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Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Feb 28

Used @quizizz.bsky.social’s AI tools to build a quiz today and it saved me enough time I got to grade a whole other assignment. Friday wins.

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · Dec 21

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

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Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Dec 9

I think if it WERE legal to assassinate CEOs of large companies … that would totally justify their enormous salaries.

Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 27

Blue Eyed Samurai.

Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 26

This is a fantastic resource.

Eric Curts @ericcurts.bsky.social · Nov 26

This Friday is Native American Heritage Day.
A great resource is the "Native Land Digital" site - native-land.ca
Put in any address (such as where you live) to see which indigenous peoples lived in that location.
Then click on the links for those nations to learn more about them.

#EduSky

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Alice Keeler @alicekeeler.com · Nov 26

On the left side

Find LISTS

Create a list to organize accounts you want to learn from

PIN THE LIST

On anyones profile, click the 3 dots to add them to a list.

I have 2 interests... teaching and code development. I can have different views here in Bluesky

#EduSky #BlueskyTips

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Alt: a clipboard with a pencil on top of it and the word list below it

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Alice Keeler @alicekeeler.com · Nov 25

TONIGHT! Join #EduSkyChat with moderator @catetolnai.bsky.social

Topic: Self Care for Educators

6pm PST click on the hashtag and use the RECENT tab
or use deck.blue to create columns for the chat.

See you tonight!

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Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 25

My 8-year old niece: (joking) “You traveled the world!”

Me: (joking back) “I did! Timbuktu is nice this time of year!”

(Pause)

My 8-year old niece: (serious) “Is there a Timbuk-one?”

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Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 19

IXL.com, one of my favourite class resources, has released an AI-powered workspace: Spark Studio. I’m going to spend the next few weeks and months exploring what Spark Studio can, and cannot do for us in the classroom.

IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish

IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12. Used by over 16 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 17,000 topics, covering math, language arts...

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Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 15

The answer: a much much better day!!
(A caveat: my two most disruptive students were absent today, I will need to repeat when they are here.)

Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 15

Yesterday I set a task that was too challenging for my students. It went so, so poorly. By the end we were all frustrated with each other.

Today, we’re going to reset, take a step back, and try something more simple.

Let’s see how it goes.

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Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 14

Every party needs a horny bard.

Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 13

Where are the active tectonic zones on your world? Is there a structure analogues to the “Ring of Fire” where earthquakes and volcanoes are more common?

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Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 13

Yeah, the real learning opportunity in this tech is for highly knowledgeable students to critique what the AI presents.

Of course: it’s an easy thing and I could see myself - exhausted at the end of a long week - just letting my 5th graders have these chats because it LOOKS like learning.

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Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 13

www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...

The only value in this exercise would be if students who already know about these figures were having these chats to learn about the failings and pitfalls of AI.

Of course, this is easy and there is money to be made here, so these chats will replace research soon.

Should Students Chat With AI Versions of Historical Figures? - EdSurge News

Can a filmmaker’s AI chatbot version of Sacagawea bring the historical figure who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition alive for students, or are ...

www.edsurge.com

Drew Williams @dswilliams.bsky.social · Nov 12

I strongly dislike being the tank.

I get very little satisfaction from being the main damage-dealer in a combat situation and I like facing the problem of being squishy.