https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2025-06-18T09:45:43+00:00 https://cardstock.run/ jm education python web coding apps hypercard via:hn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:53ac6c47de56/ 2025-06-16T08:20:43+00:00 https://archive.ph/2025.06.16-055422/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/revealed-the-stark-difference-in-smartphone-usage-among-eight-year-olds-in-less-advantaged-and-wealthier-backgrounds/a319792577.html#selection-4431.0-4455.166 jmAccording to the research, 53pc of eight-year-olds attending Deis schools [in less-advantaged areas] own a smartphone, compared with just 22pc of children the same age in non-­Deis schools. The figures also show that 93pc of eight-year-olds from less advantaged areas have created a social media account, compared with 69pc in middle-­class neighbourhoods. ]]> schools education class ireland phones children parenting social-media https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e75ddec353f2/ 2024-11-25T12:27:27+00:00 https://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2024/11/generative-ai-pushes-outcome-over.html jmAI technology is based on the idea that the important part of creating things is the outcome, not the process. Can't draw? That shouldn't stop you from making a picture. Worried about your writing? Why should that stop you from handing in a coherent essay? The ads for AI all promise that you'll be able to produce things without all the tedious work of actually producing it - isn't that great?  Well no, it's not - it's terrible. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of why creating things has value. It's terrible in general, but I am especially offended by this idea in the context of education, and in this post I want to lay this idea out in a little detail.  ]]> education learning ai process-vs-outcome working how-we-work https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:168375282e24/ 2024-03-26T17:46:17+00:00 http://georgebmoody.com/tos/#uk-tos jm science education things-of-science kits ace https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5a3b69b10dc4/ 2023-07-25T13:24:50+00:00 https://gcn.ie/ireland-libraries-restricting-access-lgbtq-young-adult-books/ jmOur source shared that roughly one year ago, the [Irish public library] staff received training about how to provide young LGBTQ+ people with information and support. Now, this staff member feels that the library policy is restricting the same supportive material. Another anonymous source from a different library branch had this to say about the re-classification of young adult books as adult: “It is utterly galling that some Irish libraries have decided to capitulate to what amounts to terror tactics, and in a way that creates a hostile working environment to all LGBT staff who now have to work under these conditions, and are told they are not allowed to talk about it.” ]]> lgbtq books reading education sex-education nazis far-right politics ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:afde0d88edf6/ 2023-05-19T09:01:10+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/18/ai-cheating-teaching-chatgpt-students-college-university?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other jmOne of the reasons so many people suddenly care about artificial intelligence is that we love panicking about things we don’t understand. Misunderstanding allows us to project spectacular dangers on to the future. Many of the very people responsible for developing these models (who have enriched themselves) warn us about artificial intelligence systems achieving some sort of sentience and taking control of important areas of life. Others warn of massive job displacement from these systems. All of these predictions assume that the commercial deployment of artificial intelligence actually would work as designed. Fortunately, most things don’t. That does not mean we should ignore present and serious dangers of poorly designed and deployed systems. For years predictive modeling has distorted police work and sentencing procedures in American criminal justice, surveilling and punishing Black people disproportionately. Machine learning systems are at work in insurance and health care, mostly without transparency, accountability, oversight or regulation. We are committing two grave errors at the same time. We are hiding from and eluding artificial intelligence because it seems too mysterious and complicated, rendering the current, harmful uses of it invisible and undiscussed. And we are fretting about future worst-case scenarios that resemble the movie The Matrix more than any world we would actually create for ourselves. Both of these habits allow the companies that irresponsibly deploy these systems to exploit us. We can do better. I will do my part by teaching better in the future, but not by ignoring these systems and their presence in our lives. ]]> ai future education teaching society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:865f84511d36/ 2022-10-07T10:10:15+00:00 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irv.13049 jm covid-19 schools education transmission pandemics disease papers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:85756bef8944/ 2021-10-18T15:20:18+00:00 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2784812 jmQuestion: What is the possible role of children in SARS-CoV-2 transmission? Findings: This cohort study including 63 children and 118 adults found no significant difference between the number of children and the number of adults testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection during the study period; children were asymptomatic significantly more often compared with adults (46% vs 13%). In addition, a reconstruction of the outbreak showed that most transmission events originated from within the school. Meaning: These results suggest that children may play a larger role in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 than previously assumed. ]]> transmission schools education covid-19 sars-cov-2 papers belgium infection https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:992de8d765cf/ 2021-02-17T11:42:43+00:00 https://twitter.com/i_petersen/status/1361576418694545411 jm ons uk