🔎 humans in math classes & math in humans • 📚 STRENGTH IN NUMBERS, MOTIVATED, TEACHER LEARNING • math ed professor • she/her #EduSky #MathSky #iteachmath
the curator note said, "this double portrait became the focus of debate during a community meeting in Harlem, with some characterizing it as an inappropriate representation of Black aspiration"
"Disconnected from meaning, achievement is a particularly frantic, hellish hamster wheel. And many of those students base their sense of “achievement” on narrow goals defined by their parents, their communities, and social media, where feelings of success or failure ride on an edge."
I am really excited to moderate an upcoming panel, "Ethical Use of AI in STEM Education Research"
May 15, 2024 | 2-3:30 PM ET
Please join us!
Learn more at go.edc.org/learning-series-AI
let's play a game!
read the attached learning standard. is it for:
A. a graduate engineering program
B. a high school engineering program
C. an elementary level engineering program
I found this picture of me not paying attention during the class photo of this year's #AERA2024 fellows.
I'm in the front row on the right with my head turned away:
It was such an honor to be in this group with so many incredible scholars, including bluesky buddy @jeffgreene.bsky.social
this paragraph haunts me...
... from Cochran-Smith, M., Villegas, A. M., Abrams, L., Chavez-Moreno, L., Mills, T., & Stern, R. (2015). Critiquing Teacher Preparation Research: An Overview of the Field, Part II #EduSky
If the university does not take seriously and rigorously its role as a guardian of wider civic freedoms, as interrogator of more and more complex ethical problems, as servant and preserver of deeper democratic practices, then some other regime will do it for us, in spite of us and without us - t.m.
(major political misinformation campaigns) + (AI tools that merely aggregate what's out there) + (beliefs that AI is somehow "smart") = we're really screwed
I write with @juliaangwin.com about our study that showed 50% of AI models’ responses to questions voters might ask were inaccurate.
Government must hold companies accountable, including through the privacy law called for by POTUS in his powerful #SOTU speech.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
quote skeet w the fictional character you are in your head
i'm obviously way older than this, but we don't have middle age characters like lindsay weir
ANY EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION THAT DOES NOT PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR TEACHER LEARNING OR ADEQUATE TIME FOR THE WORK WILL FAIL, AND TEACHERS WILL BE BLAMED FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO RISE ABOVE THEIR CONDITIONS
Tell us a perfect album that came out when you were 16:
(perfect when I was 16, perfect for 1995; so perfect I can't stand to hear any part of it ever again)
Next up in the CADRE Learning Series: Rural Partnerships.
Come learn about the opportunities and challenges of partnership research in Rural Schools. Part 1 of the webinar is this Thursday, 1/24 from 12:30 - 2:00 PM Eastern Time
More info at go.edc.org/learning-series-rural