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A study of 311 AI-generated eighth-grade civics lesson plans in Massachusetts suggests they fall short of inspiring students or promoting critical thinking (The Conversation)
https://theconversation.com/ai-generate…

AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking
Common chatbots produce generic lesson plans that are unlikely to improve learning, a study finds. It shows how teachers should be critical users – not rapid adopters − of generative AI.

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They Came From Visions:
🎵 Equinox Ablaze
#TheyCameFromVisions
https://theycamefromvisions.bandcamp.com/track/equinox-ablaze
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hXQeCTJLe1BuV9R49jF15

Mice can be trained to drink water
as a way to ‘tell’ researchers they see something
https://theconversation.com/gazing-into-the-minds-eye-with-mice-how-neuroscientists-are-seeing-human-vision-more-clearly-…

Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly
It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision is shaped by their environment and behavior can clarify the same in people.

What a great thread
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@TheComfortableSpotPodcast/115573551357924088…

Irgendwann muss ich mir mal Gedanken machen, wie ich die Bluray-Sicherheitskopien sinnvoll transkodiere. Bislang schrecke ich ja davor zurück, weil ich keine Qualitätseinbußen haben will, wenn ich sie auf den Fernseher streame. Aber der Platzverbrauch ist schon unangenehm hoch mittlerweile.

BALD IST WEIHNACHTEN! 😃
#Kokos-Taler
Leicht herzustellen und gehören zu den eher knusprigen #Plätzchen.
Werbung: Das Rezept ist aus meinem #Weihnachtsplätzchenbuch

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Knife:
🎵 Heartbeats
#TheKnife
https://krackills.bandcamp.com/track/the-knife-heartbeats-krackill-block-party-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5P2hEcHjoNMh33EsFPPOJE

U.S. policy in Latin America has long been shaped by business interests
— but rarely with today’s level of openness (thread) ⬇️
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:s24o3i2gmddihekekk6tu6ac/post/3mcqadry7az2c

While fascist ideas never found a foothold among the majority of Americans,
they exerted considerable influence during the period between the first and second world wars.
Extremist groups like
the Silver Shirts,
the Christian Front,
the Black Legion and
the Ku Klux Klan claimed hundreds of thousands of members.
Together they glorified a white Christian nation purified of Jews, Black Americans, immigrants and communists.
During the 1930s and …

America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.

There’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.
Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.
But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly s…

Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before
H5N1 has a 50% fatality rate in humans. Yet we’re dismantling the systems designed to catch it early.