Teaching a baby otter to swim:
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Teaching a baby otter to swim:
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
Yeah, learned about this a while back and I was aghast. They're not teaching kids in the US to read words, they're teaching them to make guesses.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Yeah, learned about this a while back and I was aghast. They're not teaching kids in the US to read words, they're teaching them to make guesses.
My former combat medic husband is teaching the cub scouts a class on first aid tonight so apologies to any fifth graders who get traumatized if he slips back into "teaching tactical combat casualty care" mode.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
My former combat medic husband is teaching the cub scouts a class on first aid tonight so apologies to any fifth graders who get traumatized if he slips back into "teaching tactical combat casualty care" mode.
chuck schumer is just teaching us a lesson for not voting for his guy cuomo
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
chuck schumer is just teaching us a lesson for not voting for his guy cuomo
We’re teaching the monsters how to win. We’re teaching them that if they lose in district court on SNAP, SCOTUS will give them an indefinite stay—as starving kids aren’t an irreparable harm, but Trump losing a political debate is.
Then Trump, armed with his new stay, gets Senate Dems to capitulate.
Then Trump, armed with his new stay, gets Senate Dems to capitulate.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
We’re teaching the monsters how to win. We’re teaching them that if they lose in district court on SNAP, SCOTUS will give them an indefinite stay—as starving kids aren’t an irreparable harm, but Trump losing a political debate is.
Then Trump, armed with his new stay, gets Senate Dems to capitulate.
Then Trump, armed with his new stay, gets Senate Dems to capitulate.
Teaching the Trump administration that disrupting air travel gets them what they want would be a bad idea. They’d pull that lever again.
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Teaching the Trump administration that disrupting air travel gets them what they want would be a bad idea. They’d pull that lever again.
Teaching the foster how to "dog".
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Teaching the foster how to "dog".
“Make complex ideas easier to understand.” So… teaching?
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“Make complex ideas easier to understand.” So… teaching?
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
putting my sons thru female socialization (teaching them how to do basic household tasks and form deep, meaningful, fulfilling relationships with other people)
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
putting my sons thru female socialization (teaching them how to do basic household tasks and form deep, meaningful, fulfilling relationships with other people)
Not sure this guy should be teaching Sunday school
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Not sure this guy should be teaching Sunday school
Thank you for teaching me dad
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Thank you for teaching me dad
Just saw that an Indiana lectures was removed from teaching a “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice” class for teaching THIS graphic.
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Just saw that an Indiana lectures was removed from teaching a “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice” class for teaching THIS graphic.
FBI teaching Mamdani's dad about Karl Marx
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DHS teaching IDOT worker about Mamdani
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DHS teaching IDOT worker about Mamdani
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November 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
FBI teaching Mamdani's dad about Karl Marx
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DHS teaching IDOT worker about Mamdani
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DHS teaching IDOT worker about Mamdani
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
Teaching Tessa how to play chess.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Teaching Tessa how to play chess.
they r teaching very vital life lessons on tiktok
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
they r teaching very vital life lessons on tiktok
Anyway one of the populations this place is aimed at is TAY, Transition-Aged Youth, young people aging out of the foster system, and you can imagine how THAT is going over. Most of the people there are going to be, like, teachers teaching the younger kids.
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Anyway one of the populations this place is aimed at is TAY, Transition-Aged Youth, young people aging out of the foster system, and you can imagine how THAT is going over. Most of the people there are going to be, like, teachers teaching the younger kids.
iirc sf literally put this into practice in mathematics. the test scores showed black kids weren't doing well at math. so they just stopped teaching math in middle school
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
iirc sf literally put this into practice in mathematics. the test scores showed black kids weren't doing well at math. so they just stopped teaching math in middle school
Me teaching blacksmithing to my friends
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Me teaching blacksmithing to my friends
Once again noting that it is not possible to effectively teach disaster management without teaching about race and gender.
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Once again noting that it is not possible to effectively teach disaster management without teaching about race and gender.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM