Ali Messer
@freereed59.net
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Teacher Education. History. Trad music. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing 📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl. https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/ https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
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hwshistory.bsky.social
Y13 Auschwitz trip:
At the Waval castle overlooking the old city. An explanation of why the area was ironically a safe haven for Eastern European Jews for centuries.
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adamlaats.bsky.social
In other news, frogs are "growing concerned" about the fact that the water is now boiling.
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fairless.xyz
Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Three images showing photographers in a studio, standing around a black curtained area with a projector and a 'Windows' logo etched onto a glass pane. The lower image shows a version of the iconic blue windows background, with blue lasers outlining and passing through an angled Windows logos against a dark background.
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freereed59.net
#HistoryEducation
htenuk.bsky.social
Time to talk is an opportunity for @htenuk.bsky.social colleagues to meet more informally in our virtual staff room. Our first session of 25/26 will be hosted by @davidrawlings.bsky.social.

It is also open to non-members #historyteacher #TeacherEducators. Please do get in touch for the link.
htenuk.bsky.social
Time to Talk is back. Get the date in your diaries. Links to follow.

#historyteacher #TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation #TeacherMentoring
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jessicacalarco.com
Certainly, the association here isn't new. Homeschooling and homesteading go hand in hand with skepticism of public schools and public health.

But my point is that algorithms can push moms down that path by sowing seeds of distrust, then feeding up content to fertilize what they've sown. 5/
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I started by tracking social media ads for parenting apps--screen-shotting ads on platforms like Facebook.

These ads contain a number of interesting messages, but a common one is: "You need this app because your kid isn't getting enough support in school." 2/
Ad that for an app that promises to "teach what schools skip" Ad that promises to "unlock your child's reading potential in 90 days" Ad that promises to "help kids with dyscalculia improve math skills by 20% in 6 weeks"
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jessicacalarco.com
We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
Important 🧵
jessicacalarco.com
We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵
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schultziepie.bsky.social
A message from Adelita Grijalva
to Mike Johnson. Swear her in NOW! Take a listen! 👇🏼

#swearherinnow
#pinks
freereed59.net
Sounds brilliant. Do you have theories about why?
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sanho.bsky.social
“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.
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#HistoryEducation
htenuk.bsky.social
Time to talk is an opportunity for @htenuk.bsky.social colleagues to meet more informally in our virtual staff room. Our first session of 25/26 will be hosted by @davidrawlings.bsky.social.

It is also open to non-members #historyteacher #TeacherEducators. Please do get in touch for the link.
htenuk.bsky.social
Time to Talk is back. Get the date in your diaries. Links to follow.

#historyteacher #TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation #TeacherMentoring
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benniekara.bsky.social
New Substack on teaching Rabindranath Tagore in English - have a read, then go and read some Tagore! open.substack.com/pub/bennieka...
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...
manchesterup.bsky.social
'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city's ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.' - @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. #booksky #London
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kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
Are you using #maps in research?

Want to learn about their history and use as sources?

In London in late January?

Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!

#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
www.sas.ac.uk
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#HistoryEducation
kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
Are you using #maps in research?

Want to learn about their history and use as sources?

In London in late January?

Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!

#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
www.sas.ac.uk
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nikkiclark86.bsky.social
Ok, where are we at with research on medieval midwives? Session next week on women's bodies, medicine, childbirth and whatnot.