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Thanks @lex, found this one easier then normal!
Conlextions #45
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Thanks @lex, found this one easier then normal!
Cartoons of Teachers, Parents, and Students Dealing with School Report Cards | Larry Cuban
Shared a few of these with teacher friends. Some hit home.
Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You (YouTube)
STUCK in my head.
Working and parenting and looking for a job.
Is one job too many.
Day 10?
We say, I’ll make time, I’ll find the time, I’ll free up some time. But by then, it’s already too late.
In short: our brains are probably not retrieving a particular memory from a particular part of the brain like a book from a shelf or a file on a computer (static view). It’s more likely our brains are creatively constructing our response at the point of recall in the context in which we are recalling it (dynamic view) (Edelman, 2001; Bryce & Blown, 2023). This means our memories change each time we recall them. So what might this mean for teaching?
The World’s Leading Marble Sports Event. The amount of work that goes into these is just incredible, and they’re so much fun to watch. This is the hurdles from the Marble League event. The final was so close!
Even Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s approach to difficulty is playful - The Verge
Elephant Mario. Yumo has been loving playing it this morning.
To be a person may be possible then, after all.
Day 3
The 5-minute daily playtime ritual that can get your kids to listen better : Life Kit : NPR
Definitely fancy them listening better.
I’ve been thinking about this list of “12 habits of highly effective dads” a lot since I first read it.
We’re working every dread day that is given us
Feeling like the person people meet really isn’t us
Like we’re gonna buckle underneath the trouble
Like any minute now, the struggle’s going to finish us
And then we smile at all our friends
The Pizza Principle | Seth’s Blog
If you think this post is about pizza, I’m afraid that we’re already stuck.
What are you thinking of when you read this?
I see my job as creating a willingness in my students to accept that fact and then to face it. To be brave and to be willing to take steps into learning something new.
“You don’t know? Great! Let’s do something about that.”
As a teacher, and now as a parent, I have learned that the truth is that who I am and what I do is as much a force for learning as what I say. If I want the children under my care to be brave or to be a reader or to face their mistakes and see them as opportunities and on and on… Then I must be.
I now believe, too, that making positive connections with parents is of equal importance. That a child’s school experience is a part of their life but that it is not a separate part of their life. We, parents and teachers, guide them in skills that they will use daily for the their rest of their lives. To learn, to communicate and to be an active of the world. I like to say to parents that we shouldn’t just be thinking of this year, but the next and the next. What is the big picture? What can we do? What’s the next step?
In my life, I like a challenge as I like how it helps me focus. Recently, with a friend, I’ve been writing a haiku a day, I’ve managed to finally solve a Rubik’s cube and have been encouraged by my daughter to work on my skateboarding skills. As well, as I’ve got older, I am continuing to work on slowing down, focusing on the things that matter to me. Whether that is in my teaching or in my daily life. Considering what is most important and giving them all my energy.
Saturday, early Chess, coffee and pyjamas I love this hoody
*10 minutes laters they’ve both run to their rooms and shut the door because, in shock news, both of them can’t win.
*12 minutes later, Yumo opens the door to tell me, “you ruined it!” He doesn’t want to talk about it
*13 minutes later Elise listens while I talk about not everyone being able to win.
*15 minutes later Elise has said sorry on a paper airplane
*20 minutes later we’re making paper airplanes from a YouTube videos and have bought a new board game and ordered breakfast
*25 minutes later and I’m wondering if they deliver whiskey at 9am to go with my 油茶。
We have a go at using the cards more.
Louis Theroux’s Rap Battle from 15 years ago. Josh would often say one of the lines.
My money don’t jiggle jiggle. It folds.
And last night, Lyra for some reason played a version in the car because he was on Chicken Shop Date last year. This turned into a version with Jason Derulo that has a whole video and everything. Finally, Blackpink did a dance for it. Which went down well in our house.
Followed a YouTube video and solved my Rubik’s Cube. I think I bought it 3 weeks ago, so that’s how long it took my to solve.
Man, trees are so cool. Eight of the world’s most amazing trees - The Guardian
Kids are watching Space Jam. Elise and I had a discussion where she said it had Lebron James in and I said I thought it was Michael Jordan. This went back and forth until I searched and it turns out that we are both right. Space Jam Legacy came out in ‘21 with James in.
I bought some cards to start conversations with the kids and this is us going through some before our dumplings arrived.
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