Ireland bends over to take it from its American sponsors.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260814-irelands-university-leaders-must-step-up-where-the-irish-government-has-failed/

The government of Ireland has deliberately obstructed and refused entry to previously approved students from Gaza who were due to attend Irish universities.

#news #ireland #gaza #genocide #palestine #supportpalestine #freegaza #trinitycollegedublin #MaynoothUniversity #universitycollegedublin #education #humanrights #Taoiseach #IrlGov #Dail #IrishGovernment #humanities

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

22.

Solitary Bee Lifecycle.
Quick Version!
Adults emerge in spring/summer.
Mate.
Male dies.
Female starts nest.
Lays up to 30 eggs in individual pods stocked with pollen and nectar.
Female dies.
Young pupate over winter.
Emerge in spring.
#bees #nature#biodiversity
#climate #environment
#worldbeesanctuary #education
#science #pollinators

This solves the conundrum of potentially having to retake classes because you didn't wasn't to miss all of the good parties. The AI agent can run in the background while one is sleeping off the hangover from the night before.

I can see college presidents offering an AI agent track where students rent an agent from the school to do all of the work for $93,000/year.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/college-kids-ai-agents-cheat-online-courses

#tech #technology #education

No mention of climate change in new curriculum until Year 11
*NO MENTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE*
What the ducking duck?!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/education/999624/no-mention-of-climate-change-in-new-curriculum-until-year-11
#ClimateCrisis #Education #Negligence

The Atmosphere of My High School Exams in Gaza. ❗

Last year, I finished high school amid war, displacement, famine, and bombardment. During a ceasefire, my school held in-person exams to ensure fair results. I contracted Hepatitis A during the exam period, yet still graduated with 98%, ranking among the highest-performing students across Palestinian Al-Azhar Institutes and earning the highest Physics mark in Gaza that year. Now I’m raising funds to change this reality and reach University of Glasgow. If you're able to help, the link is in my bio. Sharing this campaign could help me reach someone who can.

Your donation will do more than help me attend university. It will give me the chance to build a career in technology, support my family, and create a future beyond war.

Donate: https://chuffed.org/project/193798

#gaza #palestine #donate #glasgow #scotland #uk #education

@RichardJMurphy / #RichardMurphy [UPDATE - OPENING PICTURE VIA RIGHT CLICK ---> "NEW TAB" SHOWS BIGGER / ORIGINAL VERSION SOMETIMES...

The thumbnail, drag-drop or copying picture is different / smaller or not as big sometimes, so need to open.

--------older post below-----

1/ The #Infographic needs to be bigger

I love small graphics and saving filesize but you could go X2 / 200% the size without worry.

How about adding it for clearer #education?

Using age verification as a solution to online safety is like blunting every knife in existence just to make knives safer for children. The solution is simple: Educate your children and don't let them online until they're mature enough. #children #ageverification #education

In less than 12hrs I'll be taking graduates of the Tunnel training into another edition of Fortress. 4x6hrs, followed by 2 weeks of supported service deployments and experimentation.

I'm excited about every part of it (esp to see what participants build up), except the 1am starts, in my, umm, challenging timezone.

It'll be coffee black as midnight for a bit.

https://courses.nikau.io/fortress/

#sysadmin #education #infrastructure #floss

Lack of transparency and national guidelines mark the expansion of #FacialRecognition in Brazilian #education

https://internetlab.org.br/en/pesquisa-en/lack-of-transparency-and-national-guidelines-mark-the-expansion-of-facial-recognition-in-brazilian-education/

#Brazil #FRT #privacy

New post: Valedictorian, Interrupted

https://lanie.work/advocacy/valedictorian-interrupted/

#Disability #Education #Blind #Tsbvi #Personal #Advocacy

Stanford University’s Founding Matriarch Was a Travel-Loving Philanthropist Who Met a Tragic End. A New Exhibition Explores Her Life, Grief and Death by Poison

