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Carol is like Odalia but less abusive

She’s nowhere near Odalia levels of bad but yeah I can see the similarities LOL

(I think she’s strict but loving in her own way and also: grieving. Women’s wrongs.)

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I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

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If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

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You think you're hip. You think you're cool. You think you know something about the world. And then you learn that the river that runs through the Grand Canyon no longer reaches the sea, and like. What do you even do with that knowledge???

(yes, it was human interference. yes, it was/is bad. and sorry to all the locals who learned this stuff in high school, I'm not from the area)

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It is your sworn duty, when you're in your 30's, to do something every day that would have gotten you viciously bullied in high school.

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Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

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I keep telling my high school bestie that he’d do numbers on here but he won’t sign up.

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“A Thread of Tips” by Shelby

• #16 is missing but to find out more tips, follow her on twitter; be sure to thank her! 😁

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sorry the faces of every man ive ever killed just flashed before my eyes was that a yes or a no to butt stuff

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If you had told me ten years ago that by now Tulsi Gabbard would be a Republican making up a story about how Obama rigged the election against Trump (the election Trump won) & saying this is why he needs to be charged with treason, I'd say "I mean I didn't expect those exact events but it seems believable". Then I'd say "what the fuck do you mean Trump wins next year?"

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art museum today !!!!! gonna see that big as fuck barrel again!!!!!!!!!!

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Oh. Someone offered to blaze my commissionpalooza which was so sweet and tumblr just rejected it. Thats fun.

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20 examples of periodic solutions to the three-body problem