JD Ferries-Rowe
@jdferries.bsky.social
VP Operations at Brebeuf Jesuit. OG Geek (who uses things like "og"). Comics, tech, Legos, and Jesuit thought. Interested in creating environments that allow for people to thrive. Dabbling in AI like its not a harbringer of doom (LegInt). Twitter ex-pat.
Smallest tree in a number of years...but our (likely) last one in this house. His name is "tree-sus" and he has, as a surprise, RK (rapture koala) 🐨
December 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Smallest tree in a number of years...but our (likely) last one in this house. His name is "tree-sus" and he has, as a surprise, RK (rapture koala) 🐨
The annual MLK convo at Brebeuf Jesuit is always a highlight. This year's reflection on the influence on art is particularly powerful. www.youtube.com/live/Sfzvc5Z...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation '25
YouTube video by brebeufjesuit
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January 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The annual MLK convo at Brebeuf Jesuit is always a highlight. This year's reflection on the influence on art is particularly powerful. www.youtube.com/live/Sfzvc5Z...
Always good seeing alums of the speech and debate program. Kids are so excited!
January 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Always good seeing alums of the speech and debate program. Kids are so excited!
What a strange experience having stomach flu over new years while travelling. Highly do not recommend. Ready to end the break, get debate tournament season under way and have a better year than the way it started.
January 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What a strange experience having stomach flu over new years while travelling. Highly do not recommend. Ready to end the break, get debate tournament season under way and have a better year than the way it started.
What better way to spend the day after Christmas? "I don't have anything to work on. I'm just here for the vibes" - coach paraphrase of sincere sentiment at practice @brebeufjesuit.bsky.social #holiday #debate
December 26, 2024 at 7:53 PM
What better way to spend the day after Christmas? "I don't have anything to work on. I'm just here for the vibes" - coach paraphrase of sincere sentiment at practice @brebeufjesuit.bsky.social #holiday #debate
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Among Us is an “assassin’s game,” in much the same way that Legend of Zelda is a “property damage and chicken harassment simulator.”
December 10, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Among Us is an “assassin’s game,” in much the same way that Legend of Zelda is a “property damage and chicken harassment simulator.”
interesting presentation for faculty & staff today at @brebeufjesuit.bsky.social -- 1 hr presentation started as "i "want to describe the biases" with which we are approaching the consultancy -- ended up being an entire introduction to the consultant philosophy framed around "these our are biases"
December 11, 2024 at 4:12 PM
interesting presentation for faculty & staff today at @brebeufjesuit.bsky.social -- 1 hr presentation started as "i "want to describe the biases" with which we are approaching the consultancy -- ended up being an entire introduction to the consultant philosophy framed around "these our are biases"
Been working on AI environment in both education and with a startup (Legislative Intelligence). I am currently fascinated with some of the built in presumptions of AI GPTs writ large. So much desire to "please" the questioner that it helps to ask questions in multiple ways to form a clearer answer
December 11, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Been working on AI environment in both education and with a startup (Legislative Intelligence). I am currently fascinated with some of the built in presumptions of AI GPTs writ large. So much desire to "please" the questioner that it helps to ask questions in multiple ways to form a clearer answer
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Adults at Mt. Vernon HS and the IHSAA are hiding behind bylaws, ignoring what's best for three kids who transferred to Cathedral.
The details will crush you.
The story is open.
www.indystar.com/story/sports...
The details will crush you.
The story is open.
www.indystar.com/story/sports...
Doyel: Mt. Vernon, Cathedral say transfers aren't for sports, so why can't the kids play?
IHSAA, Mt. Vernon are choosing which transfer bylaws to follow, and which to ignore, in the cases of three former Mt. Vernon athletes now at Cathedral
www.indystar.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Adults at Mt. Vernon HS and the IHSAA are hiding behind bylaws, ignoring what's best for three kids who transferred to Cathedral.
The details will crush you.
The story is open.
www.indystar.com/story/sports...
The details will crush you.
The story is open.
www.indystar.com/story/sports...
Think this might become my space for AI education thoughts and how I am working using it...
at a surface level, interesting watching the humanities wing of education confront the same issues that math did with photomath years ago. - but to think its just that is to underestimate the changing game.
at a surface level, interesting watching the humanities wing of education confront the same issues that math did with photomath years ago. - but to think its just that is to underestimate the changing game.
October 11, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Think this might become my space for AI education thoughts and how I am working using it...
at a surface level, interesting watching the humanities wing of education confront the same issues that math did with photomath years ago. - but to think its just that is to underestimate the changing game.
at a surface level, interesting watching the humanities wing of education confront the same issues that math did with photomath years ago. - but to think its just that is to underestimate the changing game.
keep vacillating between wanting to spend more time on here and having too many memories about the sunk cost from social media's decline :)
October 11, 2024 at 2:32 PM
keep vacillating between wanting to spend more time on here and having too many memories about the sunk cost from social media's decline :)
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Seen lots of recent lamentations re: the failure of "media literacy" + "critical info literacy," and even the whole "mis/dis-info" frame, given that we're dealing w/ a wholesale epistemological collapse: evidence, truth, credibility — all 😵. Has anyone proposed promising new pedagogical framing?
