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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 2d

There are more of us than you might think. And we are stronger than we expect.

kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 2d

I was a bit distraught after the last election and feeling a bit helpless. Since then I have fallen into organizing for my local union. It is definitely helpful for my mind and my colleagues and my students. If you are feeling a bit lost consider organizing.

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 3d

This is the sort of thing that is perfect for testing. With a class you can get a group to do each version and run it 200x and see the difference! That's my favorite way to show some of the weirdness that shows up in probability, and convince students to read closely!

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 3d

Monkey wrench gang IV: Hayduke in space!

It is honestly terrifying to me how many of my astronomy students have never seen the Milky way and I live in a super rural area. This will make that problem so much worse

kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 3d

Usually this happens to me when I am at least 3 miles out on a trail and I get to carry it back.

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 5d

Has he ever paid anyone before? Grifts and scams all the way

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 5d

That $/delta t$ is really just screaming to be integrated

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 5d

Bought tickets to go see soul coughing. It will either be great or terrible. I hope great!

kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 5d

I primarily teach math and am tempted whenever there is an integral hiding in there.

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 6d

Monumental architecture separated by 800 years. I wonder what it will look like in a further 800 years

Monks mound at Cahokia Illinois. A huge grassy mound built by the Mississippian people

St Louis gateway Arch. A huge steel arch

kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 13d

Perhaps I've been in southern Indiana too long, I'm making squirrel broth now.

kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 16d

And honestly art, how do we perceive color, what is the difference between primary colors of light and paint.

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 16d

If you really want to reach you could get to logarithms by asking about distances to the stars. Especially those that are the same colors.

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 16d

Colors of the stars get to so many things. Temperature, life cycle, nuclear reactions. Color is amazing!

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 21d

I been watching the fall warblers moving though. I have seen several of them eating persimmons. Tennessee and black throated greens. This is new to me. I thought they only ate bugs. They definitely stick their bill into the ripe fruit repeatedly and come out covered in pulp.

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah, I will eventually get used to saying amplify classroom....

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks this worked! Id been able to access my custom activities that Ive built but not the ones that were built and shared by others.

I hadnt book marked those before the transition I just moved them forward from my archived classes each year and those activities are gone but I can find them now

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 23d

I'm sure they changed their back end to encourage us to buy their curriculum but it's really frustrating for those of us who have no class fees and no money to purchase curriculum at all. Desmos was the best thing that happened to equity in math education in the 18 years I've been doing this.

kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 23d

Does anyone have a solution to not being able to find desmos activities anymore. Over the years I have found some great ones that I have assigned. Usually I can go back and find them again in my #desmos classroom. Since amplify bought them out I cannot find any of those activities. #mtbos

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 24d

That was that weird computer guy right?

kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 24d

I don't know what I'm going to do. That's the second useful thing I've learned on the Internet today.

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 24d

I have enough stray marks on all my clothes to make a new box of markers. It never washes out!

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 25d

AIM Messenger!

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 25d

I kinda want to print this out next time I have to sit through a conference session ab6AI

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25d

"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education."

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

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kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 28d

Watching Raiders with the kids tonight on VHS. Welcome back to 1989.