Jen
@thereallilmayne.bsky.social
English teacher (NBCT), introvert, and trying to balance those two personalities at all times.
Anyone know how to get Hulu to show the whole South Park episode before rolling over into beavis & butthead? We pay for no commercials which basically never applies. Then watch 15 min of commercials in a show I wanted to see. Then get cut off before the end. Because… timing??? Cmon…. Do better.
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Anyone know how to get Hulu to show the whole South Park episode before rolling over into beavis & butthead? We pay for no commercials which basically never applies. Then watch 15 min of commercials in a show I wanted to see. Then get cut off before the end. Because… timing??? Cmon…. Do better.
Super excited to be co-leading a book study at our school around @mrrablin.bsky.social book! Trying to bring some human element to the near total AI takeover of our PD options. Have been using learning progressions modeled off this work and just can’t say enough about how it’s changed my approach.
November 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Super excited to be co-leading a book study at our school around @mrrablin.bsky.social book! Trying to bring some human element to the near total AI takeover of our PD options. Have been using learning progressions modeled off this work and just can’t say enough about how it’s changed my approach.
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When multiple students say stuff like “You aren’t going to tell us how many paragraphs our paper has to have or how many pieces of evidence we have to have per paragraph? But that’s how we were trained!” it really shows how algorithms replaced writing well before chatbots.
It’s about pedagogy. 🤷♂️
It’s about pedagogy. 🤷♂️
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When multiple students say stuff like “You aren’t going to tell us how many paragraphs our paper has to have or how many pieces of evidence we have to have per paragraph? But that’s how we were trained!” it really shows how algorithms replaced writing well before chatbots.
It’s about pedagogy. 🤷♂️
It’s about pedagogy. 🤷♂️
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I think this is exactly what better, more-authentic resources can and should look like around AI and developing critical awareness in students and teachers alike.
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The Reckoning: Sora 2 and the Year We Said Enough
"Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?"
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October 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I think this is exactly what better, more-authentic resources can and should look like around AI and developing critical awareness in students and teachers alike.
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This really hits home to me as I prep for a day of Red Zone after two weeks of fantasy losses.
I should not be in charge of day to day ops of any NFL team despite my now decade of keeper league experience.
What a great metaphor.
I should not be in charge of day to day ops of any NFL team despite my now decade of keeper league experience.
What a great metaphor.
I feel like in the same way fantasy football changes how you watch the games themselves, standardized testing data changes how you see the classroom.
And we have way too many "fantasy football managers" making decisions in education.
And we have way too many "fantasy football managers" making decisions in education.
October 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This really hits home to me as I prep for a day of Red Zone after two weeks of fantasy losses.
I should not be in charge of day to day ops of any NFL team despite my now decade of keeper league experience.
What a great metaphor.
I should not be in charge of day to day ops of any NFL team despite my now decade of keeper league experience.
What a great metaphor.
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To pick up something a student actually wrote as a teacher, adding notes and feedback to return back to them?
Anyone who thinks forfeiting this, even partially, isn't a substantial loss...
I don't know what to tell you.
Anyone who thinks forfeiting this, even partially, isn't a substantial loss...
I don't know what to tell you.
September 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
To pick up something a student actually wrote as a teacher, adding notes and feedback to return back to them?
Anyone who thinks forfeiting this, even partially, isn't a substantial loss...
I don't know what to tell you.
Anyone who thinks forfeiting this, even partially, isn't a substantial loss...
I don't know what to tell you.
Yuppppp
Biggest takeaway from Week 1 of teaching this year: how absolutely divorced the conversation around education is from what actually takes place in the classroom.
Way too many folks not in the classroom talking loudly about a classroom that they no longer (or never did) understand...
Way too many folks not in the classroom talking loudly about a classroom that they no longer (or never did) understand...
September 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Yuppppp
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Technologist Victor Riparbelli sees a future where students interact with AI avatars rather than read and write. We ask teachers and kids what they think and how they're using AI right now.
Will AI avatars eventually teach our kids?
Technologist Victor Riparbelli sees a future where students interact with AI avatars rather than read and write. We ask teachers and kids what they think and how they're using AI right now.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Technologist Victor Riparbelli sees a future where students interact with AI avatars rather than read and write. We ask teachers and kids what they think and how they're using AI right now.
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Shout this to the rooftops: "PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY ARE NOT EDUCATIONAL VALUES."
When we encourage students to use LLMs to complete their work, I think we're signaling approval for alienation from the experiences of humans. I know that these tools can be used "productively," but productivity and efficiency are not educational values. We must encourage deeper work.
August 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Shout this to the rooftops: "PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY ARE NOT EDUCATIONAL VALUES."
AP article throwing low key shade at @robmcelhenny.bsky.social - I love Ryan Reynolds too, but this third season even felt more Rob focused in parts like that last episode for sure. Unfair to Rob I think. But I’m super into this show and have been a Rob fan for years too, so 🤷♀️ up the town!
August 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
AP article throwing low key shade at @robmcelhenny.bsky.social - I love Ryan Reynolds too, but this third season even felt more Rob focused in parts like that last episode for sure. Unfair to Rob I think. But I’m super into this show and have been a Rob fan for years too, so 🤷♀️ up the town!
Yes- this! As I looked over plans that end-of-year me made (end-of-year and start-of-year me are NOT the same), considered past years’ work, and planned with a colleague, I simplified. So much more excited for this unit and feeling much more focused now! My focus = their focus.
