Ensorcelled educator, half-baked husband, fumbling father. Language teacher. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Gumbaynggirr Country, NSW
Joined April 2012
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These people are pathetic - can’t even show their (white) faces - and need to be mocked and laughed at until they slither back into the holes they emerged from. abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/w…
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Science of learning TL;DR
➡️ Remembering stuff is good.
➡️ To think, you need stuff to think with.
➡️ If you have stuff in your long-term memory you can think about stuff much more deeply.
➡️ Retrieving stuff from your long-term memory helps it stay there.
➡️ Retrieval doesn’t just reveal memory; it reshapes it.
➡️ Spacing out retrieval helps you remember it even better.
➡️ Most skills are probably domain specific and don’t transfer.
➡️ Learning to read is much harder than learning to talk.
➡️ Working memory is the arena where thinking occurs but you can only hold 3-5 items of new stuff at once.
➡️ You can get around the previous point by having stuff in your long-term memory.
➡️ Just because you’re engaged, doesn’t mean you’re learning anything.
➡️ Learning stuff can feel like you’re not learning anything at all and vice versa.
➡️ Accomplishing stuff often leads to motivation not the other way round.
➡️ Discovery learning is not a good way to discover stuff.
➡️ Plan teaching to help kids remember things so they can understand more, make more connections and think deeply about stuff later on.
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Powerful words from Arundhati Roy: I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.
#FreePalestine
m.thewire.in/article/rights/… via @thewire_in
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In the last 24 hours Israel has:
- opened fire on UN peacekeeping forces in 3 bases
- killed 28 refugees in a school in Gaza
- killed 40 plus civilians in Central Beirut
and Nelson Mandela's grandson has been banned from the UK for criticising Israel.
Dystopia is here now.
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The biggest challenge of the science of learning movement isn’t convincing people that X pedagogy works or doesn’t. It’s convincing people that there is a science to teaching and that this matters.
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Sempre emociona quan sonen Els Segadors a l’inici de la jornada de diumenge del @concurscastells i tota la plaça el canta a pulmó.
Closing The Gap. Intractable or merely difficult? Dr Westerman has the knowledge, experience & track record, and has achieved it all with 0 govt $.
Govts of all stripes hate accountability. Easier to make nice noises, hire consultants, and toss it all in the too hard basket.
Here it is folks! My Opinion Piece on “How to Close The Gap”
It’s a literal road map and I hope one day we have a Government brave enough to implement it.
(PS.anyone who follows the link will be able to read it -- non-subscribers get one free read a week)
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comm…
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The terrifying beauty of the ocean 🧵
1. Sitting on the edge of an underwater cliff
ALT Credit: Adam Stern
I would be very uneasy if the freaking *police* said this about my community.
Banning a protest on “feels”? Please.
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And the indignities go on. I’m beginning to wonder if there is *any* aspect of the #Robodebt tragi-Como-farce that won’t be screwed up in a way that retraumatises victims. Even the non-deliberate aspects are disgraceful.
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The Borg-like hivemind of Australian MPs tweeting out indentikit tweets decrying the use of flags and slogans while implicitly warning everyone to shut the fuck up about Israel’s infanticide, genocide and colonisation is both embarrassing and terrifying. Fuck these people.
The fact that this has even happened tells you everything you need to know about bureaucracy in Oz and how it’s more important than people.
But read the replies to see how insane it is for someone with MULTIPLE FUCKING SCLEROSIS to get the help they need and are ENTITLED TO 😡
Negative gearing and capital gains reductions are a complete grift. Median income in Australia is $65K. People who benefit from neg gearing and cap gains are rich and do not need the “support”. #auspol
A thread 🧵
Over the coming weeks to months, you’ll see headlines like in The West Australian, fearmongering that reforms to negative gearing and capital gains are Labor “coming for your house”.
These claims are so ridiculous, that 150 characters isn’t enough to dunk on them.
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I’ll never forget this moment.
Gotta disagree with the OP, though. It *can* cost you to be a decent person. It can cost you a lot. Going against the flow, as Kristofferson did in this moment, always has a cost.
#RIPKrisKristofferson
The time Kris Kristofferson consoled Sinead O'Connor after she was booed mercilessly for telling the truth on SNL in 1992.
It costs nothing to be a decent human being.
God speed Kris Kristofferson.
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Aww shit. Kristofferson was a giant. Heart, compassion, conviction and art. We are lessened by his loss but fortunate for what he gave. #RIPKrisKristofferson
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