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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Mr EPIstemic retweeted
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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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.
Mr EPIstemic retweeted
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.
Mr EPIstemic retweeted
Sempre emociona quan sonen Els Segadors a l’inici de la jornada de diumenge del @concurscastells i tota la plaça el canta a pulmó.
Mr EPIstemic retweeted
The terrifying beauty of the ocean 🧵
1. Sitting on the edge of an underwater cliff
ALT Credit: Adam Stern
Mr EPIstemic retweeted
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.
Mr EPIstemic retweeted
La Ronda Sant Antoni només es reformarà al 50%. Per l'altra 50% no hi ha cap projecte 😢.
Una Ronda sense carril bici entre @mercatstantoni i Pl. Universitat i on encara trobem aparcaments en bateria😅.
Demanem un projecte per la part que falta o almenys fer-hi carril bici.
Mr EPIstemic retweeted
Today’s announcement of a funding deal between the Albanese Government and the Tasmanian Government will lock in inequality for public schools, students and their families across the next decade.
This deal won't fully fund public schools in Tasmania, because it fails to remove a loophole which allows the state government to divert 4% of their funding share.
@AlboMP We need full, not fake, funding for all public schools now! #auspol #politas
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This is Australia👇🏾
“Ninety-eight per cent of public schools are underfunded and the majority of private schools are overfunded.”
PM @AlboMP can and must fix this by fully funding public schools. Surely it’s his moral duty.🤷🏾♂️
#ForEveryChild theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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The increasing global burden of stroke, despite~80% considered preventable, with air pollution now on par with smoking as a risk factor
thelancet.com/journals/laneu… @TheLancetNeuro
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Happening now at @AlboMP office: rally of Inner City Teachers Association calling on you Prime Minister to fulfil the promise of fully funding all public schools in NSW @TeachersFed @AEUfederal @PublicSchoolsAU
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Elsie, one of our cherished students at the GGFS, embodies the joy and pride derived from engaging with our language and the strong connections we build when learning together!
Ngurraa Ngurray! 🫶🏾
Mr EPIstemic retweeted
Workplace fixes decades of toxic culture, harassment, widespread burnout, low wages, bloated executive pay, HR cover ups, return to office mandates, low morale, lack of upward mobility, sexist dress codes and illegal leave policies with ‘R U OK’ cupcake
chaser.com.au/general-news/w…
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PM admits that banning teens from social media is actually just so he can avoid getting grilled by 6 News
chaser.com.au/national/pm-ad…
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On Australia’s National Anti Corruption Commission:
‘NACC betrayed its core obligation and failed to fulfil its primary duty.
.. the government may not have picked the right person for the job as Commissioner of the NACC.
.. the Attorney-General should now .. release the contents to the public so that we all may know the full extent of Commissioner Holmes’s conclusions in relation to her critically important (Robodebt) investigation.
This will also reveal the nature and extent of NACC’s failure to act.
The NACC’s refusal to consider Robodebt
By retired judge, Stephen Charles in @johnmenadue
johnmenadue.com/the-naccs-re…
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"It's public schools that are the losers in the current funding structure."
Since 2011, governments have lost their way with school funding, with the gap in total government funding between individual private and public schools now as high as $7,282 per student.
It's time for @AlboMP to show leadership and fix this funding inequity. #auspol