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Remember the Human. English Teacher, PBL Coach, OVEC KY Teacher Navigator, dad, admin cert, teaching in Louisville, KY at The Academy @ Shawnee
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Brewer: mostly coffee, some tea @breweredu.bsky.social · Jan 18
"When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost, and won."

Source: Three dads in an interfaith meeting talking about the weather and politics in 2025.
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helenbranswell.bsky.social
Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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kyedrpg.bsky.social
Less than a week to go for our FREE PD on #ttrpgs in education! It's not too late to register, all educators are welcome! If you're within driving distance of Western KY, please join Kalli and me:
forms.gle/KunAi4UEuSNp...
#kyedrpg #gamebasedlearning #KYILN #AllinKY #dnd #dnd5e #EduSky #LevelUpEDU
A flier for "Dungeons & Dragons," an educational PD on TTRPGs in the classroom.
February 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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heymrsbond.com
I don’t have a fancy lesson I delivered about the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow Before I showed it, I instructed my students to write down three words and document when they noticed them:
•imagery
•symbolism
•message

We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +
February 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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watsonedtech.bsky.social
LIMITED SEATS LEFT! Register today, and come with us as OVEC facilitates a visit to JCPS Western STEM Magnet High School's new eSports Arena & learns more about their "Game Design & Development" program! #AllinKY #KYDLC #KYILN #esports #STEM #kygoplay #EduSky

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A flier about a visit to Western STEM Magnet High School on February 13, 2025.
January 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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watsonedtech.bsky.social
Coming summer 2025: a FREE "#AI for Kentucky Educators" conference, hosted by OVEC on June 4! This will launch a series of dates where we will meet over the 2025-2026 school year to learn from and beside each other. Register today!
forms.gle/hoDZDLaRb5BL...

#AllinKY #KYDLC #KyLchat #EduSky
A flier for the "AI for Kentucky Educators" conference series.
February 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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mc2x.bsky.social
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake

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NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
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February 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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watsonedtech.bsky.social
Dr. Fletcher, the Kentucky education commissioner, starting us off in Shelbyville for a town hall on the educational work ahead. #AllinKY #UnitedWeLearnKY
Dr. Fletcher, the Education Commissioner for Kentucky.
January 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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willmckinley.bsky.social
PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.

This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.

Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations

www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video
PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…
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January 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
breweredu.bsky.social
biobot.io/risk-reports...

Be sure to wash your hands out there.
Respiratory Risk Report: Week of December 30, 2024
We test wastewater nationwide for influenza A and B, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and SARS-CoV-2. In this series, we’ll guide you through the wealth of data we’ve gathered to shed light on emerg...
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January 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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covingtonedu.bsky.social
A revelation that hit me during my conversation w/ @pernille.bsky.social is the tension & pressure of training American teachers to be superheroes needed to rescue kids from failing economic systems while ignoring those systemic failures. The demand to be superhuman is ultimately dehumanizing.
December 12, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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watsonedtech.bsky.social
Happy to see Kentucky's David Cook in the first Fireside Chat with Virgel Hammonds (CEO of Aurora Institute) about local learning ecosystems!
#KYDL #AllinKY #KYILN #competencybasededucation #EduSky

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Aurora Institue Fireside Chat Episode 1: David Cook
YouTube video by Aurora Institute
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January 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
breweredu.bsky.social
Lol, if you don't know me here's a shorthand for my beliefs/biases

People: Thomas Merton, Howard Zinn, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, James Loewen, Virginia Woolf, James Finley

Things: NASA, Cats, AI, cooking, quantum compute

Ideas: Contemplation, Ethics, Pedagogy, Edu Law, Linguistics, Rhetoric
January 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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emollick.bsky.social
The raw chain of thought from DeepSeek is fascinating, really reads like a human thinking out loud. Charming and strange.
January 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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crystalmwatson.bsky.social
DEI is not gone just because they disband a funky lil program or department. Keep breathing life into inclusion and equity. We have to stop waiting for “them” to give us permission to see the humanity in others.
January 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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covingtonedu.bsky.social
It's wild that the Bloom study about 1:1 tutoring has been around for over 40 years, teachers have been advocating for increased staff & small class sizes the entire time, yet it's re-emerged as the TechBro mantra to answer education inequality & "democratization" with AI tutors. 😵‍💫
January 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.

Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾
screenshot of a Tumblr post from user ecofear yelling "what is HAPPENING" in response to a screenshot of a quotetweet from user @Ovichknox reading "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said "yeah i got chatgpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read" which is replying to a tweet from @alz_zyd reading "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt l got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred…" Followed by a a reblog from tumblr use moonglade-poetess reading "Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree: Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAl shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.
January 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.
A four-panel comic called Instinct is Weird. In panel 1, a yellow warbler looks at a beautiful nest in a shrub and says "I made this for some reason". In panel 2, there are five eggs in the nest and she says "these are my smooth round children". In panel 3 an egg has hatched into a yelling hatchling, and she says "Oh no now it's loud". In panel 4 she looks distressed as five hatchlings now fill the nest, begging for food, and she says "help".
January 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
breweredu.bsky.social
"When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost, and won."

Source: Three dads in an interfaith meeting talking about the weather and politics in 2025.
January 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
This is a perfect sentence:

"All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."
January 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
One thing the TikTok ban discourse has not included is that many TikTok creators privately do not like TikTok, which of course they’re not saying because none of us want it banned.

It’s a brutal creative ecosystem that extracts from creators until they burnout and then they are replaced.
January 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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larryferlazzo.bsky.social
Your regular reminder of this great feed of 300 English Language Learner educators. Check out if you're on it and, if not, and you teach ELLs, let me know and I'll add you to it! bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
breweredu.bsky.social
Alright this one got me good.
schooley.bsky.social Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · Jan 17
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
streaks of rapid unscheduled disassembly in the sky
January 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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newyorker.com
We commonly associate James Baldwin with the land of his birth, America, and with the land of his expatriation, France. But a fascinating new exhibit focusses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that, in his words, saved his life.
Refinding James Baldwin
We commonly associate the writer with the land of his birth—America—and with the land of his expatriation, France. But a fascinating new exhibit focusses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that...
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January 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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jcpsdep.bsky.social
Happy New Year! Please enjoy the January 2025 Edition of our Envision Equity newsletter.

Winter Recap:
Take What You can Tote
Adopt-A-family

And more!
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January 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM