When we leave the classroom, or the school, or the job and no longer are in touch with those who our words affect the most.
I enjoyed this. When I left the classroom I was pretty determined to keep in mind what it is ‘really like’ when giving advice. Coming back to teaching I find that I had managed that less well than I had hoped for. The biggest difference in being out of the classroom is the blue sky thinking time that can permeate your day. I keep that for commuting nowadays.
After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics.
👍 Another good sign. I’ve been using inoreader for a couple of years, really like it, have a paid account although free would do.
ViperCard is an open source rewrite of 1987’s HyperCard.
Hmm HyperCard plus gifs, unbeatable technology 👍
The tabs left open from yesterday. The internet is a more fascinating place that I’ve got time for.
Worth mentioning that a lot of these links are coming from micro.blog as well as my RSS reader.
This is the strip of code characters that appeared in the Shooting Code Across the Void photo next in this photostream. NB: I had difficulty uploading it, probably due to the aspect ratio (10000 x 300 pixels), it didn't "look like a valid photo". Tried resizing it, and it finally worked if I made it taller (10000 x 1000), but I didn't like the looks. However, when I used the "replace" function from the image page, flickr allowed me to upload my original long photo. Lesson learned: try all available methods until one works!
👍 Lesson learned: try all available methods until one works!
Let me answer that question for you: For MOST* of us, audience DOESN’T matter. Stop talking about it. Period. End of conversation.
👍 Audience Doesn’t Matter, I lost this link and was reminded by @mrkrndvs
Many things that get labelled as “fads” might work for an individual teacher (although many things might work better) but they only become fads when divorced from their original meaning and then are spread around and are imposed on other teachers.
I’ve always been interested in the idea that changing almost anything in the classroom will lead to improvement. This post digs around the territory. We probably teach at our best when we are enthused and the beginning of a fad is enthusiasm.
Network topology and the ghost of the digg homepage
🔗 👍 Tom Critchlow says Small b blogging
writing content designed for small deliberate audiences and showing it to them
Every time I hear something about limiting screen time I cannot help but think about how poorly the concept has been thought out. If we talked about “food time” instead maybe that would help us think that while time matters (eating for hours each day is probably a bad idea), how long you eat p...
@twoodwar’s tasty analogy for thinking about this.
Science fiction great Ursula K. Le Guin died on Monday at age 88. Le Guin was the subject of this long New Yorker piece from a cou
👍 love Ursula K. Le Guin and “gender ghetto” of the Golden Age of science fiction, Kottke has one of the best Ursula K. Le Guin stories.
