Athena Leong
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- GPT-4: We Are in a Major Technological Change – Don Norman's JND.org1 savers
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- Children, Creativity, and the Real Key to Intelligence – Association for Psychological Science – APS3 savers
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the difference between dealing with engineering systems and with human organizations.
Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository—Stephen Wolfram Writingscultural technologies
Children, Creativity, and the Real Key to Intelligence – Association for Psychological Science – APSPrestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like.
How to Do What You LoveYou have to like what you do enough that the concept of "spare time" seems mistaken.
How to Do What You LoveBut entering this machine and leaving an hour later is just much worse than normal life.
A case for extreme realism – Santi Arangurione of the distinctive features of our species is our ability to modify our environments by creating new artifacts, refining the artifacts that our ancestors have invented, and transmitting these artifacts to subsequent generations
Cognitive Artifacts, Affordances, and External Representations: Implications for Cognitive Sociology – Culture, Cognition, and Action (culturecog)what makes an interface transformational is when it introduces new elements of cognition that enable new modes of thought
Thought as a TechnologyTo master an interface requires internalizing the objects and operations in the interface; they become elements of cognition.
Thought as a Technologyincreased workload of teachers to find materials, integrate different academic subjects into units,
Whatever Happened to Open Education? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practicemany students who needed prodding and would avoid choices that gave them more work to do
Whatever Happened to Open Education? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom PracticeSchool critics’ loud voices and rising public concern over these messy problems melded into “back-to-basics” policies
Whatever Happened to Open Education? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practicehigh emphasis on what today would be called “social emotional learning.”
Whatever Happened to Open Education? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom PracticeCalifornia, training and experi - ence, for the most part, determine salaries
Cali-pub11-teacher-evaluation-brief-1-1.pdfthe progress of students toward reaching the district’s standards and, if applicable, the state content standards “as measured by state-adopted, criterion-referenced assessments”; 2. “instructional techniques and strategies”; 3. “adherence to curricular objectives”; and 4. “the establishment and maintenance of a suitable learning environment, within the scope of the employee’s responsibilities.
Cali-pub11-teacher-evaluation-brief-1-1.pdfteacher evaluations must occur on a regular basis. Teachers with proba - tionary status must be evaluated at least once every school year. Permanent employees may be evaluated every other year, or less. Perma - nent teachers who have been employed at least 10 years in the same district and whose previ - ous evaluation was at least satisfactory may be evaluated once every five years. Any teacher who receives an unsatisfactory evaluation must be evaluated annually until a satisfactory evaluation is achieved or dismissal occurs
Cali-pub11-teacher-evaluation-brief-1-1.pdfMost of those with such creative potential are trapped in a Catch-22 of their own tailor made design.
Specialization is Anti-Education - by Mathew CrawfordOur economy, which is a marvel of nature, and representative of the collective will of humanity, has become a Molochian maze so large and overly complex that entering the labyrinth to go to work as a specialist means losing all sense of self—and any view of the Big Picture.
Specialization is Anti-Education - by Mathew CrawfordThey walk around with iPads loaded with the rules and an interactive rating system called “dots” to evaluate peers and supervisors
Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio Spreads His Gospel of ‘Radical Transparency’ - The New York TimesAmong the survey respondents, counselors served an average of 377 students. In rural schools, the average was 413
362 School Counselors on the Pandemic’s Effect on Children: ‘Anxiety Is Filling Our Kids’ - The New York Timesthe Netherlands is that rare country where — even taking housework and child care into account — women work less than men.
Working (Part-Time) in the 21st Century - The New York TimesThey earn 27 percent less than men and 57 percent are considered financially dependent, earning less than 70 percent of the gross minimum wage, or €997 a month — the equivalent of $1,300.
