The most expensive tool in the classroom is me, the teacher. The second most expensive is the computer I use. The third and fourth are probably my classroom’s large whiteboard and fancy-ish projector. Let’s talk about those: https://t.co/I1nh0SEzOo

What happens when teachers have to balance teaching, and the litany of things that come with it, with a very healthy dose of policing and espionage work? This: https://t.co/WCbHhNHsAB

Sometimes we forget that students may be working to go against a certain future than toward one: https://t.co/hIddSC9O9m

Are we cool with companies trying to gain users by advertising shortcuts to education? Or is this the new world, and they are several layers ahead of me, a regular high school English teacher dude?

I often forget how simple classroom technology needs to be. I got this piece of tech from Sweden via IKEA instead of Silicon Valley. I use it to join groups or put it across desk my desk so students can sit while we conference. Light, mobile, the right height for discussion.

We have all the time in the world to experiment with tech as it becomes increasingly more widespread, easy to use, and cheaper. And the classroom—this randomly diverse group of people—doesn’t exist for everybody, and we all need it at all points in our lives.

As an English teacher, basically now the core “human” teacher in every American’s education, I am concerned more than ever with humans thinking with other humans more than anything.

The hardest job at any tech company is probably the user design person. Not saying that engineering is easy. Far from it. But humans are difficult to design for.

I made a character in my classroom called EVIL Wilson. I am not a strict teacher, but I want my students to have great classroom discussions. I had no idea that such a classroom tactic would create a daily analysis of the messy act of creativity: https://t.co/qCmn6HLXGc

Yes. Another post on AI. I'm sure people can make livings on hot takes on AI by now, but this one, I think, needs some more air. https://t.co/jYDdPxquBe

A teacher with many years experience sets out to muse on the oddness that the beginning of a school year has become and learns something that will be available at the end of the essay:

We took our toddler on six flights this summer. We found some things out. One of them has to do with Costco. Here, check it out: https://t.co/L4EY8e25N7

My reaction: Whoa.

But this is Hsu’s definition of what came before college: “Until we’re eighteen, we go to school because we have to, studying the Second World War and reducing fractions while undergoing a process of socialization. We’re essentially learning how to follow rules.”

In the middle of reading Hua Hsu’s “The End of the Essay” in The New Yorker. So far, interesting.

True, it’s always good to think ahead, and, when you know something is going to be permanent or at least something you need to understand later, it’s good to be careful. But that little bit of organization I do in my brain before I commit, that’s the thing.

I have noticed that when I dictate text into my phone, I do the same thing I do when I write something down: I pause to consider the shape of the sentence.

What is it to argue over analog and digital? Well, it is to argue which tool works best with the human behind the tool. Thus this essay about education and differing perspectives on how humans “work.” https://t.co/rxjAhU6avJ

There is plenty of time to learn tools and classes and majors specialized for them, but the only time you will be stuck in a room with upwards of 25 different perspectives is in a classroom. And that’s a wonderful part about our public K-12 system.

What we do need to worry about is that students consider the ethics and morals of using tools. Plus, learning with other humans will always trump what we are going to get out of tools themselves.