🎯 less is more, and if you find yourself not feeling purposeful/connected in evaluating student work, almost always it is a sign that students didn't feel that purposeful/connected in the work itself
August 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Yes- this! As I looked over plans that end-of-year me made (end-of-year and start-of-year me are NOT the same), considered past years’ work, and planned with a colleague, I simplified. So much more excited for this unit and feeling much more focused now! My focus = their focus.
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also: the scary thing about AI right now is not so much that it is capable of replacing the learning that students need and deserve in the classroom but that a decision-maker several rungs up might think it is capable of replacing the learning that students need and deserve
either way, though...
either way, though...
the scary thing about AI right now is not so much that it is capable of replacing your job but that your boss might think it is capable of replacing your job
either way the end result is you don’t have a job
either way the end result is you don’t have a job
August 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
also: the scary thing about AI right now is not so much that it is capable of replacing the learning that students need and deserve in the classroom but that a decision-maker several rungs up might think it is capable of replacing the learning that students need and deserve
either way, though...
either way, though...
@crooked.com The “what a day” newsletter is a welcome way to read news and still laugh. But please edit. This English teacher is struggling to keep overlooking very catchable typos and mechanics errors (I don’t think you mean “spurned” tonight). I’m available for editing jobs though. Lmk :)
July 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
@crooked.com The “what a day” newsletter is a welcome way to read news and still laugh. But please edit. This English teacher is struggling to keep overlooking very catchable typos and mechanics errors (I don’t think you mean “spurned” tonight). I’m available for editing jobs though. Lmk :)
So grateful for this conversation by two educators I really respect. Will be returning to Tyler’s post also. Covered so many things I’ve thought about and articulated some things I hadn’t been able to so I can think more clearly about them.
open.spotify.com/episode/20wb...
open.spotify.com/episode/20wb...
Let's Talk About Grading
The Broken Copier · Episode
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July 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
So grateful for this conversation by two educators I really respect. Will be returning to Tyler’s post also. Covered so many things I’ve thought about and articulated some things I hadn’t been able to so I can think more clearly about them.
open.spotify.com/episode/20wb...
open.spotify.com/episode/20wb...
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"Sit down. Inhale. Exhale."
#PoemADayJuly begins today!
Our first poem is "To The Young Who Want To Die" by the all-time great Gwendolyn Brooks, with its remarkable opening and closing. (And everything within it, too!)
Let's talk poetry. Together.
#PoemADayJuly begins today!
Our first poem is "To The Young Who Want To Die" by the all-time great Gwendolyn Brooks, with its remarkable opening and closing. (And everything within it, too!)
Let's talk poetry. Together.
July 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"Sit down. Inhale. Exhale."
#PoemADayJuly begins today!
Our first poem is "To The Young Who Want To Die" by the all-time great Gwendolyn Brooks, with its remarkable opening and closing. (And everything within it, too!)
Let's talk poetry. Together.
#PoemADayJuly begins today!
Our first poem is "To The Young Who Want To Die" by the all-time great Gwendolyn Brooks, with its remarkable opening and closing. (And everything within it, too!)
Let's talk poetry. Together.
Took a page from @marcusluther.bsky.social and had my 10th graders do a gallery walk & leave affirming comments on each others’ found poems before reflecting on powerful word choice they noticed. 2 of 3 sections so far. Ungraded. Near total buy in. Great day in the classroom.
May 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Took a page from @marcusluther.bsky.social and had my 10th graders do a gallery walk & leave affirming comments on each others’ found poems before reflecting on powerful word choice they noticed. 2 of 3 sections so far. Ungraded. Near total buy in. Great day in the classroom.
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This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10
May 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10
Already was using The Writer’s Practice in college writing, got to pick a book to receive with dept money, and then received a duplicate book from a friend. So my whole school TBR list is thanks to @biblioracle.bsky.social now. What a happy accident.
May 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Already was using The Writer’s Practice in college writing, got to pick a book to receive with dept money, and then received a duplicate book from a friend. So my whole school TBR list is thanks to @biblioracle.bsky.social now. What a happy accident.
Me tonight- my last night of spring break: *catches up on last week’s Hacks episode, kills 5 min watching some NBA playoffs, tunes in for episode 2 of Last of Us.*
Me now, in bed: “😳 do I… need to call out??”
Me now, in bed: “😳 do I… need to call out??”
April 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Me tonight- my last night of spring break: *catches up on last week’s Hacks episode, kills 5 min watching some NBA playoffs, tunes in for episode 2 of Last of Us.*
Me now, in bed: “😳 do I… need to call out??”
Me now, in bed: “😳 do I… need to call out??”
Background knowledge matters so much. It is what levels playing fields. Not test prep or EdTech. How can we provide students with more background on a variety of topics? How can we augment the social capital they show up with? These are the questions I want to spend time on. Not how to include AI.
April 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Background knowledge matters so much. It is what levels playing fields. Not test prep or EdTech. How can we provide students with more background on a variety of topics? How can we augment the social capital they show up with? These are the questions I want to spend time on. Not how to include AI.
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I get it: the negative stories will always travel further than the positive ones, and there is without question work to do.
But: folks outside schools have no idea how many genuinely incredible things are happening in schools.
We need to make those stories louder.
But: folks outside schools have no idea how many genuinely incredible things are happening in schools.
We need to make those stories louder.
April 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I get it: the negative stories will always travel further than the positive ones, and there is without question work to do.
But: folks outside schools have no idea how many genuinely incredible things are happening in schools.
We need to make those stories louder.
But: folks outside schools have no idea how many genuinely incredible things are happening in schools.
We need to make those stories louder.