Teacher. Education, classics and linguistics...and music, football, chess and politics occasionally. Also found at https://teapaw.org/t.co/OZSplDIODs.
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CL: An antipodean jazz maestro with a great trio piece. #mikenock youtube.com/watch?v=7Y_HxV84…
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@Hirald0 @TonyTannousTRBA @heisenbison This was a wonderful find. As a cricket-mad kid I'd followed this very exciting England v. Pakistan series avidly, but Dad wouldn't let me stay up to watch the climax of the final test, and I never saw it. Until now. youtube.com/watch?v=kaTZwcK2…
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It's a wonderfully tight, tense final session with everything at stake and several might-have-beens. And the calm commentary from Jim Laker - if only they were like that these days. And post-match comments from the captains, ditto.
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@5Naureen you might like this too - Imran Khan bowling superbly without luck, and then being typically gracious in the post-match comments alongside another gentleman in Bob Willis.
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RIP the "Digital Education Revolution", mourned by...virtually no-one.
The laptop rollout of 2008-09 remains the most stupid, thoughtless, knee-jerk, poorly planned Ed policy initiative in living memory in Australia. smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-…
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The discussion (polite word) in this thread has been interesting, in terms of the way neologisms are used in education. A few reflections here from someone who has a nodding acquaintance with linguistics and has (natch) followed Ed discourse a bit over the years: /1
And the thing is, it's usually fairly easy to see where one of these consultant-neologisms overlaps with an existing term for the same phenomenon or concept - hence Greg's point about the word "speak(ing)". /5
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Currently caught up in this mess.
So far, I’ve had to get off two trains after being told they were the right ones, six separate announcements have been contradicted subsequently, and the displays are totally useless.
Sydney Trains = headless chooks as usual.
⚠️ #NorthShoreLine Allow extra travel time towards the City, due to urgent train repairs earlier at Waitara.
Stops to some trains may change at short notice.
For service updates, please check transport apps, information screens and listen to announcements.
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It’s only when you teach Greco-Roman mythology in a more structured way (as I’ve been doing with my primary classes) that you realise just how many different versions of the common stories there were. What we think of as the definitive version is often just…Ovid’s version.
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I was reminded by certain events yesterday of this passage from “The Complete Yes Prime Minister”, the ‘diaries’ where they included the gags that were a bit too, erm, racy for the TV version. I still remember doubling over in laughter the first time I read it. Enjoy:
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Excellent summary by @daisychristo of the basic purpose of a universal secular education system. Of course it goes beyond this too, but this is the core of it.
CL: Really tasty guitar stuff. #leoamuedo youtube.com/watch?v=y3XH5wuk…
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Terrible biased reporting from @MeganGorrey at @smh.
They give a megaphone to the defenders of privilege and inequality and tiny paragraphs to the majority of Sydneysiders who want a solution to the affordability crisis.
smh.com.au/national/nsw/a-sy…
