#learning how to learn

[pinhanmai]

Size kötü bir şey olduğunda, beyninizin insular korteks adı verilen bir parçası ateşlenir. İnsula acı hissettiğinizde ve duygusal olarak incindiğinizde aktif olur. İnsula vücudunuza sıkıca bağlıdır. Bunun için de karında hissedilir. Tahmin edin bakalım? İnsula yapmak istemediğiniz bir şeyle ilgili düşündüğünüzde de ateşlenir. Ancak kaçındığınız işte çalışmaya başladıktan hemen sonra, güle oynaya durulur. İnsulanın üzerinizdeki kıskacından kurtuldukça da çok daha iyi hissedersiniz. Yani harika bir öğrenci için en iyi taktiklerden biri, çalışmayı sürdürmektir. İşini erteleme!

[studentbyday]

when you thought you knew how you learn best but turns out you really don't or was either too lazy or too frazzled by how much there was to cover to put it into practice.

[tjippie]

Having a degree in Applied Philosophy, with my masters in Philosophy of Education: THIS ^

A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:

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I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.

Most classroom practice is astrology.

Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.

We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.

Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.

Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.

What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.

Some definitions:

Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.

Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.

Things we (scholars) DO know:

-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.

-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).

-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.

Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.

Maintaining the status quo? Nope.

Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.

If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.

They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.

And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.

For what?

It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.

WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.

We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.

The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?

Education is all about capitalism.

"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.

THAT is why modern education is a failure.

Its basic premise is monstrous.

"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"

Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.

[minicy]

I love talking to kids about disability bc

1. they often just Get It, and

2. they have 0 concept of disability as a tragedy or something pitiable.

I've watched kids get into an argument with a teacher bc they thought wheelchairs were cool. I told a kid that I can't stand for too long sometimes and they replied, "That's okay, I can't do cartwheels sometimes, but I just do other stuff then. You can sit down with me if you want". Today a girl asked me what the headphones on a classmate's desk were for and I told her that headphones are important for some kids because noises bother them, and she said she wished she had headphones at home, because her baby brothers make a lot of noise and it makes it hard to think. The idea that different people could use tools at different times is intuitive and simple and when accessibility aids are explained neutrally, kids don't see them as bad or unfortunate, they're just things that are useful.

Even mental disability!! In Kindergarten the other day one of the kids asked me why his table partner got stickers when nobody else did. I started off by saying, "Well, when you do your work well, it feels good, right? That's your brain giving you a reward," and the kid just right away went, "Oh, and the stickers are like his reward?" YES! You are 5 and have a better grasp on ADHD than most adults! Kids blow me away every day.

[ryderdire]

Really interesting thing I glimpsed on rednote today

I think We- we’re developing international class consciousness 

[zooophagous]

Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

My maternal grandfather was a mathematics teacher for the City College of New York, back in the '40s - 50s (IIRC). And he once told my mother (who passed it on to me) that knowing the answer isn't nearly as important as knowing how to find the answer.

It is incredibly important to train yourself to have your first instinct be to look something up.

Don't know how to do something? Look it up.

See a piece of news mentioned on social media? Look it up.

Not sure if something is making it to the broader public consciousness, either because you don't see it much or you see people saying nobody is talking about it? Look it up.

Don't know what a word means? Look it up.

It will make you a better reader and a better writer, but it will also just make you more equipped to cope with the world.

So often, I see people talking about something as though it is the first time anyone has ever acknowledged it, when I've been reading reports about it on the news for months or years. Or I see someone totally misinterpreting an argument because they clearly don't know what a word means--or, on the other hand, making an argument that doesn't make sense because they aren't using words the right way.

Look things up! Check the news (the real news, not random people on social media)! Do your research! You (and the world) will be better for it.

[americanphysco]

[pianonola]

Navigating Creativity with ADHD: Insights and Tips

May 10, 2025 TL;DR at the end. It’s easy to psych myself out about writing the first blog post on this newly re-branded site. Previously, the site was neworleanspianoteacher.com, and I’ll be re-posting a lot of content from there. But let’s start with something fresh, shall we? Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the creative process-especially as someone with ADHD, like myself. Navigating…

[phantom-shell]

Fiddleford found one of his old shirts

[pinhanmai]

Pomodoro tekniği ilk kez İtalyan Francesco Cirillo tarafından ortaya atılmış. Cirillo, domates yetiştiriciliğinde kullandığı zamanlama formatından esinlenmiş ve teknikteki her bir çalışma aralığına domates anlamına gelen 'pomodoro' adını vermiştir.

[corrodedparadox]

Handposting

[deerkathe]

This but Sonadow ⤵

[arkethamz]

happy valentines day, sonadow nation ^^

[salamispots]

it got turned into a 17" x14" pillow instead haha