Can someone explain to me the draw of a cruise? Like I get enjoying a boat ride. I get enjoying travel. But why is it better than just traveling directly or going to a resort with similar amenities as opposed to being trapped on what seems to me like all you can eat Petri dish?
‘Look at where we are. Look at where we started. The fact that we’re alive is a miracle. Just stay alive and it will be enough.’ Those feel like my words for 2022, which is why seeing
@HamiltonMusical
again today before break ends made sense.
@WSJ
So basically what you’re saying is that schools continue to push assignments where students can easily Google the answer rather than promote more challenging learning. It’s always easy to cheat on a stupid worksheet. So maybe rote memorization shouldn’t be the goal in 2021!
Dun dun duhduh dun duhduh dun duhduh dun…
I had to take a final moment in Philly to run up the Rocky steps with my newly won EdTech Poetry Slam belt.
#ISTELive
I'm finally sharing some of the
#GridGames
I've used with Ss & Ts to engage learners & empower student voices through a variety of fun escape rooms, scavenger hunts, game shows, board games, and basics using
@Flipgrid
-more to come
#FlipgridForAll
#GBL
Yes! The categories of racist and anti-racist are not fixed categories they are descriptions of actions we are taking in any moment-it means we must always check our actions & change is possible-from
@DrIbram
at
#ISTE20
So I am now officially an
@ISTEofficial
Certified Educator. This seemed very unlikely a couple months ago, but here we are. Given the circumstances, it feels like an extra badge of honor. And now I get to hang out in the cool kids club.
#ISTECert
I can think of almost no one as deserving of winning the
@iste
Making It Happen! Award as
@k_shelton
because Ken has been truly carrying ‘it’ for a while. And those who have had the pleasure of meeting him know how much that ‘it’ really covers.
#ISTELive
I still don't understand how, when you're in a meeting/course with educators, some folks when giving a presentation will just read the slides with a ridiculous amount of text on them.
Like, why do I need you? Just send me the deck and I'll read it.
The
#MIEExpert
is so supportive and a wonderful crew to be a part of. And I look forward to another wonderful year of playful learning with my
@MicrosoftEDU
friends!
Thanks
@MIEE_Flopsie
I was never a
@Microsoft
guy, but they won me over with a commitment to
#a11y
and then
@Flipgrid
for student voice & I can't say enough about the awesome connections I have made through this group & I have learned so much. Thank you for the honor to be an
#MIEExpert
I’ve been needing a new photo that looks more like me now rather than pre-pandemic me. And the
@AdobeForEdu
folks really are of course skilled at capturing great images. Thanks
#AdobeEduCreative
squad!
@tlane_LA
@MSNBC
It’s taking so long because Republicans in several states prevented the counting of a mil+ votes in advance along with forcing long lines in cities by closing polling places just so something like this could occur. It’s called suppression, but people can overcome.
#ElectionFacts
“If we are going to survive this moment (and this is an intensely divisive moment), it will take the good works of many people.” “Empathy is just a heartbeat away”
@levarburton
#ISTELive
@KatieF
When I also learned about all the shady illegal stuff, cruise lines, get away with you, including hiding peoples deaths, because it happening in international waters - that made me even less inclined too.
@wokeSTEMteacher
I would think it’s rooted more in misogyny and the antiquated ideas of teaching as “unmarried woman’s work”. I wore suits for a few weeks & found it inhibited my good teaching. I was better when I switched to jeans and button-ups and more comfortable interacting w/ students.
It's 2024, so I updated my banner of
#edtech
badges/accolades. This is many years of effort where I have long sought to try and learn about any tool or technique that would benefit the students or educators I work with. And I ain't retiring just yet...
It’s wild to believe, after years of enjoying the great resources he shared, that this is the first time I’m meeting
@jmattmiller
IRL. And I must say, he was lovely and generous with his time.
#TCEA23
#TCEA
Okay,
@MSFT365Designer
I'm seeing if this is as lovely as the previous AI me I saw elsewhere. I think the top left is the most realistic, but I like the bottom left the best!
#RenderMe3D
@__itsniaj
I have so been there. And I don’t even care about credit as long as people are finding it useful, it’s about the deceitfulness of that kind of act...I’ve even had people try to sell my stuff to others that I offered free. Some people really suck!
