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**Gina Intheburg** @ginaintheburg@mastodon.world · Mar 20

Gina Intheburg @ginaintheburg@mastodon.world

In Australia, they know & appreciate the value of #education, #Science and kids

We found a new wasp! Students are discovering insect species through citizen science

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders – and, of course, kids! Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at school — they are putting them on the map and even discovering and naming new species.
https://theconversation.com/we-found-a-new-wasp-students-are-discovering-insect-species-through-citizen-science-244960?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com&s=09

The ConversationWe found a new wasp! Students are discovering insect species through citizen scienceCitizen science project ‘Insect Investigators’ takes scientists to regional schools to teach students to track and identify insects.

#CitizenScience #K12

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**James Endres Howell** @jameshowell@fosstodon.org · Mar 17

Mar 17

James Endres Howell @jameshowell@fosstodon.org

@aram Sputnik. A generation before me. Blind panic from top to bottom, opening a short window during which the broad society, and relevant institutions, were willing to make sacrifices to commit resources to science education.

Primary result: total failure.

Secondary result: every five or ten years, another comprehensive report appears that details the previous cycle's failures, and makes recommendations that are invariably ignored in the next cycle.

#science #teaching #k12

**スパックマンクリス** @chris_spackman@twit.social · Mar 16

Mar 16

スパックマンクリス @chris_spackman@twit.social

Turning 80-ish (usa letter-sized) pages of reading into Google Slides so students can read more comfortably on their Chromebooks.

I really wish I could just use an HTML page, but last I looked Google Drive won't display HTML files as web pages.

I suppose I could make it 8.5x5.5 landscape PDF, but not sure how well that would work on their screens.

Any thoughts?

(Reading started in #TexLatex, so I can #pandoc it into just about anything.)

#K12 #K12Education #EdTech

**Human Restoration Project** @humrespro@mastodon.online · Mar 8

Mar 8

Human Restoration Project @humrespro@mastodon.online

NEW EPISODE: Just as someone steering a ship adjusts the rudder based on feedback from the ocean, so too does good pedagogy depend on what our guest today, biology teacher Christian Moore-Anderson, calls “recursive teaching”, or a constant feedback loop of action, interpretation, and learning between teachers and students.

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/sensemaking-and-cybernetics-in-classroom-teaching-w-christian-moore-anderson #K12 #biology #science #cybernetics #edchat

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**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · Mar 6

Mar 6

Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

While #Trump suggests the federal govt is doing too much on #education, he also demands that it do more. The #ExecutiveOrder is expected to amplify Trump’s call for #schools to excise *illegal discrimination* in the *guise* of #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs or risk losing federal #funding, which accounts for about 10% of #K12 public #school dollars & a significant share of higher education funding.

#law #censorship #whitewashing

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**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · Mar 6

Mar 6

Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

The #ExecutiveOrder is cast as returning power over #education to states & local communities, as #Trump has repeatedly promised to do. It does not recognize that #K12 #schools, as well as public #universities & #colleges, are ALREADY controlled almost entirely by states & local communities. The federal government, by #law, may not control school #curriculum.

#censorship #whitewashing #indoctrination

**Human Restoration Project** @humrespro@mastodon.online · Mar 4

Mar 4

Human Restoration Project @humrespro@mastodon.online

We're pleased to announce the final addition to our #CTRH2025 "Critical AI in Education" panel is Vy Dao, sociologist & Director of Learning and Practice at Cortico!

Join us in our Quest For Connection
July 21-23, 2025 | Virtual

Tickets & info:
https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference #education #AI #K12 #edchat

Promotion for CTRH! 2025 (Quest for Connection) | July 21-23, Virtual | Vy Dao is a sociologist whose work emphasizes storytelling’s role in creating shared culture. Her previous work on ethnographic methods and qualitative inquiry. Currently, she is the Director of Learning and Practice at Cortico. This nonprofit creates powerful technology tools for communities to engage in healthier public discourse, create constructive debate, and lift up underheard voices.

**Greg Cocks** @GregCocks@techhub.social · Feb 28 *

Feb 28 *

Greg Cocks @GregCocks@techhub.social

Another Visit To The Denver Metro Regional Science Fair (DMRSEF) As A Judge
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https://clas.ucdenver.edu/denversciencefair/ <-- link to science fair page
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Another year as a volunteer judge for the DMRSEF, this time Senior Earth & Environmental - and with the added fun of four (4) special awards to decide (thank you to the sponsors/organisations!)
This is the ninth year for me, mentioned only to indicate how fun & genuinely rewarding it can be, such truly amazing student entries – and also mentioned to encourage you to volunteer to be a judge at one as well, the proverbial #payingitforward
(I always try and wear a nerd shirt, hence the egregious photo of me - and the sign, well... )
#sciencefair #science #fair #middleschool #highschool #volunteer #earthscience #environmentalscience #k12 #openscience #education #DMRSEF #seniors #volunteersneeded #nerd #geek #judge
@DMRSEF @nasa @NOAA @ricohusainc @CUDenver

photo - four special awards' criteria, thank you sponsors / organisations...

photo - view of the projects, sans students, so judges can get their initial look

photo - snacks at the judges table - and a 'fun' sign :)

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**Gina Intheburg** @ginaintheburg@mastodon.world · Feb 25

Feb 25

Gina Intheburg @ginaintheburg@mastodon.world

If you want to donate but you're not a local from the areas affected by the #LAwildfires or familiar with the schools, you could visit the school's website to see what needs they may have.

