Lisa Ann Gates
@cohslgates.bsky.social
Retired teacher but not retired from the world of life, learning, and education
She/her
"If anybody asks you where you're coming from, say Love"--The Avett Brothers
She/her
"If anybody asks you where you're coming from, say Love"--The Avett Brothers
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The National Park Service is introducing a digital annual pass that charges foreign visitors $170 more than United States residents across the federal recreation system.
National parks announce ‘America-first’ upcharges for foreign visitors
The National Park Service's new America-first pricing policy will see foreign visitors pay more to access popular national parks, including Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The National Park Service is introducing a digital annual pass that charges foreign visitors $170 more than United States residents across the federal recreation system.
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I feel like this is the article I've been waiting for!
If you are an English teacher feeling frustrated with how to handle the AI era, this is a worthy read, thoughtful and pragmatic and full of hope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
If you are an English teacher feeling frustrated with how to handle the AI era, this is a worthy read, thoughtful and pragmatic and full of hope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I feel like this is the article I've been waiting for!
If you are an English teacher feeling frustrated with how to handle the AI era, this is a worthy read, thoughtful and pragmatic and full of hope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
If you are an English teacher feeling frustrated with how to handle the AI era, this is a worthy read, thoughtful and pragmatic and full of hope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn www.npr.org/sections/sho...
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Trump directs science agencies to embrace AI
Trump directs science agencies to embrace AI
The Department of Energy will open up its data sets and equipment to outside researchers looking to tinker with AI tools.
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trump directs science agencies to embrace AI
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"Without prompting, a quiet student from the back of the classroom stood up, walked over to me, and gave me a hug. In front of his classmates, he told me that we all get stressed, and it was going to be okay."
As always, read @mrneibauer.bsky.social.
adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/i-would-pr...
As always, read @mrneibauer.bsky.social.
adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/i-would-pr...
I Would Prefer Not To
Time is a funny thing.
adrianneibauer.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"Without prompting, a quiet student from the back of the classroom stood up, walked over to me, and gave me a hug. In front of his classmates, he told me that we all get stressed, and it was going to be okay."
As always, read @mrneibauer.bsky.social.
adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/i-would-pr...
As always, read @mrneibauer.bsky.social.
adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/i-would-pr...
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Why ChatGPT for Teachers Might Make Things Worse
I've spent the morning with the this new product and I have concerns...
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-chatgp...
I've spent the morning with the this new product and I have concerns...
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-chatgp...
Why ChatGPT for Teachers Might Make Things Worse
OpenAI have just released ChatGPT for Teachers which I have just spent the morning looking at it and I have concerns.
carlhendrick.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Why ChatGPT for Teachers Might Make Things Worse
I've spent the morning with the this new product and I have concerns...
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-chatgp...
I've spent the morning with the this new product and I have concerns...
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-chatgp...
Tons lost. Ts gain insight & subtleties from more experienced Ts & colleagues to apply in their practice w/Ss. If planning is not done, Ts don't understand the academic moves they want their Ss to make, the thinking behind it. How do Ts explain the pedagogy to the parents if they didn't write it?
2. What do teachers lose in terms of subject and pedagogical knowledge when they don't plan curriculum and lessons themselves?
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Tons lost. Ts gain insight & subtleties from more experienced Ts & colleagues to apply in their practice w/Ss. If planning is not done, Ts don't understand the academic moves they want their Ss to make, the thinking behind it. How do Ts explain the pedagogy to the parents if they didn't write it?
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2. What do teachers lose in terms of subject and pedagogical knowledge when they don't plan curriculum and lessons themselves?
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
2. What do teachers lose in terms of subject and pedagogical knowledge when they don't plan curriculum and lessons themselves?
As a teacher, this information was absolutely critical w/ decisions I made moving forward in lessons and reteaching. Seeing their errors and HOW they made them guided me in how to support going in the right direction. I need to KNOW my students' thinking to engage w/ them.
3. What do teachers lose when they don't mark student work? What does this mean for formative assessment?
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
As a teacher, this information was absolutely critical w/ decisions I made moving forward in lessons and reteaching. Seeing their errors and HOW they made them guided me in how to support going in the right direction. I need to KNOW my students' thinking to engage w/ them.
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Poetrye, theatre, storyes, daunse, art, scholarlye researche about literature, historye, and language -- all of these thinges mattir more now, not less.
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Poetrye, theatre, storyes, daunse, art, scholarlye researche about literature, historye, and language -- all of these thinges mattir more now, not less.
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As one of the people who could not help approaching @biblioracle.bsky.social and expressing to him how much his work has shaped my pedagogy, this reflection sums up my experience from #NCTE25.
Students and teachers crave more and AI cannot and will not be sufficient to fulfill those needs.
Students and teachers crave more and AI cannot and will not be sufficient to fulfill those needs.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
As one of the people who could not help approaching @biblioracle.bsky.social and expressing to him how much his work has shaped my pedagogy, this reflection sums up my experience from #NCTE25.
Students and teachers crave more and AI cannot and will not be sufficient to fulfill those needs.
Students and teachers crave more and AI cannot and will not be sufficient to fulfill those needs.
