Jenny Schurk

Public school teacher and nature enthusiast

[Jenny Schurk @schurkit]

#ERANow !!!

[Ms. Magazine @MsMagazine]

In the 230 years since the Constitution was first signed, we’ve worked toward becoming a "more perfect union" for all—but women are still not protected.

We must now ensure constitutional equality for women, @RepMaloney writes. #ConstitutionDay #ERAnow https://t.co/Zet0sG356Q

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Been feeling bleak for the past week after I read an essay saying the market for middle-grade books has collapsed because kids can no longer read them. Two long-time publishers of middle-grades have shuttered, with more to come. We don’t appreciate what a crisis this is. +

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Jenny Schurk @schurkit]

@RaminNasibov East of Eden

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper @AC360

[Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 @MelindaJPerson]

A NYT investigation confirms what educators have long known: social media companies made deliberate choices to capture students' attention during the school day, despite internal warnings about the harm to learning and mental health.

Educators have carried the weight of this for years. We owe it to our students to demand accountability and keep classrooms focused on learning.

https://t.co/EkULFX9a0x

[🎨Artsy M*rxist 🎨 (commissions closed) @ArtsyMarx1st]

yes thats the goal of the bourgeoisie, to create an uneducated population that cant advocate for themselves.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @ronnychieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

AI is largely developed by men with uses that are biased against and predatory toward women. Faced with threats to their livelihoods, many admin assistants have felt forced to use it. Women make up 86% of those in jobs vulnerable to be replaced by AI.
https://t.co/WPhjfMYWQS

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Jenny Schurk @schurkit]

Honestly, it should be illegal to do this to a public school. Or any school, for that matter. I’m guessing it’s part of their business model to gouge people last minute and see if they’ll balk. Is gross and frankly unethical.

[Jenny Schurk @schurkit]

@ArmirHarris A commitment to the customer experience? So I guess that includes gouging a title one school two days before their 8th grade graduation trip? Originally $6500, booked three months ago?

[Jenny Schurk @schurkit]

@ArmirHarris A commitment to the customer experience? So I guess that includes gouging a title one school two days before their 8th grade graduation trip? Originally $6500, booked three months ago?

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

Beethoven was fucking deaf but yeah sure you need a robot to be creative for you

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Too much screen use among kids and teens can be harmful and should be limited for children under 18, new surgeon general's advisory says. https://t.co/u1KhK6XpN6

[Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) @jean_twenge]

Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 Princeton's 133-year-old Honor Code was NOT enough to tackle AI cheating, and for the first time since 1893 (!), it will mandate proctoring for ALL in-person exams. Expect other schools and universities to follow suit:

Princeton's Honor Code was instituted in 1893 in response to a student petition to end proctoring during examinations.

The Honor Code is based on individual accountability, as each student pledges to refrain from academic dishonesty and also to report if they see someone else violating it.

According to the decision taken a few days ago:

“The ease of access of these AI tools on a small personal device has also changed the external appearance of misconduct during an examination (...), making cheating much harder for other students to observe (and hence to report).”

Starting on July 1st, ALL in-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored.

As I have written a few times before in my newsletter, AI affects cognitive development, and it directly impacts learning and educational systems.

To avoid the negative impact of AI and to protect education, we should return to pen and paper, blue books, and in-person exams.

There were misconceptions and miscalculations with smartphones and social media, and those mistakes should not be repeated with AI. Schools and universities should take bold decisions now and adapt accordingly (and fast).

Of course, students should learn about AI and know how to use and experiment with it. However, that doesn't mean the educational system should be FLOODED with AI (including AI cheating) and its negative interference with learning and cognition.

Expect more schools and universities to announce similar measures.

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[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Commencement speaker repeatedly gets booed by UCF students after she calls AI the 'next industrial revolution'

• Students cheered when she said 'only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives'

• One student yelled out 'AI sucks'

[PBS News @NewsHour]

According to a recent study, reading for pleasure has fallen by 40% in the last 20 years, continuing a long-running downward trend. By many measures, reading skills for both students and adults continue to fall. Jeffrey Brown spoke with Elizabeth Alexander of the Mellon Foundation about a new effort to boost the world of words. https://t.co/gFJh5Uid6q

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A 2025 study out of M.I.T. cautioned that “the integration of LLMs into learning environments may inadvertently contribute to cognitive atrophy.” This danger hasn’t slowed the advancement of A.I. in schools. https://t.co/nPxSO7Hdcb

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

I finally lost it on the departmental AI survey.

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

Rich kids get tutors. Poor ones, AI.

“Schools serving low-income students are often under the most pressure to show that they’re embracing innovative technology & preparing students for the working world, where it may soon be standard to rely on GenAI.”

https://t.co/Gh1lOVT0Ko