Some Teachers Are Determined To Keep AI Out Of Their Classrooms
Concerned that AI may discourage deep thinking, some teachers going analog
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In this edition:
What The ICE Reign Of Terror Is Doing To Our Kids
To Keep AI Out Of Her Classroom, This High School English Teacher Went Analog
What Adolescence Reveals About Teen Mental Health That Parents Are Missing
Young People Today Are Stressed, Depressed—And Changing The Fundamental Pattern Of Happiness, New Research Shows
Thousands Gather in San Francisco, Businesses Close as Part of Nationwide ‘ICE Out’ Protest
Why Boys Are Behind in Reading at Every Age
Opinion: Tech Giants Always Planned To Get Us Addicted
What The ICE Reign Of Terror Is Doing To Our Kids (The Golden Hour)
By Anya Kamenetz: As of 2022, one in four children in the United States had at least one foreign-born parent. That’s about 18 million children who could plausibly worry about they or their families being targeted by ICE / CBP.
Many are staying home from school because of that worry. Which is rational, because federal agents are making schools a target of their operations, after decades in which public schools were considered sanctuaries.
L. is a high school senior in the Minneapolis suburbs and the child of immigrants from West Africa. “One of my friends is Hispanic and her parents aren’t letting her go to school,” she told me. “She has to carry her birth certificate and passport when she leaves the house. My little brother is scared to go out with his friends. He’s only 12. We got a message last week about ICE coming to another school in our district. I wasn’t surprised. It gets to a point where you’re disgusted, but you’re not shocked anymore.” READ MORE
From Christopher - WHY DID I CHOOSE THIS STORY? I appreciate the deep humanity and care Anya Kamenetz brings to her coverage of children, and appreciated her recognition of just how disruptive the recent raids and violence have been to young people’s education.
To Keep AI Out Of Her Classroom, This High School English Teacher Went Analog (NPR)
By Lee V. Gaines: Stacks of worksheets sit atop desks and tables in Chanea Bond’s Fort Worth classroom. Her students all have their own school-issued laptops, but Bond has swapped computers for paper — lots of paper. Each class begins with several minutes of journaling in notebooks, and nearly all assignments must be handwritten and physically turned in.
“If you walk into almost any one of my classes today, you will see that all of my students are handwriting,” Bond says, “and they are journaling, and they are constantly and consistently doing everything with a pen or a pencil.”