July 26, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Seen lots of recent lamentations re: the failure of "media literacy" + "critical info literacy," and even the whole "mis/dis-info" frame, given that we're dealing w/ a wholesale epistemological collapse: evidence, truth, credibility — all 😵. Has anyone proposed promising new pedagogical framing?
At the risk of being too self referential to the platform, enjoying blue sky and re-engaging tentatively in social media after two years away. Now just have to think of some worthy content to post. In the meantime, a picture of a Michigan road
July 27, 2024 at 1:37 PM
At the risk of being too self referential to the platform, enjoying blue sky and re-engaging tentatively in social media after two years away. Now just have to think of some worthy content to post. In the meantime, a picture of a Michigan road
A week of HVAC issues, technology upgrades, and AV install culminates in a CP "graduation" for the youngest. VEX robots, cardboard and BattleBots -- oh my.
July 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
A week of HVAC issues, technology upgrades, and AV install culminates in a CP "graduation" for the youngest. VEX robots, cardboard and BattleBots -- oh my.
There is something surreal about sitting as the only customer in the Lincoln square pancake House and listening to the Beastie boys play over the speakers -- you do, indeed, gotta fight, for your right, to party
July 3, 2024 at 11:23 AM
There is something surreal about sitting as the only customer in the Lincoln square pancake House and listening to the Beastie boys play over the speakers -- you do, indeed, gotta fight, for your right, to party
One of the things I have missed about classic social media is the opportunity to share the wonderful work at #brebeufjesuit and the students I get to work with. At the #nsda national tournament competing in Speech and Debate
June 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
One of the things I have missed about classic social media is the opportunity to share the wonderful work at #brebeufjesuit and the students I get to work with. At the #nsda national tournament competing in Speech and Debate
I generally get worried when he goes off script, but I think the "I thought that was what your bill said" was planned - if you know where the boos are, you know how to plan the response. Scripted feistiness. #sotu
March 8, 2024 at 3:09 AM
I generally get worried when he goes off script, but I think the "I thought that was what your bill said" was planned - if you know where the boos are, you know how to plan the response. Scripted feistiness. #sotu
We are going to even fix the national chip crisis! - I mean the state of the union has always been more aspirational, but this is the dream! #sotu
March 8, 2024 at 3:06 AM
We are going to even fix the national chip crisis! - I mean the state of the union has always been more aspirational, but this is the dream! #sotu
"you can't love your country only when you win" - nice line. Invoking Reagin and FDR in the opening is setting up his across-the-aisle claims. #sotu
March 8, 2024 at 2:37 AM
"you can't love your country only when you win" - nice line. Invoking Reagin and FDR in the opening is setting up his across-the-aisle claims. #sotu
News-caster says "both sides" - take a drink.
March 8, 2024 at 2:10 AM
News-caster says "both sides" - take a drink.
Trying to gear up for the #sotu after a week of prepping kids for the ISSDA state speech tournament....talk about going from highway speeds to a traffic jam stand still.
March 8, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Trying to gear up for the #sotu after a week of prepping kids for the ISSDA state speech tournament....talk about going from highway speeds to a traffic jam stand still.
Watching the USA v Canada game is reminiscent of trying to have any kind of cross-party political conversation about... Well, anything.
March 7, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Watching the USA v Canada game is reminiscent of trying to have any kind of cross-party political conversation about... Well, anything.
Agenda for the day:
-- Hunting down judges for state speech (harder without an established social network with alums).
-- writing transparent AI training policies that can still be useful without being creepy (tall ask)
-- separating wheat from chaff on an e-sports room
#edusky #operations
-- Hunting down judges for state speech (harder without an established social network with alums).
-- writing transparent AI training policies that can still be useful without being creepy (tall ask)
-- separating wheat from chaff on an e-sports room
#edusky #operations
March 5, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Agenda for the day:
-- Hunting down judges for state speech (harder without an established social network with alums).
-- writing transparent AI training policies that can still be useful without being creepy (tall ask)
-- separating wheat from chaff on an e-sports room
#edusky #operations
-- Hunting down judges for state speech (harder without an established social network with alums).
-- writing transparent AI training policies that can still be useful without being creepy (tall ask)
-- separating wheat from chaff on an e-sports room
#edusky #operations
As many of you know, my career is operations but my vocation is helping young people find their voice and leadership ability through speech and debate.
The last two weeks have been a highlight of what student leadership, peer mentoring, and hard work can do.
2nd Sectionals
2nd Districts
The last two weeks have been a highlight of what student leadership, peer mentoring, and hard work can do.
2nd Sectionals
2nd Districts
March 4, 2024 at 2:27 PM
As many of you know, my career is operations but my vocation is helping young people find their voice and leadership ability through speech and debate.
The last two weeks have been a highlight of what student leadership, peer mentoring, and hard work can do.
2nd Sectionals
2nd Districts
The last two weeks have been a highlight of what student leadership, peer mentoring, and hard work can do.
2nd Sectionals
2nd Districts