In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the schools the kid went to were good, which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow.
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This course takes you from a complete beginner, and gives you enough confidence to read and write simple proofs. Each chapter has one exercise, designed to build confidence, not destroy it!
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👋 Hey all... trying out life at the beige.party
David Mitchell (he/him)
Married, dad to a set of mostly grown young people (but they still eat my food).
Edmonton string instructor (will wear any hat related to music).
Promoter of:
basic public health measures;
strong, integrated, compassionate communities;
simple humanitarian values.
Every person is inherently, uniquely, and infinitely valuable.
Interested in #music #art #design #civics #history #abpoli #cndpoli #yegcc #canada #yeg #edmonton #ableg #PublicHealth #science #education #WearAMask ... so like everything except professional sports I guess.
Been at mstdn.ca since 2022, moving proactively to protect my connection to y'all, just in case.
The #Trump admin has *declined* to release nearly $7 billion in federal #funding for #schools that helps pay for after-school & summer programs, support for #students learning English, #teacher training & other services.
The money, which was already allocated by #Congress, was expected to be released by Tuesday. But in an email on Monday, the Trump *#Education* Department notified #state education agencies that the money would not be available.
#law #policy #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Introduction Hashtags, so I can pin this post and take them out of my profile:
#Education #Research #Phd, #BCS #Computing #Teacher #CCT
#CSEd #Programming #BCS
#ActuallyAutistic
#ActuallyADHD
I live with #MultipleSclerosis
#Zen / #Nonduality #Buddhist, weirdly into #Jung
#Research topics:
- #EdAI / #AIEd - #LLMs in #Education
- #CriticalStudies of #EdTech
- #Neurodiversity in #Education, and the experience of ND educators.
#lispyGopherClimate https://communitymedia.video/w/5gDoZAFpthDiZzRafWqy2n #archive #technology #lisp #podcast
We got the face of #FOSS computing in #Aotearoa #NZ joining us live.
https://davelane.nz/my-open-history
Dave has worked extensively over the decades on #libre #education , #OER . Dave is a herptophile so we better talk about #logo #turtleDrawing at least!
Lots of questions about education-focused-programming-languages (like LOGO!).
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In #books: It’s typical of José Skinner’s approach that his main protagonist is not some self-assured reflection of his own qualifications, but rather Quigley, a dopey gringo vacillating between colonial-gaze fascination and fear of a world he doesn’t understand. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/
Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.
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Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-thirds of that.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-rural-schools-funding-legislation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Trump Went to War With the Ivies. #CommunityColleges Are Being Hit.
Measures intended to punish elite #universities are inflicting collateral damage on the nation’s two-year #colleges, which educate 40% of all undergraduates.
#education #law #AcademicFreedom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/magazine/trump-community-college-anti-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk8.O9vd.hhK-1Pm-KwAA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Spent a bit of time tonight updating the "virtual pet" sprites I have at the top of my Canvas pages to represent student progress.
I only got caught up on grading one class so far because they're starting the semester project this week, so I updated their sprites.
Including a screenshot of another class' pets, which are still in "baby form".
This week's net.wars, "Machine learning", chats about chatbots in education with a tiny unrepresentative sample of those dealing with them: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/08/machine-learning/ #NetWars #education #AI
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
EDIT de l'EDIT (parce que clairement je ne sais pas lire😮💨 )
C'est un sondage de l'instance Masto RéseauCulture, un réseau "d'acteurs culturels, publics et privés, engagés pour partager des informations culturelles de façon plus libre, ouverte et indépendante" mais c'est à l'initiative du Ministère de la Culture.
Ils veulent savoir si vous êtes intéressés de voir des institutions culturelles sur Mastodon.
https://framaforms.org/mastodonfediverse-la-culture-et-vous-1771542693
#culture #france #mastodon #musee #theatre #education #science
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Un an après la polémique, le ministère de l’Éducation nationale prolonge son contrat avec Microsoft jusqu’en 2029.
Une décision qui relance le débat sur la dépendance aux acteurs américains et sur la souveraineté numérique, malgré les recommandations de l’État en faveur d’alternatives européennes.
#SouverainetéNumérique #éducation #Microsoft #numérique #europe #donnéespersonnelles
25 Democrat #states & DC sued the #Trump #Education Dept over new graduate #StudentLoan limits, arguing the restrictions will worsen the #HealthCareWorker shortage.
“#HigherEducation is expensive, & our #health care system is already under immense strain. This rule will shut talented people out of critical professions & leave communities with fewer #healthcare providers they desperately need,” NYAG Letitia James, who is leading the coalition, said in a statement.
