I haven't had much dealing with the Nerdfighter community, other than positive reactions to one of the first mini painting projects I took on, and congratulations on winning a scholarship that I would not have gotten elsewhere.
But the idea of not forgetting to be awesome. To strive to be at a level of awesome, its been extremely helpful as a guideline for my life, and keeping my levels of depression and anxiety at a tolerable level
The various Crash Course channels has helped me both learn different materials, and plan out future lessons for when I have my own classroom. The Nerdfighter community has inspired me to be better person, a better educator, and above all else, to remain hopeful about the future.
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I originally started this blog at the very beginning of my 2nd year of university and I aimed to keep a log of my time on my first placement but it all went a bit ... pear shaped, to say the least. However, I am back with a big smile and a new mindset to ready me for my next placement experiences!
I feel that having a blog might be useful in keeping me organised with my studies, and allow me to make links in my learning - if I expect my pupils to make links in their learning then I should also make that effort in my own studies! Lead by example and model my learning. These past few months have shown me that the use of technology in classroom is not something that should be feared, so maintaining a blog where I can capture what I have been getting up to is a nice, easy way of easing me into embracing the technology into my life and eventually my classroom.
I have also seen online that some practitioners use a blog or social media page as a way to declutter the mind, as teaching can be incredibly stressful and many find it difficult to cope without talking through how they are feeling (spoiler alert: I am one of those people!)
I am not going to make a promise that I will frequently upload, as it should be known that I am incredibly scatterbrained and forget things really easily! I will make the effort to upload as frequently as I can though, as I have a multitude of things I would love to share with the Teaching side of Tumblr as I just know there is a whole hoard of us out there!
” They are doing fine.”
It is a phrase teachers often use when talking about learners who finish their work quickly.
They answer questions confidently, perform well in assessments, and rarely require extra attention.
As a result, our focus naturally shifts to learners who are struggling.
While this is understandable, it can leave another group quietly overlooked.
Sometimes, the learners who…
I think of myself as being pretty strongly a "persuade me" reader-- like, if I find a premise far-fetched but you persuade me, I am going to be genuinely excited about it. I recognize and admire when people are doing something that has a high degree of difficulty.
But I also think back to classroom teaching and seeing people's belief that all interpretations were equally valid play out in real time.
Sometimes that belief played out in blatant sexism and racism-- and it was my job to counter that in the moment, because it's hurtful to students of color and/or female students to just let that hang in the air.
Sometimes the interpretation wasn't aggressive toward another student but was simply an indicator that the opiner hadn't read the material. "Okay, show us where you're getting that" was usually the best way to assimilate that comment into productive discussion-- whether or not it led to the student doing the reading next time, it at least reinforced the point that this is a class in which the source material is important, and it engaged other people in looking for relevant evidence.
Sometimes the interpretation was just based on a factually incorrect premise. For example, it did not honor the laws of physics, in a situation where that was relevant to the argument the student was trying to advance? Again, pretty easy to counter gently and without ridicule by pointing to, say, GRAVITY, and then moving on to point to the parts of their reasoning that would have actually worked pretty well, were the starting point not kind of fucked for its context. This kind of issue tended to generate animated, non-hostile discussion (and also an occasional good one-on-one later about "have you ever thought about writing speculative fiction?").
And every once in a while there was the kind of uncategorizable interpretation that Wolfgang Pauli would have referred to as not even wrong, because it took a bullshit premise, applied logic that if it had any internal consistency kept it lovingly hidden from readers, and ended up in "My shoes are made of cheese" land. That was past assimilating into a conversation about the text we all shared. And the only thing I could do with it was say "WELP," regroup for 15 seconds, and then change the subject.
When I'm reading for fun, I'm not teaching comp, literary analysis, or creative writing. I'm clear no one's asked me for that-- it's not our dynamic. But I definitely do have some of those same reactions I would have had in the classroom while reading fic. I read from the premise that the source material is important, and that if someone didn't actually like the source material, they'd be much happier writing fiction without its constraints. (Or at least introducing an original character to kiss their blorbo who doesn't share a name with someone who already has well-defined preferences and motivations in the source text.) And that premise has bearing on what I want to read and engage with.
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