covid-19 schools education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:468da4a771f0/ 2020-10-05T09:54:18+00:00 https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1312392762445066243 jm schools education covid-19 transmission https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b112eb9292aa/ 2020-08-14T13:15:48+00:00 https://twitter.com/xtophercook/status/1293841154782441474 jm ofqual uk education covid-19 estimation a-levels grades schools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d5a5c8d3d589/ 2020-07-28T20:46:04+00:00 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/school-openings-across-globe-suggest-ways-keep-coronavirus-bay-despite-outbreaks jmWhen Science looked at reopening strategies from South Africa to Finland to Israel, some encouraging patterns emerged. Together, they suggest a combination of keeping student groups small and requiring masks and some social distancing helps keep schools and communities safe, and that younger children rarely spread the virus to one another or bring it home. But opening safely, experts agree, isn’t just about the adjustments a school makes. It’s also about how much virus is circulating in the community, which affects the likelihood that students and staff will bring COVID-19 into their classrooms. ]]> covid-19 education schools pods children kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:847faf981a86/ 2020-07-21T23:24:16+00:00 https://twitter.com/SarahCohodes/status/1277638735597895680 jm education children kids covid-19 reopening schools teaching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c02e6a3f0f7d/ 2020-07-21T23:15:13+00:00 https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/macroscope/what-it-will-take-to-reopen-schools-safely jmIf we want school to reopen safely in this school year, here’s what it will take: community outbreak control, extensive changes to school operations to limit infection risk (and the money to support such changes), flexibility, and transparency — in that order. ]]> schools education reopening covid-19 teaching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d01540939146/ 2020-07-13T10:50:41+00:00 https://twitter.com/MikeOtsuka/status/1262826858376290307 jm testing covid-19 reopening education universities health schools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c4f6fb587d4e/ 2020-03-13T15:22:49+00:00 https://twitter.com/aoibhinn_ni_s/status/1238384369435324419 jm education teaching maths math covid-19 kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d8f2d57978fe/ 2020-03-12T15:29:24+00:00 https://www.twinkl.ie/blog/how-to-utilise-twinkl-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown-a-guide-for-schools jm kids education self-isolation covid-19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ddfdb3f83e7/ 2020-03-12T15:28:30+00:00 https://wholesomeireland.com/online-resources-for-isolation/ jmHere we have it. My free ‘what the heck do I do with my kids while they are at home in isolation’ guide to online resources. Bookmark this; in all likelihood we are all going to need it. Just to mention; don’t unleash your kids at all of this in the first day or even days. There is loads for them to work their way through. If you let them do everything all at once they will become overwhelmed and disinterested. ]]> education kids ireland self-isolation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:617a1bec2af2/ 2020-02-27T10:36:21+00:00 https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/sketchfab-launches-public-domain-dedication-for-3d-cultural-heritage/ jmWe are pleased to announce that cultural organisations using Sketchfab can now dedicate their 3D scans and models to the Public Domain using the Creative Commons (CC) 0 Public Domain Dedication. This newly supported dedication allows museums and similar organisations to share their 3D data more openly, adding amazing 3D models to the Public Domain, many for the first time. This update also makes it even easier for 3D creators to download and reuse, re-imagine, and remix incredible ancient and modern artifacts, objects, and scenes. We are equally proud to make this announcement in collaboration with 27 cultural organisations from 13 different countries. We are especially happy to welcome the Smithsonian Institution to Sketchfab as part of this initiative. The Smithsonian has uploaded their first official 3D models to Sketchfab as part of their newly launched open access program. ]]> opensource education licensing creative-commons sketchfab 3d-printing 3d models public-domain museums art history objects smithsonian https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ec1133fb7645/ 2019-11-28T16:22:55+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1199462554751393792.html jm far-right ireland lkbk kids sex-education education schools campaigns https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fc4939730c88/ 2018-10-31T15:43:03+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html jmJohn Lilly, a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist with Greylock Partners and the former C.E.O. of Mozilla, said he tries to help his 13-year-old son understand that he is being manipulated by those who built the technology. “I try to tell him somebody wrote code to make you feel this way — I’m trying to help him understand how things are made, the values that are going into things and what people are doing to create that feeling,” Mr. Lilly said. “And he’s like, ‘I just want to spend my 20 bucks to get my Fortnite skins.’” ]]> kids technology education parenting screentime apps tech phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:da2368df777e/ 2018-04-12T12:54:35+00:00 http://parentsforchoice.ie/talk-children-abortion-care-run-referendum/ jmShe pointed out one of the “baby” posters the other day when we were in the car and passed one. I said “Actually that’s a baby seed but the people who paid a lot of money for those posters made it look like a baby on purpose, because they think everyone who has a baby seed should have to grow it into a baby whether they wanted to or not. And that I think that’s telling lies and shouldn’t be allowed." ]]> abortion pro-choice kids children education childbirth savita propaganda repealthe8th parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f7e08d1b4f5b/ 2017-10-17T10:26:28+00:00 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/passive-aggressive-diaries/201203/what-parents-can-do-when-bullying-is-downplayed-school jmDespite the "Bully-Free Zone" posters that line the school cafeteria walls and the Zero-Tolerance policy that was boasted about during last September's Back-to-School night, your experience is that the school would rather not address the problem at all. The responses you get from your child's teacher include bland lip service [...] Good advice for this nasty situation -- I'm thankfully not facing it myself, but bookmarking just in case...]]