Alfonso Gonzalez

STEM Educator | NBCT | ISTE Capstone | MAT | Gamer | Runner | he/him. Passionate about #edtech, #STEM, #gamification, #GBL, #esports, #AI, & #edreform

[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

The EPA’s Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators 2022. #epa

🤗 What an honor to be among all the recipients of this year's #PIAEE award!

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I’m re-posting this because I used Nano Banana to make the photo look more professional. ☺️

[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

A SIFT Rebuild (in progress)
"Demoting links keeps people on your platform, and almost all the platforms do it now. That lack of a tether to an outside world changes who gets views on platforms."
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

Educational Technology and Responsible Gaming: What Online Casinos Teach Us - Kyle&P
"There has been a silent convergence of two industries that seldom appear in the same sentence. Both educational technology and online casino platforms"
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

What Is Asset Tokenization? Meaning, Examples, Pros, & Cons
"the process of converting rights to a physical or digital asset into a digital token on a blockchain. The tokenization process can produce either fungible tokens or non-fungible tokens"
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

Bernie Sanders AI bill would give public half of the AI industry
"The idea: since AI is built on the accumulated knowledge, creativity, conversations, and labor of the American people the American people deserve a cut of the profits."
https://t.co/gJoJQXZX64

[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

What the Pope & the Booing Graduates Know About AI
"It might seem like a pope & a stadium full of 22-year-olds would rarely agree on much. What both are really defending is dignity, the idea that a person is worth building around, not a cost"
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

This Year I Am Boring My Students (On Purpose)
"within boredom lies creativity, & so it is this that I ruminate on today. What happens to creativity when those behind all the latest AI tools want us to believe that it can come from a machine?"
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

Shared Ownership, Shared Success: The Power of Consensus
"Unanimity demands that every educator hold identical thoughts on a given issue. Compromise often results in watered-down solutions. Consensus is a cooperative process"
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

Amazon tells staff to stop using AI just to use AI after shutting down its token leaderboard
“senior executive issued a direct warning to staff against using AI merely to improve their standing on dashboard rather than to address real business challenges”
https://t.co/JULyYSSiQ8

[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

The Illustrated Story Behind the Tulsa Massacre on HBO's Watchmen - Sponsor Content - Watchmen on HBO https://t.co/GJ1Y3J7Yts

[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

Sunday thought: It's Still Capital vs. Labor, Stupid
“The economy has become concentrated in a few giant corporations with the power both to raise prices and keep wages down.”
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

20 incredibly useful things you didn't know Google's Gemini AI could do - Fast Company
“From writing spreadsheet formulas to decoding product manuals, there’s no limit to the ways Google’s AI bot can help you out.”
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

Investigation: What information skills are in play?
"For all the time the EdTech field has spent talking about classroom technology, almost none of it has been spent on what students do with the information they encounter through it."
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

Where Does AI Literacy Fit? — AI for Education
“the "third option" both the Brookings Institution and the American Psychological Association have recommended: teaching AI literacy in context”
https://t.co/nDhLTqKNAM

[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

NotebookLM 101, Part 5
"these videos are highly amusing to generate. I am not entirely convinced they provide significantly more value to the end user than the audio podcasts.
There are practical realities where a short video works better than a PDF"
https://t.co/EpaEpGVetN

[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

Forza Horizon 6's Most Hated Driver Has Become An Internet Legend
"Drivatars in Forza Horizon 6 games are AI-controlled opponents that mimic the driving style and skill of players in the game. They emulate how people drive and can be challenged to a race"
https://t.co/EJDK8P7Dvs

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

My response to "Why do you keep drawing so much? Just teach them the formula!"

[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

The AI Confidence Trap — AI for Education
“Confidence using GenAI isn't the same as AI literacy. In fact, the research keeps showing that more confidence can lead to worse practices.”
https://t.co/AU61sMJpKL

[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

We're streaming our Esports game on Twitch playing Minecraft!
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

How To Teach Curiosity in the Classroom—And Why You Should
"curiosity tends to diminish the longer children are in school. That means teachers aren’t just content deliverers—keeping curiosity alive in kids requires intentional, deliberate teaching."
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[Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral]

Bamboo Bioplastic – An Ecofriendly Alternative
“This free classroom resource adapts a recent scientific research study into a student-friendly reading passage designed specifically for high school biology students.”
https://t.co/exP37tfHJ2