emily koonce
@emilykoonce.bsky.social
Educator, amateur baker, believer in bad puns.
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"However, if there are two or more options for engaging with learning material, then it is best to select the tool that will yield the best results. As we’ve seen, that tool will rarely be digital in nature."
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February 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"However, if there are two or more options for engaging with learning material, then it is best to select the tool that will yield the best results. As we’ve seen, that tool will rarely be digital in nature."
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You don’t realize how reliant you are on technology until your screen breaks. Here’s to whiteboards and portable bluetooth speakers!
January 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
You don’t realize how reliant you are on technology until your screen breaks. Here’s to whiteboards and portable bluetooth speakers!
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This: in 2025 and beyond, I am definitely reminding myself that "writing = job skill" needs to be de-centered in my own communication to students
Instead: agency, thinking, understanding, reflection, joy.
And so much more.
Instead: agency, thinking, understanding, reflection, joy.
And so much more.
Passing thought. Selling writing in school as a way for students to secure future opportunity was always a losing proposition. It's an even bigger loser now with ChatGPT, et al... Need to get students seeing how writing is a valuable and enjoyable experience for NOW. A way to practice agency.
January 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This: in 2025 and beyond, I am definitely reminding myself that "writing = job skill" needs to be de-centered in my own communication to students
Instead: agency, thinking, understanding, reflection, joy.
And so much more.
Instead: agency, thinking, understanding, reflection, joy.
And so much more.
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Reminders-to-self for 2025:
1️⃣ it's more important to be curious than efficient
2️⃣ it's more important to be curious than productive
3️⃣ it's more important to be curious than, well, most things
1️⃣ it's more important to be curious than efficient
2️⃣ it's more important to be curious than productive
3️⃣ it's more important to be curious than, well, most things
December 29, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Reminders-to-self for 2025:
1️⃣ it's more important to be curious than efficient
2️⃣ it's more important to be curious than productive
3️⃣ it's more important to be curious than, well, most things
1️⃣ it's more important to be curious than efficient
2️⃣ it's more important to be curious than productive
3️⃣ it's more important to be curious than, well, most things
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150 cups of cocoa, five cans of whipped cream, and countless marshmallows later… final essays are done! This week was a reminder that we can do anything (even back-to-back projects) with a little sugary motivation.
December 13, 2024 at 11:25 PM
150 cups of cocoa, five cans of whipped cream, and countless marshmallows later… final essays are done! This week was a reminder that we can do anything (even back-to-back projects) with a little sugary motivation.
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In our busy, pressured world, you need the sounds of a forest more than ever. What a wonderful project this is!
www.tree.fm
www.tree.fm
tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈
People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, while in lockdown or unable to travel. Use this site to chill, meditate or do some digital shinrin-yoku.
www.tree.fm
December 9, 2024 at 11:38 AM
In our busy, pressured world, you need the sounds of a forest more than ever. What a wonderful project this is!
www.tree.fm
www.tree.fm
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People will say that students need to be prepared for the real world as if the real world doesn't include joy, curiosity, self-discovery, and grace. #EduSky
December 6, 2024 at 4:27 PM
People will say that students need to be prepared for the real world as if the real world doesn't include joy, curiosity, self-discovery, and grace. #EduSky
During long independent work days, I love using this visual pacing for students to monitor their own progress (writing/erasing/rewriting their names as they move to each step)!
November 18, 2024 at 2:27 AM
During long independent work days, I love using this visual pacing for students to monitor their own progress (writing/erasing/rewriting their names as they move to each step)!
I really, really try hard to consume some of the same media my students do so I can use it as reference in class/for conversations, but I have tried to watch Outer Banks so many times and have yet again failed.
November 16, 2024 at 1:30 AM
I really, really try hard to consume some of the same media my students do so I can use it as reference in class/for conversations, but I have tried to watch Outer Banks so many times and have yet again failed.
I usually have to take a year(s) long break in between reading Fredrik Backman books, and I’m finally reading “The Winners.”
Backman’s focus on humanity as complex and evil and full of love and how all those ideas coexist is what I need right now.
Backman’s focus on humanity as complex and evil and full of love and how all those ideas coexist is what I need right now.
November 9, 2024 at 6:54 PM
I usually have to take a year(s) long break in between reading Fredrik Backman books, and I’m finally reading “The Winners.”
Backman’s focus on humanity as complex and evil and full of love and how all those ideas coexist is what I need right now.
Backman’s focus on humanity as complex and evil and full of love and how all those ideas coexist is what I need right now.
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The uncountable hours I spent reading and watching political coverage and at the end I had no idea what world I was living in, I just thought I did. If I'd spent that time reading about, say, birds, I would now know an awful lot about an awful lot of birds.
November 9, 2024 at 5:36 PM
The uncountable hours I spent reading and watching political coverage and at the end I had no idea what world I was living in, I just thought I did. If I'd spent that time reading about, say, birds, I would now know an awful lot about an awful lot of birds.