> bullying kids school education psychology children parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:874619309743/ 2017-09-11T11:21:54+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teaching-students-code-what-works-lynn-langit/ jm education learning coding teaching tkp lynn-langit scratch kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:70e45a0ce512/ 2017-04-12T10:17:37+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/12/stiff-upper-lip-by-alex-renton-review?CMP=share_btn_tw jmStiff Upper Lip is studded with startling stuff. Discussing the importance of football, for instance, in 19th-century public schools, he drops in the line that “in Charterhouse’s version a small boy was the ball”. I blithely went over that one, thinking he meant “a small boy was [expected to crouch on] the ball” or similar; but it was no typo. In a cheery kickabout on Good Friday, 1924, the Earl of Sussex’s son died from his injuries – _having been [used as] an actual football_. (via Eva Wiseman)]]> football public-schools uk school history murder insanity charterhouse alex-renton education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:96fe7e4ae0a7/ 2016-10-13T09:06:25+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/12/individual-childrens-details-passed-to-home-office-for-immigration-purposes jm parents databases data pod uk home-office education schools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9bdaac33ddd0/ 2015-03-23T18:07:17+00:00 http://tinker.kiwicrate.com/inside-a-crate/ jm kids gifts tinkering stem education fun engineering science toys https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4b30782abd0b/ 2014-10-10T09:31:32+00:00 http://www.wired.com/2014/10/video-game-literacy/ jm I analyzed several chunks of The Ultimate Player's Guide using the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease scale, and they scored from grade 8 to grade 11. Yet in my neighborhood they're being devoured by kids in the early phases of elementary school. Games, it seems, can motivate kids to read—and to read way above their level. This is what Constance Steinkuehler, a games researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered. She asked middle and high school students who were struggling readers (one 11th-grade student read at a 6th-grade level) to choose a game topic they were interested in, and then she picked texts from game sites for them to read—some as difficult as first-year-college language. The kids devoured them with no help and nearly perfect accuracy. How could they do this? “Because they're really, really motivated,” Steinkuehler tells me. It wasn't just that the students knew the domain well; there were plenty of unfamiliar words. But they persisted more because they cared about the task. “It's situated knowledge. They see a piece of language, a turn of phrase, and they figure it out.” When my kids are playing Minecraft, there's a constant stream of "how do you spell X?" as they craft nametags for their pets. It's great!]]> minecraft gaming kids education spelling school reading literacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f095d32769ff/ 2014-05-27T22:29:13+00:00 http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2013/03/67-books-every-geek-should-read-to-their-kids-before-age-10/?pid=1185&viewall=true jm reading books kids children education fiction development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3c82976897e9/ 2014-05-16T09:02:46+00:00 http://learn.code.org/ jm education programming learning coding kids k-8 code.org games https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fa6c10b1ee85/ 2014-03-24T11:33:22+00:00 http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/ jmThere is a big difference between avoiding major hazards and making every decision with the primary goal of optimizing child safety (or enrichment, or happiness). We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children. To believe otherwise is a delusion, and a harmful one; remind yourself of that every time the panic rises. ]]> child-safety parenting safety kids education risk danger playgrounds the-land https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5cdee20dcaec/ 2013-11-12T21:51:47+00:00 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1742632993/heirloom-chemistry-set jmTo tell our story for this Kickstarter project, we really have to start in Christmas of 1959. Like many young scientists of the time, I received a Gilbert Chemistry set. This chemistry set provided me hours of great fun and learning as well as laying the foundation for my future as a research chemist. As I became an adult I wanted to share these types of experiences with my daughter, my nephews and nieces, and friends. But soon I became aware real chemistry sets were no longer available. Without real chemistry sets and opportunities for students to learn and explore, where would our future chemists come from? So .... I set out on a mission. ]]> chemistry science chemistry-sets education play kickstarter https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b10e5ca1808f/ 2013-10-21T16:03:42+00:00 http://www.juniorcycle.ie/Curriculum/Consultation/Short-Courses/Programming-and-Coding-Consultation-Page jm ireland programming coding education schools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f8f9215928e2/ 2013-10-02T22:51:58+00:00 http://www.poissonrouge.com/bigfish/crowdfunding.php jm french poisson-rouge flash web kids children education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7aa37ad1f84c/ 