flâneur

Melissa Regalado

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  • “If I have a student who completely disengages because he does not feel like it’s relevant or I have a student who might be excited about e-sports or science, I can tap into that student’s passion and personalize this lesson to build engagement,
    Can AI Improve Instruction? 3 Teachers Share How They Use It
  • Smokorowski also said she uses ChatGPT to make accommodations for student interests and learning challenges
    Can AI Improve Instruction? 3 Teachers Share How They Use It
  • To help students with those reading assignments, Kerr uses his planning period to use ChatGPT to give summaries of works of literature or to help answer whatever questions other teachers are asking his students, so he can better guide them through the text or assignment. Using ChatGPT saves him time from having to read all the assigned literature to help each student.
    Can AI Improve Instruction? 3 Teachers Share How They Use It
  • AI is the future of education. While only a few other teachers in her district use AI, Edwards thinks all teachers should start learning how to incorporate it into their classrooms.
    Can AI Improve Instruction? 3 Teachers Share How They Use It
  • “I use AI to help create lesson plans, presentations, write emails, and to create checklists. AI is a great resource to use as an initial starting point for a task or to give you ideas
    Can AI Improve Instruction? 3 Teachers Share How They Use It
  • Despite those risks, teachers have used AI-powered tools to plan lessons, create rubrics, provide feedback on student assignments, and respond to parent emails. And they’re looking for other ways to use the technology to make their jobs easier.
    Can AI Improve Instruction? 3 Teachers Share How They Use It
  • Sixty percent of teachers said they’ve used ChatGPT—an AI-powered tool that can instantly answer seemingly any prompt—in their jobs, according to a nationally representative Walton Family Foundation survey conducted in June and July.
    Can AI Improve Instruction? 3 Teachers Share How They Use It
  • I want to get over myself. I want to sing off-key. I want to dance without thinking twice. I want to publish shitty writing without it bothering me for the next two weeks. I want to tweet garbage. I want to brick fits. I want to do things even when I suck at them. I want to ask for what I want. I want to do it without apologizing. I want to produce excellent work. I want to be cool and interesting. I want to be powerful. I want to have lots and lots of friends whom I adore. I want to be liberated.
    eating the table waffle
  • want to eat the table waffle. ​I want the other restaurant patrons to notice and think nothing of it because I carry out the motion with such conviction that it must be correct. I want to pluck the waffle off the table with my fingers and place it resolutely in my mouth, syrupy and substantial, and show my face as I do it.
    eating the table waffle
  • I know that shamelessness invites others to be shameless too, so as an act of martyrdom or joyous abandon, I muster it on occasion. But only 10-15% of the time at most. And I want to know what it feels like to be shameless all the time.
    eating the table waffle
  • When I came to the final bite, I speared it onto my fork and dunked it into my little tin of maple syrup. Moistened by the amber liquid, it slipped off the fork before making it into my mouth, landing tragically upon the black granite tabletop. Quickly, I jabbed at it with the tines of my utensil, once, twice, thrice, but to no avail. I made eye contact with a couple sitting nearby, two 30-somethings who had been discussing their law practice ambitions over the course of their meal. Mindful of their gaze and my unsuccessful attempts to retrieve the waffle civilly, I grabbed the piece with my p…
    eating the table waffle
  • How am I this young and already alone? How am I this old and still so bad at making friends? Am I unlikeable? Am I difficult to be around? Am I much weirder than I think? Or is it that I'm too normal and boring?
    eating the table waffle
  • When I ruminate on my loss of particular varieties of togetherness that I can no longer rely upon, I incline toward shame.
    eating the table waffle
  • I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t miss belonging to a unit and its many gratifications: the inherent pleasure of connection, the assurance of having a place, the removal of the self-judgment that sometimes seizes me when confronted with situational friendlessness. Relationships, whether romantic or platonic, provide a script, and it is much less demanding to memorize a script than to write one. Shared experience is just easy to glamorize; after all, you’ve got two or more people working on it!
    eating the table waffle
  • Though I am usually alone by choice, it is not infrequent that I am alone due to failure -- specifically, the failure to rally a companion into joining me on whatever adventure I am plotting -- and this tends to feel bad.
    eating the table waffle
  • I am learning how to excel at navigating leisure as an individual, which is to say that I’m getting better at structuring my elective experience of the world in ways that are pleasant and satisfying rather than merely assigned or advised.
    eating the table waffle
  • I am learning how to excel at navigating leisure as an individual, which is to say that I’m getting better at structuring my elective experience of the world in ways that are pleasant and satisfying rather than merely assigned or advised.
