Tag: education
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5G versus _The Grapes or Wrath_
From the recent cellphone ban in schools study: The share of students using cellphones in class for nonacademic reasons declined to 13 percent from 61 percent in schools using the pouches, according to teacher surveys, which suggested that students were not widely able to circumvent the bans. Even so, the bans had a “close to…
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If you are only allowed to learn from the internet at age 16, you are probably not ready for marvelous achievements at age 18 or perhaps not even at 20. The country may become more mediocre. 🔗 Australia should not ban under-16s from internet sites
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NotebookML overview and uses
This is a good overview. Other than the podcast generator…I still don’t get it enough to want to use it. Maybe I don’t realize how much I need flash cards and infographics? It feels like my kids would find a lot of use for school. A professor in a box? Maybe it would be good…
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School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study – Update on the young people and those damn video games. // “There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents.…
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6 NotebookLM features to help students learn – Just in time for school!
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a word to my students – Copy and paste from AI only hurts the student. The rest of is should just worry about our own, ongoing shit-storms. // However, outside of education, when the point is to communicate and get shit done, I say go crazy with “chatbots.” They are probably better, more effective business…
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news that stays news – What’s old to you is completely new to younger people, no matter how old the text is: “One of the things that’s great about being the kind of teacher I am is that you spend your life introducing new people to old things: when my students fall in love with…
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Parents’ Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten – “parents work more hours, and their earnings increase by 21.7%. Parents’ earnings gains persist for at least six years after the end of pre-kindergarten. Excluding impacts on children, each dollar of net government expenditure yields $5.51 in after-tax benefits for families”
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Shambles, But Make It Digital – School IT is a mess. As with enterprise IT, I bet it could be better by just choosing one platform, no matter the compromises. My kids have three or four systems (ManageBac, Google Classrooms, also email). They haven learned the corporate skills of keeping up with all of this,…
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How can my kids use ChatGPT to be better students?
When a good teacher seems like cheating All of the worrying about cheating with ChatGPT is hiding its biggest potential: being a teacher. As an “expert” (or, at least, well read) in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud native, blah blah, when I ask ChatGPT to do things for me, it’s mostly smell-free garbage, kindergarten stuff. But,…
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The Homework Apocalypse substack.com/inbox/pos… How to incorporate ChatGPT (etc.) in school and lessons…in a good way.
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Sometimes, you need start with the explanation and see what opinion fits
These 5 tactics are good for a 13 year old student or an adult knowledge worker Here are the five test taking and essay test taking tips I shared with Cormac: If you’re doing the assignment in Google Docs, or whatever, of possible, copy and paste the questions into your document. This way, you have…
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Urgency
I’ve started writing this bit two times (see the community one and the one on ICs vs. managers for what happened instead). If Twitter fails – or I stop using it – I’m looking forward to recalibrating my sense of urgency. One thought going around is that no one would want to rebuild Twitter (I…
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Link: Penn Jillette, In Conversation
“The things I worry about the most is that I’m completely uneducated. You couldn’t even really give me credit with a high-school education. That troubles me a lot. If we had to discuss trigonometry I would have to go and actually do homework before I could talk about it. I also just don’t have a…
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Link: Mad Magazine’s clout may have faded, but its ethos matters more than ever before
“As strange as it sounds, I believe the “usual gang of idiots” that produced Mad was performing a vital public service, teaching American adolescents that they shouldn’t believe everything they read in their textbooks or saw on TV.” Original source: Mad Magazine’s clout may have faded, but its ethos matters more than ever before
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Link: OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong
“Ames says the real question isn’t whether laptop programs help students, but whether they’re more effective than other programs competing for the same money. “I think that given unlimited funding, absolutely … Learning about technology is very important,” she says. “That said, there’s always a tradeoff. There’s always some project that will be defunded or…
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Link: The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech
“[W]e shouldn’t have to depend on journalism to do the tedious, serious work of understanding the problems with algorithms any more than we depend on it to pursue the latest questions in sociology or environmental science.” More: “There is essentially no distinct field of academic study that takes seriously the responsibility of understanding and critiquing…
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Link: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students
While I don’t disagree with this kind of ASTOUNDING FINDING, what it usually means that in addition to engineering, it turns out you need these other skills. I sure STEM is necessary, but not sufficient to be a good nerd in corporate America: “among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise…
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Back at Dell, Docker Forking, Healthcare IT, & DevOps – Coté Memo #15
With summer over, there’s a new round of conferences, and my kids are back at school. My 6-year-old, Cormac, is starting 1st grade. We looked around at lot of schools for him and settled on the Lake Travis STEM Academy. I went to public school all my life – and a state college (I mean,…
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