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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · 6h

But what does it say about this whole system when we can just click some buttons to create a fictional recommendation as an actual means of determining who is accepted to colleges? Nothing good will come of this.

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · 6h

I'm hoping that my insistence on writing letters about people I know by using my own words will end up as a positive for them ("wow, the teacher seems to have actually written this himself, they must be great!")

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · 6h

I was curious about what kind of crap the rec letter generator would spit out so I asked it to make one (which I did *not* submit) and it basically made the student out to be greater than Einstein and Gandhi, and hallucinated a project that never happened

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe Rob Schneider is a 1000 year old vampire?
(No, I still wouldn't watch that movie even if you riffed it.)

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · 12d

Hang it in the Louvre

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 12d

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "WHY WOULD WE LISTEN TO AN EXPERT INSTEAD OF A DUMB MOTHERFUCKER WHO TALKS REALLY LOUD"

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · 18d

I use "radial" to define an axis, and I try to avoid saying "centripetal" because of the historical baggage that makes folks think it's a new force to draw on diagrams. For AP, I will use both terms to describe acceleration but not force.

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · 21d

But also good luck in game 5

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · 21d

I wouldn't drink it at any temperature, but to each their own

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27d

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Sep 29

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

nepc.colorado.edu

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · Sep 22

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 19

Thank you!

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 18

I appreciate the effort to help

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 18

Does the roller coaster not do that anymore?

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 17

Do any physics teacher folks know of any PER papers or papers in TPT about the use of/effectiveness of TIPERs? I thought I had some PDFs somewhere but can't find 🎢
(apologies to everyone else for the jargon)

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Nick Watkins @pnwphysics.bsky.social · Sep 12

At our school Ss can choose chem or forensics as their 3rd year science. I’ve long advocated for a stronger push for chem as the ratio has become 1:3 with as many as six sections of forensics in a year.

This has been my first year of teaching forensics and I’ll admit, I’m having a blast. BUT 1/8

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 15

The "things implode" I was referring to was political choices by our government, not infection rates. I'm aware of high infection rates

Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 15

My employer has a flu/Covid shot clinic at work next week, holding out hope that things don't implode in OH within the next week.
I'm glad to hear the 11 yo was easy; I've been worried about being able to get my kids' shots

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 15

Fun fact: bonafidemasks.com has a 25% off sale (code BFM25) with free shipping, where you can get not just masks but also Covid tests. I have a good supply of masks already but I just re-upped my family's stock of tests. $45 for 10 tests.
Not a paid promo, I just think public health is a good thing

Face Masks | PPE | Face Coverings | Bona Fide Masks

Bona Fide Medical Masks™, part of Ball Chain Mfg. Co., Inc.'s LogoTags division, has one main objective: to help alleviate the shortage of masks and PPE.

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · Sep 12

I have amazing #ITeachPhysics and #TTRPG news to share! Adventures with Emmy (AwE), a STEM education tabletop roleplaying game, has been AWARDED FUNDING by the National Science Foundation.

In AwE, mathematician and physicist Emmy Noether invites you to learn science by exploring imaginative worlds.

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ohio is an uphill climb to vote in a candidate who's not a complete ghoul, but I'm not going to roll over and give up in advance

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 10

Gotcha. I'm focusing on the thread by a candidate for governor who is married to a public school teacher and who supports public educ5

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 10

Why a sad face for having the potential for a governor who won't sabotage public education?

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Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 10

Exactly what I planned to say

Jeremy Secaur @secaurphysics.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ohio, dare to dream that we could choose a governor who would support public education rather than undermine it 🍎

Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · Sep 9

Public schools and libraries saved my life as a kid.

We have a crisis on our hands — I’ll tell you what’s making it worse, and our plan to turn things around. 🧵
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Twelfth-Grade Math and Reading Scores in U.S. Hit New Low

The declines deepen slides that began before the pandemic.

www.wsj.com

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