lolll I was telling the others in the car about this just an hour or two before you posted

I think I saw that when putting in my order! They are OLDER THAN SEVERAL COUNTRIES wow

I just treated myself to a new bottle of J Herbin ink in the color "Poussiere de Lune" which is a very dark purple! I already had it in my best pen and loved it! I think I like this brand of ink generally and they do have a variety of nice colors

I am an American living in Scotland on a student visa. I recently found out I can vote here! I was surprised but also very pleased because like…it actually makes a lot of sense to have the people living in a place vote there????

when I first got to touch pigeons (really they brushed against me) I was ASTONISHED by how soft they are!! transformed my feelings toward pigeons, and I already liked them!!

sometime in the past year I made a list here that I called “weirdness magnets”, with you and Musicology Duck. I wasn’t expecting quite this level of weirdness! But she does share some fascinating stories

I grew up in ABQ and did undergrad in North Carolina and experienced the reverse of this! After each summer, I would practically stop drinking water when back in NC and still have to pee constantly for like a month until my body readjusted to all the ambient moisture

and it’s really easy online to have a section hidden in case some find it too spoilery, but others can just click to see it. Like people have a range of what counts as spoilers for them but accommodating that is a thing the internet is good for!!

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“Safety is an emergent property of systems”

oh WOW that’s good

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I don’t know about NYC in particular but my sense is that the US is way better than the UK about keeping dogs on leash. I’ve wondered if it’s partly about the more dangerous roads and wildlife. I have not felt that UK dogs are trained enough to be off-leash as much as they are.

I think on the same day I saw the three-cueing article I also saw a thread of little free stick libraries for dogs. One of them had a fancy rack and book title puns on the sticks!!! so much fun stuff available if you can read!!!

when I read the three-cueing stuff one thought that kept popping up is how much humor can rely on actual reading and knowledge of words. And I wondered a bit if jokes and puns might be useful for getting some people more into reading……

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what is that smaller bird that flies off in the middle? just hangin out with the albatrosses??

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okay I was wondering why I knew horse words quite young despite always being pretty urban and ohhhhhh I was into several non-fantasy horse girl series!!! I’d completely forgotten about some of those…

I like to occasionally fantasize about what a university program for participatory music could look like, and despite considering it not really capitalist it would totally cover this or something close. Might actually be very practical outside of music…

the personal motto I adopted in 2020 is “all blanket statements are bad”. sounds like I wouldn’t enjoy threads lol

“You’ve trapped me,” she said.
“You were already trapped,” I said. “We’re showing you a way out.”

– Katherine Addison, THE GRIEF OF STONES

Education shouldn’t be a contest between teacher and students! I have always been grateful to get to teach people who have *chosen* to study a thing, but like, that is how it *should* be?

I was just reminded of the weird folks who show up here sometimes and talk about fiction books as if the writer is fighting readers and the way to “win” is to like…lure readers in and then trick them? It’s like the people who seem to think conversations are a thing a person can win

The undergrad music education program I was in got us visiting schools in the second semester, to help us understand early on what we were getting into. Quite a few people left the program after that and that’s good! Better to find out after one year than after four years. (end)

Some amount of adjusting teaching to suit the current actual humans being taught is generally a good thing. But I think we need more support for students to move or be moved to somewhere that’s a better fit, and have this not automatically viewed as failure on anyone’s part.

But I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with some standardized curricula and more formal course structures. The problem is when an educational offering doesn’t match a student’s needs AND there aren’t good ways to address that.

I did actually change up my teaching plans significantly a couple months in, because of how students had been responding. I had a lot of freedom to adapt what I knew generally about teaching violin to these specific students and their needs.

THREAD: In 2013-14 I taught 5th graders to play violin. The school district setup was bonkers but: I had no curriculum requirements, no tests to prep students for. Didn’t even have to give students grades! So I could teach at the pace they needed. And experiment in my first year teaching.

The Seeing Stone The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Ar…

I read this trilogy as a kid/teen and I remember enjoying it though I don’t actually remember much of what’s in it! Possibly this was a case where I was impressed by a sequel being better than the first book