Emile Snyder @[email protected]

Many interests, little time. Unschooling parent, bicycle frame building, etc etc etc..

He/him.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

So, I'm spending most of my social media time over on @[email protected] these days. If we have interacted on here I would love to hear from you over there. Twitter has been an amazing venue for learning from so many folks I would not otherwise have gotten to know. ♥️

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@Idzie Haven't watched it yet, but there is a site that has crowdsourced content warnings and it looks like season 4 does not: https://t.co/k0nB16sWim

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@hsofia Definitely a bold move! 😂

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@CovingtonEDU In fact, I am like 99% sure I've seen a parody thread from @Sisyphus38 about learning to ride a mountain bike that way ...

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@CovingtonEDU 💯🤦‍♂️

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@Idzie 💔🫂

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@Idzie Just feeling for you and sending good thoughts.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@hsofia Maybe you just have exquisitely tuned sketchy dude radar?

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@CovingtonEDU What's so frustrating is that every single person I've ever seen arguing for the "flaw at the heart of human nature" view seems so stubbornly insistent that it *is* a dilemma. Absolutely refusing every attempt to draw them into deeper and more productive analysis.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@CovingtonEDU I hear you. But also, “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@merrysaysboof @GrobieLauren @ShmaitlinShmobe @Mlongegan @heymrsbond But also, just because there exists a precise medical diagnosis labeled "test anxiety", I don't see why that means students are wrong to use those words in their everyday sense. The existence of technical jargon does not invalidate other uses of language.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@annastolzanna @MarcusLuther6 When our kids were little and we chose to unschool I hoped that more lived examples of other paths would make such a cultural shift more likely.

I'm less convinced of the rhetorical value of living outside of systems now. I wish I knew what might move the needle.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@annastolzanna @MarcusLuther6 I don't have much advice for folks in the system, just perspective from outside it.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@annastolzanna @MarcusLuther6 I feel for teachers who wish for that path almost as much as I feel for students stuck in our current system.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@annastolzanna @MarcusLuther6 Well, it seems likely to require leaving public schooling, unfortunately.

I was speaking at both the personal and societal level though.

We, as a society, can choose otherwise. But it seems like a long long project to convince people that we should.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@annastolzanna @MarcusLuther6 Well, Shevek's path is possible. It's not that we *must* coerce students with grades, it's that we choose to. And so we can choose not to, instead.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@erinrpineda @cblack__ I kid you not, they read that book for *hours.*

BIL finally had to tap out.

So, long winded way of asking, do field guides to caterpillars exist?

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@erinrpineda @cblack__ BIL thinks "it's a field guide, how long can he possibly want to listen to this; 5minutes?"

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@CovingtonEDU Please bring edutwitter to fediverse 🙏🙂

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@HumResPro The revelation isn't what the teacher is doing, it's what the Ss *aren't* doing. It's compliance porn.

[Emile Snyder @[email protected] @emilesnyder]

@HumResPro Struck by one moment in particular, where you ask, after watching the first keystone video, "who watches this and feels like it's a revelation."

Don't you think it's authority figures who feel that they are unable to get compliance from students?