Graydon
graydon@canada.masto.host
<p>Starts-with-X programmer. Fantasy author. The human social function emulator may not function as expected. He/they. Born at 322 ppm</p>
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Post #827895
I&#39;ve been seeing various people lamenting that the allergy season thereabouts of where they are is particularly bad this year, and expressing a willingness to do nigh-anything to make it stop. Wearing a respirator will generally keep the pollen out of your nose.
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Post #827894
The reason to teach kids cursive is the same as it&#39;s always been; we have way, way more brain wiring for sign language than we do for speech. Teaching how to write before teaching how to read is the traditional order because writing is, more or less, sign language. You want and need something tactile so your brain can exapt hominoid sign language wiring into literacy. Nothing to do with note-taking efficiency or adult effectiveness; everything to do with getting letters to stick in you...
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Post #662374
It&#39;s not &quot;the internet replaces reality&quot;; it&#39;s &quot;what are you allowed to do?&quot; The kids are not allowed to do much and whatever they are permitted happens in a context of continuous scrutiny. (Which is not generally benign scrutiny; it&#39;s not like they don&#39;t know that.) If you want something else, reward something else. (Yes that does mean making it impossible to make money providing scrutiny as a service. Anything that makes mo...