#Wildfires #Schools #K12

**Gina Intheburg** @ginaintheburg@mastodon.world · Feb 25

Feb 25

Gina Intheburg @ginaintheburg@mastodon.world

Now you can help #schools in communities devastated by the LA #wildfires via Instacart's new #ClassroomCarts program.

Brilliant.

#K12

https://www.instacart.com/store/hub/community_carts

www.instacart.comDonate items to a local cause with Community Carts | InstacartSelect a participating organization to support, browse their personalized wish list, and donate items with a few clicks through Instacart - delivered directly to the organization.

**Das** @SRDas@mastodon.online · Feb 22

Feb 22

Das @SRDas@mastodon.online

Had a blast talking to young teens at one of the local Boys & Girls Club houses about #science
Took along my microwave as I'm wont to for demos etc. Was meant to be an hour but ending being nearly 2. They really really really wanted me to blow something up in the microwave but were otherwise still engaged.
Another reason I love doing #K12 #Outreach is that I learn new things. Their persistence and curiosity led me to zap (empty) chips/Cheetos bag. A few quick sparks & shrunk in 8 seconds!

Small empty and flattened bag of Cheetos on a small paper plate in front of a microwave oven and next a pic of the same plate and bag shrink about 5 times and now the size of a large postage stamp

Close up of the shrunk Cheetos bag on plate and another pic of 2 shrunken bags

A tiny shrunk Cheetos bag held up to show the back - ingredients list and nutritional label

**Dave Fenichel** @nek@hear-me.social · Feb 19 *

Feb 19 *

Dave Fenichel @nek@hear-me.social

"Across eight decades, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed and reaffirmed the unconstitutionality of religious indoctrination in public schools. In McCollum v. Board of Education (1948), it ruled that religious instruction in public education buildings during the school day violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. In Engel v. Vitale (1962), the court concluded that public prayer in schools did the same. Later rulings — in Lee v. Weisman (1992) and Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000) — extended the ban on public prayer beyond the school day to graduations and athletics, respectively... Following Trump’s first-term conservative makeover of the Supreme Court, however, the nation’s highest court has signaled an interest in revisiting these issues. This has emboldened MAGA leaders in various states to start breaching the wall of separation between church and state, particularly at the K-12 level."

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-not-taking-the-state-out

The UnPopulist · Feb 19Trump Is Not Taking the State Out of Public Schools, He Is Putting Christianity InBy Anne Lutz Fernandez

#indoctrination #MAGAindoctrination #perversionOfFaith

**Cable Green, PhD** @cablegreen@mastodon.social · Feb 15 *

Feb 15 *

Cable Green, PhD @cablegreen@mastodon.social

This week OpenStax's @creativecommons licensed algebra curriculum was unanimously approved by the Texas Board of Education to be on the state instructional materials list. Read more: https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/openstax-algebra-curriculum-receives-unanimous-approval-texas #OER #K12

Rice News | News and Media Relations | Rice UniversityOpenStax algebra curriculum receives unanimous approval in TexasOpenStax, the world’s largest publisher of open educational resources based at Rice, announced that its algebra curriculum has received unanimous approval from the Texas State Board of Education. With this approval, the curriculum has been added to the Texas Instructional Materials Allocation list, underscoring OpenStax’s commitment to providing secondary educators with affordable, high-quality resources that support student success.

**Nathaniel D. Porter** @ndporter@sciences.social · Feb 11

Feb 11

Nathaniel D. Porter @ndporter@sciences.social

More moves to chip away at Federal #data, this time by crippling the National Center for Education Statistics, whose data are critical to improving #k12 and #highereducation (and which I have frequently used or supported). #AERA #NCES https://www.aera.net/Newsroom/AERA-and-COPAFS-Statement-on-the-New-Administrations-Sudden-Termination-of-National-Center-for-Education-Statistics-Contracts?fbclid=IwY2xjawIYRclleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdccmv18R3MldniWpeYNCPunBlAYT5649kCtLX0MfYnqLNXg5wBbXGmu9g_aem_YhdKYPaXoZvcDdgP0uETZw

www.aera.netAERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics ContractsAERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts

**PrivacyDigest** @PrivacyDigest@mas.to · Feb 5

Feb 5

PrivacyDigest @PrivacyDigest@mas.to

Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure #School #Cyberattacks Stay Hidden

An investigation into more than 300 cyberattacks against US K–12 schools over the past five years shows how schools can withhold crucial details from students and parents whose data was stolen.
#privacy #k12 #security

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-hired-guns-who-make-sure-school-cyberattacks-stay-hidden/

WIRED · Feb 4Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay HiddenBy Mark Keierleber