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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 6h

Launching chatbots you can screw goes hand in hand with "partnering" with a teachers union, @aft.org, screwing its members and the kids we serve to push #AI in schools: openai.com/global-affai...

Working with 400,000 teachers to shape the future of AI in schools

OpenAI joins the American Federation of Teachers to launch the National Academy for AI Instruction.

openai.com

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7h

Shouldn't we be asking why a teachers union, the AFT, "partnered" with OpenAI to bring its wisdom about #AI to educators and schools? openai.com/global-affai...

Working with 400,000 teachers to shape the future of AI in schools

OpenAI joins the American Federation of Teachers to launch the National Academy for AI Instruction.

openai.com

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7h

There's much in this article that made me think, so I'm wondering why that kind of critical lens wasn't applied to the interview and story about AFT's "partnership" with tech moguls, an arrangement members never approved, one that has put us in an alliance with forces that aim to undercut labor?

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7h

Hope the blog will offer a different view of AFT's

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 9h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7h

In our assessment of what's planned, let's consider implications of @aft.org partnership with OpenAI to train teachers in its use: openai.com/global-affai...

Working with 400,000 teachers to shape the future of AI in schools

OpenAI joins the American Federation of Teachers to launch the National Academy for AI Instruction.

openai.com

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 9h

Gotta say @aaup.org is showing unions in education and outside of it how to organize at the grass roots, showing there's no separating "politics" from members' work lives.

AAUP @aaup.org · 9h

AAUP chapters across the nation in solidarity against Trump's compact!

"Jonathan Gilligan, who proposed the resolution, [said]
that the language of the resolution closely mirrored that of the University of Virginia’s...to 'help ensure unity & solidarity'" for others opposing the compact.

Link👇

Vanderbilt faculty ask school administration to reject Trump memo, citing free speech

The Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voted on a resolution asking the university to reject a recent White House compact.

www.tennessean.com

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 12h

Important to identify them as "militarized federal agents" and at the same time recognize that they're thugs.

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 12h

Important for us to know what's happening on the ground from reliable sources. Thanks! Q: Did the Chicago Teachers Union explain why they protested in front of Google? Interesting in given the AFT's partnership with the tech bros to push #AI in schools. Doesn't that alliance contradict the protest?

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 1d

Note to #FreetheFuture organizers: Please ditch the phone number needed to submit the form. Email is sufficient for most petitions, campaigns!

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 1d

This "non-permission" slip is solid. Demand about #tech profiteering off student data shows our agitation in @aft.org @neatoday.bsky.social is being heard! Still, we need to push on testing, #AI, and AFT's sinister deal with tech moguls to "train" teachers: www.freethefuture.net/non-permissi...

Non-Permission Slip — Free The Future

www.freethefuture.net

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 1d

He's rewriting history here: He didn't try to get the votes, pushed his "compromise" so Dems could keep getting big bucks from big pharma.

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 1d

Should standardized tests be the only means of measuring student learning that's considered "rigorous"? Tests over which parents, students, teachers have no voice or control? Do the feds have the right to dictate this? If you think not, comment now! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Request for Information; Feedback on Redesigning the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

The Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 established the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) as the research, evaluation, and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education. IES is responsible ...

www.federalregister.gov

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 2d

Be prepared! Attacks on teachers, students, in Florida and DC show" teachers and their unions in more progressive states need to be preparing for a much more aggressive assault on public education. It’s coming and we need to be on the offensive." futureschools.substack.com/p/be-prepared

Be Prepared!

A call to action for educators in progressive states

futureschools.substack.com

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 3d

Great to see unions of education workers organizing to fill the streets, protest loyalty oaths. Please publicize any similar actions by higher ed unions.

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 3d

AAUP will be marching g with TSEU! No Kings! No Loyalty Oaths! No Compact!

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 3d

Unpaid ad. Yes, we have much to learn from the 2018 walkouts! These articles to start. No pay wall! ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/cr... @crystaldhowell.bsky.social @erindyke.bsky.social @laurenstark.bsky.social

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 3d

The watch does indeed have the "integrity" of Trump. No refund should be given!

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 3d

Missing in this and most analyses is how standardized testing (combined with the Common Core standards that no parents - or students - approved) drives what is taught, with software and platforms, giving tech companies huge profits.

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 5d

This makes @aft.org deal with the tech bros to boost their presence in classrooms even more sinister for a multitude of reasons. Let's name them!

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 5d

What this article shows but doesn't explain is the new convergence of the Right in ed policy, powered by #tech $$. Testing (with data collection, surveillance of teachers, students) continues, stoked by #AI: hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Education Department takes a preliminary step toward revamping its research and statistics arm

The public has until Oct. 15 to weigh in

hechingerreport.org

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 5d

Also, education workers and their unions are the most stable, potentially powerful source of resistance to privatization. We're dangerous! They know it but we don't.

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 5d

Accurate, important reporting. What it doesn't say is equally so: Trump and billionaires aim to destroy public education by making it entirely private, looting our tax dollars. Big money opposing Trump wants a "public" system privatized with private/public partnerships, #tech profits and control.

Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · 6d

The Trump administration is working to dramatically expand school choice, moving kids to a range of private & religious schools or homeschooling. Ultimately, what percentage of children would remain in public schools? A Moms for Liberty co-founder told me: “I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 5d

What the article says is accurate and important. What it doesn't say is equally so: Trump and billionaires aim to destroy public education by making it entirely private, looting our tax dollars. Big money opposing Trump wants a "public" system privatized with private/public "partnerships."

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7d

She echoes the far Right!

Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 7d

"Implore" means "beg." Don't we need something more, well, pro-active? Courageous?