A blog by Ruby Nguyen
Notes from the margin of education.
The most formative parts of an education rarely fit on a transcript. They happen in the margins: in the conversations after class, in the projects that begin as side interests, in the studio, the field, the staffroom, the second language, the unfamiliar country. They happen in the slow accumulation of practice, doubt, revision, and care. Mass schooling, coursework, and research are scaffolds. The actual building of one's mind is something else.
This is a public record of that something else — a relational pedagogy of mind, media, and machines.
Recent
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Cue the Sun
The Truman Show, the assessment crisis, and the illusions AI keeps unstaging
Media
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On the Meter
Common tiers, common classrooms
Media
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Love as a Forgotten Foundation of Teaching
On opening Mind with love — the curse of expertise, what an AI cannot replace, and the long apprenticeship of caring.
Mind
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The machine question
A placeholder for writing about AI and the tools of teaching.
Machines
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On the eye that learns
A placeholder for writing about media in education.
Media