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Hide Monsters: Who is Artificial Intelligence?
Instead, schools should encourage the use of artificial intelligence by not substituting human interaction by outsourcing the work but by redefining intelligence.
The division between artificial and natural is breaking down.

Nicholas Linke
May 12, 20253 min read


End Times: The "Why" Makes Us Actually Fix It
The more people one convinces to change their behavior, the more the science alters the very system it studies. The prophecy alters the outcome, possibly preventing the doom. One can either ignore, abstain, and be proven right about the end of times, or intervene, have an impact, and be proven wrong. One cannot have this cake and eat it, too. The more one engages and participates, the more hyperbolic and alarmist they will appear. Recommending action during the pandemic to ch

Nicholas Linke
Nov 24, 20243 min read


Raise Failures: What Video Games to Play in Class
Iterations are essential to this process and progress, reflecting the formative assessments for learning featured in Super Mario Bros.

Nicholas Linke
Nov 17, 20243 min read


The Support Prism: Advocate for Action
The Support Prism considers the gatekeepers and decision makers cautioned against in Hide Monsters. Students are scaffolded to present and defend their research, conclusions, and innovations.

Nicholas Linke
Nov 10, 20242 min read


The Innovation Prism: Another Unique Use
The Application Prism reconsiders Raise Failures as how students expand their innovations from improvements to adaptations that reshape the interdisciplinary connections between school subjects and real-world applications.

Nicholas Linke
Nov 10, 20243 min read


The Momentum Prism: Leaving a Legacy
The Responsibility Prism occurs throughout the process, encouraging students to continuously assess the broader implications of their work and consider their responsibility to future generations and the planet. Critical pedagogy is instrumental here, emphasizing that education is a transformative process with the potential to inspire positive change and global awareness.

Nicholas Linke
Nov 10, 20243 min read


The Perspective Prism: Consider Multiple Views
The Perspective Prism returns the focus of communities back on their connection to their schools and students. The concerns raised in Defund Education require investment into place-based inquiry driven by empathy with those most impacted by the the defunding of our country.

Nicholas Linke
Nov 3, 20243 min read


The Scholar Prism : Question Expert Knowns
The Scholar Prism allows students to deepen their inquiry by navigating the boundaries of their understanding and incorporating external research.

Nicholas Linke
Nov 3, 20242 min read


The Research Prism: Research, Their Way
The Research Prism is one of these essential scaffolds. It focuses on how students incrementally take ownership of how they learn, not just what they learn, by progressing from teacher-modeled methods to personally crafted approaches informed by disciplinary paradigms.

Nicholas Linke
Nov 3, 20242 min read


Burn Libraries: Where Equity meets Stoichiometry
The following is a sample of Unit III: Burn Libraries found in my upcoming book, TANGENTS , about the state of our education system and the ways we can turn it around. In the classroom, teachers stick to the approved curriculum. They guard their words and opinions for the safety of not only their own careers, but also for the preservation of their school, and the paternalism of their students against a hostile opposition intent removing key elements of the human experience.

Nicholas Linke
Oct 30, 20243 min read


Defund Education: When Competition kills Critical Thinking
The student has learned what society has deemed important.
This removal of curiosity keeps students from pursuing further knowledge.

Nicholas Linke
Oct 21, 20243 min read


Silence Science: How Evidence is Overemphasized
Overextending science to pursue these attributes, including truth, is misleading. This is, in part, due to under-educating students about th

Nicholas Linke
Sep 9, 20243 min read
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