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They lose some of the most valuable data to hand & lose sight of where each child is on their learning journey & next steps for them. The relationship* with the child is lost
*teaching & learning relationship- not asking them how their team got on at the weekend (no one wants to be asked that 😬)
*teaching & learning relationship- not asking them how their team got on at the weekend (no one wants to be asked that 😬)
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
They lose some of the most valuable data to hand & lose sight of where each child is on their learning journey & next steps for them. The relationship* with the child is lost
*teaching & learning relationship- not asking them how their team got on at the weekend (no one wants to be asked that 😬)
*teaching & learning relationship- not asking them how their team got on at the weekend (no one wants to be asked that 😬)
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4. Does AI assessment catch the right error signals? Feed the model student work with known subtle errors and known correct answers. Evaluate if the AI catches the actual mistakes or if it "hallucinates" errors that don't exist.
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
4. Does AI assessment catch the right error signals? Feed the model student work with known subtle errors and known correct answers. Evaluate if the AI catches the actual mistakes or if it "hallucinates" errors that don't exist.
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3. What do teachers lose when they don't mark student work? What does this mean for formative assessment?
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
3. What do teachers lose when they don't mark student work? What does this mean for formative assessment?
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ChatGPT for teachers has launched. A landing page has a series of suggested tasks such as curriculum planning, reviewing work with a rubric. I'd like to see a robust study on the the following:
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
ChatGPT for high school teachers
Teachers from across the U.S. shared chats they use for lesson planning, research, and administrative tasks.
Tap a chat to get started.
chatgpt.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
ChatGPT for teachers has launched. A landing page has a series of suggested tasks such as curriculum planning, reviewing work with a rubric. I'd like to see a robust study on the the following:
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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What we find in books
is like the fire in our hearths.
We fetch it from our neighbors,
we kindle it at home,
we communicate it to others,
and it becomes the property of all.
François-Marie Arouet
aka Voltaire
21 Nov 1694🎂
#BookSky📘
is like the fire in our hearths.
We fetch it from our neighbors,
we kindle it at home,
we communicate it to others,
and it becomes the property of all.
François-Marie Arouet
aka Voltaire
21 Nov 1694🎂
#BookSky📘
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
What we find in books
is like the fire in our hearths.
We fetch it from our neighbors,
we kindle it at home,
we communicate it to others,
and it becomes the property of all.
François-Marie Arouet
aka Voltaire
21 Nov 1694🎂
#BookSky📘
is like the fire in our hearths.
We fetch it from our neighbors,
we kindle it at home,
we communicate it to others,
and it becomes the property of all.
François-Marie Arouet
aka Voltaire
21 Nov 1694🎂
#BookSky📘
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New study on motivation: classrooms where mastery goals are normal seem to produce students whose perseverance grows instead of fading. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
New study on motivation: classrooms where mastery goals are normal seem to produce students whose perseverance grows instead of fading. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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There's no responsiveness because it's clear the purpose isn't to teach kids, it's to "get through" the curriculum.
There's never a charge to maintain fidelity to children, there is only fidelity to the curriculum.
There's never a charge to maintain fidelity to children, there is only fidelity to the curriculum.
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There's no responsiveness because it's clear the purpose isn't to teach kids, it's to "get through" the curriculum.
There's never a charge to maintain fidelity to children, there is only fidelity to the curriculum.
There's never a charge to maintain fidelity to children, there is only fidelity to the curriculum.
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Short form video use such as TikTok, Reels and Shorts is reliably linked with poorer attention and worse mental health, although most evidence is correlational rather than causal (but 70 large studies all point the same way). psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Short form video use such as TikTok, Reels and Shorts is reliably linked with poorer attention and worse mental health, although most evidence is correlational rather than causal (but 70 large studies all point the same way). psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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My Kindergarten child’s elementary school principal told us at a parent event that this is the first year they haven’t given kinder kids Chromebooks and the plan is to hold out as long as they can to begin phasing out early elem Chromebook use.
I couldn’t be more grateful.
I couldn’t be more grateful.
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My Kindergarten child’s elementary school principal told us at a parent event that this is the first year they haven’t given kinder kids Chromebooks and the plan is to hold out as long as they can to begin phasing out early elem Chromebook use.
I couldn’t be more grateful.
I couldn’t be more grateful.
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Our season finale is about the vital role public media plays in the lives of many Americans, how the Trump Administration’s budget cuts could impact those Americans directly, and one small way we’re trying to make a difference. And yes, of course, there is a bidet involved.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Our season finale is about the vital role public media plays in the lives of many Americans, how the Trump Administration’s budget cuts could impact those Americans directly, and one small way we’re trying to make a difference. And yes, of course, there is a bidet involved.
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Study Basically Reinforces Idea That Students Will Learn More With Active Learning larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/17/s...
Study Basically Reinforces Idea That Students Will Learn More With Active Learning
The Washington Post recently ran a story, Why the brain hangs on to some memories but lets others fade, about a new study. The article’s subtitle summarizes it: Tying “fragile” memori…
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Study Basically Reinforces Idea That Students Will Learn More With Active Learning larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/17/s...
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This is a heartbreaking segment on CBS Sunday Morning, but should be required viewing. Please repost this from Brian’s account. Thank you.
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is a heartbreaking segment on CBS Sunday Morning, but should be required viewing. Please repost this from Brian’s account. Thank you.
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From Warren Buffett's "final" letter to stockholders about birth lottery:
"In many cases, our leaders and the rich have received far more than their share of luck – which, too often, the recipients prefer not to acknowledge."
"In many cases, our leaders and the rich have received far more than their share of luck – which, too often, the recipients prefer not to acknowledge."
November 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
From Warren Buffett's "final" letter to stockholders about birth lottery:
"In many cases, our leaders and the rich have received far more than their share of luck – which, too often, the recipients prefer not to acknowledge."
"In many cases, our leaders and the rich have received far more than their share of luck – which, too often, the recipients prefer not to acknowledge."