Summary:
Shawn and Troy talk about AI in education, social media, student jobs, and more. Dave has part 3 of Data Science Education.
Jokes:
There are more atoms in a spoonful of water than spoonfuls of water in the ocean.
Coprolites aren’t my favorite fossil but they’re a solid number two.
I do have an old tennis racket you can have.
- No strings attached.
I’m tired of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they are going and meet up with them later.
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
K12Science Podcast: Data Science Education, Part 3
I was recently reading the November-December 2025 issue of “The Science Teacher”, a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.
In this issue, I read a featured article written Matthias Fisher, Cody Pritchard, Zhen Xu, and Joshua Rosenberg. They wrote an article entitled, “Finding Your Way into Data Science Education as a Science Teacher.”
This is the third podcast in a series of three podcasts on the topics of Data, Data Science, and Data Science Education. In this article, the authors aimed to support science teachers without backgrounds in data science. by addressing three major challenges:
1. The lack of training to teach data science.
2. The difficulty of designing relevant and engaging data science lessons.
3. The challenge of teaching data science with limited technological resources.
In this podcast I address challenge #3 – the challenge of teaching data science with limited technological resources.
https://k12science.net/data-science-education-part-3/
Eileen Award
- Micah Blachman
Reports from the Front Lines
- Break?
- Ramadan
- Social Media
- Discord – age verification?
- Student Jobs
- Something Big is Happening
The Social Web
Seems the world will see the new #H5P theming feature on February 23/24 depending on your time zone.
help.h5p.com/hc/en-us/articles
Owen Anderson@resistor@mastodon.online
Glass-breaking hammer. Break glass to access the hammer.
DCU Library @dculibrary.bsky.social
These quaint sketches illustrating dance etiquette will help you impress your beloved this #ValentinesDay. This guide from the Kildare Place Society will help you hone your dance moves, conduct an effective ‘tête-à-tête’ and manage bouts of fainting.
Melisa Quigley @mquigley1963.bsky.social
Good morning, tweethearts. Happy Thursday. Here’s a word of the day I’ve never heard of before. Have you? I think I’ve been a bit wifty at times in my life, what about you? #wifty #wordoftheday
Strategies:
Resources:
AXIS The Culture Translator
Chicken . . . Banana
What it is: A new iteration of Gen Alpha’s favorite kind of slang (the meaningless kind) has emerged from a Swedish YouTube channel.
Why it’s… something: If you have managed to make it through the last 12 months without hearing “Chicken Banana,” consider yourself lucky. Crazy Music Channel, a Swedish production team, released “CHICKEN BANANA” in February 2025. A year later, it is still circulating, currently sitting at over 171 million views. What began as a viral dance has shifted into Gen Alpha slang. As much as it may read like AI slop, it was actually made by humans and its origin is sweeter than you’d expect. “With all the bad things happening all over the world, we wanted to do something funny that people could laugh at,” the CEO of the label associated with Crazy Music Channel told Vox (paywall). Like many new slang terms these days, the absence of meaning is the meaning.
Web Spotlight:
What Powered the World
We’re still fighting about pandemic-era school closures — but do they still matter?
Do Some People Really Think Chocolate Milk Comes from Brown Cows?
https://www.livescience.com/59666-do-people-believe-chocolate-milk-from-brown-cows.html
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