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But what does it say about this whole system when we can just click some buttons to create a fictional recommendation as an actual means of determining who is accepted to colleges? Nothing good will come of this.

I'm hoping that my insistence on writing letters about people I know by using my own words will end up as a positive for them ("wow, the teacher seems to have actually written this himself, they must be great!")

I was curious about what kind of crap the rec letter generator would spit out so I asked it to make one (which I did *not* submit) and it basically made the student out to be greater than Einstein and Gandhi, and hallucinated a project that never happened

Maybe Rob Schneider is a 1000 year old vampire?
(No, I still wouldn't watch that movie even if you riffed it.)

Hang it in the Louvre

I use "radial" to define an axis, and I try to avoid saying "centripetal" because of the historical baggage that makes folks think it's a new force to draw on diagrams. For AP, I will use both terms to describe acceleration but not force.

But also good luck in game 5

I wouldn't drink it at any temperature, but to each their own

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Thank you!

I appreciate the effort to help

Does the roller coaster not do that anymore?

Do any physics teacher folks know of any PER papers or papers in TPT about the use of/effectiveness of TIPERs? I thought I had some PDFs somewhere but can't find 🎢
(apologies to everyone else for the jargon)

At our school Ss can choose chem or forensics as their 3rd year science. I’ve long advocated for a stronger push for chem as the ratio has become 1:3 with as many as six sections of forensics in a year.

This has been my first year of teaching forensics and I’ll admit, I’m having a blast. BUT 1/8

The "things implode" I was referring to was political choices by our government, not infection rates. I'm aware of high infection rates

My employer has a flu/Covid shot clinic at work next week, holding out hope that things don't implode in OH within the next week.
I'm glad to hear the 11 yo was easy; I've been worried about being able to get my kids' shots

Fun fact: bonafidemasks.com has a 25% off sale (code BFM25) with free shipping, where you can get not just masks but also Covid tests. I have a good supply of masks already but I just re-upped my family's stock of tests. $45 for 10 tests.
Not a paid promo, I just think public health is a good thing

I have amazing #ITeachPhysics and #TTRPG news to share! Adventures with Emmy (AwE), a STEM education tabletop roleplaying game, has been AWARDED FUNDING by the National Science Foundation.

In AwE, mathematician and physicist Emmy Noether invites you to learn science by exploring imaginative worlds.

Ohio is an uphill climb to vote in a candidate who's not a complete ghoul, but I'm not going to roll over and give up in advance

Gotcha. I'm focusing on the thread by a candidate for governor who is married to a public school teacher and who supports public educ5

Why a sad face for having the potential for a governor who won't sabotage public education?

Exactly what I planned to say

Ohio, dare to dream that we could choose a governor who would support public education rather than undermine it 🍎

Selfie of a black Tshirt being worn by a white man with stubble on his chin. Shirt says "Who can do science: a pie chart". The pie shows a rainbow of colors. The key shows that rainbow matches "everyone"

Hey physics teacher 🎢 friends, let's all remember that if you're not explicitly, regularly communicating that everyone has a place and a voice in your classroom, not all of your students will see themselves as having a place and a voice in your classroom #nerdytshirtFriday

There's a lot of money to be made selling "education" materials, therefore obviously the only solution is that the only materials we can consider high quality are the ones sold by a vendor because that's how capitalism works

The number of times in college I answered "what are you doing Friday night?" with "defragging my hard drive" surely requires multiple hands to count

Yes, this is the one I remember! Thanks!

Like, I tell it an equation of motion or a data table or something and it spits out a motion map. Did I dream this? Does this website exist?