Ryan Fullerton, Ed.D.

“Human Beings! Human Beings!” An Open Letter to Educators on the Dangers of AI A high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor denounces AI as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

This summer, I took myself to the beach for two days & wrote a letter to my fellow educators about “AI.”

My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”

Welp.

I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").

There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try

I switched to Sling because YouTube TV didn’t offer anything better but charged so much more.

A promising experience today:

Students saw a short news broadcast about AI. Afterward, I asked them to raise their hands if they thought AI was making life better. Only one student out of roughly 30 did so. Then I asked how many thought AI was making life worse, and every other hand went up.

We cannot legitimize AI in education.

I hope educators know they aren’t anti-progress or stuck in the past if they reject AI. There are too many ethical and educational problems with it for it to become a part of school life for any reason.

YouTube video by Professor Benjamin Park Diving Into The Archives Like A Historian

I've been doing a youtube series that seeks to pull back the curtain on historical work. My "How to Think Like a Historian" videos have included publication, primary source dissection, & historiography. My newest video seeks to demystify the process of archival research. I hope it's helpful.

Nope.

We learned last month that the State of Iowa will no longer fund or publish their peer-reviewed journal Annals of Iowa, which is now looking for an institutional home. Here we share our letter of concern, and we hope others will join us in supporting state and local history! 🗃️ 🧵

Reposting this as some education entities lean heavily into AI use this summer. Education needs to stay human focused. AI steals thinking and processing opportunities that students need.

My brother and I Fenway Park.

A baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston.

A rainy night at Fenway for MLB park #17 in my question to watch a game at all 30. Easily sliding into my top five.

There can be no republic if there’s no such thing as public good.

When you study history at all, you realize that the everyone is on their own and only responsible for themselves mantra leads to worse outcomes for everyone. Part of living in the society is trying to improve things for everyone and working together for the betterment of all. #sschat

The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

Said it before: This was my biggest worry when I had the idea for my dissertation - I was so excited about it but also worried someone had already done it. I spent a lot of time scouring publications in my field finding anything similar. Nothing the same, but definitely helped the lit review!

At the very least, this is the vision of what I would like it to be, but I also know the extent to which research is a regular part of practice widely varies educator to educator.

I think of teaching as having a growing body of scientific research and knowledge in the aggregate, and the art/craft comes in applying that science in practice in a “clinical” (classroom or school) setting effectively. I think of teaching as scientifically-informed clinical practice.

Just got the email that my dissertation has been published to ProQuest!

Nothing like a night watching my all time favorite Royal get inducted into the @royals.com Hall of Fame. A man who gave 100% of what he had to give that day, 100% of the days. I admired Alex Gordon immensely his whole career. His jersey hangs in my office for a reason.

“But it takes more time? good friend, it does; and it takes more time to solve a problem in arithmetic, than to read its answer; and more time to read a Shakespeare, than to read that Shakespeare was the greatest dramatist of all the ages; and more time, finally, to read the American constition and the American newspaper, and make up your own mind how to vote your own vote,  than it does to be put into a ‘block of five.’- *But what is time for?*” Mary Sheldon Barnes, The Academy: A Journal of Secondary Education, Volume IV, 1889-90, 291.

19th century educator Mary Sheldon Barnes here provides a powerful justification for why we should wrestle with original documents, and also a fair answer to AI enthusiasts looking to outsource critical thinking. #histed. #skystorians

Beautiful stadium. I’ve seen games at 16 MLB stadiums, and this one is a solid one, as much as I hate the Cards.

U.S. History Research Toolkit Below are collections of free, open-access digitized primary sources related to the history of the United States. (The focus is not on secondary sources or instructional materials.) Items in each cate...

Just updated my U.S. History Research Toolkit on @padlet.com. It gathers links to digitized primary source collections for students in research courses—NO login required. Check it out! 🗃️

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This is really difficult. I’ve filed some emotionally taxing reports before, and while doing my job doesn’t necessitate follow-up information from DCF, it’s really hard to move forward knowing nothing at all about the outcome of the investigation when I still see the kid every day.

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - WE ARE BACK! 🤩

I almost didn’t attend my hooding ceremony last weekend, but I’m glad I did, and I’m realizing why - in a time of such rampant anti-intellectualism, it felt SO good to be at a ceremony specifically to honor intellectual achievement and the value it adds to our society.