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John Schinker @schinker

dad, educational technologist, zymurgist, musician, troublemaker, curmudgeon, CETL

Joined November 2007
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"You don't reach the moon by making the tallest building in the world one inch taller at a time." -- Yejin Choi ted.com/talks/yejin_choi_why…
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Disinformation has been around for a LONG time. youtube.com/watch?v=9o1SAS8K…
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Once we figure out who we are, we can determine how to get where we're trying to go. tasteoftech.net/2023/06/30/m…

Mission Driven

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure th…

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The police are not actually obligated to protect you. This podcast did a really good job of digging into the reasons why that's the case. Not that it helps the Parkland or Uvalde communities. radiolab.org/podcast/no-spec…

No Special Duty

A look at what happens when the police don’t do the one thing you expect them to.

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"throwing out [a policy] when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet." -- Ruth Bader Ginsberg apnews.com/article/supreme-c…
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Fascinating perspectives from professors and university students on the use of artificial intelligence in schools. nytimes.com/2023/06/28/podca…
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The world is emptier today. playbill.com/article/sheldon…

Sheldon Harnick, Lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof and More, Dies at 99

Mr. Harnick was one of the most beloved lyricists in the American theatre.

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Remember that one time when the Titanic sank and it took 73 years to find it?
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You do not have a right to be comfortable at the expense of others' rights. youtube.com/watch?v=vYvt8IIw…
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"The more we focus on what we DESERVE, the more we DE-SERVE our communities. When we concentrate on the things we think we have a right to, it takes our attention away from the things others don't have."
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Working on data integration today. Three edtech products, three different problems with things that used to work, three companies saying "we don't know what you're talking about. We'll get back to you." #Monday
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Lately, I've been wondering if technology creates more problems than it solves. apnews.com/hub/technology
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"lawyers have historically had a hard time with technology." We have to do better than this. apnews.com/article/artificia…

Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law

A judge is deciding whether to sanction two lawyers who blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. The lawyers apologized at a hearing Thursday in...

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"If you wanna do something hard, then you have to build belief constantly. And that is a job of head and heart. Like, I have to convince you to go somewhere you don't necessarily want to go voluntarily." -- Ginni Rometty, former IBM CEO ted.com/podcasts/rethinking-…
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I enjoyed Mrs. Schwertner's class performing Beauty and the Beast at Weathervane today.
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Mrs. Vianueva's class did a fantastic job with Peter Pan at Weathervane this morning!
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When the tech industry starts telling us their products are healthy, it's time to move on. tasteoftech.net/2023/05/31/i…
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The most successful organizations leverage AI to collaborate with humans to create things that neither could do on their own. radiopublic.com/ted-tech-6LR…
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If I were in charge of programming this channel, I definitely wouldn't be showing soccer games. :-)
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You're looking for another monkey video, aren't you? Deb shot this one, from a boat instead of the pool this time.
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