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Andy Arcand

@AndyArcand

I'm an English teacher interested in pedagogy, art, and culture. I don't tweet about what I ate for breakfast. Class Twitter: @TwaltWhitman

Joined June 2011
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Content shouldn't be "covered." It should be a means to "uncovering" and "discovering." @ChoateAT #deepdt #dtk12chat #geniushour #SXSWEdu
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If you're one of my students, and you found this. You're getting closer: arcandclass.weebly.com/
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It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start npr.org/2023/03/23/116514679… @mrShakedown @MorganGH
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New AI tools make it easy to create fake video, audio and text : NPR npr.org/2023/03/23/116514679…

It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start

Powerful artificial intelligence tools that can create video, audio, text and pictures are raising fears the technology will supercharge disinformation and propaganda by bad actors.

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‘Historical pattern of disregard’: inside one of the last remaining US Indigenous boarding schools - The Guardian apple.news/AjyuD78mRRAqjepu_…
‘Historical pattern of disregard’: inside one of the last remaining US Indigenous boarding schools

‘Historical pattern of disregard’: inside one of the last remaining US Indigenous boarding schools

Oregon’s Chemawa Indian School has been plagued by problems such as understaffing and allegations of misspending. Is there hope for its future?

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Opinion | What Teenagers’ Mental Health Can Tell Us About America - The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/10/11/opini…

Opinion | Teenagers Are Telling Us That Something Is Wrong With America (Published 2022)

Adolescents live at the fault lines of a culture, exposing our weak spots.

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What Native land are you on? This map shows Indigenous tribes' past territories : NPR npr.org/2022/10/10/112783765…
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The #CorsiRosenthalBox movement continues to take classrooms by storm, and we can confidently say that this #DIY air purifier works! Tested by 3M scientists, Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes are proven to capture unwanted airborne particles. 🦠 Show us your DIY CR Box in the comments below!

Corsi-Rosenthal Box, a DIY solution for cleaner air

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Haw River Meditation by Jonathan Farmer - Poems | poets.org poets.org/poem/haw-river-med…
Of 1 million COVID deaths, how many could have been averted with vaccines? : Shots - Health News : NPR npr.org/sections/health-shot…
A tender poem doubles as a guide to sitting comfortably in one’s own company | Aeon Videos aeon.co/videos/a-tender-poem…
A tender poem doubles as a guide to sitting comfortably in one’s own company | Aeon Videos

A tender poem doubles as a guide to sitting comfortably in one’s own company | Aeon Videos

‘You are such an interesting conversation.’ Pádraig Ó Tuama’s tender poem is a guide to being comfortable in one’s own company

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Rethinking history lessons: Virginia teenager designs curriculum recognizing women of color - CBS News cbsnews.com/news/virginia-fa…
Rethinking history lessons: Virginia teenager designs curriculum recognizing women of color

Rethinking history lessons: Virginia teenager designs curriculum recognizing women of color

Prasidha Padmanabhan is leading a modern-day crusade to rewrite the history books in one of the country's largest school districts.

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Student poetry contest in China becomes unexpected outlet for dissent washingtonpost.com//world/20…
Russian teacher rejected Kremlin propaganda, then paid the price - Reuters apple.news/AVg6HYNp5Rcagtba9…
Russian teacher rejected Kremlin propaganda, then paid the price

Russian teacher rejected Kremlin propaganda, then paid the price

Days after Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Andrei Shestakov opened a set of files in a WhatsApp group chat for history teachers like himself in his town in east Russia.

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‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists - The Guardian apple.news/AisErCWh0SYyEB6pC…
‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists

‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists

On a march, Peter McIndoe held up a sign and talked about how the ‘deep state’ had replaced all birds with drones. It was meant as a small act of satire but has become a mass movement

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I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner - Big Think bigthink.com/thinking/ungrad…
I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner

I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner

The practice of grading students is so widespread as to seem necessary, even though many researchers say it is highly inequitable.

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An oral history of competitive meditation ⁦@danbharris⁩ ⁦@10percent⁩ mashable.com/article/meditat…
An oral history of competitive meditation

An oral history of competitive meditation

From Meditation Deathmatch to March Mindfulness: The past and future of a very wrong, but oh-so-effective concept.

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Is It the Apocalypse? | Happier meditation

Is It the Apocalypse? | Happier meditation

Meditation teacher and minister, Lama Rod Owens reports that many of his students have begun asking an unsettling question: Is this the apocalypse? His answer is even more unsettling: Yes.

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