Jane Stanford’s legacy is the focus of a new showcase at the California university. The display features artifacts that have never previously been exhibited

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/stanford-universitys-founding-matriarch-was-a-travel-loving-philanthropist-who-met-a-tragic-end-a-new-exhibition-explores-her-life-grief-and-death-by-poison-180989211/

#history #education

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Jane Stafford appears in profile, shown from the chest up and facing left. Her dark hair is styled in an updo with curls on top and the rest pulled back. She wears a dark, textured dress with a cameo brooch at the center. The dress features beadwork, sequins, and embroidery.

hey, fellow scots: we have the chance to welcome mahmoud (@mahmoudswh) to glasgow for his computer science studies. let's show him proper scottish solidarity & boost his fundraiser. if you can make a financial contribution, that would be brilliant. thank you. :) from gaza to glasgow!
#education #gaza #glasgow #scotland

https://chuffed.org/project/193798-from-gaza-to-glasgow-help-mahmoud-study-computer-science

‘Parental choice is an illusion’: the gap between integrated education demand and provision

“First preference on an admissions form, Torney emphasised, does not necessarily reflect ideal choice: it reflects what is accessible, affordable, and realistic.”

Read our article by Allan LEONARD 👉 https://sharedfuture.news/parental-choice-is-an-illusion-the-gap-between-integrated-education-demand-and-provision/

#NorthernIreland #SharedFuture #integratededucation #education

@vampiress

Exactly why I retired this month & quit academia. Was an English professor, & last semester, I put a few white text "invisible" instructions in my PDF paper prompts; out of 3 classes, I failed 38 of 66 students for AI cheating. They never read the assigned texts; most failed the majority of reading comprehension quizzes.
Not worth the effort when students hate books, have zero curiosity about the universe, & EACH plagiarism case costs 6 hours of unpaid labor.
#Education #teachers

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the mom from That seventies show, pouring tequila into a blender filled with ice, with the caption teachers grading papers

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

19.

In excess of 91 million beehives in the world.
Honey/Pollination industry is worth €4 billion.
5.7 million flower visits to make 1kg of honey.
THIS AFFECTS NATIVE WILD BEES!

‘Hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.’
- Lou Reed

#bees #honeybees
#nature #biodiversity
#truth #environment
#honey #science #education
#vegan #impact #climate

Boosting the stats: Under Mike Miles, #Houston ISD forced 1000s of students into remedial classes in order to artificially improve school ratings. It's a stark warning of what's to come for other school districts in the crosshairs. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-houston-miracle-shell-game/

#education #Texas #news #politics #USpol #GulfCoast

#Apple says #MacBookNeo is pulling #schools away from #Windows and #Chromebooks

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/01/apple-says-macbook-neo-is-pulling-schools-away-from-windows-and-chromebooks/

#privacy #MacBook #Microsoft #Google #education #school

A quotation from Bulwer-Lytton

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) English novelist and politician
Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions, Book 3, ch. 12 [Kenelm] (1873)

More about this quote: wist.info/bulwer-lytton-edward…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BulwerLytton #edwardbulwerlytton #dogma #education #inspiration #instruction #motivation #school #suggestion #teacher #teaching

A quotation from Bill Watterson

   CALVIN: (building a snowman) I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.
   HOBBES: Such as?
   CALVIN: Procrastinating and rationalizing.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-02-15)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/85252…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #education #excuse #homework #procrastination #rationalization #realworld #selfrationalization #skills #training

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Calvin and Hobbes (1993-02-15)

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

15.

Bumblebee queens determine the sex of young produced.
Initially producing female workers, later in the nest’s life they choose to produce males and future queens.

‘Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them’
- Mark Twain

#bees #bumblebees
#nature #wildlife
#saturday #biodiversity
#environment #science
#education #pollinators
#vegan #climate

What is your answer to 18÷3x2=?

