💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🖥️📚 Educators facing the growing "techlash" against #classroom #technology are weighing #research, caregiver concerns, and expert opinions to balance #digital tools with screen-free #teaching.

Districts respond in different ways, from weekly #tech-free days and a return to #laptop carts to clearer explanations for families about why and how #devices are used. Both supporters and skeptics agree that purpose and teacher #training matter more than the device itself.

👉 edweek.org/technology/why-a-bl…

#edtech #screentime #learning #media #literacy #education #parenting #schools #children #k12

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌹🎨 An animated short from #MoMA's Once Upon an Artwork series, directed by Shadab Shayegan, explores a dream world inspired by Leonora Carrington's 1953 #painting And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur.

Through imaginative #play, the #film introduces young viewers to Carrington's surreal universe of mythical #creatures and magical transformations.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-dream-of-t…

#activities #animals #animation #art #dogs #dreams #exploration #flowers #imagination #kids #magic #minotaur #museum #surrealism #symbols #mythology #education #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🌹🎨 An animated short from #MoMA's Once Upon an Artwork series, directed by Shadab Shayegan, explores a dream world inspired by Leonora Carrington's 1953 #painting And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur.

Through imaginative #play, the #film introduces young viewers to Carrington's surreal universe of mythical #creatures and magical transformations.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-dream-of-t…

#activities #animals #animation #art #dogs #dreams #exploration #flowers #imagination #kids #magic #minotaur #museum #surrealism #symbols #mythology #education #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧠📈 A #study of over 11,000 British #twins tracked cognitive test scores from age 4 to 21.

Only 1% of children scoring in the top tier at age 7 still scored high at 16, while just 8% of average-scoring #kids climbed into the top range. Genetic and family-education factors predicted stability most strongly, suggesting early gifted labels are an unreliable guide to #adult ability.

👉 psypost.org/early-giftedness-r…

#childdevelopment #science #psychology #intelligence #education #brain #development #learning #research

We need to drop the term "cloud".

It was commercial propaganda to brainwash consumers into thinking their data was just safely floating around almost by magic.

But guess what? If it's not stored on your hard drive it's just stored ON SOMEONE ELSE'S.

#tech #datacenters #privacy #data #techbros #education #cloud

Tom's Hardware

2026-08-13 11:04:06

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation

Public broadcaster Nine PBS is in trouble after its cloud storage provider went out of business and it now can't access more than 50TB of archival data. The data center hosting the files can't simply turn over the files, as it'…
#hardware
tomshardware.com/software/clou…

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The Atmosphere of My High School Exams in Gaza. ❗

Last year, I finished high school amid war, displacement, famine, and bombardment. During a ceasefire, my school held in-person exams to ensure fair results. I contracted Hepatitis A during the exam period, yet still graduated with 98%, ranking among the highest-performing students across Palestinian Al-Azhar Institutes and earning the highest Physics mark in Gaza that year. Now I’m raising funds to change this reality and reach University of Glasgow. If you're able to help, the link is in my bio. Sharing this campaign could help me reach someone who can.

Your donation will do more than help me attend university. It will give me the chance to build a career in technology, support my family, and create a future beyond war.

Donate: chuffed.org/project/193798

#gaza #palestine #donate #glasgow #scotland #uk #education

Schools and universities in #Brazil now have to check if their software meets the new EDCA law on protecting kids' data online.

Good news for anyone in education there: #ONLYOFFICE fits.

✅ Open source, auditable on #GitHub

✅ Self-hosted, so student data stays on your own servers

✅ No behavioral profiling, privacy by default

✅ 🇧🇷 Full PT-BR interface

Learn more on our blog: onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/08/on…

#ONLYOFFICE #OpenSource #Education #Brazil

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📸🐸 Joel Sartore has photographed more than 18,000 animal species for #NationalGeographic’s #Photo Ark, each posed against plain black to be seen face to face.

The #images span creatures large and small, many #endangered or thought #extinct. Sartore’s goal is documenting all roughly 25,000 species in human care before it’s too late.

👉 smithsonianmag.com/science-nat…

#photography #conservation #biodiversity #andre #sartore #photoark #endangeredspecies #wildlife #amphibians #nationalgeographic #animals #nature #zoos #science #education

#meme #ai #brain #knowledge #education #idiocracy #technology #software #wisdom #future #problem @Memes

"9 million U.S. students lost school time for weather in the 2024-2025 school year"

#US #USA #America #Education

yaleclimateconnections.org/202…

In just two weeks, my new university semester begins.

I need €500 to cover tuition for 15 credit hours in my English Translation program.

Thanks to your support, I completed my first year at university. Now I need your help again to continue my education.

