Stubborn. Media art photo teacher in practice, art English teacher by certificates, journalism educator @ 💙 Views my own. kplows.bsky.social
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28 Oct 2020
“But we all know why the Spicy Ghost Pepper Donut really exists: because the world is in a state of chaos where few norms remain intact and fewer boundaries sacrosanct. The Spicy Ghost Pepper Donut was, in retrospect, all but inevitable.”
Yup.
theringer.com/2020/10/22/215…
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5 Aug 2025
“Giving lip service to these big ethical issues while hastily integrating AI sends kids a strong message — the adults don’t really care and neither should you.”
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/a…
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18 May 2025
.@iamjoelister is one of less than five reasons I still have this app.
Good luck, Robin.
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4 Jan 2025
Dropping by X to cosign @iamjoelister on this take.
3 Jan 2025
.@Kevin_Kinkead is winning a pulitzer with his coverage of penn state-***** ****
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20 Dec 2024
I’m coaching the student journalists I advise out of using X, due to the state of the platform’s content and leadership.
Coaching myself out of it, too.
Find me at kplows.bsky.social — for now.
IDK. When you step away from the social for a sec, life gets less hazy.
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17 Dec 2024
AI is the greatest threat to learning in the history of education.
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15 Dec 2024
Overheard: young adults having coffee.
A) “Where did you graduate?”
B) <college>
A) “Is that a good school?”
B) “It’s an OK liberal art school.”
A) “What does that even mean?”
B) “Means it’s like more hippy. Like… we had English classes every type of cereal in the caf.”
WTH?
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20 Nov 2024
This fall marked my 11th #NHSJC if you count the times when I went (mostly) solo.
I feel like we got this one (mostly) right. Practice makes perfect.
Proud to coach these teams. 🙏 to @nationalJEA @NSPA for creating remarkable learning experiences.
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19 Nov 2024
To the college marketing major who emailed me 10 questions you need answered “a.s.a.p.” for a profile assignment in your journalism class—
Thank you for giving me a great teaching example of what NOT to do for profiles.
Enjoy this voice memo I am recording in my car.
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Kate Plows retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Lots of people are going to suffer because we created a political culture where no one reads a newspaper.
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12 Nov 2024
I stupidly clicked this NYTimes article and it sent me into a rage — I kept waiting for the reporter to ask the people interviewed what they’d done to make the world a place their children would want to bring children into
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Most election post-mortems neglect a key factor in how people vote: where they get their news.
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8 Nov 2024
Absolutely nothing like quizzing (and getting quizzed by) a h.s. student journalist on Bethel v. Fraser and Dean v. Utica in a train station at 9:30 p.m.
Solid #NHSJC24 day one.
Needed this sort of passion promise.
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Kate Plows retweeted
4 Nov 2024
🧵For the small # of you who might be following the story of the Notre Dame student body’s presidential preference, which started with a poll conducted by the @IrishRoverND back in September, the official student paper @NDSMCObserver just released its poll results…
4 Nov 2024
A poll conducted by The Observer shows 54.2% of Notre Dame students prefer Kamala Harris to 38.3% that prefer Donald Trump. Read about more poll results here.
ndsmcobserver.com/88000fe0-1…
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Kate Plows retweeted
1 Nov 2024
No. ❤️
1 Nov 2024
Trump announces he wants to put RFK Jr. in charge of “women’s health”
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30 Oct 2024
Y’all. How did I miss that Gwen Walz was a high school journalism adviser?
I cried a little on behalf of all of us who see the same potential described in this excerpt. Good tears.
nytimes.com/2024/08/14/style…
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26 Oct 2024
Nothing like finishing out a 14-hour workday — more than half of which was volunteer time, all of which was supporting others — and stopping by the workroom to see your colleagues’ mailboxes all stuffed with thank-you notes.
At least I had a couple of newspapers in mine.
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25 Oct 2024
In a roomful of high school student journalists working through their lunch, I let out an audible gasp when I saw the alert about WashPo.
My eyes started welling up.
The kids kept working.
Not going to forget that moment.
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25 Oct 2024
Saving this tweet to read out loud to every high school sports writer I advise.
25 Oct 2024
A team losing a game is not a "disaster."
Home runs are homers, not "dingers," "jacks" or "bombs."
A player scored 10 straight points, not 10 "unanswered" points.
If a football team scores two touchdowns and the opponent doesn't come back, say it "never trailed" rather than "never looked back."
In short, avoid hackneyed words and phrases, redundancies and exaggerations.
Community note
AP using the word "disaster" for a sports loss:
apnews.com/article/soccer…
AP using the phrase "unanswered points":
apnews.com/article/orange…
"McGwire got there first and finished with 70 dingers."
apnews.com/article/mlb-ho…
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