Boosts appreciated

No, this isn't a trick question. An oft-cited blog has made the claim that "most humans" will get the wrong answer, which I think is a completely ridiculous claim, so I want hard data on the split. Unlike some other polls I've run, I want #teachers and #students to answer also, since you all come under "most humans" :-)

#Mathematics #Maths #Math #arithmetic #OrderOfOperations #poll #education #school

As Lou Doyle observes, whatever we think of recent pronouncements & proposals from Andy Burnham on skilled education....

'Nobody should expect a devolved skills strategy to undo a class-coded hierarchy that’s taken decades to settle. It will fail if we once again place the solutions to broader societal challenges on the shoulders of teachers'!

Spot on: once again it blames the victims for class-based structural inequality!

#politics #class #skills #education

https://feweek.co.uk/burnham-parity-of-esteem-starts-with-pay-not-pathways/

New post: Why a School Comes First

https://lanie.work/advocacy/why-a-school-comes-first/

#Disability #Multiple-Disabilities #Education #Community #Accessibility #Chronic-Illness #Neurodiversity #Advocacy

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧱🧠 Play-based #preschool programs help #children develop emotional regulation and social skills that last into elementary #school, according to researchers.

Dramatic #play improves emotion regulation and #language development, while constructive play predicts higher #math achievement. The benefits extend well beyond early #childhood, supporting learning through #highschool.

👉 https://theconversation.com/play-is-essential-for-young-children-including-when-it-comes-to-their-learning-285572

#learning #emotions #problemsolving #preschool #kindergarten #education #parenting #teaching

New to the #FreeSoftware movement and not sure where to start? Check out some of our videos on Framatube: u.fsf.org/3it #FSF #education

This is interesting news.

Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.

The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.

Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading

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This image features a photograph of a young, blonde boy sitting at a desk in what appears to be a classroom setting. The boy, wearing a dark navy blue zip-up jacket, is leaning over his desk, focused attentively as he writes on a piece of paper using a wooden pencil. The background shows a soft-focus classroom environment with another child sitting at a desk in the distance. Prominently overlaid across the bottom portion of the photo is bold text in a light yellow/orange font that reads: "Sweden is officially reversing its use of digital technologies in education and returning to handwriting and books"

Don't miss out ... Catch up with everything we've published from the July/August 2026 issue of our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/july-august-2026/

#journalism #media #Texas #politics #education #USpol #news #law #police

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The July/August 2026 issue of Texas Observer magazine features an illustration of a BIPOC boy in a classroom, holding a toy white school bus, while looking pensively out the window at barbed-wire festooned prison walls. Headline: The Texas School Arrests Crisis, How kids as young as 10 bear the burden of tough-on-crime policies, by Josephine Lee. Other headlines: An East Texas Love Letter by Dalyah Jones, The Houe That Youtube Built by Steven Monacelli.

Libraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Hannah Cyrus and Alison Macrina to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/338_librarians_are_helping_the_public_ditch_ai_w_hannah_cyrus__alison_macrina

#tech #libraries #generativeai #library #education #politics

Last week: Students who have been taught that they must revere the barons of “free enterprise,” that inequality is not worth discussing, & that they should accept their circumstances will become a compliant workforce & a malleable voting base. https://www.texasobserver.org/sboe-bible-curriculum-requirements/

#Texas #education #religion #politics #USpol #news

#MIT to Become Hotbed of #AI Video #Surveillance

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/mit-to-become-hotbed-of-ai-video-surveillance.html

#privacy #education #university

Know nothing about India's youth-led "cockroach" movement but don't want to look like a thicky thicky dumb dumb in front of your mates?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nSPzkm1vs6Q

#india #protest #cockroach #education #mrcodydahler #stopthefarright #FuckModi

New post: The Gap Nobody's Building For

https://lanie.work/advocacy/the-gap-nobodys-building-for/

#Disability #Multiple-Disabilities #Education #Accessibility #Chronic-Illness #Neurodiversity #Community #Personal-Growth #Advocacy

New to the #FreeSoftware movement and not sure where to start? Check out some of our videos on Framatube: u.fsf.org/3it #FSF #education