Reposted by @kearnsn.bsky.socialNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I can't make you learn something. I can take you on a tour, show you the landscape, some good examples, come up with activities to sharpen your thinking, give you feedback when you try things, but you have to have the experience, you have to know that it's yours & only yours. I can't give it to you. 184
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's sappy but even though we all have a different reason to join we do make it better for us all when we join 000
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Bob Marley and I'm German, I hope you like German too. I was wayyyyyy to old when it hit me. 161
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I desperately want that mug now. I made a comment to a friend today that I get to walk around and talk about math and spill coffee all day and it is a perfect existence for me! 110
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Thinking about how a friend and I used to have "mail races". We would write each other physical letters and put them in the mail on the same day. Whoever had their letter arrive first won... I should she if we can get that going again 000
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There's no way that 1st quarter is over this Friday right? Right?!? 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Today's limerick. I think I should try a koan on Monday. 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026inthesetimes.com/offers/free-...inthesetimes.comSpecial Offer: FREE 12-issue subscription to In These Times magazineAre you a union member? You can get a FREE 12-issue subscription to In These Times magazine right now. 000
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Babe wake up, new subitization problem just dropped 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm still trying to figure out how to describe how affecting this is for me. Beautiful francissu.substack.com/p/love-of-hu...francissu.substack.comLove of Humanity Is Not EnoughThe OpenAI race on Navier-Stokes exposes the gap between loving humanity and loving your neighbor 000
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I refer to my classroom as the "Algebra fun zone" last week I was gifted this by a student 050
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I always confuse them withthe dismemberment pan. The name sounds scary but life of pasta-billities is a lot of fun 100
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Or to pay all the math teachers at a small school for 100 years. 040
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I love deregulation. Making coffee in a red states is great. Definitely worth $120 a month for this coming straight out of the tap. 020
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Slacker! Got to get those numbers up if you want your performance bonus! 110
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Yep even in conservative rural Indiana no one likes this www.change.org/p/ban-flock-...change.orgSign the PetitionBan flock cameras and eradicate ALPRs in Lawrence County 000
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Also I should say that coming up with good examples is one of my favorite parts of teaching. Why should I give that up. The lazy cheat machine makes more work for me and takes away one of my favorite pieces of teaching. 011
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Don't do that! Of the five examples it spit out only one of them actually fit the request. After 20 minutes of carefully checking each of the outputs by hand I finally had my examples put together. It took more time than if I had just started by hand and used desmos 3d grapher. 100
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I forgot that I needed to come up with a few systems of equations that happen infinite number of solutions that can be parameterized for tomorrow. (I went kayaking with my kids instead....) Because of the time requirement I thought I would test out an LLM. 100
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We got a email to our teacher email account last year from chat GPT offering a year of free access. Definitely thought about DARE! 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026After 19 years I have entered the phase of writing warm up questions as poems. Today is my first limerick. 000
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Downside of current life is impractically of walking to used cd store at 1130pm and then walking home with enough Dr pepper to kill me currently and a scratched copy of a Beck CD and an import NIN cd 100
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Walking to the Muncie mall to get a tool album in the rain was about that length though 100
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026A good way to keep track of how long I've been teaching math is to measure what fraction of my folders look like this 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Laying outside watching the perseids. I know that the peak was yesterday but it's not raining today, I recommend it! 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The tragedy of the commons is not mandatory. We don't have to do this! Really thinking about what we would lose is shocking 110
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I think normalizing science as a thing people can do is important. We do what we see. Many kids (and adults) don't have a personal connection to someone who does science and therefore never pursue it. If kids are exposed to pop science some of them will do that and some will learn amazing things 040
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is the best way I have ever found to teach properties. Are numbers commutative in /mathbb{Z}/p? What does that mean? Algebra 1 kids definitely can understand it! Then suddenly maybe sprinkle a little cryptography in there and you are going wild 010
Reposted by @kearnsn.bsky.socialPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Wow. All those numbers are prime numbers. Isn't that cool? And hooray you've taught them ℤ/p and are getting into interesting math. This stuff can be made accessible and fun for kids, we just force kids to memorize times tables until they declare forever they are bad at math 8482
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is the number one reason I am a member of my union. My AR is amazing at bringing issues to admin and holding them responsible for at least listening to our concerns. 031
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Ugh I started mine tonight. I love a narrated slide show followed by multiple choice quizzes, it really is the best way to learn 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026My daughter is going to start band and wants to play a saxophone and has already asked me to stop doing this several timesstatic.klipy.comHomer Simpson's Sax-a-ma-phoneAlt: Homer Simpson's Sax-a-ma-phone 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026If you have windows kids can write in them with markers. They love it! Also student desks can be written on with markers! It is fascinating how much deeper the (math in my case) can get when you give a group of kids a marker and a good problem to solve. 040
Reposted by @kearnsn.bsky.socialBritt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 05/06/2026IMO, senior faculty at top R1 institutions rushing to use AI to flood journals with papers before future students or early career researchers can have an opportunity is not just greedy, it's salting the earth of the discipline. 43313
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026A big part of what I do is spend hours thinking about the best examples to illustrate what is important and what errors can arise. If we stop embracing that part of the job we are going to be replaced soon. There's already a lot of people who already think that we are just robots! 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I complain about paperwork sometimes because yes it can be annoying! But I don't want to write questions that can be automatically graded by a robot. I want questions that a human has to decide the truth of. If we only do things that AI can do why have teachers at all. 110
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Buy some indian corn, run it through a coffee grinder. Experience all that grits can be in when they are crazy colors as well as delicious 120
Reposted by @kearnsn.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Why would anyone choose to dwell, for even a second, in the Kafka liminal zone of “by AI” or “with AI”? When you can do literally anything else, why would you do this with your one life? 942564
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I did this in 2019-20 and got a whole lot out of it. I am legitimately a better teacher because of this program! 010
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026How could you expose our network? We are compromised now. 000
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Holy hell was that like 2004? If so I was at that same concert? It was great 110
kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Absolutely a situation where compliance will not happen. 010
