Eminem - LOSE YOURSELF (Sung by 331 Movies!) - YouTube
Love this.
Jacob Collier Improvises the National Symphony Orchestra (Live from the Kennedy Center) - YouTube
Watched this with my students this morning.
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
It’s coming to pass
My countries coming apart
The whole thing’s becoming
Such a bumbling farce
Was that a pivotal historical moment
We just went stumbling past?
They popped into my head today and so that’s what I’ve been listening to. Love this performance at Glastonbury. It deviates from the album version slightly but damn.
Kae Tempest - “People’s Faces” | LIVE AT GLASTONBURY 2017 - YouTube
This is so so so so good. Nearly 10 years old now.
Wonka - We all enjoyed this a lot. Percy Jackson and The Olympians - Fun! We’re reading the books but it’s slow going. Quantum Leap Season 2 - It’s alright, I’ll keep watching it. Echo - We’ve watched the first episode but haven’t found time for the second. 🎬
To love. Some say it’s what makes us human. That it defines our existence. But it’s not without risk. Love teaches us about pain, heartbreak, and resilience. It encourages us to do the small things that make a big difference. Love shapes our days, weeks, months… Our years. Because the act of devotion eventually reveals a path to fulfillment we can’t find anywhere else. From its Latin roots, the word Amateur simply means “To Love.” In running, we are all amateurs.
The Year of the Amateur | Tracksmith
Love this video but I just can’t do running.
Everyone Everywhere Needs Waymond Wang - YouTube
Everything Everywhere All At Once is a genre bending multiverse movie but it’s also one of the most challenging and subversive representations of masculinity I’ve ever seen in any genre.
I just watched Beau Miles looking for a wallet and enjoyed it. (It’s not really about the wallet.)
YouTube
Always enjoys Beau’s videos.
Racing an excavator to save this house’s wood from landfill - YouTube
The feeling comes so fast and I cannot control it
I’m on fire, but I’m trying not to show it
As it picks me up, puts me down
It picks me up, puts me down
Picks me up, it puts me down
A hundred times a day
But I hear the music, I feel the beat
And for a moment, when I’m dancing, I am free
I’m trying to be more focused today, possibly tomorrow too, which mostly means not picking my phone up every ten seconds and using my computer more purposefully. Today’s struggle was trying to sit through of all of this TED talk without opening a new browser window to search for the speaker’s name or sending a message to someone about it. I managed it, which I’m pretty proud of.
It’s called Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care and I liked it a lot because it was something I benefited from hearing.
Name writing
Day 2 of writing her name
Elise has started writing her name after starting at kindergarten. Even though I teach students around her age, she doesn’t see me as a teacher, which is understandable, and I’m ok with not pushing.
If you haven’t seen it, this video of Alanis Morrisette performing via the internet while holding her daughter is de-lightful. Link
I keep meaning to post things I like but I normally end up sending various links to different people.
Via Metafilter
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What Social Distancing Looks Like Across the World - What Social Distance Looks Like Across the World. A compilation of user-submittted videos put together. “these intimate moments create a synchronicity of humanity”