Post B0CAX4tqcD0Ag06Utc by futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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(DIR) Post #B0C1eU7gKrSZLP21YW by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T05:27:23Z
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Ok, so I just found out that today's 'Ministry of Ed-mandated' teacher-only day at our boys' high school is so that teachers could have 'professional development' in 'AI' skills, provided by someone from the Google corporation. This is totally corrupt bullshit.
(DIR) Post #B0C2ZkEV6yGJoZWb32 by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T05:38:20Z
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@lightweight Are they paying you to swallow this horse pucky?
(DIR) Post #B0C2tYc21ejzZ9yjDM by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T05:41:56Z
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@vik nope.
(DIR) Post #B0C2vN5Jr8iUOQXhPk by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T05:42:07Z
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@runoutgroover yup.
(DIR) Post #B0C39lgNCQMojejt0i by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T05:44:52Z
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@lightweightSurely there's some OSH thing in place to prevent teacher's brains from being turned into cottage cheese?
(DIR) Post #B0C5336gDYi8eny3yy by downbeatdan@mas.to
2025-11-13T06:06:01Z
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@lightweight As I understand as a teacher, ministry of ed doesn't mandate any of the teachers only days. Schools organise the content deliverers and pick the day themselves. That said, there are a pile of AI shills clamoring to give us their reckons for the last few years. As a critic, i have signed up for a couple of online ones in the next couple of weeks, so I report back on how deluded it seems they are.
(DIR) Post #B0C67Rdz1z0Ps1CmKu by wxhbxh@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T06:18:03Z
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@lightweight "Ed tech" seems to be corruption all the way down, honestly. Whether Google, Apple, or Microsoft, there's no reason teachers should be expected to acquire tech industry certification.
(DIR) Post #B0CAX4tqcD0Ag06Utc by futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T07:07:01Z
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Did they cover what the school’s response will be if students start using AI to create child sexual abuse material involving their fellow students?That’s an important topic to spend a day educating teachers about.@lightweight
(DIR) Post #B0CSvnPQa3E4qQoM4W by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T10:31:36Z
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@wxhbxh totally agree. For the past 20 years, the Ministry of Education has been performing an uncontrolled experiment in technology indoctrination on all the public school students in Aotearoa NZ. There is zero pedagogical support for their decisions. None.
(DIR) Post #B0CT0fwVlf8J8Uc2ZE by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T10:34:33Z
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@downbeatdan based on the Min of Ed's responses to a couple of my OIA requests, they have effectively imposed BigTech indoctrination on all NZ students for the past 20 years without a shred of pedagogical investigation or justification. There was no investigation of any alternatives. They just do what BigTech tells them to do. It's a giant uncontrolled experiment that they just decided to run. On all our tamariki.
(DIR) Post #B0CT3sf0wKNZRqxNQG by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-13T10:35:08Z
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@vik apparently not. Similarly, our tamarikis' brains appear to be fair game.