#junior-high — Public Fediverse posts
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AI Is a Tool, Not a Brain
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 9, 2026
A lot of people talk about AI like it thinks. It doesn’t. It predicts.
AI looks at patterns in words and gives you what usually comes next. That can feel smart, but it is not the same as understanding. It does not know what is true. It does not know what matters. It does not care if it is wrong.
That part is still on you.
Think of AI like a power tool. A drill can help you build something fast, but it can also ruin the job if you use it wrong. The tool is not the problem. The person using it decides what happens.
AI works the same way. It can help you start faster, organize ideas, and explain things in simple terms. But you still have to check the facts. You still have to decide what is good and what is not.
This is where people get confused. They either trust AI too much or refuse to use it at all. Both are mistakes.
Use it, but stay in charge.
AI is not your brain. It is your tool. The better you use it, the better your work becomes.
If this work helps you understand what’s happening, help me keep it going: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WPSNews
#AIBasics #ArtificialIntelligence #criticalThinking #digitalTools #highSchool #juniorHigh #technologySkills
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2026 Peace and Justice Summer Fellowship: 20-hour program 6-10 JUL for students in Grades 7–10 are trained in building community thru circles, conflict reparation, effective communication, and advocacy. 10 students across #Houston will be selected! Appy by May 20 #HTX #MiddleSchool #JuniorHigh #MiddleGrades #MiddleSchoolers https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1skg9li9IR5JRjegb1HirJCzsuWvs63bJlST_R9abexA/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true
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AI Is Not Replacing You. It’s Replacing the Version of You That Doesn’t Use It
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 2, 2026
A lot of people are scared of AI right now. That makes sense. New tools always make people nervous.
But AI is not some evil machine coming to steal your life. It is a tool. It helps people write faster, sort ideas faster, and get started when they do not know where to begin.
We have seen this before. There was a time when people acted like using spellcheck was lazy. Later, spellcheck became normal. Then it became expected. AI is heading down the same road.
That does not mean AI does everything for you. It does not. You still need judgment. You still need facts. You still need to know when something sounds wrong. But if you learn how to use AI well, you can move faster and get more done.
That is the real change.
The future will not belong to the people who feared the tool. It will belong to the people who learned how to use it.
If this work helps you understand what’s happening, help me keep it going: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WPSNews
#AILiteracy #ArtificialIntelligence #digitalTools #futureOfWork #highSchool #juniorHigh #technologySkills
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Lifelong Friends are the Best! Cyn and I met in 1967 in Junior High and have been encouraging each other's creativity ever since. #creativity #lifelongcreativity #lifelongfriends #friends #friend #friendship #harrisburg #greenstreet #1960s #juniorhigh #tuscaroravalleyschool
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Cleaning out the old song backlog of one-offs and never-was’s.
This one’s a dose of Junior High drama, called “Regime Change,” featuring my daughters as “Hailey” and “Stacey.”
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Backdoor Ostara Wreath, made using techniques taught me by my junior high art teacher, Sandy McClure, many decades ago. #easter #palmsunday #holiday #christianholiday #ostara #wreath #craft #artsandcrafts #crafting #eggs #eastereggs #juniorhigh #art #artwork #decor #decorating
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#AllyKennedy and #TaylorMoreno are a #pro #lacrosse #powercouple.
They first met in #juniorhigh and fell in #love years later. They, along with #dogs Rocky and Tyson, are one big #happy #family.
#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Lacrosse #Representation #Culture
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#Watch: #TeganAndSara Take #ComicCon Back to #JuniorHigh #sharing their latest #project with a completely packed room of their fans.
That project,#JuniorHigh, is a new #graphic #novel written by the twins and drawn by the singularly talented #TillieWalden. #Spoileralert: It’s great.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #GraphicNovel #Representation #Culture
https://www.pride.com/comic-con/tegan-and-sara-comic-con#rebelltitem1
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Also found, didn’t know it was lost…
Mom found this on the way to getting her St Patrick's Day door decoration out. She figures it was something done for my home ec class which puts it into the - uh - old category. The cardboard used fo[…]
https://quiltr.com/?p=23396
