Aaron DeLay

English Language Arts High School #alted #writer #amwriting, posts are my own.

[T.Q. Townsend @tqtownsend]

I just had a fascinating discussion with my 12 year old about how brain rot memes are a legitimate artistic reaction to the way popular culture has been overburdened with meaning in the last decade. Came to realize my kid is smarter than me.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

This is Ami Inamura. She’s is a Japanese sportscaster, television personality, and model. She threw the most beautiful ceremonial first pitch I’ve ever seen and it even clocked at 64 MPH. Completely fool the batter.

Legit serious when I say this will be the best thing you’ll see today.

[Mary Anne Landers @Mary_Anne_L]

Today's #FolkloreSunday theme: cats, rabbits, & other furry critters.

In this version of the story, the genie has a wish!

[J.D. Sutter @jd_sutter]

I've spent countless hours working on this project over the last few years, and I'm super excited to finally get to share a few snippets publicly. Check it out and give the ADA page a follow! More to come!

[MC Wranglers Baseball @MCWranglers]

Coaches, don't sleep on this guy! Lots of chances to see him with the @MCWranglers of the @FrontRangeBBall this summer. All games live streamed for clips and highlights.

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

This cannot be real. And yet...

[kshitij vaze @VazeKshitij]

The rot has spread so deep, the very foundations have now started falling.

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

That'll preach!

[Elizabeth Scalia @TheAnchoress]

This is brilliant! This is pure human ministry. This is accompaniment. It's not a "big grand thing" and yet it thoroughly is. A little way of a big, grand, life-affirming thing. God bless Jon Escueta. This is how you do something great in the world. A small, grand thing.

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

RT @ZitoSalena: Wondering how regional this @arco gas station giveaway was? All of Franchise gas stations used to give out all kinds of pr…

[Tractor Ninja 🚜 @TractorNinja]

Here it comes! #cowx

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

@hey_miss_h

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#nocontextgifs

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

@hey_miss_h This tweet, given today's news, has not aged well.

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

Happy Monday.

[moss .𖥔 ݁ ˖ @mossyseals]

no sleeping on the job!!!!

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

And our final one for the year is here at number 11! Graduation ceremony is in a week. So pumped and excited to celebrate all eleven of our #alted graduates!

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

We hit number 10 today! Double digits for the win! Proud of him, his efforts, and the courage he had and the strength he flexed to get here! #alted graduation just a week away! One more possible graduate to go!

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

@hey_miss_h

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

We hit number 10 today! Double digits for the win! Proud of him, his efforts, and the courage he had and the strength he flexed to get here! #alted graduation just a week away! One more possible graduate to go!

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

Number 9 today! We're getting closer to finalizing our list of students who will walk at our #alted graduation. Incredibly proud of this one!

[Gabriel @gabriel_horwitz]

You open ChatGPT. You type the question. A clean, structured answer comes back in three seconds. You read it, it makes sense, you move on. You feel like you learned something.

Forty-five days later, a professor walks in and hands you a test you weren't expecting. You don't remember most of it.

André Barcaui at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ran the experiment to find out if the feeling was accurate. 120 undergraduate business students, ages 18 to 24. All told to spend two weeks researching AI concepts, ethics, societal impacts, technical foundations, and prepare a 10-minute presentation.

Sixty used ChatGPT freely. Sixty used textbooks, library databases, articles, and standard web search. Then, 45 days later, with no warning, a retention test.

The ChatGPT group scored 57.5%. The traditional group scored 68.5%. Cohen's d was 0.68, a medium-to-large effect. In most grading systems, that's the difference between passing and failing.

This is called cognitive offloading. When your brain delegates thinking to an external tool, it reduces the mental effort required during encoding. Effort is what makes memories durable. Struggling to find, synthesize, and connect information is not an inefficiency in the learning process. It is the learning process. ChatGPT removes the struggle and takes the encoding with it.

Barcaui calls what the AI group experienced "borrowed competence." The answer was structured, the vocabulary was right, the reasoning felt sound. It just wasn't theirs. And 45 days later, it was gone.

The AI group's forgetting curve was steeper and didn't stabilize the way the traditional group's did. The memories weren't just smaller. They were more fragile from the start.

You didn't learn it. You borrowed it.

[Diary of Abandonment @thequeenofrust]

I spend a lot of time studying Google Maps. Today it led me to a town in New Mexico with a name that made me stop and look twice: Truth or Consequences.

In the late 1800s it was known as Palomas Hot Springs.

It was incorporated as Hot Springs in 1916, becoming a popular resort town.

In 1950, the NBC Radio quiz show ‘Truth or Consequences’ was celebrating its 10th anniversary. The host of the show announced he would broadcast a live special from the first U.S. town that renamed itself after the show.

Hot Springs residents and officials saw this as a chance for free publicity and to differentiate their town. A special election was held March 31, 1950, and the town name was changed by unanimous vote.

The game show host kept his promise and aired from the town on April 1, 1950.

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

Number 9 today! We're getting closer to finalizing our list of students who will walk at our #alted graduation. Incredibly proud of this one!

[Aaron DeLay @adelayedteacher]

Number 8 yesterday!!! #alted rocking with class of 2026. We've got about three more that will cross the finish line too.