I had Lamb vs Pickens and Prescott in fantasy with all to play for. 😭

Ok so I’m starting it after Xmas break, and have taught it before but not in a couple years. Have some plans but would love to add to them! Super excited for this!

Rhea Seehorn was so good in Better Call Saul. Thrilled to see her reunited with Vince Gilligan and leading the show!

Yesssss!!!!! Can this be the issue that unites the country please lol

Finale of Task 😬 and lots of meal prep and laundry so I feel prepared, if scared.

We decided to just do the whole thing and these Ss did great. And they had this experience they wanted of getting whole texts, rather than excerpts and summary like in other units. I know there were other reasons given for these choices but it felt like deficit thinking in that situation.

Yes, this. And also when I was coaching in a charter school, they had to use the NYS CC-aligned curriculum. Ss were considered at risk, Ts were often new. The curriculum taught excerpts of Romeo and Juliet for 9th grade and these students were mad. They felt robbed/slighted by low expectations.

You can add the extension to Chrome and then it’s an option for “open with” when you pull up a PDF file. With teacher accts we could also post Kami assignments in Google Classroom, so it was easy for students. The integration was good but I’m hopeful the extension is fine for kids this year.

Well we DID have cooler features available on it but despite the tech coach seeming to think we still have full teacher access, I don’t. But even still it’s a PDF reader and you can annotate (text box), highlight, etc. and it autosaves it all. But with higher level access it reads texts too!

I do similar things. Audio options for sure. We also use Kami for kids who need word processing because I have students annotate. They can use pdfs and annotate with Kami. Students can have speak- text on their Chromebook with options for any pdf to be read to them also.

Where are the teachers- current, dedicated, hardworking, exhausted teachers- in these stories? Like- yes, tech is more click-bait-y, but we are in there doing some great work and nobody cares to see it, hear about it, affirm it, or validate it in any way. It’s infuriating. Why don’t we get a voice?

This feels like a question about being human, maybe even more than a question about education at this point.

Our 22 month old has known Mike and Tony on sight for the better part of the year but now he also IDs Frank and Mina. Pretty sure PTI host ID is a developmental milestone right?

Yes! Why is this so often left to the side in discussions about AI use?? I may or may not think human ideas > tech bro’s internet scraping machine ideas… but I def want my kid to have some earth left. Thanks.

I just want to shout out to the multiple “[sic]” uses from the journalist of the first piece there. Truly magnificent. This guy can’t correctly use apostrophes or vocab that seems important for the amount of fear-mongering he’ll need to do. Definitely want him vetting educators… 🙄