Category: musings
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We aren’t talking enough about what it actually takes to survive pandemic
Every chart about covid care talks about the physical symptoms. 10 days in quarantine, as of writing, is the standard treatment time for covid. You may experience flu-like symptoms, difficulty breathing, and/or lack of taste and smell. If you are unvaccinated and/or with a weak immune system, or if covid travels downwards to the respiratory…
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Learning designer, not just a teacher
In 2019 I got ruffled at a colleague for saying educator was pretentious. I wasn’t sure why it rubbed me off the wrong way, but it did. But I got why he was wary – “educators” had a bad rep then as the Ted-Talk wannabes bordering on EduTech salespeople. Teachers were the ideal, the surrogate…
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20 Things I Picked Up When My Dreams Crashed
-This is a very bad beginning. Everyone is off at a bad beginning. I was awful at advertising and even I wasn’t a great teacher with you and the batch before you. Forgive yourself quickly, keep moving, learn as you go. -We are in a state of flux. If you can, take care of yourself…
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Learner Support: Making an effective online classroom
Even before we ended up in the worst disaster movie nobody asked for I was frustrated at how the social noise surrounding blended and online learning were from a for-profit standpoint and made in developed world contexts. I found myself further working around it using tools that were free or at least kinder on my…
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[Portfolio] Fanfiction in the Classroom: Field Notes from a Fanfic Author turned Educator
I am still in utter disbelief that I had a basis for writing this. Fan fiction was like admitting that we read a novel’s “good parts” over and over again, and it’s a rabbit hole from there once you find it. I found a teacher’s lesson plan about fan fiction to a sheltered 7th grader…