Jodie Harsh - Kiss It Better (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube
Loving this. Summer is coming! Obviously, love the name too.
Jodie Harsh - Kiss It Better (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube
Loving this. Summer is coming! Obviously, love the name too.
Creepiness is a function of deviation from expected normality. Obviously, this looks like a bell curve, or, to make the point make more sense visually, the Uncanny Valley.
It’s remarkable, even at the 2nd-grade level, how vast the difference is between the kids who read regularly and those who don’t. Those who read for discovery outside of class grow by leaps and bounds in class. They bring in words, ideas, connections that weren’t part of a lesson plan but are now shaping their learning anyway. It shows the benefits of having a literate life and what can happen when someone is not given that same opportunity.
Just to go with the previous link. We stopped using reading records, where the kids or their parents write the name of the book and sign, this year and instead the kids just colour a star to show they’ve read. We’re just trying to remove any friction to them reading at home.
We do have a website they use to read online but I’m hopeful next year we ditch it to go with another website which is just more exciting. We just want them reading.
Are some of them gaming it, I’m almost certain they are but I don’t want to make it a thing.
Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
A powerful piece. And, because of the content I couldn’t stop reading because I would be proving his point.
We tracked the eye movements of 180 British children in Years 1 to 6 who watched videos with and without subtitles. Results showed that attention to subtitles was associated with reading proficiency: Superior readers were more likely to look at subtitles than less proficient readers and spent more time on them. When children looked at words in the subtitles, they showed evidence of reading them. We conclude that some degree of reading fluency may be necessary before children pay attention to subtitles. However, by the third or fourth year of reading instruction, most children read sufficiently quickly to follow same-language subtitles and potentially learn from them.
Frequent interruptions disrupt one class after another. Fire drills, air raid alerts, messages from the office, telephone calls, students distributing bulletins, early dismissals-there seems no limit to the imaginations of people who disturb teachers. I can remember no occasion in the last five years when anyone has interrupted one of my classes at (the university). Perhaps these conditions account largely for a significant difference in attitude which I find on the part of a larger percentage of my high school than of my college colleagues. Most of them admit to doing minimal work and to approaching teaching as a job rather than as a creative intellectual experience.
An interesting article, even for a Primary/Elementary/Kindergarten teacher like me. Actually teaching content makes up just a small part of my day.
I don’t know if it’s just China (is it?) but I keep seeing people walking together with others and one of them has their headphones in. Is it that we need now, constant auditory input?
Hello new friend.
Love these books. Seems like the tv adaptation comes out on May 16th too. Please be good, please be good, please be good.
Finished reading: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells 📚
Talk about coming to Chengdu for a few nights
Two panda selfies in a week. This time at the panda centre in Chengdu.
If this isn’t terrifying.
The Weekly Dispatch #5 - by Carl Hendrick
Lots of interesting links about teaching here that I’m going to go back to later this week… Probably.
Some idle chatter about recent events. Elise is a member of the student council now.
A single beer with Beau Mile’s latest video about driving from Seattle to LA eating only at diners. Always comfortable watching but interesting that he has a couple of complaints which you don’t normally see.
Panda selfie
Going to the zoo today! With 27 5/6 year olds! (And other adults too.) I love school trips because you get to see the kids as they really are, though at this age they are better at being themselves at school too. Still, it’s going to be a long day!
“Whatever this life is, it’s all we have. And we don’t want it to end.” Mark S
I have this stuck in my head too from the Season 2 finale.
#Severance
What if kids had the right to ignore our feedback? Not because they’re stubborn or disengaged, but because they understand it—and decide to make a different choice.
Too often, feedback feels like a demand: Fix this. Change that. Do it this way. But writers? They get feedback, weigh it, and sometimes say, “No, I’m keeping this.” That’s not disengagement—it’s ownership
If something gives you a hit of dopamine, and you didn’t have to work for it, then that’s a smell you should investigate.
That’s right isn’t it?
Beware any dopamine hit that doesn’t require effort – Mike Crittenden
I’ve been doing them but not taking photos. Today with bonus quote!
