Day 115a (of 2025/26) 3 news stories for the week: textbooks dead? Or reviving…? Bye bye paperbacks – will that impact (school) libraries?
- Ontario wonder https://apple.news/A8vXXZ_SQRLSpr7IVbDfc6Q but also Sweden restoring some balance with some pdf printouts err textbooks returning…. And US op/ed: https://apple.news/AbjHH06cNTYShIcX3HbvOPA
- Paperbacks are being phased out – I know those were the staple of the books I bought for my libraries… https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/24/america-says-goodbye-paperback glad that I’m getting some ducks in a row for an online library…
- Maybe this AI panic is going to focus more into the Arts than Sciences.. Peter Thiel in Fortune now sees that AI is more of a threat to technical roles than creative thinkers… forget standardized tests, everyone can be assessed by how well they do an interpretive dance! (Inside joke as that was always a tease for a BCPVPA ShortCourse presentation – which to no ones surprise, my table group ended up doing…) https://apple.news/ANN0QehIiTxWB-qCvzIfzEA
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Quebec’s Bill 94 banning religious symbols expands to all people who interact with students (started with Principals and Teachers) had an exemption until the bill was tabled and if/when they changed positions… and many are losing jobs being fired/suspended/resigning with a lack of a pool to replace them: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-94-secularism-school-staff-9.7106299
It’s more than just wearing a symbol on a necklace – it includes the wearing a hijab, turban, yarmulkes, and any garment that covers the face… and it includes volunteers and parents… I wonder a) how this would go over here on the west coast, and b) how widespread can the ‘religious symbols’ be expanded to refer to…
And boo… planned return of humanity to the moon has been changed…. No humans to moon for Artemis III, though I hope Artemis II’s plans to bring humans around the moon still happens in the next few weeks… https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/nasa-changes-delays-moon-missions
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