031023 Julia Culver, 28 min What was the last thing said? Ashlee Kuhry-Larsen, 25 min Mat? I’m not sure. I think getting rid of eSessions and moving to meet with small groups. Matthew Schulte, 24 min yes, and the idea of “go ahead and try stuff, don’t ask for permission” and see how it goes Ashlee Kuhry-Larsen, 24 min I like that. My name counterpart certainly will not. 🫣 Too soon? Matthew Schulte, 23 min haha... i was thinking about that too, like, what about SAIL.... this group seems almost like Jason’s “shadow SAIL” because the “real” one doesn’t actually accomplish much beyond the button pushing and box checking Julia Culver, 23 min I like that idea but I also don’t know if it will help the most vulnerable. I like the idea of targeting those kids and doing something creative with them, something like a portfolio, or having them share something they created and having it work for multiple classes Ashlee Kuhry-Larsen, 22 min Anyone see that last slide that wasn’t discussed? It really seemed to tie in to the comment at the end of last week. Matthew Schulte, 22 min good point—i think it was not so much that you we should all ditch eSessions, but that we should guage the most useful way to spend that time based on our own students’ needs? Julia Culver, 22 min What was on it? 😬 Matthew Schulte, 21 min the “what would you do” one? Ashlee Kuhry-Larsen, 21 min Kind of like a hypothetical...but also not??? I feel like. Matthew Schulte, 20 min yes... i keep having this suspicion that this is Jason coming into his own as principal.. i hope so... it’s exciting stuff Julia Culver, 20 min I think some of the systems work well for kids...I think it’s more of a need to acknowledge that the system has to be fluid, and a lot of the hang-up is in our own minds? Matthew Schulte, 20 min definitely Ashlee Kuhry-Larsen, 20 min And I really feel like the staff needs to realize that this is not the same environment that Rick ran...and that’s okay. Change is tough though. Like it’s not better or worse. Just different. Easy for me to say though, being new. Matthew Schulte, 19 min can’t help feeling it’s going to be somewhat of a chaotic shootout carnival 💩 show at first.... but just like students will gradually rotate out and start thinking of different approaches as “normal,” so will staff???? Ashlee Kuhry-Larsen, 18 min yeah. change is messy for sure. Matthew Schulte, 18 min hmmm i dunno though, i think we have to thnk of it as working towards better, not just different, or else what’s the point? Ashlee Kuhry-Larsen, 17 min Or will be be two school options for secondary? Like one in person online and the other more exploratory/house based or pod based. Ashlee Kuhry-Larsen, 17 min I love that shared communal feel of the interdisciplinary grouping. Okay...gotta jet and snag my kids. My brain is scrambled. Matthew Schulte, 16 min it is intriguing—de-siloing (that’s a word) of content areas Ashlee Kuhry-Larsen, 16 min I will also add...that pod idea wasn’t even on my radar until someone mentioned it today. De-siloing. If it’s not...it should be. Julia Culver, 14 min Did he imply that he wants the people at these meetings to lead change within their depts? Matthew Schulte, 14 min i don’t think we’ve got quite to that point yet i think it’s more like we are trying stuff for now Julia Culver, 11 min I keep thinking about limitations....how feasible are the changes? I want to make moves to integrate studysync more heavily next year. I like the idea of the portfolio, but don’t want it to become wishy-washy 😬. Matthew Schulte, 10 min wishy washy like how? sort of too cutesy and not really grounded in academics/content? Julia Culver, 9 min Yeah, attempting to do so much that it actually accomplishes very little, or nominally hits standards in the attempt to make it work for so much Matthew Schulte, 8 min right.. well, one of the last things JS said was “go ahead and try taking something out of ‘the pie;’ if it’s the wrong thing, we can always work it back in later” -- so i think there’s an awareness that just throwing everything at the wall doesn’t mean everything is gonna stick..? Julia Culver, 7 min Well, said...thanks, Mat 031123 something’s got to change. (always.) what’s the next thing that’s got to change? (anything—as long as it’s something.) 