Palestine ecocide - Google Search

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Motorways with no speed limits and car-free town centres

"It is this problem which is, for me, the biggest and most legitimate justification for education technology. Technology can be a great equaliser. In its ability to deliver consistent quality at scale, it is perhaps the most democratic force in existence. The printing press made books available for the masses. Recorded music allows everyone to listen to world-class performances. The internet makes information freely accessible. These technologies have already helped democratise access to education, both inside and outside of traditional educational institutions.

But given that the variation problem remains, these technologies have not done enough. For many, it can seem as though the next step is a fully personalised screen-based education that cuts out the human teacher. Instead of learning in a traditional classroom with human teachers and paper-based materials, perhaps in the future students will learn using a combination of personalised devices, AI chatbots, eye-tracking technology and adaptive algorithms.

This is where I depart from the pro-technology line. I think we have to find ways of using technology to get scale, but for the majority of school education I don’t think that will involve kids sitting at screens."

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Researchers Say Phone Bans Don’t Improve Learning — But They Didn’t Study Bans

"One year ago, a paper was published arguing that school phone policies do not improve student learning.

This finding was not particularly surprising, as most school ‘phone policies’ are not genuine bans. Most policies prohibit students from using phones during class-time, but allow device access between classes, during breaks, at lunch, or while traveling to and from school."

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Are school phone bans working? - by Jacqueline Nesi, PhD

"My husband has said that one of my redeeming qualities is that I am usually able to refrain from saying “I told you so” in situations where I did, in fact, tell someone so. Therefore, I will not say I told anyone so. But I did write the following in a post in 2024: “Phone bans won’t fix everything: Finally, it’s worth remembering that these policies are not a panacea…Bottom line: if we want students talking to each other during lunch, or paying attention during class, we need policies that ensure their phones are not distracting them during those times. But if we’re pinning our hopes for solving the mental health crisis on phone bans, we’re going to be disappointed.”"

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Proctors' Gamble - by Dave Pell - NextDraft

"Students are back to being treated as being presumptively dishonest and proctors are back in the business of watching for fraud. The internet couldn’t break the policy. Mobile phones couldn’t break the policy. But then the policy met a new kind of opponent. The Atlantic (Gift Article): How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition. “The code lasted through two world wars, the upheaval of the 1960s, the disillusionment of Watergate, and even the rise of search engines and SparkNotes. It finally met its match in generative AI. Yesterday, after the rise of AI-facilitated cheating became too obvious to ignore, Princeton’s faculty voted to begin proctoring exams again. Technically, the Honor Code is still in place. Students will still sign a pledge that they didn’t cheat."

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What's happening to our attention spans?

"A 2024 meta-analysis examining 287 studies of the d2 test, spanning over 31 years (1990-2021) shows no change in attention abilities over that time. In fact, adults got a little better at it."

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AI memory systems are amplifying sycophancy - here's the data - WRITER

"How personalized context quietly degrades AI accuracy: a deeper look"

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[2605.26492] Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories

"Surprisingly, these "lighthouse" stories are infrequent when compared with the average post-training story, much of which contains references to copyrighted characters or adult content. This result demonstrates the potentially disproportionate impact of small datasets combined with powerful alignment algorithms."

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Israel killed Sam, a 7-month-old baby on Friday.

Israel killed Sam, a 7-month-old baby on Friday. He joins my 14 nieces & nephews, & over 20,000 other children Israel has killed.

We’re told they were mistakes, collateral damage or human shields.

This video will show you that this is a lie. Israel wanted to kill these children

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Empathy for Palestine

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