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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 8h

I'll be in Rhode Island for a conference. Aaargh!

Have a lovely time when in Arizona!

Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 13h

Yesterday's @nepc.bsky.social newsletter had a wonderful remembrance of David Berliner, along with photos that showcase his full personality. Thank you!

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 18h

Eric.

Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 18h

Or use the memo in a pressure-cooker conversation where she chooses.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 18h

And the year it went to Sadat and Begin (1978), Carter was not part of that.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

That was she!

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

One when I was at USF (Chris Ogren)

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

Ralph Branca would understand

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

I know my colleagues who’ve had them over the years. Hmmn…

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

You get an Honors in Recent Higher Ed History!!

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

Ah sh**. Please forget I said anything other than "YOU MUST READ EVERYTHING N.K. JEMISIN HAS WRITTEN STARTING WITH THE CITY WE BECAME"

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

In response, New York should be allowed to annex Jersey City as a borough.

There's even precedent for it with N.K. Jemisin's The City We Became!

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

In at least the growth-and-surviving sense, it's hard to say they've failed, and they outlasted the secular for-profit boom-and-bust. I bet @adamlaats.bsky.social (who wrote Fundamentalist U) might have some things to say about that. But with a solid religious niche, failure is nowhere guaranteed...

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

There have been a few successful new university ventures founded in the past 80 years by non-multi-billionaires, prominently Liberty University (est. 1971), Grand Canyon University (est 1949 as Grand Canyon College). With charismatic clergy as leaders.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

#KavanaughKidnapping

Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

This obviously explains the rise in women being diagnosed with autism as adults.

Also: could RFKjr's statement be used in a court of law by men suing their mohels for failure to use anaesthesia?

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

This obviously explains the rise in women being diagnosed with autism as adults.

Also: could RFKjr's statement be used in a court of law by men suing their mohels for failure to use anaesthesia?

Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

My Arizona colleague Dawn Demps on making pre-commitments to principles before the fascism hits.

Where is Our Red Line in Academia?

While there has been some resistance to the hard-armed demands and required reverence to the trifles and narcissistic tangents of this administration, there has overwhelmingly been acquiescence and co...

www.theeduledger.com

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

Ah. As others have said, in one way or another, oof. But it's what one might expect in many places when we say educators at the ground level should be in charge of making ed tech decisions!

(I'm curious what you think about where I drew the line on guardrails based on this century's experience.)

The AFT’s initiative on LLMs, and teachers’

In my social media feeds recently, I’ve seen debate over the decision by the American Federation of Teachers to partner with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to open a National Academy for AI…

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

Hmmm… source?

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 2d

darth vader says " i am altering the deal pray i don t alter it any further "

Alt: darth vader says " i am altering the deal pray i don t alter it any further "

media.tenor.com

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 2d

I love my Boox 10.3. (B/W)

One major constraint: Boox devices don't have onboard encryption, so I can't have anything highly sensitive like student materials.

Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 2d

Much of the judiciary is performing admirably this year! It's just the head that's rotting.

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 2d

This is in line with a long history of the promises of ed tech to replace teachers, texts, etc. and of the more general history of blaming teachers.

Blaming Teachers - Bucknell University Press

Winner of the 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essenti...

www.rutgersuniversitypress.org

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 2d

But his opinion leaves more for you!

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