacher behind ProvocaTeach – a spicy little blog about making education better. I believe in play, openness, flexibility, care, & sufferance. Read my work at https://provocateach.art

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Also I highly doubt she was in the room watching the massage lol

23.08.2025 04:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'll give you that AI has us beat on speed and quantity right now, and that the technology has tremendous potential to advance. But right now it just ain't the same

12.08.2025 23:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

That's fine, but humanity does. We produce great poems like this all the time. Auden didn't just write 1 poem, and there's an Auden for every literary era.

What is defined as "great" merely changes from time to time, language to language, curriculum to curriculum...

12.08.2025 23:45 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives

Dawg, just read "September 1, 1939" and try to claim AI is producing this level of quality consistently.
poets.org/poem/septemb...

12.08.2025 23:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Bro, count the syllables. Especially near the end, they make no sense

12.08.2025 23:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Comic. [long message with unreadable text that includes lots of punctuation marks like semi colons and em dashes as well as citations.] Highlighted line at the bottom zoomed in reads: Not ChatGPT output—I’m just like this. [caption] I’ve had to start adding this disclaimer to my messages.

Comic. [long message with unreadable text that includes lots of punctuation marks like semi colons and em dashes as well as citations.] Highlighted line at the bottom zoomed in reads: Not ChatGPT output—I’m just like this. [caption] I’ve had to start adding this disclaimer to my messages.

Disclaimer

xkcd.com/3126/

12.08.2025 02:34 — 👍 5188    🔁 920    💬 51    📌 58

Remember 89 days ago when Trump announced that he would do "90 deals in 90 days"?

Now he says he'll get those trade deals done later.

Sure. Just like when he said he wouldn't “touch” Medicaid, and he would cut costs for families.

Donald Trump has zero credibility.

08.07.2025 20:36 — 👍 2241    🔁 383    💬 130    📌 18
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"Partial molar free energy" is so satisfying to say. Especially "partial molar". It sounds very... thermochemical 💪

08.07.2025 13:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ginger!

25.06.2025 10:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ChatGPT sure loves the “This is not just X – it’s Y” construction.

“This is not just a trivial musing from a deranged mind  – it’s a revolutionary theoretical insight.”

23.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The "I Haven't Heard About That" Strategy

07.06.2025 05:30 — 👍 76    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

Hold on babe, was there supposed to be a link?

17.05.2025 01:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was just released. It would terminate health insurance for 14 MILLION Americans.

This is not a drill. We need to fight back.

14.05.2025 00:35 — 👍 2294    🔁 722    💬 93    📌 28

Did you know? Research shows that letting students solve problems before teaching the method helps teachers learn how students think, which leads to more effective teaching. Check out the video to learn more!

youtube.com/shorts/s1dFR...

09.05.2025 20:00 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Ukraine journalist who died in Russian captivity was tortured and had her organs removed, joint media report says Russia returned Vicktoriia Roshchyna's emaciated body with signs of torture and some organs removed, possibly to hide further traces of torture, the report said.

Ukraine journalist who died in Russian captivity was tortured and had her organs removed www.cbsnews.com/news/viktori...

30.04.2025 03:21 — 👍 910    🔁 514    💬 69    📌 66

I have COVID and my car was stolen. Great start to the week 🙃

29.04.2025 21:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cognitive bias is not an excuse for permitting or cheering on injustice before your very eyes.

We have history standards for a reason. If a person failed to learn from the Holocaust, they deserve an F.

Education allows us to rise above our basest psychology, not embrace it.

14.04.2025 14:10 — 👍 88    🔁 3    💬 7    📌 0
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A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week

ERIC, the scholarly education database, will run out of funding this week.

Our field is cooked.

hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

23.04.2025 01:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I quite like them; they're a compact way of presenting kernel density plots that allows for easy visual comparison.

17.04.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would you excuse sexism in a community that is sexist (e.g. Blizzard)? Should we excuse people who cheer on the kidnapping of immigrants for constitutionally-protected speech?

How can morality be consistent in a world where "everyone was doing it" is an excuse?

14.04.2025 14:22 — 👍 58    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Cognitive bias is not an excuse for permitting or cheering on injustice before your very eyes.

We have history standards for a reason. If a person failed to learn from the Holocaust, they deserve an F.

Education allows us to rise above our basest psychology, not embrace it.

14.04.2025 14:10 — 👍 88    🔁 3    💬 7    📌 0

Good Will Hunting for sure!

14.04.2025 03:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Addressing Risks from Chris Krebs and Government Censorship MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES The Federal Government has a constitutional duty and a moral responsibility to respect and

Our loathsome and treacherous “president” is now targeting government officials for saying the 2020 election wasn’t stolen. Can’t wait to hear how the Russians justify this one!
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

10.04.2025 03:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can't wait for him to appeal it and for Roberts to say, "Actually that's fine"

08.04.2025 21:37 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”

Where is that from?

05.04.2025 00:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, they apply the death penalty much more liberally and harvest people's organs. Lots of people die from neglect too. Of course that will bring their prison population down!

04.04.2025 18:03 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People crying that visa holders don’t have the right to free speech, read the Declaration. It states that “all men” are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”. UNALIENABLE means “cannot be taken away”, and “all men” means everyone. So yes, visa holders have a right to free speech

30.03.2025 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a black shirt is dancing in front of a green background that says just do it . ALT: a man in a black shirt is dancing in front of a green background that says just do it .

Dang, I remember when "just do it" was Shia LaBeouf, and before that Nike. 😭 Way to make me feel old, kid!

30.03.2025 07:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cognitively Demanding Tasks - How Different Types of Math Problems Help Teachers Learn
YouTube video by Science of Teaching Math Cognitively Demanding Tasks - How Different Types of Math Problems Help Teachers Learn

The way we teach math shapes how students AND teachers learn! Watch how different types of math problems impact learning and instruction. Watch the full video here:
youtube.com/shorts/PgLs7...
#math #education #teaching #scienceofteachingmath

27.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

If you played "got your nose" with a NYT columnist he would run off and write a 3,000-word op-ed speculating on where you have taken his nose and what deeper plan lies beneath your baffling theft of it

24.03.2025 04:35 — 👍 552    🔁 95    💬 9    📌 3

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