@latimes
That's really gotta sting for a guy so obsessed with ratings and an audience that still watches regular tv...but it is certainly not an indication of how the election will go. Anyone who cares should be actively working to end the insanity.
@TOItravel
Really? I mean, you think vending machines is weird-more than people open-carrying rifles into Wal-Mart & constant mass shootings, more than corporate mass-incarceration, more than ignoring paid family leave, or climate denialism or any of the other U.S. “exceptionalism”. Weird?
I had had to renew some
@GoogleForEdu
certifications. It had been a bit, and I didn’t realize the exams are that much easier now. It takes way less time than it used to and is focused on actual use cases. Good to know.
I wasn’t very excited being asked by the principal to lead a PD session on Thursday looking back on past practices and how they inform a very different next year. But I’ve now come up with a whole Back to the Future theme using
@Nearpod
that has me renewed-never back to normal!
@terrinwatson
4. Weed is legal in NYC
5. Lots of successful people have/do smoke weed when just chilling in Central Park/Harlem/whatever imaginary world this didn’t happen in
6. Someone check on the people this guy “loves”.
I'm excited to be a featured voice at
#ISTELive
and really happy I get to empower the voices of other educators and friends. Here is some of what I will be a part of sharing in Philadelphia this year!
#ISTE23
I'm incredibly excited to again be named a
#MIEExpert
for 2022-2023! It's an amazing group of dedicated worldwide educators that I have loved sharing, learning, and connecting with! And I am to be connected to experts at
@MicrosoftEDU
who are committed to
#a11y
& inclusivity.
@RealOmarNavarro
I’m genuinely curious if people like you genuinely believe this in some alternate reality or if this is the kind of blatantly self-aware lie people tell themselves to not have their flaws exposed and risk a total breakdown.
It's official. Bittersweet news, after 17 years in
#District75
I will be leaving to be NYC Schools Director of School Pathways, Computer Science Education. Off to
#ISTELive
then back for the new gig. Some day I will tell the tale of what this year has been,but I’m now 85% shaved.
It’s a brisk and lovely morning to stroll through Atlanta over to the
@MicrosoftEDU
zone to enjoy connecting with amazing educators at the
#MIEExpert
Learning Exchange.
As models and model citizens, it is the role of
@VictoriaTheTech
& I to peer into the future and straddle the challenges we must overcome…(Inside joke)
#MIEExpert
A great AI exercise is having students learn to describe themselves well enough to have an image creation tool make an accurate depiction of them. So Bing made this version of me based on my description. I really kind of like it.
#NYSCATE23
I got word that I'm an official
@NatGeo
Cert. Ed. (though I think mine took far more than 20 hours, if you count all the work with students). It was incredibly worthwhile to a look at practices through the lens of perspectives, scales,& the
@NatGeoEducation
learning framework
@NicholasFerroni
And even that’s 4x better than the number from the 90s. And also nearly 70% of Superintendants are white. So, multiple issues of inequity.
I think the best compliment you can get from another educator is that they say they wish you were their kid’s teacher. It was really heartwarming to hear that today after my session
#NYSCATE21
Some people you say hello to and others you just flip out for. And if you stumble as you do,
@jessxbo
is kind of person who will stand by to catch you. 💚
#ISTELive
@ShanaVWhite
Oh there’s a huge swath of hateful teachers from 97% white purposefully segregated Long Island towns in classes with students of color in NYC. And I have seen some of the hate they have spewed.
I came all the way to Singapore 🇸🇬from NYC 🗽to connect and learn with other
@GoogleForEdu
Champions - and very early on I meet another Sean - his trip from Malaysia was a little shorter.
#GoogleChampions
@heisereads
And beyond that, your brain becomes consumed with ‘making it through the day’ so much that it’s impossible to put your now exhausted mind to anything else the whole day even after you leave. That’s made this year demolishing for me.
@CallMeMoprah
@yesthatteacher
It was the hungry and imprisoned parent ones for me...like I didn't realize I had power to fix the justice system and solve poverty by having fun class parties and projects.
For sure, I've given hungry kids food - but putting that under the banner of "classroom mgmt" 🤷♂️
So with all the work and ‘life’ that has been deeply keeping me busy as of late, I didn’t think I’d be able to get this done in time. But I just submitted my
@ISTEofficial
Certification portfolio this morning and I’ll see soon if that work paid off.
