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Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health secretary, and note the causes of autism are complex.
RFK pushes to find 'environmental' cause of autism, calls rising rates an 'epidemic'
Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health secretary, and note the causes of autism are complex.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Getting my notes organized for my opening statement -- expecting this to be entertaining

Note: virtual attendance is possible!

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The Great Chatbot Debate
Watch the program live on YouTube here! Chatbots based on large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, answer sophisticated questions, pass professional exams, analyze texts, generate everything from p...
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March 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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benjaminjriley.bsky.social
This is not inevitable. We need to stop this.
nelsonlflores.bsky.social Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Mar 13
Technofascism: when AI tools can fabricate stories about people with views opposed to the official party position that cannot be fact checked since there is nobody to ask for the evidence they have to support such claims.

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Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link
The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.
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March 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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paulkirschner.bsky.social
Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology
Only when a science of education develops that sorts truth from fancy - as it is beginning to develop now - will dramatic improvements in educational practice be seen. #EduSky
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Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology - kirschner-ED
Only when a science of education develops that sorts truth from fancy - as it is beginning to develop now - will dramatic improvements in educational practice be seen
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January 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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From Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Special to A Man on the Inside, movies and TV found new ways to address death and dying. via @aishaharris.bsky.social
In 2024, film and TV grappled with death. The result was comforting
From Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Special to A Man on the Inside, movies and TV found new ways to address death and dying.
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December 30, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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What a conversation: a name you hear all over NPR - Anas Baba - our reporter living in Gaza, on the last year. He’s lost nearly half his body weight in the last year, surviving daily strikes, to be record stories for NPR.

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A snapshot of a year spent reporting and living through war, from NPR's producer in Gaza
NPR's producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, reflects on his year of reporting on the war and living through it.
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December 29, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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paulkirschner.bsky.social
Is cognitive load theory pitifully wrong?
Critics would do well to learn a little more about cognitive load theory before they attempt to shoot it down.
@gregashman.bsky.social #EduSky
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December 22, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
July 6, 2024 at 10:15 PM