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Day 2 (of 2025/26) viva le robot revolution? If AI Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Should… A humanoid robot greeting world leaders at a tech summit feels like a gimmick—until you listen to the vision behind it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/humanoid-melania-trump-robot-summit-9.7141974 Robots may be a stretch… or a warning… but: AI tutors. Always available. Perfectly patient. Infinitely…

Day 1 (of Spring Break 2025/26): 3/14 – A case for why History of Math 11 should be the default graduation math credit in BC A lot of people enjoy the fun of Pi Day. March 14. 3.14. It’s our annual reminder of π, the number that never ends and never quite repeats. Most of…

Day 125 (of 2025/26) 3 news stories for the week: Andy Hargreaves on standardized tests (spoiler: focus on class assessments);   Some fun thinking going into Spring Break: Should our school goals on reading be focused more on how neurologies process text? And then deconstructing if reading should be fun, or just a strategy from…

Day 124 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdAI – those who misremember the “good old days” of paper and pencil Spoiler: the “good old days” mostly worked for the students the system was designed for… but definitely not all learners. The nostalgia you’re seeing around AI reminds me of something that happens every time a major communication shift…

Day 123 (of 2025/26) spring break: read comics thanks @zayn read for joy… Noting that this blog also includes a reference to a rant by someone else that we ought not encourage “reading for pleasure”… but gonna start with one of my favourite reading medias: My youngest is a fan of One Direction and shared…

Day 122 Ouch – even family dinners perpetuate some less than positives… interpretation vs intention Connections or reinforcing hierarchy… how about school lunch times… connections but with systemic rules… https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS5sP2ru2/ (From the share)  1. Bourdieu studied how power hides in everyday rituals*. His conclusion: the family table isn’t neutral ground — it’s a stage where…

Day 121 (of 2025/26) – Fonts Matter Inspired by Elle Cordova (@ellecordova) Somewhere along the way, the entire education system quietly agreed that the official font of learning would be Times New Roman, size 12.No vote. No debate. Just… academic gravity. But today I was reminded that fonts might be doing something much more interesting…

Day 120 b (of 2025/26) a book suggestion: Persepolis  Better commentary from my daughter: https://www.wpl.ca/blog/woman-life-freedom/ If you’ve read it, you know why I’m promoting this book right now – if you haven’t, it gives a first person experience of Iran and its changes back in the 1970 revolution… some people want it banned because it…

Day 120a (of 2025/26) 3 news stories for the week: Pssst – our future robot overlords now have an example of how they are going to disrupt the construction industry… when people talk about AI resistant industries, I know they like to target trades like plumbers and electricians, but the trades are needing to better…

Day 119 (of 2025/26) AI – cons and pros… #tEChursdAI thanks @YongZhao Really liked this share from Yong Zhao (big fan!) and how eerily closely he has aligned some thinking to that of Will Richardson in some sessions I have been attending… for me, a key takeaway is that there are some uncomfortable parts we…