Jonathan Osler
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Passionate about advancing racial and economic justice. Late-night coffee enthusiast. Tweets are my own.
Articles by Jonathan Osler
What I learned from ChatGPT’s math mistakes
I was traveling recently when my daughter called for help with her algebra homework. Faced with a challenging problem, I wanted to confirm my understanding before guiding hers. As someone studying artificial intelligence in education, I was curious: Could ChatGPT help?
What I learned from ChatGPT’s math mistakes
I was traveling recently when my daughter called for help with her algebra homework. Faced with a challenging problem, I wanted to confirm my understanding before guiding hers. As someone studying artificial intelligence in education, I was curious: Could ChatGPT help?
COMMENTARY: What I learned from ChatGPT’s math mistakes
I was traveling recently when my daughter called for help with her algebra homework. Faced with a challenging problem, I wanted to confirm my understanding before guiding hers. As someone studying artificial intelligence in education, I was curious: Could ChatGPT help?
Explaining to My Eight-Year-Old That Yes, She Too, is Racist
Resources > Articles Share By Jonathan Osler (L)The author and his younger daughter, Aya, at a BLM protests in 2017. (R) The author's older daughter, Noa, at another pre-COVID protest in 2017. On a recent road trip up the California coast, with our kids zoning out on an iPad in the backseat, my wife and I turned on the fantastic podcast Code Switch.
10 Activities for Building Community in Virtual Spaces
by Jonathan Osler My grandmother Sylvia meeting my daughter for the first time in 2010. Over my 20+ year career as a high school teacher and principal, university instructor in teacher education, parent organizer, and nonprofit leader, I developed facilitation practices that were engaging and equity-centered. But in March 2020, when Zoom took over my work world, I had to quickly pivot and identify new practices for cultivating community in online environments.
Yes, social justice can be a tool to teach California students math
At this moment, in math classrooms across California, students are asking themselves the same questions many of us asked ourselves when we were their age: Why do I need to learn this? How will this ever matter in my life? That many students find math to be irrelevant is nothing new. A 2013 ACT study found that only 1 in 10 high school graduates indicated an interest in a science, technology, engineering or math as a major or occupation.
COMMENTARY: How enduring 9/11 memories from Brooklyn shaped me as a teacher
Jonathan Osler September 9, 2021 I never met Marlyn del Carmen Garcia, whose graduation portrait I stared up at with sadness for almost six years. My first day of student teaching in Brooklyn, New York, was on Sept. 11, 2001, the day Marlyn died on the 101st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. She had been the valedictorian of our school’s first graduating class a few years earlier, and in the days following 9/11, her framed portrait was hung in our main hallway.
Math Literacy, Civil Rights, and Lemonade
Carrying on the legacy of my former teacher, Bob Moses, with my own undergraduate STEM education students. by Jonathan Osler, August 2021 Bob Moses, speaking to volunteers helping to register Black voters in 1963. Credit: Steve Schapiro. When I was in fifth grade, Bob Moses taught me how to make lemonade. Decades later, I’m passing on lessons I learned from him to my own undergraduate students as they prepare for teaching careers in STEM education.
Enduring Memories of Teaching in Brooklyn on 9/11
Marlyn del Carmen Garcia. Photo: El Diario I never met Marlyn del Carmen Garcia, whose graduation portrait I stared up at with sadness for almost six years. My first day of student teaching in Brooklyn, New York, was on Sept. 11, 2001, the day Marlyn died on the 101st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. She had been the valedictorian of our school’s second graduating class a few years earlier, and in the days following 9/11, her framed portrait was hung in our main hallway.
Buying My Way Into An Oakland Public School
by Jonathan Osler The Oakland Unified Board of Education is considering giving some families a so-called “Opportunity Ticket”, but the reality is that many children in Oakland — mine included — already have one. My family lives in the Peralta Elementary attendance zone, and my two daughters attend school there. This year, Peralta was the highest-requested elementary school in the district.
Buying My Way Into An Oakland Public School
by Jonathan Osler The Oakland Unified Board of Education is considering giving some families a so-called “Opportunity Ticket”, but the reality is that many children in Oakland — mine included — already have one. My family lives in the Peralta Elementary attendance zone, and my two daughters attend school there. This year, Peralta was the highest-requested elementary school in the district.
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