Language Learning Matters

Language Learning Matters

@llmllc.bsky.social

Education is a human endeavor. Communication is a human right.

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Christina Bergmann
@chbergma.bsky.social

PSA for the American (North, Middle, and South, I presume) collaborators: Europe just did the whole clock changing thing. Prepare for some meeting time confusion if you meet at fixed times

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Trish Greenhalgh
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

Dear aspiring PhD student A lengthy, off-topic, AI-generated email which assumes I’m a man is never going to get me to agree to supervise you. Four today.

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Elmo
@tim-elmo.bsky.social

more AI is just straightforwardly going to make most science worse, since it makes it even easier to process your data without understanding what's actually going on.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science

Why do some colleagues from psych, cog neuro, etc., accept AI nonsense that all or almost all our science will be automated? I'm a bit flabbergasted. Yes, of course we'll need observations, always. But to say theory and modelling practice can be automated by AI is preposterous. Some basic points...

Language Learning Matters
@llmllc.bsky.social

Thread.

Stuart Rowntree@primarythink.bsky.social

1/9 How we approach school improvement. We're often quite good at identifying what needs to change, looking at the evidence & introducing new approaches. But I wonder whether we're always as careful about understanding what's already working, & why.

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Jeremy Berg
@jeremymberg.bsky.social

This is one of the most powerful depictions of health research-driven progress. No statistics required.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social

Lots of people citing this one: HIV went from a death sentence to…undetectable and people get to live a full and healthy normal life!!!! I mean that’s amazing.

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Jon Hutchinson
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social

I’ve written a book about building belonging in schools! It’s called Building Belonging in Schools! I argue that 1. kids feeling belonging is important just because But 2. If we want them to really learn lots, for rigour to be high, then they need to feel secure in their class. Preorder now!

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Marcus Luther
@marcusluther.bsky.social

related: I think a lot about the crazy expansion of "I work in education but not in schools" jobs over the last decade, and it bothers me a lot

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays.bsky.social

This is another thing that bothers me. What are the credentials of these “curricular specialists?” Who are these wizards of structuring & sequencing knowledge? Are they domain experts? Scholars? Curriculum theorists? Or is it just Teach for America grads who taught for 2 years before joining HMH?

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈
@davidimiller.bsky.social

Provocative new preprint examines 14 published meta-analyses claiming AI improves student learning and concludes... Not a single one provides a valid basis for its claims, citing widespread methodological flaws. osf.io/preprints/ed... Watch a webinar from yesterday about the findings:

youtube.comPresumed Effective: The Manufacturing of an Evidence Base for AI-in-Ed Through Flawed Meta-AnalysisYouTube video by MIT Teaching Systems Lab

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Sparrow / Liz
@untonuggan.myatproto.social

People mention LLMs a lot in terms of "increasing accessibility" And as someone with intermittent cognitive disabilities, I *really* want to highlight how much work it is to sort through AI slop to try to find accurate information

James Baillie@jubalbarca.bsky.social

The main way the LLM boom has affected my life is to make a lot of things so much harder. It makes information filtering an even more constant grinding process than it already was: it's noticeably worsened search info quality and makes it harder to find anything reliable and/or human and/or real.

Language Learning Matters
@llmllc.bsky.social

“[The] better the instrument the greater the danger of using it unintelligently. . . . Statistical examination in each case may help much, but no statistical methods will ever replace thought as a way of avoiding pitfalls.” —William ‘Student’ Gosset, 1905

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Jen
@thereallilmayne.bsky.social

Wait what?? 2 degrees, NBCT, 20ish years experience… and I can only “deliver lessons”?! Bc designing them is… hard?!? lol okkk 👌🏻 Hanford should be disqualified from discussing education even if this were the only thing she ever said (it’s not 🙄).

Marcus Luther@marcusluther.bsky.social

“That’s actually not your job. Your job is not to design the lessons because, in fact, that’s really hard. And takes a lot of years of trial and error. Your job is to deliver the lessons and focus on the teaching and the students who are in front of you.” –Emily Hanford Disagree. Emphatically.

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Dr Darcey Gillie
@dfgillie.bsky.social

Important lessons about conservation- but also a lot more that that: human connections and the ability of people with different perspectives to work together towards a common goal.

Chris Townsend@christownsend.bsky.social

How RSPB's Abernethy reserve is already beginning to recover from a massive wildfire - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=v42t...

youtube.comHow RSPB's Abernethy reserve is already beginning to recover from a massive wildfireYouTube video by RSPB
Language Learning Matters
@llmllc.bsky.social

“…It is a strict truism that no one would care about any exclusively theoretical uncertainty or certainty. For by definition in being exclusively theoretical it is one which makes no difference anywhere.” —John Dewey

Language Learning Matters
@llmllc.bsky.social

Thinking about this quote in relation to how little consideration is given to human beings who are sentient & how much consideration is given to machines that cannot be. It tells you which group is considered to be an abstraction in the whole exercise.

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Stiles
@lakesstiles.bsky.social

One of the top stile and Neolithic locations in the UK; zoom in on the base of the boulder to see the rock art.

Language Learning Matters
@llmllc.bsky.social

“He appreciates that the school doesn’t only call home when problems arise. A while back someone called to say that his son’s painting would be hung up in the school lobby ...” The importance of regular contact, not just when problems occur or when report cards come out. 👏

Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org

Despite low test scores, parents give Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 high praise

bit.lyNikole Hannah-Jones’ essay made this school famous. Here’s what parents think of it now.Despite low test scores, parents give Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 high praise

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Jolyon Thomas
@jolyonbt.bsky.social

Must-read 🧵. The Dept of Ed aims to dismantle public schooling entirely; state-level voucher programs are key to the plan. As my forthcoming book shows, the “school choice” models described below put religious liberty and consumer choice claims to segregationist ends, enshittifying ed for all.

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Barbara Waxer 🌈
@barbara-waxer.bsky.social

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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🚗 Computer Caitlin 🧀
@teacherontopic.bsky.social

Hi, I'm a teacher. I'm not supposed to put sunscreen on someone else's kid.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We have 5 states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy 3 or 4 days later. It's true. And teachers make a decision. 'Goodbye Timmy I love you so much, I'll see you later.' And you say, 'Where's my son? My son is in the hospital.' Can you imagine?"

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Office of the Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams
@advocate.nyc.gov

Schools should be filled with learning and laughter, not gunshots. Every day in this country, policy makers beholden to the gun lobby take the slaughter of children for granted—and a child can get his hand on a gun. We stand with Bend, Oregon and all communities harmed by gun violence.