    eating the table waffle
  • I can’t overstate how much my friends are the core of my life and how much joy they bring me.
    making and keeping friends - by Ava - bookbear express
  • I’ve met several really good friends off Twitter. Can’t recommend Twitter enough. Tweet like your life depends on it for six months and then you can enjoy the returns for the next five years.
    making and keeping friends - by Ava - bookbear express
  • Live in the city where the largest number of your good friends are. I pretty much moved back to SF strictly because of this.
    making and keeping friends - by Ava - bookbear express
  • it’s honestly just not nice to blow off your best friend for a month unless something traumatic is happening.
    making and keeping friends - by Ava - bookbear express
  • I’m a big believer that having good friends is enabled by a set of learnable skills—how to find people you like, how to put yourself out there, how to listen, how to make space, how to propose fun things to do—and I’ve become increasingly worried over that our society no longer sets people up for learning how to make and keep friends.
    making and keeping friends - by Ava - bookbear express
  • You send funny Tiktoks that remind you of them
    making and keeping friends - by Ava - bookbear express
  • Viewed through that lens, friendships are often more successful than romantic relationships.
    making and keeping friends - by Ava - bookbear express
  • Maybe we weren’t meant to think too hard about what goes into a good friendship
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • The premise that we can intellectualize and hack our way to the most meaningful friendships is, very likely, misguided.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • These friends expand our boxes of possible experience. Spontaneity and unconstrained eagerness feel good because they are exercises in doing without thinking too much
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • This view acknowledges that there is more to friendship than what can be gleaned for our immediate goals and that sometimes people can influence us enough to fundamentally change who we are.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • Will make every effort to be there at important moments in your life You trust deeply and feel comfortable sharing with Instinctively ask you to join them in whatever they’re doing
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • you might want friends to:
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • what if we viewed friends as more aspirational?
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • You know you will change and grow, you acknowledge you don’t know for certain where you’re going, and your friends are the people you most want to share that journey with.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • The obsession with interestingness comes from a model of friendship that views friends as vehicles for ambition: you have an idea of what you want out of life, and friends are chosen with those priorities in mind.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • There is intellectual fun, and there is fun—old-fashioned, forget about the world, I could do this forever type fun.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • the feeling of leaving a thoughtful conversation is qualitatively different than the feeling of returning from a night of karaoke.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • our preoccupation with being interesting is symptomatic of a flawed view of friendship.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • You shouldn’t feel obligated to be friends with everyone or pressured to get along with all people
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • Everyone is interesting. Every person in the world has a literal lifetime of experiences that have shaped who they are. They have internal thought processes and distinct worldviews that you won’t find within anyone else
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • If I think about what kind of person I want to be close friends with—my best man at my wedding, people I would do anything for, the ones I can rely on when I’m at my lowest—smart and interesting really aren’t front of mind.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • Friends aren’t resources for intellectual stimulation or new insights. I don’t want my friends to like me because I read niche blogs or have things to say about crypto. It comes dangerously close to conflating knowing a lot, reading a lot, or having thoughtful things to say with moral goodness. (Worth noting that interesting isn’t a negative trait. I would prefer my friends to be interesting, but it feels superficial to prioritize it.)
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • there is a concerning amount of emphasis on having friends and seeking out people who are smart, thoughtful, and (the worst one of all) “interesting.”
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • what makes someone a person you want to spend time with.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
  • Not all research needs to happen within the monolithic institutions in academia or profit-hungry companies.
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • In a world where you don’t need to work to stay alive, what would you do? What gives you excitement and joy? Completely ignoring what other people tell you is useful or good, what do you find intrinsically beautiful and good to do in the world?
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • These days, if you say you work in research, most people assume you work in academia. But it’s sort of odd that we assume you need someone’s permission to do research. There’s no reason that universities need to be the gatekeepers of exploring and developing new ideas.
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • I began to see myself as an explorer, excited to share what I found with others. I let more people in to see what I was working on because I was excited to share what I found rather than afraid of what they thought of what I knew.
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • t I strongly needed to figure out how to untie my self-worth from my project.
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • what kind of researcher doesn’t even know what they’re researching? Later on, I would find that this floundering was sense-making hard at work
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • bear witness to the world that refuses to be predictable.
    "I'm not ready" but it's happening anyways - by Nix 🕊
  • All this talk, but I often don’t feel ready for the things in my life. Perhaps the learning is that I never will. But I can be open: to momentum, to change.
    "I'm not ready" but it's happening anyways - by Nix 🕊