Working (Part-Time) in the 21st Century - The New York TimesSeventy-five percent of Dutch women now work part time, compared to 41 percent in other European Union countries and 23 percent in the United States
Working (Part-Time) in the 21st Century - The New York Timesgovernment gave part-time employees equal status with full timers
Working (Part-Time) in the 21st Century - The New York Timespart-time work has ceased being the prerogative of woman with little career ambition, and become a powerful tool to attract and retain talent — male and female — in a competitive Dutch labor market
Working (Part-Time) in the 21st Century - The New York Timesone in three men now either working part time or squeezing a full-time job into four days, the “daddy day” has become part of Dutch vocabulary
Working (Part-Time) in the 21st Century - The New York Timesall parents are responsible for exactly four years of childcare
Primary School Starts at Four – And Here's Why I Love That | Amsterdam MamasMontessori Method, Pestalozzi Plan, Dalton Plan, Jena Plan, or Freinet.[1]
Education in the NetherlandsOn average, rich countries spend 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) on families
Worlds-of-Influence-child-wellbeing.pdffeel confident in their skills to make friends
Worlds-of-Influence-child-wellbeing.pdfthe proportion of children aged 11, 13 and 15 years who were dissatisfied with their own body ranged from more than 33 per cent in Iceland to 55 per cent in Poland
Worlds-of-Influence-child-wellbeing.pdfRomania is ranked fourth highest for mental well-being but is in the bottom third for the physical health and skills dimensions.
Worlds-of-Influence-child-wellbeing.pdfthe Republic of Korea is in the top third for physical health and skills, but in the bottom third for mental well-being
Worlds-of-Influence-child-wellbeing.pdfChile, Bulgaria and the United States of America are at the bottom of the table.
Worlds-of-Influence-child-wellbeing.pdfWhat strategies do you find work best?
Some Notes – Raffi Hotterthe good deed becomes a selfish act to increase your score
Some Notes – Raffi Hotteryou’ll get through this
Some Notes – Raffi Hotterintimacy is also fantasy turned into thousands of tedious things. This form lives in the little routines and beliefs. How do you spend your mornings? What values do you quietly hold? Intimacy flows through shared histories, memories, and spaces where propriety fades away.
VOL.10—Pouring Hearts - by Brandon Lu - bluprintstudents in high-poverty schools that were remote for more than half of 2020-21 would be expected to see a 5 percent decline in average earnings over their career
Remote learning likely widened racial, economic achievement gap – Harvard Gazettethe field of social-emotional learning celebrated behaviors associated with white, upper-middle-class culture, and paid too little attention to the kind of grit it takes to grow up in poverty, for example, or to overcome barriers of race, language and class that can make it more difficult for many students to persevere academically
A Look at the Textbooks Rejected by the Florida Department of Education - The New York TimesYet the pandemic also let us see that care and other kinds of work could happen in the same place, as they did for most of human history.
Alison Gopnik on a revolution to properly value caregivers | The Economistcare expands an individual agent’s utilities to include the utilities and goals of another.
Alison Gopnik on a revolution to properly value caregivers | The EconomistWe don't care for others because we love them, we love them because we care for them.
Alison Gopnik on a revolution to properly value caregivers | The EconomistThe idea of care is deeply tied to love—the way we feel about our specific, particular children and parents, family and friends. Until recently, those emotions and relationships have been strikingly absent from philosophy, economics and politics.
Alison Gopnik on a revolution to properly value caregivers | The EconomistPublic institutions, such as schools and hospitals, that provide care, often do so as an after-thought, a side-effect of their primary purposes.
Alison Gopnik on a revolution to properly value caregivers | The Economist“air” being the breathing room you give the relationship
How to Make Closer Friendships - The Atlanticintention” being earnest efforts to connect with someone
How to Make Closer Friendships - The Atlantictaking the risk to express to someone that you’d like to do something with them outside of situations where you’re required to spend time together.
How to Make Closer Friendships - The Atlanticbids also deepened friendships, and could set off “a cycle of increasing vulnerability and trust.”
How to Make Closer Friendships - The Atlanticthe more points of connection you have with someone, the stronger the friendship will be
How to Make Closer Friendships - The Atlanticguiding them along their project throughout the cycle
Why Sora - Sora Schools