@potterhockey
A lot of this goes to the settings of the person who coordinated the meeting, you can set it up so that people can’t share screen except for the session leader.
So today was my first work day as
@NYCSchools
Director of School Pathways, Computer Science with
@CSforAllNYC
. There will be exciting things on the horizon, but right now I'm just happy to be part of what seems a very dedicated & kind-hearted team committed to equitable CS.
My only thoughts were to not trip, throw up, & hopefully beat the AI. AI Carl was very uncanny valley, but it came close on the other 2. With the amazing talent exhibited last night it’s even more ridiculous that I’m looking at this thing in the light of the day. Thanks so much!
@ShanaVWhite
And in most schools the CRT they are spending time on is simply culturally responsive teaching, which is just responding to the needs of your students as they exist, you know, the job of a teacher.
I fly out Thursday. Got my bag packed. Got my shared resources set, QR-coded, & printed. And only just today got the "official" DOE travel approval (it's complicated). But that's in the rearview, & I look forward to seeing so many
#MIEExpert
friends at the
#LearningExchange22
So my oldest son, Aiden, was selected to represent Queens in the citywide
#Minecraft
Battle of the Boroughs that will be streamed on Twitch! I promise I wasn’t a judge.
@PlayCraftLearn
Without the contributions of these 4 pioneering women in computer science, I might not have been able to tweet this on my computer: Thanks to Ada Lovelace, Katherine Johnson, Gladys West, and Grace Hopper.
#WomensHistoryMonth
Not sure what portion of it I'm allowed to share, but this should be safe...I finally got my copy of the
@iste
Empowered Learner magazine where there was a profile about the work I do in
@NYCSchools
#District75
...I don't look/sound too crazy!
#D75STEM
#nycschoolstech
While I'm really excited about the sessions I'll be doing at
#ISTELive
with some amazing folks, I'm most excited about coordinating playgrounds to empower the voices of other educators to share their stories and expertise far better than anything I'd do alone.
Thanks to so many awesome teachers from around NYC (and the country) for coming together for our first spooktacular
@MicrosoftEDU
Meetup of the school year. I was so encouraged and invigorated by all of you! Thanks amazing friends!
#NYCSchoolsTech
I’ll be speaking along with others at
#MinecraftEdu
Live about some of the playful creations we've done in NYC! 9/14, 7PM EST! Register with
@PlayCraftLearn
:
Here’s a few highlights of victory & competition on board the
@ussintrepid
for the
#MinecraftEdu
Battle of the Boroughs
@NYCMayorsOffice
Cup to kick off the Summer of Games!
Not enough said of kids building a new NYC on ships in a virtual world aboard a ship in NYC in our world
The first and likely most diverse
#GoogleChampions
symposium is over with folks from countries across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa as well as Australia, England, and America.
Though done, I will be forever be grateful and connected to my new friends. The learning continues!
There was SO much amazing
#a11y
information that ALL students will benefit from shared at the
@InclusiveLN
playground. If you weren't able to catch it live, you can watch the recordings-and still be eligible for the book raffle. Thanks for all the wonderful presenters!
#ISTE20
An amazing evening connecting in person with NYC educators and learning in a world of
@AdobeForEdu
&
@SamsungEDU
. I love these people’s passion for finding new ways to drive student impact.
It was only our first practice today, but I am incredibly impressed by the ideas and builds for these
@NYCSchools
students from Queens building some great examples in
#MinecraftEDU
for civic engagement and voter participation in NYC!
#BattleoftheBoroughs
@PlayCraftLearn
@chelseabl
@Imani_Barbarin
I think this is a great example of where quotation marks or a they said: would have made all the difference for other people too quick to respond on Twitter without context.
But yeah, so many folks get the “you don’t look disabled” which speaks to broader representation issues
Tonight I think I pulled off the largest virtual
@AmongUsGame
Zoom/escape room with nearly 250 people and some prolific Imposters. It was part of
@Nearpod
#CampEngage
The crew completed many tasks, but couldn't make the final one!
They are all sus! I'll share the resources soon!
I've finalized the details, and I will be heading to Singapore for some
@GoogleForEdu
fun + learning (and a little extra time there just for me)!
Are any other Champions I know doing Singapore instead of Cali?