Lord of the Flies: How Adults Create Bullying
All over America kids will read William Golding 's Lord of the Flies in school during the coming year. And in most of those "English" classe...
Open Society
Your School’s UX. What is it? And where to start.
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Quick, what signs are around your school? What does it say on the doors? How do your entries look from the point of view 3 feet above the ground? Or with the eyes of a teenager. (Do you have more than one entrance? Are they equal? Equitable?) What does it sound like? Smell like?
how much more effective we might be if our user interface design was intentional, and intentionally designed to support children?
What do kids see? What do they feel? What do they smell? What do they hear? What is their experience as they move through your school?
One of the things that is clear is that every single thing kids see, hear, feel, smell, taste, sends a message about your school. Every single thing. And many of the messages schools send are as awful as they are unintentional.
“We used to have this ‘no hats’ rule,” says one of our high school principals. “We had it for good reasons, trying to limit certain negative cultural symbols, but, every morning we greeted our children by telling them to take their hats off. It was awful. So now we allow hats, and when the kids arrive we get to just say hello to them.”
Eliminate lunch detention and no recess punishments. Those are cruel punishments which demolish your credibility with every child.
Working graffiti is good. When kids see other kids’ work they get inspired. Which makes the dry erase marker your best friend. Our kids write everywhere. On floors, on Windows, on desks and tabletops, of course on whiteboards. It not only leverages the power of large muscle movement and lets thinking quickly take shape, it gets other kids interested.
Always allow passion time. In every day, in every half day, let kids chase what matters to them. Children, and everyone in K-12 is a child, need space to explore their world, which is not necessarily your world.
Stop ranking children. Throw out your age-based grade levels, your numerical or letter grading, your honor rolls, your “how many books did you read?” Stop separating kids by reading level. Kids in this world have enough to worry about without our arbitrary ratings. And remember, when adults rank kids, bullying begins.
‘Autism is the Arena and OCD is the Lion’: Autistic adults’ experiences of co-occurring obsessive-compulsive disorder and repetitive restricted behaviours and interests - Hannah Long, Kate Cooper, Ailsa Russell, 2024
Obsessive-compulsive disorder commonly co-occurs with autism. Research characterising the interplay between restricted, repetitive behaviours, activities and in...
Embracing Autistic Children’s Monotropic Flow States
Embracing flow states allows monotropic learners to gain deeper knowledge and new skills, which can help build confidence and support their
Monotropism is a non-pathologising theory of autism developed by Dr Dinah Murray, Dr. Wenn Lawson, and Mike Lesser in their article, Attention, monotropism and the Diagnostic Criteria for autism (2005). Embracing monotropism can lead to exciting new possibilities; it allows the potential for deep knowledge, new skills, and the engagement of flow states, which support sensory regulation and good mental health for monotropic people.
Monotropic learners may find it more challenging to focus on a subject that is not intrinsically motivating for them. Fidget tools, doodling, and moving can all help to maintain a flow state, which may help some children cope better and be more regulated. It could improve concentration and learning outcomes and make learning a more enjoyable, less stressful experience. Monotropism is fluid; what works for one person may not work for another, and needs may vary from moment to moment depending on many social, physical, and sensory factors.
The Revenge of the Home Page
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
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Call For Evidence: An Aspirational Vision For Inclusive Schools — Centre for Young Lives
The Centre for Young Lives is launching a new drive to develop an aspirational vision for inclusive schools and trusts which delivers the best possible education for every young person regardless of their background or need.
Neuroaffirming care values the strengths and differences of autistic people, those with ADHD or other profiles. Here’s how
Rather than trying to ‘fix’ or change neurodivergent people, neuroaffirming care aims to empower and support unique needs and strengths.
The Problem with Music | Steve Albini
How record labels use A&R flaks and impenetrable contracts to screw artists while raking in millions
The Fixer
For years, David C. Gibbs III and his organizations pulled in millions of dollars while advocating on behalf of child abusers.
Neuroqueer Learning Spaces — Webinar — a summary and reflection 6th May 2024
A summary and reflection of the first Neuroqueer Learning Spaces webinar. “Queer the system, queer the tools and create new tools”…
Education Technology and Skinner's Box
The Rise of Programmed InstructionIn the 1948 utopian novel Walden Two, a small group - a couple of academics, two of their former students and their girlfriends - visit an intentional community es...
But that’s not to say that the influence of Skinner and behaviorism are gone. Far from it. Behaviorism has persisted - although often unnamed and un-theorized - in much of the technology industry, as well as in education technology – in Turing machines not simply in teaching machines.