Every donation, can help me ❤️

🔗 chuffed.org/project/161851-hel…

#Education #Gaza #Palestine #Donate #SupportStudents #EnglishTranslation

🔗 chuffed.org/project/161851-hel…
@aral
#Education #SaveEducation #EnglishTranslation #SupportStudents #Gaza

Learn hacking: youtube.com/watch?v=2t6-AxpZXi…

#hack #news #hacking #router #amazon #software #backdoor #disassembler #tools #utility #knowledge #knowhow #firmware #web #www #login #http #password #instructions #learn #education

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💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦔🤍 After dogs chased it, a rare all-white baby North American #porcupine was brought to the Center for #Wildlife in #CapeNeddick, #Maine, a #nonprofit #wildlife clinic and #education center.

The #animal arrived with crusty eyes that worsened into mange, a mite-caused skin condition, so the team started medication and daily cleanings.

👉 popsci.com/environment/albino-…

#albino #science #nature #biology

"Today I want to talk about the teaching sex bot. If you’ve seen this news, you know exactly what I’m talking about and if you haven’t, well, you are probably appropriately horrified already but please, allow me to increase your horror substantially."
youtube.com/watch?v=NbceY_medY…
by @rebeccawatson

See also @jonny: "causing the state to spend $60k per doll they don't have to perform generational damage to already marginalized kids."
neuromatch.social/@jonny/11693…

#AI #Education #dystopia

I Hate the AI Robo Teacher

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jonny (nonvenomous)

2026-07-18 06:41:54

RealDoll the sex doll parent company bought by the roving husk of a cryptocurrency/metaverse capital demon pivots to selling hyper-realistic silicoid AI teaching robots to public schools on the Seneca Nation reservation, causing the state to spend $60k per doll they don't have to perform generational damage to already marginalized kids. That's a real consequence of the kind of world all the AI ghouls with a kind face are running cover for.
thread: bsky.app/profile/jgcarpenter.c…
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💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧱🧠 Play-based #preschool programs help #children develop emotional regulation and social skills that last into elementary #school, according to researchers.

Dramatic #play improves emotion regulation and #language development, while constructive play predicts higher #math achievement. The benefits extend well beyond early #childhood, supporting learning through #highschool.

👉 theconversation.com/play-is-es…

#learning #emotions #problemsolving #preschool #kindergarten #education #parenting #teaching

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🗺️🗣️ #Language YouTuber RobWords explains the linguistic roots behind European country names, tracing origins from #Roman labels to old Germanic words.

👉 openculture.com/2026/07/where-…

#etymology #linguistics #europe #history #germany #uk #youtube #education #geography #english #video

This is interesting news.

Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.

The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.

Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading

Society is starting to look exactly like what happens when we spend decades treating STEM as the only path worth investing in, while sidelining the humanities.

This isn't a criticism of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. We need them. Desperately. They should be well supported.

But we also need philosophy, history, literature, languages, ethics, the arts, and every discipline that wrestles with what it means to be human. We need people who can understand the human condition, recognise propaganda, interpret context, think critically about power, engage with complexity, and ask not only how the world works, but what kind of world we ought to build.

A society built only to solve technical problems eventually forgets how to solve human ones.

#Humanities #STEM #Education #CriticalThinking #Ethics #Democracy #Society

Ummmm, no.

#Trump admin cancels #school #SexEducation programs designed to prevent #TeenPregnancy, now it will focus on #Marriage & Starting #Families 🤯🤬

[oh & in case you forget they outlawed #abortion]

#GiftArticle

#law #policy #education #PublicHealth #WomensRights #TradWives #MaleSupremacy #indoctrination
nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/poli…

Mammatus Clouds
* UCAR Center for Science Education

Mammatus clouds are pouches of clouds that hang underneath the base of a cloud. They are most often associated with cumulonimbus clouds that produce very strong storms. These clouds usually form during warm months, and are formed by descending air in the cloud. Mammatus clouds are sometimes described as looking like a field of tennis balls or melons, or like female human breasts. In fact, the name "mammatus" comes from the Latin word mamma, or breast.

CREDIT
Gregory Thompson

scied.ucar.edu/image/mammatus-…

#space #earth #atmophere #clouds #weather #photography #science #physics #meteorology #nature #education

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌌🔥 The #BBC and #OpenUniversity have revived their animated “History of Ideas” series with a new chapter on cosmic origins. Narrated by #GillianAnderson, the short #videos cover Thomas Aquinas’ First Mover argument, William Paley’s design theory, #Hindu #cosmology, and the #BigBang.

👉 openculture.com/2026/07/animat…

#astronomy #philosophy #science #education #universe #animation #physics #religion #mythology #learning

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎨🔍 The Last Museum indexes roughly 5.8 million #artworks from thousands of #museums worldwide, spanning 3000 BCE to the present. Users can search by themes, colors, or descriptive phrases without knowing an artwork’s title or #artist.

👉 openculture.com/2026/07/a-free…

#thelastmuseum #art #history #publicdomain #culture #education #museums #discovery #learning