BIOLOGICAL MYSTERY: One thing I often tell students (especially if they say they're bored) is the simple fact that "everything is fascinating if you look at it hard enough and ask enough questions." This is because I often find people who are "bored" are often arrogantly presuming they already know everything important about a topic, which is simply untrue in a universe that keeps on throwing surprises at us, like the recent discovery of a previously uncategorized type of...object? entity?....that apparently inhabits the human body.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION CAN BE TAUGHT: Nifty post here by Adam Piccoli on using ELA and social studies classes to teach conflict resolution to high schoolers (in the hopes that the next generation will be more capable of civil political discussion than...whatever this is our culture has going on at the moment).
As educators, we should all work together to help lead our country through this self-destructive conflagration.
AI & THE 'KNOWABILITY' OF FACTS: Short piece by Kevin Kelly that would be useful for discussion across a wide variety of classroom contexts.
The arrival of generative AI has flipped the polarity of truthfulness back to what it was in old times.
GOALS: Larry Ferlazzo with a very practical post on a workable model to improve student goal-setting in any classroom.
PODCAST: Now that I have a commute longer than 76 seconds, I get to listen to a lot more podcasts. And Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is one of my favorites, in which Popular Science editors sit around and discuss, well, all the weird things they've recently learned.
MUSIC: I'm a sucker for indie artists, and Dispatch is absolutely my favorite. I had never heard of them until I couldn't sleep one night 15 years ago and at 2:00 a.m. stumbled across a Netflix documentary about the day they accidentally shut down Boston when so many people showed up for a concert at the Hatch. A live song and a compilation live album are linked below, for your listening pleasure.
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