Composting money and power
Money and social power gradients are abstract cultural artefacts designed to defy compostability – social conventions that we can accept or reject, which are perpetuated by careless and learning di…
Methodists on My Mind
The Belated Changes are Great, but Some Tents are Still Too Big
I read everything Elon Musk posted for a week. Send help.
If your media diet looked like his, you’d be red-pilled too.
‘Let me die’: the mysterious syndrome changing children overnight
Doctors are uniting to find a cure for Pandas, a disorder that arrives ‘like the flick of a switch’ and torments children as young as three
(13) How Gestalt... - Neurodivergent Parenting: Think Outside The Box | Facebook
How Gestalt Language Processing Impacts Learning--
and 4 Ways To Help....
(Or why my ADHD/ Autistic kid...
Deleuze for the Desperate #9: smooth space
An introductory discussion of smooth space in A Thousand Plateaus, with summaries of the examples and models. Different kinds of multiplicity. Theoretical an...
Episode #01: Body Without Organs
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Buddies Without Organs. We began our adventure with our podcast’s namesake — the body without organs.If you would like to...
School as a Polytropic Environment: The Impact on Monotropic Minds
How the polytropic school environment can impact on monotropic thinkers and result in processing mutism.
The Kids Who Can't
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When Charlottesville was the front lines · EmilyGorcenski.com
Alex Garland’s emCivil War/em puts the front lines of his titular conflict in Charlottesville. The problem is that fact was already stranger than his
Cruising utopia : the then and there of queer futurity : Muñoz, José Esteban : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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The Autistic Self Advocacy Network
What is with the tags "actuallyautistic" (which always seems to hint at a snobby tone to me) and the term "allistic" lately? Allistic bugs me because, besides grammatically being nonsensical, as an...
Why actually autistic tag
A blog about everything, but mostly living autistic because I am.
The Lame Dame
Hello Everyone;
I apparently follow a bunch of people on the spectrum, because I've seen complaints about tag abuse going around a bunch today. I fully support creating or maintaining a safe space...
ActuallyAutistic | Autism Wiki | Fandom
#ActuallyAutistic is a hashtag used by the autistic community. The #autism hashtag lost support amongst autistic people since it was dominated by friends or family of autistic people to the...
Autistic Children and Toileting: Misunderstanding the Difficulties
Toileting can be the most terrifying experience imaginable for an autistic child whose experience of the world is already turned up to "max."
Measuring and validating autistic burnout
Early research shows that autistic burnout could be very harmful and can have negative consequences for the mental health and wellbeing of autistic people. Outside the autistic community, most people...
Autism and chronic ill health: an observational study of symptoms and diagnoses of central sensitivity syndromes in autistic adults - Molecular Autism
Background Autistic adults, particularly women, are more likely to experience chronic ill health than the general population. Central sensitivity syndromes (CSS) are a group of related conditions that are thought to include an underlying sensitisation of the central nervous system; heightened sensory sensitivity is a common feature. Anecdotal evidence suggests autistic adults may be more prone to developing a CSS. This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of CSS diagnoses and symptoms in autistic adults, and to explore whether CSS symptoms were related to autistic traits, mental health, sensory sensitivity, or gender. Methods The full sample of participants included 973 autistic adults (410 men, 563 women, mean age = 44.6) registered at the Netherlands Autism Register, who completed questionnaires assessing autistic traits, sensory sensitivity, CSS, physical and mental health symptoms. The reliability and validity of the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI) in an autistic sample was established using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Chi2 analyses, independent t-tests, hierarchical regression and path analysis were used to analyse relationships between CSS symptoms, autistic traits, measures of mental health and wellbeing, sensory sensitivity, age and gender. Results 21% of participants reported one or more CSS diagnosis, and 60% scored at or above the clinical cut-off for a CSS. Autistic women were more likely to report a CSS diagnosis and experienced more CSS symptoms than men. Sensory sensitivity, anxiety, age and gender were significant predictors of CSS symptoms, with sensory sensitivity and anxiety fully mediating the relationship between autistic traits and CSS symptoms. Limitations Although this study included a large sample of autistic adults, we did not have a control group or a CSS only group. We also could not include a non-binary group due to lack of statistical power. Conclusions CSS diagnoses and symptoms appear to be very common in the autistic population. Increased awareness of an association between autism and central sensitisation should inform clinicians and guide diagnostic practice, particularly for women where CSS are common and autism under recognised.
The Protest Derangement Class: A Response to John McWhorter
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