@tamarajai.bsky.social
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Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
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“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”
Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem
For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…
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December 1, 2024 at 4:23 AM
“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”
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You've heard of One Book, One School programs, but Douglas County in CO features one book for the entire district--63,000 students.
And this year, it's Whale Fall. It's so exiting! And I love this poster.
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And this year, it's Whale Fall. It's so exiting! And I love this poster.
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October 11, 2024 at 10:21 AM
You've heard of One Book, One School programs, but Douglas County in CO features one book for the entire district--63,000 students.
And this year, it's Whale Fall. It's so exiting! And I love this poster.
@steamteambooks.bsky.social
And this year, it's Whale Fall. It's so exiting! And I love this poster.
@steamteambooks.bsky.social
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If you haven’t yet, you really should listen to @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social with @hcrichardson.bsky.social on where we go from here after the election. youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo?...
Jon Stewart on Trump’s Win and What’s Next w/ Heather Cox Richardson | The Weekly Show
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November 15, 2024 at 2:29 PM
If you haven’t yet, you really should listen to @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social with @hcrichardson.bsky.social on where we go from here after the election. youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo?...
One of the bajillion souls who logged in to BlueSky for the first time this week. I like it better already.
November 12, 2024 at 10:26 PM
One of the bajillion souls who logged in to BlueSky for the first time this week. I like it better already.
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11pm, November 5, 2024
They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.
They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.
November 12, 2024 at 2:33 AM
11pm, November 5, 2024
They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.
They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.