Meghan Stigge, MLS
@StiggeMe
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High school librarian & IB teacher. Brain tumor survivor. Personal account.
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Joined December 2010
Oh hey look! My first professional byline! 😀
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4 days out from my life-changing surgery, @Aetna has denied the appeal for my brain surgery. to be clear, when i signed up to aetna months ago, the coordinator had confirmed they would cover this surgery. then, a week ago, they said the surgery was too experimental/elective and
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We can no longer count on the internet to be a permanent digital archive. Governments are disappearing information from their websites, authors are seeing their life’s works deleted. Netflix has three movies from before 1970. It is time to invest in physical media.
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We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.
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i’m not saying nothing but it does seem like people are very mad about the healthcare situation in this country.
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I'm convinced that declining student achievement is in large part due to 1-to-1 computer programs in schools.
"Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity...typewriting do[es] not activate...networks the same way that handwriting does."
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I'm so serious, if you stop using your creativity, imagination and thinking abilities you will LOSE them. Millions of people willingly giving up their intellects, the very thing that makes them human, is a nightmare straight out of our darkest science-fictions.
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we need to stop chatgpt and other AI efforts EXPEDITIOUSLY or literally we are all going to die sooner rather than later. this is not an escapable truth. opt out. speak against it at your companies. do your best to make it completely unprofitable
There is no easy way to talk about this. This week the UN announced we are on track to reach up to 3.1° Celsius of warming. We are slated to blow past the goals of the Paris Accords. Here's what this means. (1/9) 🧵
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For real: do not use generative AI for anything. No cutesy profile pics, no absurdist images, nothing. More will be needed to save us, but this is one thing we can do.
This is the graph from the new report. Sear this into your memory. The green line represents how fast we must cut emissions to stay below 1.5 degrees. The top line represents current policies. The bars on the right show the gap between where we are and where we must be. (6/9)
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The replies to this are alarming
What’s your biggest barrier to getting fitter? ☺️
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if you don’t like the AI answers that pop up when you search things on Google, just add “-ai” at the end of your search and they won’t appear 💗 enjoy
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In IB TOK, we talk a lot about how the "landscape of history" is vastly different when you view historical events through different lenses.
If you guys wanna see something really funny, view an article about Israel on wikipedia, change the language to hebrew, and translate to English. Tends to be some differing beliefs
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Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch
New: some Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.”
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The research is quite clear, and there is quite a lot of it. Dedicated time to read is the most impactful intervention we can give.
A fun fact is that in my school district having silent reading time like we used to is heavily discouraged bc so many kids can’t read fluently at their grade level that it’s not considered meaningful instructional time by the powers that be but research tells us 1/
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Digital textbooks, testing only on excerpts, all digital assignments, not teaching how to find books they'll enjoy, and, yes, the phones, too. These are why students aren't reading full books.
What I would add to this already eye-opening story: Many high school kids have never seen a *textbook.* The very idea that concepts can be laid out in a linear argument or presented cumulatively—whether it’s history or math—is foreign to them.
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Individual judgement call on life-or-death situations rather than official guidance was a policy cemented in place the last 4 years. We're on our own for most things now.
This is wild. They’re saying to shelter-in-place if there’s a strong odor — something you could really only know if you are *exposed* to the smoke plume Putting it on individuals to make that judgment call is very reckless
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I’m convinced that “healthy” people who don’t need to spend time in hospital truly believe that if they need it the experience will be quick, pleasant and infection free. Unless you interact with the healthcare system regularly - you really can’t understand how bad it’s become
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And then the cycle repeats when a few weeks later, insurance decides out of the blue that the prior auth is now out of date
You've heard of the nine circles of Hell? A patient with cancer documented the TWENTY-SIX steps necessary to get their medication (as an oncologist I know a vicious cycle when I see one)
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