When we teach our students concepts that are similar, they can easily (and often) get confused. What goes wrong and how we can fix it: ↓

Politics is “a horrible, horrible profession. I think we underestimate the damage it does to your mind, body and soul,” says Rory Stewart. “We cease to become private people. We become slogan-spouting machines… There’s no room for seriousness. Politics is not serious enough.”

Happiness isn’t eating plump figs in the south of France, hallucinating at Burning Man, binge-watching Netflix, or playing a good round of golf. Happiness is the pursuit of purpose, done individually and with a community:

Details of the interiors of Narain Niwas Palace hotel in Jaipur.

“We discovered that inflated praise frequently backfires.” Eddie Brummelman tells Annie Brookman-Byrne about about how self-views can perpetuate themselves, and how praise can backfire. #ChildDevelopment #Psychology bold.expert/the-developmen…

Yes but why not… - Sanitation - Poverty and food insecurity - Climate change mitigation and adaptation - Access to and quality education - Access to and quality healthcare - conflict resolution efforts - economic and social inequities Let’s play the long game please.

Classroom teaching is one of the hardest tasks ever devised. Yet many people think it's easy. Let's talk about 'the paradox of teacher expertise'... ↓

"The absence of inner experience also means that AI lacks what is most needed to appreciate poetry: a sense of poetic truth, which is grounded not in objective reality but rather in subjective experience..." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/can-ai-write-a…

On a conservative and progressive approach to tradition: "A progressive tradition gives us the tools to balance our own achievements and the achievements of our time on the one hand, and the value and authority of tradition on the other." aeon.co/essays/how-swi… via Aeon Magazine

A writer is 90% craftsman and 10% wordsmith, and craft is about revelation. The soul and authenticity of the art should be why you write: don’t just write because you want to perform, write because you have something valuable to share. More on authenticity:

"We have fallen into a mythology that the ability to operate a device translates into the sophistication needed to evaluate the information that device yields." from CBS News, "Stanford Research Shows Tech-Savvy Teens are Still Falling for Fake Videos." youtube.com/watch?v=DkyEA4…

A major element of teaching with examples is being clear about what something is and what it isn’t so they learn a “general case” rather than isolated facts. Here are five principles from Direct Instruction: 1. Wording Principle: use the same wording whenever possible.

Sam Seaborn, Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler and CJ Craig

Where lies the value of teaching the concepts of metaphor, simile and alliteration? What profession in today’s increasingly global economy will demand fluency in literary devices?.... A few thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/adeeperloo…

A new chapter for the community in Alberta! "It signals confidence that Edmonton and Alberta are places of opportunity and prosperity. And for those newly arrived, it is a sign of reassurance that Edmonton is their permanent home..."

A few reflections on education, newcomer populations, and what this means for a world in which difference is a growing fact of life in societies, not just in Canada, but across the world. #education #pluralism #newstudents #bced adeeperlook.substack.com/p/notes-from-t…

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The Aga Khan has died. I felt whenever I was fortunate enough to be with him a great warmth of spirituality. What he has done to better the public good across the world is unparalleled. He was a master at bringing governments, institutions and people together to make lives better