How I Learned About Great Literature from Comic Books
Don’t underestimate the long term impact of childhood exposure. A recent Gallup poll confirms that Americans are reading fewer books nowadays. And it isn’t hard to grasp why that’s the case in our screen-dominated culture. The pattern is set early in life.
To go with the previous link. I never read comics and wonder if now is too late. Is now too late?
I know exactly where my Kindle is. I have lost my Kindle. I’m ok with that.
We took the car to the Honda garage (dealer) unannounced because the key wouldn’t unlock the car. They said it just needed a new battery, which Lyra said she’d tried… Went back a couple of hours later to pick it up and they’ve given it a little clean too. Total cost £1:03
I do wish they’d help the presenters pronounce the Chinese snooker players name a little better. With that said it’s good that they put their family (surname) first now which is how names are said in Chinese.
It is therefore worth remembering that the resources we use to teach need to be predicated on response. Teaching is about responding to the emerging thinking in front of us. It is not about producing neat, sanitised sequences for passive recipients to be presented with. Teaching is alive, it is interrogative, it is dynamic; it is fizzing with variables and influences, so the very idea that a route through a challenging concept with 30 individuals all with unique schema and experience can be predicted and planned for with any degree of invariability is bordering on farcical.
Linking to this Instagram video about a skit on a teacher not using their IWB.
Powerpoint and IWBs – It’s time to reclaim analogue teaching – Thinking Flexibly
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.
