education
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Podcast Episode: Traducation
Note. The underlying article can be found here: https://ajprokop.com/2026/09/21/traducation/ Pip: Can You Hear Me Now — where the memes are plentiful, the nuance is scarce, and somebody finally gave the tradwife movement and the trade school movement a shared name. Mara: Andrew Prokop is doing the naming this week, and the territory he covers runs… Continue reading
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Traducation
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. Alvin Toffler Bear with me while I set the scene for this week’s blog topic. Linda and I are both graduates of Arizona State University — she in education and… Continue reading
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Get Off My Lawn — The AI Edition
I often tell my students not to be misled by the name ‘artificial intelligence’ – there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans’ lives and human society. Fei-Fei Li I recently came upon an article that stated that AI is creating a… Continue reading
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The Bait and Switch of Student Loans
My values, our values, aren’t about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand. Kathleen Blanco The cost of higher education has changed quite a bit since I was a young man. I went to Arizona State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s when tuition was $500 a semester. Add another $500… Continue reading
