Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social
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Ph.D. in Instructional Design. Career educator. Cancer Survivor. Collector of Interesting People. Tech lover. Big blue dot in south Alabama. Air Force Brat. Former ALSDF officer. Please do an “about” if you want a follow.
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Joined Nov 2022
@derekbruff I used to love Prezi. As to saving as a picture, will a screen cap do?
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US senators call Tesla’s safety review a “sham,” demand answers from Musk
Senators accuse Tesla of hiding “untold number” of complaints.
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#Introduction
Professionally, I'm a senior scholar at Georgetown University, where I teach some classes on learning, design, and technology.
I write books about higher ed's future, like _Universities on Fire_ and _Academia Next_.
I also run the Future Trends Forum, a weekly video conversation about higher ed's future. #FTTE
...I'd like to share URLs, but am not sure if the culture here supports that...?
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The founder of the Oath Keepers militia is arguing for a lenient sentence of “time served” out of respect for his history of “good works,” by which he means — and we swear we’re not making this up — creating the Oath Keepers in the first place. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stewart-rhodes-leniency-creating-oath-keepers-1234731524/
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@EugeneMcParland It is amazing work. Evgeniy Maloletka also won World Press Photo of the Year for one of those same images. He says he only realized later that he was documenting war crimes.
@PatrickoftheG It was worth it. I’d do it again. The country is nothing without education. Teachers aren’t in it for the money, but for the public service. (I wish politicians felt the same way.)
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Guns dont kill people.
Elected Republicans kill people.
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Our series on the stillbirths crisis in America by reporter Duaa Eldeib was just honored as a #Pulitzer Prize finalist.
The entire series, including the recent guide on what you need to know about stillbirths, is available to read for free here:
https://www.propublica.org/series/stillbirths
#PulitzerPrize #Pregnancy #Parents #Parenting #Babies #Stillbirth #Health #HealthCare #COVID
In all my years of teaching I never had a colleague who didn’t have a second job. Many had 3rd jobs. And most of us raised a family at the same time.
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US House Members Unveil Stock Trading Ban: Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-bipartisan-stock-trading-ban
#CommonDreams #RestoringFaithinGovernmentAct #StockTradingBan #USHouseMembers #Bipartisan #GovernmentAccountability #Politics #News
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Trump Doral is hosting a speaker who praised Hitler for "fighting the same people that we're trying to take down." Another speaker shared a post applauding Hitler for “warning us” about Judaism. Both will appear alongside senior Team Trump members. https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/hitler-promoting-antisemites-will-speak-trumps-miami-hotel-alongside-eric-trump-lara
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74/ More:
Tacopina: This is an absolutely outrageous case. She had a political reason, she desired status & sucked her friends in. What about the rule of law? It's everything for us. On the facts, this is your courtroom. Just you. Not some journalist who comes in for a day
Tacopina's closing line asks jurors to "please" have the "courage" to do what is "right" here.
ME: YOU WANNA TALK COURAGE, TAC? SEE: CARROLL, E. JEAN. Game. Set. Match... asshole.
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"Entire [Editorial board of Neuroimage] resigns over actions of academic publisher [Elsevier] whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon"
Extremely relevant to discussions I've had here yesterday about #academic #publishing
$2700 to publish in their journal. Elsevier made nearly $3 billion in revenue with 40% profit margin last year.
Another example of #academia being pay to win
This is rich coming from a guy who ignored a congressional subpoena!
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“Until we throw out the bums in office who rely on thoughts and prayers—and stand in the way of gun laws that can save lives and slow the bloodshed—then we can all continue to decry the horror while the soundtrack of our lives is a drumbeat of mass shootings.”
https://america.substack.com/p/the-sickening-cynicism-of-thoughts
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A Former NFL Player Persuaded Politicians That His Child ID Kits Help Find Missing Kids. There’s No Evidence They Do.
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At least 11 states have agreed to distribute fingerprinting kits sold by Kenny Hansmire’s National Child Identification Program.
Some are spending millions even though similar kits are available for free.
#Children #Kids #Missing #Fingerprinting #Identification #NFL
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New in Public Notice: The Republican war on higher education https://www.publicnotice.co/p/republican-war-higher-education-desantis
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Ph.D. in Instructional Design. Career educator. Cancer Survivor. Collector of Interesting People. Tech lover. Big blue dot in south Alabama. Air Force Brat. Former ALSDF officer. Please do an “about” if you want a follow.
Do not PM me to say hello.
Current background picture are sunflowers.
Foreground: Image Playground created image of me.
Joined Nov 2022
