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Omaha police introduced shock gloves for school resource officers in metro high schools, emphasizing their ability to ensure compliance with minimal force.

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Austin Kleon didn't write a book about education—but he may have written one of the most important books educators can read this year.

Download Field Notes No. 001 and discover what Austin Kleon's Don't Call It Art can teach educators about authentic learning and creativity.

Austin Kleon's Don't Call It Art isn't just for creators. It's one of the most insightful books on curiosity, learning, and teaching.

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"Eighty-three percent of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier." That's one of the headline findings from this opinion piece based on a recent MIT Media Lab preprint that has already begun making the rounds in education circles. Participants were divided into groups and asked to write SAT-style essays. Those using ChatGPT reportedly struggled to recall exact lines from what they had written. OK... Now let's ask the question every researcher should ask before panicking: Compared to what? How many SAT writers in 2005 could quote a line from an essay they had just finished?

Remember in Ready Player One when literally everyone in the world was convinced that finding Halliday's Easter egg would solve all their problems? Full-on societal obsession. People abandoned real life to hunt for a magic answer that would fix everything if they could just get their hands on it? Yeah. That's basically been the school phone ban debate for years. Legislators, parents, and a surprisingly loud chorus of researchers have been on a high-stakes quest for the One Policy to Rule Them All — the intervention so powerful, so obviously correct, that anyone who questions it must secretly want children to suffer.

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There is a real crisis in children's mental health. I believe this because I see it daily in the schools I work in. The data supports it. The children themselves are telling us. On this point, Jonathan Haidt and I agree completely. Where I part ways — and where I think the current panic about technology in schools is leading us somewhere counterproductive — is on the question of cause. And because cause determines response, getting this wrong has real consequences for real kids. Let me be direct: The Anxious Generation…

"…I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and there are many things I don’t know anything about."

This post contains affiliate links. If you buy something through one of them, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. The national average teacher salary is $74,200. That sounds okay until you account for the fact that most teachers spend hundreds of dollars out of pocket on classroom supplies each year, work 50+ hour weeks, and bring a graduate degree to a job that still can't cover the rent in most major cities. I've been in education long enough to know: the pay conversation isn't changing fast enough.

There is a moment early in The Lies of Locke Lamora where Father Chains — the blind priest who is not actually blind, and not actually a priest — explains to a young Locke Lamora exactly what kind …

Photo by Lina Kivaka on Pexels.com I wrote an earlier version of this post in 2023, partway through my doctoral program. Looking back at it, I can see the problem immediately: it reads like a summa…

I don't have the time right now, but when the ol' dissertation is done, I can easily see a 3D printer getting heavy usage around these parts... 3D printers are one of the few pieces of technology in the last 30 years that are as revolutionary as they were pitched. It is easy to miss that fact, in part because 3D printing itself is a dorky little habit that produces a lot of embarrassing trinkets with visible layer lines, a technology that launched a thousand Iron Man cosplay masks. But the quality and speed of these machines improves yearly, and you can get a fantastic printer that handles multiple colors for less than $600 dollars and even cheaper if you go with eBay or know someone who is moving at just the right time.

The shock and awe on the face of the folks at Mission Control as they chatted with the astronauts as this happened... During their flyby of the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft saw as many as six flashes emerging from the lunar surface. Surprisingly, they were witnessing small meteorites impacting the ground and producing brief flashes of light. NASA's control room recorded the team's surprise during the mission livestream, although the cameras did not pick up the flashes. According to the astronauts, the flashes were white or blue-white and lasted less than a second.

Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list. Source: Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii | Bryan Keller’s Dev Blog

More impressive infrastructure coming out of China... The longest outdoor escalator system in the world is now running in Wushan County, China. At nearly 3,000 feet long, it carries pedestrians up 800 feet in elevation—around the height of an 80-story skyscraper. The system is known as the “Goddess” escalator, and it’s made of 21 individual escalators, 8 elevators, 4 moving walkways and several pedestrian bridges. Riding all of them takes roughly 21 minutes. “As far as I know, there are no similar projects nationwide, either exceeding or equal to ours, either under construction or already started,” project design lead Huang Wei, an engineer at China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group, tells the Financial Times’ Thomas Hale and Wang Xueqiao. “It’s the first of its kind.”

Giles Turnbull has some thoughts on AI-generated writing: First of all, I’ll come clean about where I stand, generally speaking: I’m an AI sceptic, especially on using AI for writing. I can see it being useful for other things - but that’s because I’m a writer, right? I see AI generated text and most of the time, I think it’s rubbish. It’s dull, it’s derivative, it always sounds like a thousand other things I’ve read before. Because the AI has been trained on those thousands of things, all now easy to find on the internet.

Fear not, true believers. We can take our fascination with all things Artemis II on our phones. NASA has made a dozen mobile wallpapers available. Here are a couple I enjoyed: Source: Artemis II Mobile Wallpapers - NASA

From Larry Cuban.. As students, professionals, and parents, in the 20th and early 21st centuries, I, and most readers, have been the objects of these reforms, their implementers, or simply observers. School reform, then, is not something distant or far removed from our lives. We have experienced school reforms repeatedly. So, for me, school reforms have been as normal as breathing, eating, walking, reading, and writing posts for this blog. Source: School Reform Again, Again, and Yet Again | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

art002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. We see a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk. The science community is investigating whether this effect is due to the corona, zodiacal light, or a combination of the two.

11 track album Finally got the chance to put this in my ears with the onset of Spring Break. Justin Vernon never ceases to amaze me with his inspired combination of analog and digital music tools. This is tons of fun, gotta pick up the vinyl soon. Source: VOLUMES: ONE (SELECTIONS FROM MUSIC CONCERTS 2019-2023 BON IVER 6 PIECE BAND) | Bon Iver

China’s Taklamakan Desert was an unforgiving landscape. Was is the operative word, since it isn’t as unforgiving anymore Source: China Covered the 'Sea of Death' in Trees. Here's What Happened.

“So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprin...

Google recently announced a major update to its experimental design tool, Stitch. If you haven’t heard of it before, Stitch is an AI-powered interface design tool—but this update signals something bigger than just new features. Google is now describing Stitch as an “AI-native software design canvas”—a space where users can move from an idea to a high-fidelity interface using natural language, images, or even voice. That shift in language matters. What’s Actually New in This Update? Stitch isn’t new, but this version pushes it in a different direction. A few highlights stand out.

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