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Responsibility & Relationships: From You and Me to Society
This blog post was originally posted on March 9, 2016. It is 8.5 years later, and it’s even more relevant than it was then. Over the past eight months or so, my wife and I have been renting a house after moving from a different city. Several weeks ago we found a house to buy.…
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The Inappropriate and Problematic Uses of Technology
This posting is directed mostly at AI or Artificial Intelligence, but the AI acronym may more appropriately stand for Artificial Ineptness or Artificial Ignorance. Although I am going to outline briefly a few of the big issues, I do think AI could be used for some benefit in a rather small set of contexts. But…
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What Needs to be Taught? — Part I: A History
Originally published on September 21, 2021 by Jeff Bloom During my career as an educator, which started off as a leap off of a cliff into a raging fire, I became increasingly concerned with the issue of “what to teach.” I began teaching as a middle school science teacher in New York City. It was…
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