For podcasts, do you prefer to listen to the audio version or watch the video version? Or does it depend on the specific podcast?
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Almost always the audio. Unless visuals are an important part of it.
Nice! I love watching bees! And butterflies are a bonus.
So true. #runstr nostr:note109y3uqt3n7qllzaw08vyjpqetl9rvzku5x02ynywaukeu22c4evse3p47h
I donāt even know what āgentle parentingā means.
No, I was not driving when I took this picture. It was before we left. Lol
Last week was a long one. Busy from morning until night with my wife and I work schedules opposite each other most of the week. Busy time of the school year on top of it as our trimester ends next year. Had work and meeting for the decision education fellowship Iām a part of. And on and on.
But, it makes me more grateful for the weekend and to have a bit of mental space.
Hope you all have a great weekend.
#coffeechain 
World War II: From the Front Lines on Netflix is fantastic.
For sure. The rate of change of the rate of change is making it so we donāt have a choice in many ways. But Iām fully in support of trying to be in as few experiments as possible - especially with my kids. Lol
I know what you mean. Iāve heard different perspectives on how much a teacher should share about their opinions on issues. I come down here - a teacher should keep their personal views as much to themselves as possible. Obviously itās impossible to be perfectly objective or to perfectly hide your biases (some you wonāt even be aware of). And your values will impact what you emphasize in each lesson and maybe information you include and leave out. But even with all of that, most teachers can do a pretty good job of keeping the kids uncertain of their opinion if they want to.
The thing is, even if you preface your opinion with āIām not saying you should believe this, but this is what I believeā you will impact their views, at least slightly. Youāre the person at the front of the room, the adult who they (hopefully) respect and your opinion carries weight.
āBecause let me introduce you toā¦
the hell that is AI-generated childrenās YouTube content.
YouTube for kids is quickly becoming a stream of synthetic content. Much of it now consists of wooden digital characters interacting in short nonsensical clips without continuity or purpose. Toddlers are forced to sit and watch this runoff because no one is paying attention. And the toddlers themselves canāt discern that characters come and go and that the plots donāt make sense and that itās all just incoherent dream-slop. The titles donāt match the actual content, and titles that are all the parents likely check, because they grew up in a culture where if a YouTube video said BABY LEARNING VIDEOS and had a million views it was likely okay. Now, some of the nonsense AI-generated videos aimed at toddlers have tens of millions of views.ā
And later in the articleā¦
āAll around the nation there are toddlers plunked down in front of iPads being subjected to synthetic runoff, deprived of human contact even in the media they consume. Thereās no other word but dystopian. Might not actual human-generated cultural content normally contain cognitive micro-nutrients (like cohesive plots and sentences, detailed complexity, reasons for transitions, an overall gestalt, etc) that the human mind actually needs? Weāre conducting this experiment live. For the first time in history developing brains are being fed choppy low-grade and cheaply-produced synthetic data created en masse by generative AI, instead of being fed with real human culture. No one knows the effects, and no one appears to care. Especially not the companies, becauseā¦ā
https://open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel/p/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by?r=7ew6d&utm_medium=ios
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Iāve seen those in stores. So cool!
One problem, I think, with value for value on Nostr is that the currency is increasing in value so people will be incentivized to hold on to sats.
Youāre right! And critical thinking without a political motivation is even more rare. Sometimes teachers say they want to teach critical thinking and it really means they want to teach how think like their worldview. To put it simply, I disagree.
I designed and have taught a math elective called Critical Thinking for the last four years that wasn't going to run this year because not enough kids signed up. BUT, I got word on Friday that there is space in the schedule and if I can recruit enough kids (and it fits in their schedule) then it'll run in the spring! I'm cautiously excited - but there's work to be done - so I have to log off for a bit and focus. Have a great start to your week!
#education #teaching
Side note: My friend Will Reusch and I built a critical thinking curriculum that free to anyone who wants it. It using elements from the class I designed and would be useful for teachers but especially homeschoolers or homeschool teachers. I know there are quite a few homeschoolers and world schoolers around here. #homeschooling #worldschooling
Is there a nostr version of about.me? #asknostr