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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 17

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record.

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · Aug 5

Great advice! When I welcome new teachers my advice is always anticipate/ prepare your reactions to common student behaviour ex: if you assign homework some students may not do it. If you're prepared for this then your response becomes routine, equitable, and not emotional.

Edutopia @edutopia.org · Aug 5

Pass this on to the new teachers you know: Here’s some great advice for becoming part of a new school community! 🏫💫

#NewTeachers #EduSky

7 Pieces of Advice for New Teachers

Focus on relationships with students and colleagues to make a good start to the year—and remember to ask for what you need.

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · Jul 28

Il est toujours pertinent d'aborder le vrai monde avec les élèves. Doivent-ils l'utiliser pour en parler, pour développer un sens critique de la machine? Non, mais ignorer ce qui se passe dans la vie des jeunes n'est pas une façon de leur préparer à prendre de bonnes décisions.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Jul 26

"In my mind, this is no longer a conversation about anything else. Children are starving and being murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military while they seek to feed themselves. It feels impossible to talk about anything else in this conflict when that degree of sociopathic violence is occurring."

I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids

Perhaps controversially.

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Léa Stréliski 🇨🇦‬ @leastreliski.bsky.social · Jul 26

C'est juste la triste réalité de notre monde. On sacrifie nos filles.

www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...

Sacrifier les filles

Je ne sais pas très bien comment préparer ma fille à notre monde, quelle part d’angoisses lui transmettre.

www.ledevoir.com

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · Jul 25

Great article for back to school season!

Edutopia @edutopia.org · Jul 25

“Should I hang a lot on the walls, or a little?”
“Should I play music during in-class activities or not?”
“How should I arrange my room’s seats?”

You have questions—we have answers. 👇

#ClassroomDesign #BackToSchool #EduSky

27 Ways to Optimize Your Classroom Design for Better Learning

A research-based lineup of smart, effective classroom design tips that support deep learning, reduce distraction, and build belonging.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · Jul 25

Carney has put out another strongly worded finger-wagging for Israel with NO concrete action.

Shocking to see our prime minister acknowledge Israel’s violation of international law but still not announce sanctions, a real two-way arms embargo, recognition of a Palestinian state….ANY actual action.

Mark Carney posts:

“Canada condemns the Israeli government's failure to prevent the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
Israel's control of aid distribution must be replaced by comprehensive provision of humanitarian assistance led by international organizations. Many of these are holding significant Canadian-funded aid which has been blocked from delivery to starving civilians. This denial of humanitarian aid is a violation of international law.
Canada calls on all sides to negotiate an immediate ceasefire in good faith. We reiterate our calls for Hamas to immediately release all the hostages, and for the Israeli government to respect the territorial integrity of the West Bank and Gaza.”

Mark Carney’s post continues: “Canada supports a two-state solution which guarantees peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians. Canada will work intensively in all fora to further that end, including through the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the UN High-Level Conference on a Two-State Solution in New York next week.”

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · Jul 22

Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · Jul 17

1/ 📣 Demand action on male supremacy in schools!

This is an epidemic of violence and harassment towards women, girls, and 2SLGBTQ+ persons.

Read on for more information, and add your name to this petition to urge federal and provincial governments to act here:

👇👇👇

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Demand Action on Male Supremacy in Schools

Sign the petition against male supremacy violence and harassment in Canadian schools.

www.antihate.ca

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Jul 15

Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

YouTube tops the list of the online platforms we asked about in our survey. Nine-in-ten teens report using the site, slightly down from 95% in 2022.

TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among teens. Roughly six-in-ten teens say they use TikTok and Instagram, and 55% say the same for Snapchat.

Facebook and X use have steeply declined over the past decade. Today, 32% of teens say they use Facebook. This is down from 71% in 2014-15, though the share of teens who use the site has remained stable in recent years. And 17% of teens say they use X (formerly Twitter) – about half the share who said this a decade ago (33%), and down from 23% in 2022.

Roughly one-quarter of teens (23%) say they use WhatsApp, up 6 percentage points since 2022.

