Michelle
@mfriend.bsky.social
Bookworm and nerd of several particular types. Not from around here.
#CSTA2025Rocks with 20 university-based teams dedicated to preparing K-12 CS teachers with the PrepareCS program, supported by Google. www.cehd.umn.edu/northern-lig...
Northern Lights Collaborative receives $1.36M Google.org Grant to expand computer science in teacher education
Northern Lights Collaborative for Computing Education has been awarded grants of more than $2.2 million, including a subaward to Georgia State University, from Google.org for PrepareCS.
www.cehd.umn.edu
June 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#CSTA2025Rocks with 20 university-based teams dedicated to preparing K-12 CS teachers with the PrepareCS program, supported by Google. www.cehd.umn.edu/northern-lig...
So glad @kairyssdal.bsky.social explained why they didn’t cover the White House chaos on @marketplace.org … and so glad they didn’t. My blood pressure and nervous system appreciate it.
January 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
So glad @kairyssdal.bsky.social explained why they didn’t cover the White House chaos on @marketplace.org … and so glad they didn’t. My blood pressure and nervous system appreciate it.
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It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI.
Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more within/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
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Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more within/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑👑👑
December 4, 2024 at 12:32 PM
It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI.
Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more within/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑👑👑
Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more within/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑👑👑
Academia in a nutshell: On back-to-back nights I found out I'm being nominated for a leadership position and that I didn't get a major grant. The upside is I'll have time for the leadership position?
December 4, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Academia in a nutshell: On back-to-back nights I found out I'm being nominated for a leadership position and that I didn't get a major grant. The upside is I'll have time for the leadership position?
Reposted by Michelle
Compelling!
There's compelling evidence that the reason kids were understood to "grow out of ADHD" is because it was mainly diagnosed in the sort of white boy who grows up to be a white man with a secretary or wife whose job is to do his executive functioning for him.
April 22, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Compelling!
Our modern world is very complicated, and nuanced. Yet people keep acting like it isn't. Which is probably easier to deal with than everyone going down every rabbit hole.
December 5, 2023 at 7:15 PM
Our modern world is very complicated, and nuanced. Yet people keep acting like it isn't. Which is probably easier to deal with than everyone going down every rabbit hole.
A second writer I follow is leaving substack. I suspect substack might not be Not Evil. But I'll probably keep following the people I follow there, exacerbating the problem through network effects.
December 5, 2023 at 7:14 PM
A second writer I follow is leaving substack. I suspect substack might not be Not Evil. But I'll probably keep following the people I follow there, exacerbating the problem through network effects.
It's been so long since I've posted, I don't remember how to post and had to cast about for a long time before I noticed the blue box at the bottom of the screen.
December 5, 2023 at 7:13 PM
It's been so long since I've posted, I don't remember how to post and had to cast about for a long time before I noticed the blue box at the bottom of the screen.
"I was told that in a flat room, you should never put anything important on the bottom 1/3 of slides in case people can't see it, so I decided to put nothing important on any of my slides." - Michael Kölling, WiPSCE keynote
September 27, 2023 at 12:37 PM
"I was told that in a flat room, you should never put anything important on the bottom 1/3 of slides in case people can't see it, so I decided to put nothing important on any of my slides." - Michael Kölling, WiPSCE keynote