GS Arnold

Science and History Teacher in a public magnet high school.

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

Wait, I wasn’t saying that @LNSTEMAC is the Cookie Monster…

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

Amazingly proud of both of my scholars bowl teams. They both made it to the round of 16 where they will now face each other!!!

Oh, I also got a pick with this dude… @LNSTEMAC

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

I confess that I do not have PhDs, so this probably hits different. But the whole humanities kid vs stem kid thing is way overblown and doofy. I have degrees chem and history, teach at a stem school and have kids that plan on majoring in art and music in my organic and AP classes

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

My mom was trained in math. She taught me set theory as a kid for fun! I got a humanities PhD, and one of the best teaching moments of last year for me was finally having an applied math kid understand Plato because I could explain using propositional logic. End the Two Cultures!

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

I just realized that my students AP Chem scores were as high as my AP Euro and APES kids in the past….after 14 or so years, I’m finally as good at teaching AP chem as history

Yes, I’m mostly kidding, but super proud of last years amazing group!

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

Also, while I’m sports ranting, the Pirates really gotta get some bats…you’ve got the arms, let’s get the bats.

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

The baseball crew handling CWS was good, unobtrusive and did their job. As they should. NBA playoffs were not that way. NHL was ok until McDavid was being anointed.

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

Whew, what a sports night. So happy for the Vols even though they made it stressful.

For hockey, was great too. Hate too see McDavid not get a cup, but honestly the ESPN folks made me switch to rooting against the Oilers.

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

Quit firing good people who did a great job and didn’t try to be the star. I don’t watch to see “star” personalities, I want to see the sports stars and folks who are smart sports comment, give history and context and not make themselves the stars

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

The greatest joy of my previous 4 years in education was the chance to teach AP Euro to some of the best kids in my career. And a couple dozen of them are graduating this year.

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

My former AP Euro kids making me cry today…

Rude…

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

Had a great time at the NAQT state tournament yesterday. We took our lumps in the morning but aced the afternoon. Jared was 5th in points which is amazing in that competition! @LNSTEMAC

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

Like, it’s just so much. And i just don’t think that Dune or LotR are just another sci-fi or fantasy book series.

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

Ngl, if you had told middle school me that most of the country would know about Aragorn and Muad’dib, be arguing over the meanings of big money movies about those books, I would have never believed you.

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

I also wonder if there are more nerds of my generation who aren’t conflicted about the popularization of all of that (including comics, etc).

I don’t mean in a whiny, this is my secret knowledge way, but in that stories that meant so much are now just more in the bucket…

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

And I really want to say more, but a lot of folks and schools I care about wouldn’t get it.

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

Teaching is very different this year. I wish I could expound without folks reading more into it. But if you’d have asked me 5 years ago how I felt about people leaving the profession, I’d have said “never me”. I still think that, but the volume is lower and surety wavers.

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

I in general agree with it, though I feel this way about William Gibson as well. Amazing ideas, great story, conclusion of a show cancelled with one season to go.

To be clear, I love everything these guys write.

[neural oscillator of uncertain significance @mycoliza]

neal stephenson’s books don’t have endings, they just sort of run out of book

[GS Arnold @arnoldscience]

This thread is awesome, and I love most of these authors.

[caesararum, BS, DOGS @caesararum]

Describe famous scifi authors uncharitably; I'll start

Asimov was barely an author in the ways we usually think of them; he was more of a creator of logic puzzles. Annoying stuff like "characterization" and "setting" were just speedbumps he had to surpass to write what he wanted