Links
🔖 Read ecosystem theory: how to reframe the “i do this or i do that” binary (Thrive PhD) by Katy Peplin
Such a helpful perspective.
🔖 Read Plan to rewrite NC teacher licensing could also raise pay, but it’s too early to say
Educators, what do you think? I’m not sure about the options for evaluation, but I like the idea of teacher leaders getting paid for their leadership work.
🔖 Read Dirty hands do all the thinking in LXD (LXD.org) by Patrick van der Bogt.
🔖 Read The incredible power of paper prototyping (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.
🔖 Read Learning Experience Design vs Instructional Design (LXD.org) by Niels Floor.
🔖 Read Four Ingredients for a Memorable Learning Experience (LXD.org) by Rodrigo J. Gallego
Studying up on Learning Experience Design & Research. Feeling it out for a potential career pivot in 2024.
🔖 Read How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow.
A couple key quotes:
Start acting like every idea you come across or come up with has the potential for brilliance, and that potential is more likely to be realized.
…don’t pursue goals; instead create systems that encourage attractors to emerge on their own.
🔖🎭 Read Having a Child Meant Imagining a New Way to Make Theater (Catapult) by Lindsey Trout Hughes.
This resonated with me more than anything else I’ve read recently.
“I wanted not abandonment but expansion.”
🔖🎵 Read “The Queerest of the Queer”: Listening to Garbage in the Nineties (Catapult) by Niko Stratis.
I enjoy Garbage so much and I appreciate this meditation on what Shirley Manson signifies about gender.
🔖 Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office. (HuffPost) by Emily McCombs
A good read; not nearly as dramatic as the headline makes it sound.
🔖♿ Read Disability Status Shouldn’t Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith.
Excellent column illuminating the challenges in and importance of recognizing disability as a spectrum of experiences.
🔖📚 Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth
The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I love Osworth’s discussion of how it marks gender and symbolizes vulnerability. I want a world where masculinity embraces vulnerability.
🔖 Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Can’t Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel Vorona Cote
🔖 Read What Tarot Taught Me About the Stories We Tell (Catapult) by Mishka Hoosen
CW: Racism, rape
A beautiful meditation on one person’s relationship with the Tarot. My practice has fallen aside lately.
🔖 Read Teachers Are Told to Ignore Their Bodies, But Chronic Pain Made Me Listen to Mine (Catapult) by Chiara di Lello
🔖 Read The World Doesn’t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents) (Catapult) by Katie Rose Pryal
It breaks my heart when adults won’t figure out how to work with the kids in their lives who don’t conform.
🔖 Read twisty little passages (Catapult) by Jess Zimmerman.
A beautiful, heartbreaking short story told in the form of a text adventure.
🔖 Read The Coronavirus’s Next Move (The Atlantic) by Katherine J. Wu.
🔖🎮 Read Inside the fight to save video game history.
Great intro to the copyright issues at play in the conflict between game companies and museums & libraries over providing access to old games.