mandalyn
Fandoms and all that
Sorry if you followed me for fandoms, probably won’t be posting them much. Vegan, bi, 25, more into Tik Tok than tumblr but sometimes I feel like reading a post over watching a video so I’m still here. New obsession: anime! MHA and AOT currently.
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hooligan
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Sin título
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dripping with imperfection
learnindigitalllliii
LEARN IN DIGITAL
rashokutagawa
Akutagawa Kinnies Need Therapy
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anyone who told you much ado about nothing is good and worth watching was RIGHT and you should listen to them
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“J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.”
— Terry Pratchett
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the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.
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a short comic about witches and wishes and wanting things.
(all my comics are here!)
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A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:
[Text transcript at the end of the screenshots]
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.
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why is your cat green?
She’s built different 😌
#cats#art#that one ink master episode where the guy was sent home for tattooing a green cat#well here you go Dave Navarro#a green cat
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MESSAGES IN STUDIO GHIBLI FILMS
Spirited Away (2001)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Only Yesterday (1991)
Whisper of The Heart (1995)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
The Wind Rises (2013)
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i see you all talking about "gender envy" this and "gender envy" that, but i never see any respect for the originals. the pioneers. the founding fathers.
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You guys ever procrastinate so much that you edit a whole role swap AU?
(FYI. Kirishima and Todoroki, Bakugo and Deku, Kaminari and Shinsou, Uraraka and Mina are the pairs swapped)
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like magic ✨ (read the fic this is based on here)
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i downloaded this god damn episode just so everyone could watch this fukkin clip
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I love horikoshi’s outfit swap drawing so much!!!! Made some up too to add to it hehe
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