Beth Powell
@profbpowell.bsky.social
Professor of education, dog mom, & aunt. Love to read and trying to write.
Laughing at the absurdity of it all…
August 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Laughing at the absurdity of it all…
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If we threw the same amount of money at climate catastrophe that this unhinged iteration of Silicon Valley is at “AI” to force us all to use it, we could actually mitigate some of the damage and protect our ecosystems, but then how will 6 guys make all the money.
August 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If we threw the same amount of money at climate catastrophe that this unhinged iteration of Silicon Valley is at “AI” to force us all to use it, we could actually mitigate some of the damage and protect our ecosystems, but then how will 6 guys make all the money.
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This is an argument I've gotten into with other teachers and admin, and I don't understand how I'm always in the minority on this. If we don't believe there's value in what we're doing, how can we expect students to? They can tell when we're phoning it in or using AI and they tune out.
"If educators begin using AI to design classes and assess work, they will struggle to explain why their students should not use AI to write it. If we are not careful, then, we will shortly live in a world in which machines are marking the work of other machines."
— Robert Sparrow & Gene Flenady
— Robert Sparrow & Gene Flenady
So in the next two weeks I'll be recording episodes with...
@stimpunks.org
@heymrsbond.com
@rethinkingjames.bsky.social AND
Gene Flenady & Robert Sparrow (Monash University, Melbourne, AU)
A very interesting summer release schedule is on the way! #EduSky
@stimpunks.org
@heymrsbond.com
@rethinkingjames.bsky.social AND
Gene Flenady & Robert Sparrow (Monash University, Melbourne, AU)
A very interesting summer release schedule is on the way! #EduSky
May 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is an argument I've gotten into with other teachers and admin, and I don't understand how I'm always in the minority on this. If we don't believe there's value in what we're doing, how can we expect students to? They can tell when we're phoning it in or using AI and they tune out.
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The choice for low quality education supports supremacy.
Paulo Freire's motto explains it:
"When education is not for freedom the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor".
Paulo Freire's motto explains it:
"When education is not for freedom the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor".
March 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The choice for low quality education supports supremacy.
Paulo Freire's motto explains it:
"When education is not for freedom the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor".
Paulo Freire's motto explains it:
"When education is not for freedom the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor".
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As the attack moves from Columbia to Penn, on entirely different grounds -- no one will be protected unless we act together. Please consider signing if you are in higher ed.
A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed.
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
March 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
As the attack moves from Columbia to Penn, on entirely different grounds -- no one will be protected unless we act together. Please consider signing if you are in higher ed.
Nailed it!
Please forgive a little earnest-posting.
I’m finding the start of 2025 kind of hard and while there are obvious reasons to dread what’s coming, I think it’s more than the new administration. A lot of my ground truths have been unsettled in a way that makes it hard to know what to do next.
I’m finding the start of 2025 kind of hard and while there are obvious reasons to dread what’s coming, I think it’s more than the new administration. A lot of my ground truths have been unsettled in a way that makes it hard to know what to do next.
January 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Nailed it!
The more you know….
Liked the snippets?
I totally recommend reading Edward Zitron’s full article - worth 30 mins of your time!
I totally recommend reading Edward Zitron’s full article - worth 30 mins of your time!
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 31, 2024 at 12:15 PM
The more you know….
More of this please!
New post on Humanist! I wanted to learn more about feminist pedagogy, particularly about how a feminist teacher acts in the classroom. I could have read about this forever, of course, and what I did read was so inspiring and galvanizing.
#AncientBlueSky
#classicsBlueSky
#TeachLearnSky
#EduSky
#AncientBlueSky
#classicsBlueSky
#TeachLearnSky
#EduSky
What makes teaching feminist?
The core principles of feminist pedagogy are radically inclusive and democratic:
An insistence that education be applicable to real struggles to liberate;
An effort to make classroom spaces more egali...
humanist.ghost.io
December 12, 2024 at 1:55 AM
More of this please!
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Register today for a December or January Info Session to learn more about the NYS Master Teacher Program! #NYSMTP #SUNY #MasterTeacher #MasterCounselor #TeacherLeadership #CounselorLeadership #STEM
December 9, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Register today for a December or January Info Session to learn more about the NYS Master Teacher Program! #NYSMTP #SUNY #MasterTeacher #MasterCounselor #TeacherLeadership #CounselorLeadership #STEM
I second this!
I can define my thinking about education into periods before and after I read Carla Shalaby's Troublemakers.
December 2, 2024 at 2:13 AM
I second this!
We have to pay attention to this more!
So it frankly doesn't matter how well the curriculum is marketed & sold if implementation actively contributes to student disengagement.
At the "worst" middle school we visited, the student experience was entirely defined by scripted curriculum tied to rewards & punishments:
At the "worst" middle school we visited, the student experience was entirely defined by scripted curriculum tied to rewards & punishments:
November 17, 2024 at 12:29 AM
We have to pay attention to this more!
Really enjoying the community over here. After this last week it was important to catch some commiseration, some positivity?’c & some thoughts on where we go from here!
November 10, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Really enjoying the community over here. After this last week it was important to catch some commiseration, some positivity?’c & some thoughts on where we go from here!
Totally agreed. They are all humans and deserve the best.
I just don't buy the argument that because of heightened socioeconomic precarity, kids who come from impoverished backgrounds require a distinctly controlling & utilitarian education lacking the fundamentally human experiences that all kids benefit from.
Since the state park is near Lake Michigan, students spent time down at the lake as well, where they may not otherwise have the opportunity at home. These 6th graders attend a public middle school in Michigan where 100% of them qualify for free and reduced lunch.
October 23, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Totally agreed. They are all humans and deserve the best.