Claudia Lewis

'Jews being murdered isn't a cause to grieve, they're just a set-up by our racist media's
References to the "Zio-Lobby"
Positive, celebratory reactions to the killing of a terrorist leader.

This place is just as much of a hell-hole, you just don't see it.

"Maybe[...] this will take [o]ut some Zios"
"Jewish supremacy"
"Israel should be [...] decimated, Zionazi scumbag"
Accusations the Manchester Yom Kippur attack was an inside job.

Given Amnesty UK have posted in support of protesters arrested for supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation, I don't really value their opinion, particularly not on where Nice People post online.

Channelling my inner @cantabkitty.bsky.social today

Today was the first time the community came together since the Yom Kippur terrorist attack in Manchester. I wrote about it.
mbdsciencepolitics.substack.com/p/the-first-...

I never left X, I just dual post when I remember

But why shouldn't it stop? Why shouldn't the world stop turning when Jews are murdered outside their synagogue on their holiest day? Why shouldn't the country stop and mourn and weep for our citizens, slaughtered like animals for the crime of being Jews?

Why shouldn't we grieve?

I resent that the self-righteous dismissal of Jewish lives by people who believe they are Good and Right and has made me feel such anger in my heart. Nothing "stopped in its tracks". Everything outside the Jewish community carried on as normal, with vigils and speeches just another item in the diary

Today was the first time the community came together since the Yom Kippur terrorist attack in Manchester. I wrote about it.
mbdsciencepolitics.substack.com/p/the-first-...

Nope.

I tracked the temperature in my classroom and the science office over the day. Highest temperature was 28.4°C. Blue denotes a lesson.

What is the difference between prerequisite knowledge and checks for understanding @mbdscience.bsky.social has the key definitions

I hate eating breakfast, but I can't go through to lunch without something, so I'm trying to find a healthy mid-morning snack to tide me over. Today, I made omelette muffins. We shall see if they do the trick.

At the beginning of the year, when asked which football team I support, I told my students I support a regional National League team, and now the boys give me weekly updates on how they're playing.

This is what you wanted. What did you think "globalise the intifada" meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

Two Jews can't even be shot dead outside a Jewish museum after attending a Jewish event without Woo EduTwitter retweeting posts implying it was a set-up by the Israeli government.

Grit is a form of resilience and you can't build either unless you're exposed to setbacks. It's far better for those setbacks, inconveniences and failings come in minor form, in a supportive environment, where the consequences are low, and not later when they can be devastating

We will never be able to teach students 'grit' while we're prevented from asking them to do anything evenly mildly unpleasant.

Until I can set homework with a high pass mark, and a detention for failing to meet it, without getting pushback from parents, there will be no grit.

Woooo! 🥳

You can lead a horse to water… Learning is an active process. Too often, I encounter students who believe they can simply sit, passively in a lesson and absorb what is being taught, without having to do anything. And to a degree…

🚨New post🚨 We need to make sure our students are not trying to be passive learners. We must make the horse drink.
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Not all feedback is created equal. “A lot of the same students were putting their hand up. Try cold calling or turn and talk.” Giving feedback is a vital part of leading, but – as with many parts of leadership &#82…

🚨NEW POST 🚨
It's been a while, but I'm on a cross-country train, so what better use of my time than to blog about feedback.

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I do have one. It feels like writing on paper which I love, and it syncs with my phone which I also like because it means I can keep track of everything, even if it's not technically filed away properly!

I see Fazackerley has written her regular Observer column dumping on schools.

AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH

AI for planning is the equivalent of thinking it's ok for children to talk as long as they "get the work done."

I'm not so sure - the interaction with e.g. ChatGPT is much more human, and it feels the same as asking for advice, and I think that will lead/is leading to higher levels of trust in the outcome that previously with e.g. Boardworks or Badger or whatever.

But for an inexperienced teacher, they don't necessarily have the expertise to realise it's bunkum...

It doesn't "know" anything, it just uses statistical models to suggest the most likely next word, given the previous. It's no surprise it regurgitates VAK and the like, given how much information there is about them on the internet!

If you're a very inexperienced teacher, there's also the risk that you blame your delivery for the poor lesson, rather than the LLM that read every resource on TES and gave you the mean average.