2013-09-24T22:02:14+00:00 https://www.usenix.org/blog/my-daughters-high-school-programming-teacher jmDuring the first semester of my daughter's junior/senior year, she took her first programming class. She knew I'd be thrilled, but she did it anyway. When my daughter got home from the first day of the semester, I asked her about the class. "Well, I'm the only girl in class," she said. Fortunately, that didn't bother her, and she even liked joking around with the guys in class. My daughter said that you noticed and apologized to her because she was the only girl in class. And when the lessons started (Visual Basic? Seriously??), my daughter flew through the assigments. After she finished, she'd help classmates who were behind or struggling in class. Over the next few weeks, things went downhill. While I was attending SC '12 in Salt Lake City last November, my daughter emailed to tell me that the boys in her class were harassing her. "They told me to get in the kitchen and make them sandwiches," she said. I was painfully reminded of the anonymous men boys who left comments on a Linux Pro Magazine blog post I wrote a few years ago, saying the exact same thing. I am sick to death of this 'brogrammer' bullshit.]]> brogrammers sexism culture tech teaching coding software education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:96b124f6e81d/ 2013-07-26T13:32:06+00:00 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/branded-to-death/2005732.fullarticle jmThe most abominable monster now threatening the intellectual health and the integrity of pure enquiry as well as conscientious teaching is the language of advertising, or better, the machinery of propaganda. Any number of critics from within university walls have warned the people at large and academics in particular of the way the helots of advertising and the state police of propaganda bloat and distort the language of thoughtful description, peddle with a confident air generalisations without substance, and serenely circulate orotund lies while ignoring their juniors’ rebuttals and abuse. Relevant to this argument -- http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/the-webs-longest-nightmare-ends-eolas-patents-are-dead-on-appeal/ notes that 'the role of the University of California [was] one of the most perplexing twists in the Eolas saga. The university kept a low profile during the lead-up to trial; but once in Texas, Eolas' lawyers constantly reminded the jury they were asserting "these University of California patents." A lawyer from UC's patent-licensing division described support for Eolas at trial by simply saying that the university "stands by its licensees."' ]]> branding advertising newspeak universities third-level eolas higher-education education research university-of-california ucb patents ip swpats https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:43f4aad4627a/ 2013-03-21T14:37:49+00:00 http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/ jm vietnam programming education cs computer-science schools coding children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6aee9bbea52e/ 2012-11-26T10:25:40+00:00 http://conoroneill.net/conors-2012-raspberry_pi-christmas-gift-guide/ jm I really think this Christmas could be a lovely replay of 1982 for a lot of people, like me, who got their first home computer that year. You could have so much fun on Christmas Day messing with the RPi rather than falling asleep in front of the fire. Just don’t fight over who gets the telly when Doctor Who is on. Whilst the bare-bones nature of the Raspberry Pi is wonderful, it is unusable out of the box unless you are a house with smartphones, digital cameras and existing PCs already that you can raid for components. What you want to avoid is a repeat of me that December in 1982 with my brand-new 16K ZX Spectrum which didn’t work on our Nordmende TV until two weeks later when the RTV Rentals guy came and replaced the TV Tuner. Two weeks typing Beep 1,2 to make sure it wasn’t broken. ]]> raspberry-pi gifts computers kids hacking education gadgets christmas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0290812c2912/ 2012-11-24T21:23:48+00:00 http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2565 jmWe sent a bunch of [Raspberry Pi] boards out to Notch and the guys at Mojang in Stockholm a little while back, and they’ve produced a port of Minecraft: Pocket Edition which they’re calling  Minecraft: Pi Edition. It’ll carry a revised feature set and support for several programming languages, so you can code direct into Minecraft before you start playing. (Or you can just – you know – play.) ]]> minecraft gaming programming coding raspberry-pi kids learning education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4766de3c54c1/ 2012-09-05T09:01:53+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/04/estonia-code-academy/ jm estonia education coding programming kids children students learning school https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e3c59fb70ac8/ 2012-06-25T10:24:09+00:00 http://betabeat.com/2012/06/real-tales-of-learning-computer-science-as-a-high-school-girl-stuyvesant/#slide0 jm schools learning education computer-science technology nyc girls teenage https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:41efd5693c67/ 2012-03-31T23:02:59+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/31/girls-coding-female-peer-pressure jm girls coding education peer-pressure software teaching kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5309439483fe/ 2012-03-20T13:02:42+00:00 http://www.martingsaunders.com/2012/02/teaching-primary-school-kids-to-code/ jm coding education kids programming teaching school https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f8739b671a1b/ 2012-02-24T17:24:56+00:00 http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/library-closure-of-type-nu/ jm alan-toner library.nu ebooks education filesharing copyright piracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:87a7602d8cd9/ 2011-12-15T21:08:21+00:00 http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/24999-coding-for-our-lives? jm coderdojo programming coding kids children teaching education tech ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8b605da5a485/