#law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/05/19/health-worker-shortage-will-worsen-with-student-loan-limit-25-states-say-suit/
What is a harmonic? An interactive comic about additive synthesis https://lobste.rs/s/goq5ha #art #education #visualization
https://melatonin.dev/additive-synth-comic/what-is-a-harmonic/
French first lady Brigitte Macron and other spouses of world leaders. "It will be formed in the shape of humans. Very soon, artificial intelligence will move from our mobile phones to humanoids that deliver utility. Since our environment is designed for people, humanoid systems are uniquely suited to navigate and operate within our world. They fit well."
"Imagine a humanoid educator named Plato," she continued. "Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous. Literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics and history. Humanity's entire corpus of information is available in the comfort of your home. Plato will provide a personalized experience, adaptive to the needs of each student. Plato is always patient, and always available. Predictably, our children will develop deep critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities. The AI-powered Plato will boost analytic skills and problem solving and adopt in real time to a student's pace, prior knowledge and even emotional state. The byproduct — a more well-rounded lifestyle for our children, freeing up time for being with friends, playing sports and developing interests beyond school. A more complete person."
The horrors and clowns of the bread and circus.
#AI #GenAI #GeneartiveAI #robotics #education #MagicalThinking #dystopia
Books may do more than entertain us.
A large study using Health and Retirement Study data found that people who read #books had a survival advantage compared with non-book #readers, even after adjusting for factors like age, #education, health, and wealth.
Strong evidence that #reading is associated with living better and longer.
Source: A chapter a day: Association of book reading with #longevity.
#book #bookstodon #booksky #BookTok #booklover #bookstagram
@bookstodon
From @forbes on 🦋 23 hrs ago:
Mass Student Loan Discharge Notices Go Out To 170,000 Borrowers After Education Department Loss
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2026/04/01/mass-student-loan-discharge-notices-go-out-to-170000-borrowers-after-education-department-loss/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=forbes
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Me:
Ie, a court order has forced Trump's #Education Dept to send 170,000 student loan borrowers notices that their federal #StudentLoans are eligible to be cancelled.
The development is the latest in the Sweet v. McMahon legal battle & a win for borrowers, all of whom have been waiting nearly 4 years for relief.
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Rep. Suzanne Bonamici introduced a resolution to impeach Education Secretary Linda McMahon, alleging she illegally moved 100+ Department of Education programs to other agencies without congressional consent. As a minority-party measure, it faces almost no path forward — but the underlying legal fight does. https://thecollegeinvestor.com/82553/house-democrat-files-resolution-to-impeach-education-secretary-linda-mcmahon/ #Education #PublicPolicy
I have long since ranted about the lack of tech literacy and how that’s intentional, partially by big tech, but also partially because I believe educational places are/were teaching tech backwards.
For instance, in schools, certainly my school, I was Taught how to do things with technology, but I was never taught *how technology worked and why it worked the way it worked.*
Fear comes from not knowing how stuff works and why it works.
I just came across two different people from generations that have been trained to be afraid of links. younger than me, GenZ and older, GenX and so we broke down a link.
The different parts of a URL, how to read a URL, the various components of a URL, how to find a URL inside of tracking garbage, how to tell the difference between HTTPS and HTTP and what each does and means, and why, and I explained what all the different parts of a URL tells the user and why.
I think we went about tech literacy all wrong. People technically know how to use email, but they don’t know the half of what makes up an email address, why the @ sign is an @ sign to begin with, and a whole host of other things as just won example. That’s the kind of tech literacy I truly think we need more of.
Like, instead of everybody telling me when I was younger that Wikipedia was terrible and should never be used, I wish my instructors would’ve taught me how to use the references. How to use the external links. How to track edits. Nothing complicated. I had to learn all that later on.
And guess what, after breaking down every component of a URL, and teaching others how to read a URL, thoroughly, the fear of links dissipated. No coding required! #Education #Technology #Tech
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#Trump Administration to Pull Out of #CivilRights #Settlements Backing #Trans Students
The #Education Department said there was no precedent for the federal government terminating settlements stemming from civil rights investigations into #schools.
#law #LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/politics/transgender-students-civil-rights.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
New from Justin Miller: What would’ve been school-choice proponents’ triumphant publicity tour was instead consumed by catty finger-pointing over who’s to blame for the seemingly botched attempt to religiously discriminate against some program participants. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/
#vouchers #Politics #USpol #Republicans #Texas #TXlege #news #education #schools