Thursday is more of a Monday than Monday is. Because you keep thinking it's gotta be Friday by now but it's not. You'd never think that about Monday. Everyone knows Monday is Monday and frankly we deserve it. But no one *deserves* Thursday. Not like this.
Replacing every search engine with a 30s paper boy who doesn't really listen to what you ask for, runs off to get it before you get done explaining, and always gets waylaid by flimflam men who pay him a nickel to bring back something other than what you asked for along the way.
"Bugsey said yous might like to read this paper better miss, aw wontcha least take a look miss??"
I saw the queen of my Camponotus pennsylvanicus colony! She was hiding for like two months in the "secret chamber" they made deep in the log. But today she was in a visible part of the nest. It was so nice to see her and she seems to be doing well. Still a huge black ant.
I love this colony so much. They are so easy to feed and care for and they always pile their garbage so neatly so I can remove it. When I tap the water feeder they get off so I can refill it. Very classy ants.
I think I don't want to teach middle school math because that is when math almost lost me forever. Not being able to use a calculator was absurd to me. After I proved I could do the algorithms WHY did I have to keep suffering and doing little sums in my head and wondering what 7*8 was 54? 56? ugh.
I don't want to be responsible for making math tedious for anyone. That's criminal.
What's wild is that I also teach upper school courses, calculus, statistics... but these are the easiest to prep for since I've taught them before and it's mostly about getting to know the students and tweaking things so they work for the current class.
I'm trying to decide if I'll keep doing this next year or stomp my feet and demand to teach fewer subjects.
I love doing projects with the students. So, if I don't die from all this lesson planning maybe I'll still with the "chaos schedule"
I have a kind of horrible teaching schedule this year because I didn't want to teach middle school math. So, instead of teaching two sections of a course with all the lesson plans ready I have THREE DIFFERENT middle school computer science and tech class where I have to make all new material.
A lot of work, but more fun and creative. And once I have the lessons it'll be easier. But, I'm questioning my distaste for middle school math.
I mean fractions are fun. But you can't get too complex.
Honestly between "tendril perversion" and "the hairy ball theorem" I think we need to have a little chat with the mathematics folks since they MUST know they are doing this.
I’m making a 13.7 billion year long timeline with 5th graders mostly to teach them the difference in scale between billions and millions— but also to get them curious (I hope) about the way things bunch up and cluster together. I need more ideas for “significant events in the history of the universe/earth”
AI art works by generating matrices that can be used in multiple contexts. These matrices will generate images that are close matches to features of large portions of the training data. This is why the images often look good until you look more closely or think about the meaning or the relationship between elements.
It's sort of like learning to paint by muscle memory and technique alone. If a line curves like this it keeps going, if its fuzzy textured it's part of a cat.
I'm still mad that some think "safe space" is a concept worthy of mocking. Not being able to make your spaces safe is just a sign of disorganization, not enough resources and carelessness. It's not "tough" ... everyone *needs* to feel safe. It's a basic human need. How is this something we have to explain?
It's fine to give a child strategies for dealing with bullies better. But, if it's really bullying* it's not the child's responsibility to solve the problem.
*Bullying is about rejecting a member of a community as an equal and denying them the respect that others can count on and expect.