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Also criticises Astrea’s policy of having students follow along with a ruler for guided reading time, as “damaging and simply boring to all confident readers”. (Rules for this are set out in this series of instructions, which have tweeted about before.)
Also criticises Astrea’s policy of having students follow along with a ruler for guided reading time, as “damaging and simply boring to all confident readers”. (Rules for this are set out in this series of instructions, which have tweeted about before.)
— Warwick Mansell (@warwickmansell)
·x.com·
Also criticises Astrea’s policy of having students follow along with a ruler for guided reading time, as “damaging and simply boring to all confident readers”. (Rules for this are set out in this series of instructions, which have tweeted about before.)
James Baldwin on the Artist’s Struggle for Integrity and How It Illuminates the Universal Experience of What It Means to Be Human
James Baldwin on the Artist’s Struggle for Integrity and How It Illuminates the Universal Experience of What It Means to Be Human
“The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets.”…
[This is] a time … when something awful is happening to a civilization, when it ceases to produce poets, and, what is even more crucial, when it ceases in any way whatever to believe in the report that only the poets can make. Conrad told us a long time ago…: “Woe to that man who does not put his trust in life.” Henry James said, “Live, live all you can. It’s a mistake not to.” And Shakespeare said — and this is what I take to be the truth about everybody’s life all of the time — “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion. In this sense, all artists are divorced from and even necessarily opposed to any system whatever.
·themarginalian.org·
James Baldwin on the Artist’s Struggle for Integrity and How It Illuminates the Universal Experience of What It Means to Be Human
Shitposting as public pedagogy
Shitposting as public pedagogy
In response to the growing ubiquity of social media, critical media literacy scholars have increasingly called for the examination of online practices and their embedded pedagogies and curricula. I...
·tandfonline.com·
Shitposting as public pedagogy
Fidgeting as self-evidencing: A predictive processing account of non-goal-directed action
Fidgeting as self-evidencing: A predictive processing account of non-goal-directed action
Non-goal-directed actions have been relatively neglected in cognitive science, but are ubiquitous and related to important cognitive functions. Fidget…
• Predictive processing shows how seemingly pointless actions like fidgeting in fact can serve an uncertainty-reducing function. • To resolve mounting uncertainty about the world, agents perform simple and precise actions, confirming their self-model. • This proposal is extended to autistic stimming, which can be understood as a form of fidgeting.
·sciencedirect.com·
Fidgeting as self-evidencing: A predictive processing account of non-goal-directed action
#20, Make Peace With Fidgeting
#20, Make Peace With Fidgeting
Two types of spaces have been provided to pacify fidgeting. A place to play and release energy, and a calmer area with shag carpeting that encourages focus and listening. The two zones are separate…
·learningecologies2013.wordpress.com·
#20, Make Peace With Fidgeting
What about the other kids in the room? — Unconditional Learning
What about the other kids in the room? — Unconditional Learning
Your student is breaking stuff. Not idly breaking stuff, like accidentally snapping a pencil or shredding a piece of paper with fidgeting hands. I mean tearing apart your carefully composed bulletin board, knocking your framed poster to the floor and shattering the glass, red-in-the-face and not res
·unconditionallearning.org·
What about the other kids in the room? — Unconditional Learning
Monthly Newsletter August Edition
Monthly Newsletter August Edition
Counselling - Neurodiversity - Information - Signposting
Stimpunks
·jadefarrington.substack.com·
Monthly Newsletter August Edition
Autism Alliance of Canada Publishes Findings of an Autistic-led Survey Exploring the Needs of Autistic Adults - Autism Alliance of Canada
Autism Alliance of Canada Publishes Findings of an Autistic-led Survey Exploring the Needs of Autistic Adults - Autism Alliance of Canada
Autism Alliance of Canada is proud to share findings from the first part of the Canadian Autistic Adult Needs Assessment Survey, an Autistic-led research project focused on understanding the real-life needs of Autistic adults in Canada.
·autismalliance.ca·
Autism Alliance of Canada Publishes Findings of an Autistic-led Survey Exploring the Needs of Autistic Adults - Autism Alliance of Canada
Republicans — just like dysfunctional HOAs — have been stealing from America’s future
Republicans — just like dysfunctional HOAs — have been stealing from America’s future
The GOP’s 43-year tax-cuts-for-billionaires-while-we-ignore-the-needs-of-the-country grift has an analogy in condos and homes across America that might help voters understand how it works and how they’ve gotten away with it.Fully 84 percent of all homes and apartments built and sold in 2022 came wit...
