Greg Toppo

It’s got history. It’s got time travel. It’s got a feisty Ernest Hemingway chatbot. It’s RUNNING WITH ROBOTS: THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL’S THIRD CENTURY, out today from @mitpress. @Running_Robots runningwithrobots.com

Is #ChatGPT Human Fracking? Provocative inquiry by the always-thoughtful @pegtyre: open.substack.com/pub/pegtyre/p/…

@JoanneLeeJacobs @VodkaPundit @RbnLake @BrizardJC “Edtech” is a pretty broad label. Are we sure schools are ready to jettison devices so fast without thinking it through?

So much money, not so much learning. tinyurl.com/3rzfs558 @gtoppo @VodkaPundit @RbnLake @BrizardJC

We also get into strangers’ cars in distant cities and pay to sleep in their houses, kids …

Head Start Providers Fight to Claw Back Protections from ICE Enforcement - new from @The74’s @amanda_geduld: the74million.org/zero2eight/hea…

@karenvaites @JonHaidt @SonjaSantelises Tech out of classrooms by the fall?

Which part seems simple? The Baltimore regulation of screen time or my “get a curriculum that doesn’t require screens” point? Adopting quality curriculum into a system that didn’t use it before is never, ever simple. So there’s that. I also don’t think the issue stops at the curriculum selection door. We also have to deal with the shift to digital assessments: in schools, by states. And avoid throwing out babies (ex remote tutoring) with bath water.

Paging educators 🚩🚩🚩 This is the second time in 2 weeks that @JonHaidt has called to get Ed Tech out of classrooms by September: "I hope that many elementary schools will remove devices by Sept., or create an analog path for parents who want that. Let's see if kids do better with books and paper" Haidt drove the cell phone ban legislation. What are the odds his words carry in a similar fashion? Are we doing enough to signal this shift to districts? 1/2

@karenvaites @JonHaidt @SonjaSantelises Why does this seem so much like a simple solution to a complex problem?

Recently, Baltimore City superintendent @SonjaSantelises announced a limit on screen time in K-2. It must be said: Baltimore City will have an easier time with this because it has a curriculum (Wit & Wisdom) that isn't designed to be used digitally. That matters! thebanner.com/education/earl…

Discussing His Dyslexia, Newsom Steps into K–12 Spotlight - new from @The74's @KevinMahnken: the74million.org/article/discus…

These kids and their devices ...

Mamdani’s Child Care Czar on NYC’s First-of-it’s-Kind, Universal 2-K Rollout - new from @The74's @amanda_geduld: the74million.org/zero2eight/mam…

@JoanneLeeJacobs @AnnaRMills @rickhess99 @Tyler_A_Harper @Dale_Chu @jaypgreene @VodkaPundit … and after you graduate he’ll do your white-collar job for you?

"Einstein" AI claims it can do everything for college kids except drink beer and eat pizza. tinyurl.com/4knryfsh #edtech #collegestudents #HigherEd @AnnaRMills @rickhess99 @Tyler_A_Harper @Dale_Chu @jaypgreene @gtoppo @VodkaPundit

"If you think of a tutor bot as extracting statistical patterns of language out of a corpus, we've got kind of the wrong corpus for the patterns of language that we want to emerge." 2/2 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how… @bjfr

.@MIT's Justin Reich on the essential problem of LLM tutor bots: "If you're using LLMs, they're trained on the web, and most of the text on the web is about answering questions. But actually what tutors do is they question answers. They provoke thinking. ... 1/2

... but you cannot take away millions of minutes of student activity and not expect there to be less overall learning in the system." shows.acast.com/future-fluent/… @bjfr

.@MIT's Justin Reich on practical consequences of generative #AI: "I think we're gonna find that there are millions and millions fewer minutes of homework being done at all secondary grade levels this year, and not every one of those assignments in the past was perfect ... 1/2

‘Commons’ Founders Say Phone-Free Schools Rob Kids of Agency - my conversation with co-founders Julia Gustafson and Shannon Godfrey via @The74 the74million.org/article/74-int…

Education Dept. Dismantling Continues, Hitting School Safety, Family Engagement - new from @The74's @lrj417: the74million.org/article/educat…

Exclusive: New Google Partnership a ‘Sizable Investment’ in AI for Teachers - my latest for @The74 (link in first comment)

Oh yes ...

My latest for @the74 ... Exclusive: Parents Favor Free Tutoring, Summer Camp, Open Enrollment … Annual Testing? Not So Much Link in 1st comment.