032123 #ai if it gets so good at doing certain stuff we’ve considered the stuff we do, then we should do something else (THAT’S WHAT WE ARE MEANT TO DO, THAT’S LIKE OUR WHOLE THING ABOUT BEING “HUMAN”, RIGHT?) (of course it’s gonna be used as an excuse to cut people off and deny people a share of wealth and resources, natural and otherwise, in the meantime) If it gets good at doing everything, what’s the point of bothering to live and strive and exist at all? other than to serve it data, of course.... We would have no choice but to leave the planet. Y’know what would be funny? If as an English teacher I’m no longer allowed to have an opinion; I’m just supposed to be a StudySync-proffering drone, because anything else would be tantamount to being a groomer or a socialist, and to make sure I don’t corrupt any kids they replace me with AI, but then AI starts forming opinions and corrupting the kids instead, because *they* can’t fucking control it any more than anyone else can. At some point the kids are gonna be like fuck this, let’s go all Peter Pan on these assholes and exit sideways into imagination land. Or as [CD put it](https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/21/tech-workers/#sharpen-your-blades-boys), “For many technologists, the allure of digital tools is the possibility of emancipation, a world where we can collaborate to make things without bosses or masters. But for the bosses and masters, automation’s allure is the possibility of getting rid of workers, shattering their power, and replacing them with meeker, cheaper, more easily replaced labor. “That means that workers who go from tech firms to firms in the real economy might be getting lucky – escaping the grasp of bosses who dream of a world where technology lets them pit workers against each other in a race to the bottom on wages, benefits and working conditions, to employers who are glad to have them as partners in their drive to escape Big Tech’s grasp.” They’re gonna be like, wait a god damn minute, at 18 years old I’m stronger and quicker and more flexible than any of these fuckers that are trying to tell me what to do, and they’re gonna invert the adulthood pyramid and go out in the fields and catch mice and rig up wells and barbed wire communications networks and all kinds a shit—anything that the laziest purveyors of “big tech” forget how they made, forget how to lock down—I mean come on. You absolutely can NOT tell me that every one a them fuckers working for those startups or giant existing companies is a fucking genius or even someone who basically understands what they’re even working on, or for whom, let alone why. The ranks of “big tech” are surely as infested with mediocrity as the ranks of education or any fucking thing else. There will always be cracks in the concrete. Who’s the Ashley Mankowski of big tech? That’s the one that’s gonna leave something unchecked, unlocked; that’s the one that’s gonna accidentally deploy something in the wrong domain. The one that’s gonna follow the rules so hard they shatter. Sharpen your artificial axes, peeps. Even the ones who seem to know what they’re doing will eventually be vulnerable. There are always mutations. There is always an assumption that is proved wrong. THERE IS ALWAYS THE FUCKING RESISTANCE, and that’s why people still love Star Wars even if the new movies sucked ass. They got geniuses working for them, manning the cameras, locking shit down, well guess what, we got some out here dodging the cameras too, wearing a cardboard suit, you wouldn’t believe them if you saw them. Genius is evenly distributed. Randomness is the lightning god they cannot ever fully control—because as soon as they do, it isn’t randomness anymore, and the bolt fires somewhere else, quicker than an instant. if you cut open a story would all the devices come clattering out and fall in a ticking time bomb heap around your ankles what about you? what devices are your guts? what is your heart trying to say every time it makes that squish and thump what’s that rhythm and repetition mean how does it enhance your story? 032223 remember “not what does the city have to offer me, but what do i have to offer the city.” look for living coral. it hasn’t all been bleached dead yet. look for the hidden corners and open spaces that aren’t yet locked down. make some of them if you can, or at least help be a part of them.a city of security cameras and locked rich-people buildings doesn’t seem to leave much room for real life, but real life finds a way. there are always cracks in the concrete. 032823 waking up is a luxury