·rawstory.com·
Republicans — just like dysfunctional HOAs — have been stealing from America’s future
Upgrading PPE for staff working on COVID-19 wards cut
Upgrading PPE for staff working on COVID-19 wards cut
The findings are reported by a team at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust. The research has not yet been peer-reviewed, but is being released
·cam.ac.uk·
Upgrading PPE for staff working on COVID-19 wards cut
The Quiet Resurgence of the Administrative State
The Quiet Resurgence of the Administrative State
The Biden administration has taken some bold steps to bolster the civil service after Trump’s attempt to transform it into an instrument of authoritarianism.
·newrepublic.com·
The Quiet Resurgence of the Administrative State
Oral care interventions for autistic individuals: A systematic review - Lucía I Floríndez, Dominique H Como, Evelyn Law, Christine F Tran, Robert Johnson, José C Polido, Sharon A Cermak, Leah I Stein Duker, 2024
Oral care interventions for autistic individuals: A systematic review - Lucía I Floríndez, Dominique H Como, Evelyn Law, Christine F Tran, Robert Johnson, José C Polido, Sharon A Cermak, Leah I Stein Duker, 2024
Oral care–related challenges are well documented in the autistic community. This review examined interventions designed to improve oral health in autistic indiv...
·journals.sagepub.com·
Oral care interventions for autistic individuals: A systematic review - Lucía I Floríndez, Dominique H Como, Evelyn Law, Christine F Tran, Robert Johnson, José C Polido, Sharon A Cermak, Leah I Stein Duker, 2024
The Transphobia Hidden Inside the Latest Online Safety Bills
The Transphobia Hidden Inside the Latest Online Safety Bills
What looks to some like a rare form of bipartisan agreement to rein in Big Tech is also a method of scrambling actual accountability—with a broad, dangerous “save the children” crusade.
·newrepublic.com·
The Transphobia Hidden Inside the Latest Online Safety Bills
Post-normal childhoods: Neuroqueering education and play
Post-normal childhoods: Neuroqueering education and play
Neuroqueer theory is often discussed in the context of neurodivergent adults. While a helpful tool in the liberation of Neurodivergent people, constraining it t
·emergentdivergence.com·
Post-normal childhoods: Neuroqueering education and play
SARS-CoV-2 Rapidly Infects Peripheral Sensory and Autonomic Neurons, Contributing to Central Nervous System Neuroinvasion before Viremia
SARS-CoV-2 Rapidly Infects Peripheral Sensory and Autonomic Neurons, Contributing to Central Nervous System Neuroinvasion before Viremia
Neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19, acute and long term, suggest SARS-CoV-2 affects both the peripheral and central nervous systems (PNS/CNS). Although studies have shown olfactory and hematogenous invasion into the CNS, coinciding with neuroinflammation, little attention has been paid to susceptibility of the PNS to infection or to its contribution to CNS invasion. Here we show that sensory and autonomic neurons in the PNS are susceptible to productive infection with SARS-CoV-2 and outline physiological and molecular mechanisms mediating neuroinvasion. Our infection of K18-hACE2 mice, wild-type mice, and golden Syrian hamsters, as well as primary peripheral sensory and autonomic neuronal cultures, show viral RNA, proteins, and infectious virus in PNS neurons, satellite glial cells, and functionally connected CNS tissues. Additionally, we demonstrate, in vitro, that neuropilin-1 facilitates SARS-CoV-2 neuronal entry. SARS-CoV-2 rapidly invades the PNS prior to viremia, establishes a productive infection in peripheral neurons, and results in sensory symptoms often reported by COVID-19 patients.
·mdpi.com·
SARS-CoV-2 Rapidly Infects Peripheral Sensory and Autonomic Neurons, Contributing to Central Nervous System Neuroinvasion before Viremia
Incidence of hearing loss following COVID-19 among young adults in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study
Incidence of hearing loss following COVID-19 among young adults in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study
Our findings suggest a heightened risk of HL and SSNHL following COVID-19 in young adults. Due to study limitations, including the lack of objective audiological data, issues with generalizability to other populations, and the retrospective design, careful interpretation is necessary. Further studies with objective audiological data and a longer follow-up period are warranted.
·thelancet.com·
Incidence of hearing loss following COVID-19 among young adults in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study