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19 Feb 2025
Introduction to my novel Planet Meno: The Origin of Species published February 21st 2025 youtu.be/L9mZrTI2RR0?si=Wwwk…
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And see Nancy Cartwright on Educational Research, and the role of RCTs. Some people need to do a bit of reading, and understand what they are reading.
'How students learn best'..so general answers across subjects, age range, teacher approaches, student histories, social/environmental contexts, current student attainments? As if there really were one 'science' of learning rather than a range of legitimate disciplines?
Um.. no!
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For instance, my uncle, the anthropologist Victor Turner never went near an RCT in his life. Of course, he would have given appropriate value to RCTs in appropriate scientific contexts, but his own complex and rich inquiry methods would sometimes fit educational research projects
Why does anyone think they have the 'authority' to decide what counts as appropriate education research, when there are a good range of perfectly legitimate disciplines that can be used to conduct such research. They don't always have to be RCTs or emulate natural science methods
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Thanks for 'noticing' this.. feels like a long time ago now @judegwynaire
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21 Jan 2025
Hurrah - advanced sales notices are beginning to appear now: February 21st 2025 Thanks to Burton Mayers books @BurtonMayers
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Having white skin isn't being a type of person, having a kind of personality or being in possession of a particular kind of morality. It isn't something to be proud of or ashamed of. It's simply having skin of a particular colour. Thinking otherwise is almost certainly racist.
Thinking that your ethnicity is part of your 'identity' *is* racist.
Identity relates to the *kind* of person you are. But to share ethnicity/skin colour is to share just that. It isn't to be a *kind* of person. If you disagree, and 'identity' is important to you, you're racist.
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Thinking that your ethnicity is part of your 'identity' *is* racist.
Identity relates to the *kind* of person you are. But to share ethnicity/skin colour is to share just that. It isn't to be a *kind* of person. If you disagree, and 'identity' is important to you, you're racist.
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Linking identity to 'heritage' in eg English history, again is linking identity to your white ancestors. Again, this is simply racist. Having white ancestors is *not* to be a certain *kind* of person. It's just having white ancestors. If that's important to you, you're racist.
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This used to be water.
I hope God has a sense of humour.
I found this quite funny..
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Generalising about the lack of efficacy of 'group work' in schools resembles generalising about the heritability of the gene for being a witch.
Or saying that taking pills is good/bad for your health.
Or saying that games are a waste of time....
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May 30
Judging the effectiveness of teaching approaches with labels such as 'inquiry learning', 'discovery learning', 'direct instruction', project-based learning, student-centred learning, etc.
But each label is applied to various things.
Would you say 'all drugs are healing'?
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For instance, this 'woke' reaction to some schools sports days made many trads very cross indeed.
May 30
Thanks for this. School sports days often a 'political' trigger in the UK in recent decades, sports events in which all could succeed not popular with some. I asked students what they'd think of a compulsory competitive music school event that parents attended. They weren't keen.
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May 28
Preach the gospel, but only use language if absolutely necessary. (Attributed to St Francis)
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May 26
Up to about a quarter of the weather stations in England are on or near airfields. They are *not* situated near where planes operate.
But of course, the other three quarters of the weather stations are being told to keep quiet, lest climate change starts to look plausible..
May 26
pointless posting this, but anyway...
In NW Europe, the Medieval Warm Period (c. 800–1300 AD) was 1°C warmer than modern times. Warming took place gradually over a century or more, with an average warming rate of less than 0.1 °C per decade.
This is *not* what's happening now!
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May 26
pointless posting this, but anyway...
In NW Europe, the Medieval Warm Period (c. 800–1300 AD) was 1°C warmer than modern times. Warming took place gradually over a century or more, with an average warming rate of less than 0.1 °C per decade.
This is *not* what's happening now!
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May 25
And that because it may be true that more die of the cold than of the heat, don't fuss about the heat - its a race between cold deaths and heat deaths and exactly because cold deaths have won we shouldn't bellyache about global warming at all, however quickly it starts to happen.
May 25
I also accepted that I should ignore the fact that today records were broken all over the UK and not only in towns, that this happens more often now, part of a world-wide pattern, that climate change is accelerating, and that people in some countries are suffering and even dying.
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I also accepted that I should ignore the fact that today records were broken all over the UK and not only in towns, that this happens more often now, part of a world-wide pattern, that climate change is accelerating, and that people in some countries are suffering and even dying.
May 25
I realised today that Kew Gardens is covered with dark coloured tarmac. That's why it's so hot. Thank goodness there are so many wise people on here who are experts on climate change (not).
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May 25
I realised today that Kew Gardens is covered with dark coloured tarmac. That's why it's so hot. Thank goodness there are so many wise people on here who are experts on climate change (not).
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May 25
Sure.. London is a well-known 'heat island'. But modern record-breaking UK temperatures are widespread, and certainly not restricted to measurements over areas of tarmac. What's going on now is not simply 'weather'. Denying this feeds opposition to crucial CO₂ reduction measures
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May 24
To repeat, I should have said stream follows across in the understood meaning of the sentence, and *not* bridge. Apologies for mistake and confusion!
May 22
And yet in the understood meaning of the sentence bridge follows across even though it's not actually written. So the alleged difference between adverb & preposition here is established by convention rather than discerned by those with deep grammar understanding. @MichaelRosenYes
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May 23
Even more voices from the past. The 'silly milkman' and some informal algebraic thinking on the part of a 5 year old..
19 Feb 2025
Introduction to my novel Planet Meno: The Origin of Species published February 21st 2025 youtu.be/L9mZrTI2RR0?si=Wwwk…
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May 23
More voices from the past. Much of this kind of thing is now greeted with hostility and derision..
May 22
Because of our recent X exchanges I've just noticed this book. Looks great. A long time ago we wrote about using play, drama, story, games, sound etc to support young children's maths learning with the same 'flavour' (I think!) as your approach here. books.google.co.ls/books?id=…
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