Mr EPIstemic

Ensorcelled educator, half-baked husband, fumbling father. Language teacher. He/him. Views entirely my own.

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@john_hillam Orange man very bad. But no way will it be a landslide.

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@MatthewBevan As a local, that’s kinda what it’s usually like outside of school holidays… 😉

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

These people are pathetic - can’t even show their (white) faces - and need to be mocked and laughed at until they slither back into the holes they emerged from. https://t.co/wiYDzdzMOA

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@why_sophie_why @jamieloftusHELP Why, Sophie? Why?

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Science of learning TL;DR

➡️ Remembering stuff is good.
➡️ To think, you need stuff to think with.
➡️ If you have stuff in your long-term memory you can think about stuff much more deeply.
➡️ Retrieving stuff from your long-term memory helps it stay there.
➡️ Retrieval doesn’t just reveal memory; it reshapes it.
➡️ Spacing out retrieval helps you remember it even better.
➡️ Most skills are probably domain specific and don’t transfer.
➡️ Learning to read is much harder than learning to talk.
➡️ Working memory is the arena where thinking occurs but you can only hold 3-5 items of new stuff at once.
➡️ You can get around the previous point by having stuff in your long-term memory.
➡️ Just because you’re engaged, doesn’t mean you’re learning anything.
➡️ Learning stuff can feel like you’re not learning anything at all and vice versa.
➡️ Accomplishing stuff often leads to motivation not the other way round.
➡️ Discovery learning is not a good way to discover stuff.
➡️ Plan teaching to help kids remember things so they can understand more, make more connections and think deeply about stuff later on.
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[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@AdameMedia @MaryKostakidis It’ because they are a “regime”

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

Powerful words from Arundhati Roy: I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.

#FreePalestine

https://t.co/ChfL4wLWLT via @thewire_in

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

In the last 24 hours Israel has:
- opened fire on UN peacekeeping forces in 3 bases
- killed 28 refugees in a school in Gaza
- killed 40 plus civilians in Central Beirut

and Nelson Mandela's grandson has been banned from the UK for criticising Israel.

Dystopia is here now.

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@90sfootball One of the few areas in life where I say things really were better back in the day…

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@jamieloftusHELP Like we even care… 🤷‍♂️

Nah, who am I kidding? Congratulations! 💥

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@aliceleung Still trying to work out why the announcement didn’t mention Taylor Swift. In the full commendation maybe? 😉

Congratations! Fully merited. Very happy for you.

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@MoistenedTart Seems excessive…

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@Asher_Wolf Perhaps gives away my vintage to say that this description reminds me immediately of Carnivale on HBO, although it got 2 seasons before being unceremoniously dumped.

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@MoistenedTart Strangely though, I couldn’t sleep until 5:30 this morning. Physically tired, happy with the work, on school holidays … and awake until the next day. Sigh.

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@MoistenedTart You’re the one account I follow whose memes consistently make me wince in recognition. This one, as usua, hits close and hard.

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@MoistenedTart Nice. I spent 6 hours on the roof on Saturday, then 3 more hours on Sunday followed by 6 hours cleaning up the aftermath in the yard.

But our gutters have never looked better and I spent hours away from screens which was relaxing in a way.

[Nate Joseph @NateJoseph19]

The biggest challenge of the science of learning movement isn’t convincing people that X pedagogy works or doesn’t. It’s convincing people that there is a science to teaching and that this matters.

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@BladeoftheS Raise it by 600%

[Mr EPIstemic @DavidDun1]

@MoistenedTart Hmm. Links to these “studies”?