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@J-Rod in April 2021

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Hello, first post! Looking forward to being part of this community!

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Education as leisure: freedom from the spectacle “In societies dominated by modern means of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of *spectacles*. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.”(1) As a teacher, this is nowhere more clearly seen than in the lives of our young people. The alienation from directly lived experience has reached its culmination through the mediation of ‘life’ through the lens of screens. Like some…

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Cornwall woodland in the spring

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Beautiful spring day #MobilePhotography

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Metacognition and liminality Recently I have been teaching my Year 9 Science class about equations in Physics. A colleague, Michelle Weightman, has developed a strategy that we use in the department to help develop metacognition alongside the use of equations for solving problems. She calls the strategy ERSCA. It is an acrostic mnemonic to support and model the thinking that should occur when approaching physics problems. E = equation, R = rearrange, S = substitute, C =…

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So lucky to live somewhere so beautiful

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Juno, the greatest dog one could wish for #Dogs

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Godrevey Lighthouse #Cornwall

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View to St Michael 's Mount #Cornwall

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Tribute to Steven Pruitt #DigitalArt

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Sennen Landscape #DigitalArt

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Hello 👋 from Cornwall, UK. I hope you are well today #Humour

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View from the Tate St Ives #Cornwall

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What do people think about bitcoin cash SV? #BitcoinCash

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Guard at Buckingham Palace #London

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Beautiful day in Cornwall #Cornwall

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How to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn In 1885 Ebbinghaus published a monograph that laid the foundations for the modern psychological, clinical study of memory. Ebbinghaus showed that it was possible to dramatically improve learning by correctly spacing practice sessions. The efficiencies created by precise spacing are so large, and the improvement in performance so predictable, that for at least the last 100 years, psychologists have been urging educators to use…

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The Art of Lockdown Art connects us to each other, even when we are necessarily separated. It provides windows into the human experience as lived by someone else, someone who perhaps is struggling with the same burden that we bear. Art can be therapeutic, consoling, inspiring and educating. The best art is not didactic but dialogic, requiring only that we look at it and see it. For some of us, lockdown has been a form of imprisonment. One colleague recently mentioned that…

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Thoughts about lockdown When lockdown first began, the nation fell silent. The roads deserted, the occasional passing car became an intrusion into the silence of nature (which as we learnt is not silent at all). Our ears soon forgot the monotonous drone of traffic and learned to hear the bird song. Perhaps the birds were not singing before, perhaps on the day we stayed in, locked down in fearful quarantine, they looked up from their perches, noticed the change and began to…

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Using Python to aid Behaviour in Schools **Improving Behaviour in Schools:** **Know and Understand your Pupils and their Influences** The EEF Guidance Report for Improving Behaviour in Schools states: *“Research suggests that teachers knowing their students well can have a positive impact on classroom behaviour. In settings where multiple adults frequently work with individual pupils, effective communication between those key adults is important.”* It goes on to ask, “*How…

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Art as Experience I have always thought of myself as a rational materialist. As a science graduate and teacher, I have mostly concerned myself with a material world view and modes of thought that rely on the language of science and mathematics to adequately explain the reality of the universe. Of course I understand that science works to model reality and that with any language there are inherent problems with disconnect between words or symbols as signifiers of the objects…

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Reading as Emancipation Karl Marx said that ideology was false consciousness. Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that this is wrong; that ideology is consciousness. Through a Lacanian psychoanalytic analysis of Marx, Žižek says that ideology presents the topography of the world we live in, which the mind then mirrors to provide context for itself. “Ideology is not a dream-like illusion that we build to escape insupportable reality: in its basic dimension it is a fantasy…

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Panta Rhei Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. 32 years from my 55; 38 weeks from each year’s 52; 5 days from every 7; 8 hours from every day I have sat here and watched. Here I sit, behind this desk. A blackboard that turned white with age, as I have done some years ago, is behind me fixed to the wall. To my right is a computer and a newer laptop sits on…

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Hoping West Ham win today against Newcastle

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Neuroplasticity The most important idea in education is neuroplasticity. This is the understanding that the experiences we have and the learning we undertake changes the layout and organisation of the brain. Our brain’s structure and capacity are not fixed. We can become smarter and better at anything we set our minds to. And it seems that setting your mind to it is almost all you have to do. A recent experiment showed the same expansion of the motor cortex region in two…

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Come on Arsenal #ArsenalFc

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My gorgeous Juno #DogPictures

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Oh man.... kinda want the dip to last till payday at the end of the month. Is that bad of me? #BitcoinCash2021

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Not looking good for the gunners #ArsenalFc

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Phew.... saved at the last #ArsenalFc

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Good night Noise. Sleep well

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So glad to be getting lots of free tips to share with my fellow noisers

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Super League = Super Greed

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I love noise.... way better than twitter

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And just like that the European Super League is over

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Good morning noise! Hope everyone is well

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Bit of a dip in bch price today

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Big game for West Ham later.... we can get back into 4th with a win over Chelsea. Come on you irons!!

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Is anything up with the android noise.cash app? Mine has gone very strange

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Big game for Arsenal FC tonight