And 14% of teens use Reddit, a share that has remained stable over the past few years.

We asked about Threads, launched by parent company Meta in 2023, for the first time this year. Only 6% of teens report using it.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Jun 23

I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...

ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · Jul 4

Celui de l'agenda et task = life j'aime vraiment ces nouveautés!!🤩🤩

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Chloé Sondervorst @sondervorst.bsky.social · Jun 3

@yoshuabengio.bsky.social lance @law-zero.bsky.social, un laboratoire à but non lucratif pour accélérer la conception des systèmes d'IA sécuritaires.

lawzero.org/fr

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AQUOPS @aquops.bsky.social · May 22

🌱 Empreinte digitale | #webinaireAQUOPS

Avec Annie Turbide et Laurent Boudreault, nous explorerons des leviers d’action pour aborder les enjeux écologiques du numérique sans tomber dans les raccourcis.

🎙 Animation : Maxime Pelchat
📅 Jeudi 5 juin | 12 h à 13 h
🔗 streamyard.com/watch/hXWnkV...

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · May 11

Éduquer est toujours plus important que la répression. Chaque établissement devrait être en mesure de décider ce qui est la bonne décision pour eux.

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · Apr 19

As always, in order to help students adapt their behaviour, have an open attitude, ask questions, and listen.

Edutopia @edutopia.org · Apr 19

When Jen Roberts / @jen.litandtech.com talks to students who she knows have turned in AI writing as their own work, she almost always starts with the same question:

“Tell me what happened here?”

🧵1/5 #EduSky

2-Minute Read. ChatGPT & Generative AI. When Students Use AI in Ways They Shouldn’t, Be Curious, Not Judgmental. By Jen Roberts.

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · Apr 15

@aquops.bsky.social on va parler de notre colloque lors de l'émission C’est encore mieux l’après-midi. Soyez au rendez-vous vers 15:15!!!

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · Apr 11

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AQUOPS @aquops.bsky.social · Apr 11

Trois jours. Plus d’une centaine de kiosques. Une foule de trouvailles.

Passez faire un tour au Salon de l’innovation : explorez les nouveautés, vivez la frénésie du grand rallye de l’innovation et repartez avec un baluchon rempli de projets!

Plan des kiosques : www.aquops.qc.ca/fr/exposants

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La geek de service @lageekdeservice.bsky.social · Apr 4

Transformer l'enseignement et l'apprentissage avec Gemini ✨

🥳 J'animerai un webinaire (gratuit) le 22 avril (16 h) prochain.

Pour s'inscrire, c'est ici ⬇️

www.lageekdeservice.com/transformer-...

Transformer l'enseignement et l'apprentissage avec Gemini -

Transformer l’enseignement et l’apprentissage avec Gemini Merci de vous inscrire via le formulaire ci-dessous. Un lien d’invitation Google Meet vous […]

www.lageekdeservice.com

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AQUOPS @aquops.bsky.social · Mar 14

📰 Webinaire | L’actualité en classe

Explorez les As de l’info, une ressource adaptée pour intégrer l’actualité en classe et stimuler la curiosité de vos élèves!

🎤 Avec Mylène Corfield, Les As de l’info
🎙 Animé par Maxime Pelchat, Cadre21

📅 20 mars | 12 h à 13 h
👉 streamyard.com/watch/uyrBUd...

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MelBrons @melbrons.bsky.social · Mar 13

Un nouveau logo pour 2025 🤩

AQUOPS @aquops.bsky.social · Mar 12

🌸 Ça sent le printemps à l’AQUOPS… 🌸

Et ce n’est pas parce que ça pue. Neunon! On vous prépare un nouveau logo, juste à temps pour le colloque... 👀

Parce qu'il paraît qu’il faut savoir d’où l’on vient pour savoir où l’on va, voici les logos qui ont ponctué votre association de 1981 à 2025.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Mar 9

I planned to take the day off, but this made me too mad. jessica.substack.com/p/jd-vance-i...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · Mar 7

So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).

AP Human Geography website showing 2 instead of 3 available videos.

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