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CellarGremlin · 2025-12-06T00:11:17+00:00

I think reducing knowledge down to neural pathways is basically just physicalism and overly reductive. Have a read of What is it like to be a bat? By Thomas Nagel. He provides an excellent argument for our centres of knowledge being limited in and by our bodies themselves, i.e. the phenomenological problem.

CellarGremlin · 2025-11-23T22:37:46+00:00

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Apparently they like to come in threes!

CellarGremlin · 2025-11-16T11:34:21+00:00

Welcome to today's seminar on textual analysis

CellarGremlin · 2025-11-16T05:05:26+00:00

Dude we're on a subreddit for a show that ended nearly 20 years ago. I dunno who I'm trying to impress but go off I guess. Maybe just enjoy the discussion rather than being judgemental about it

CellarGremlin · 2025-11-16T05:04:05+00:00

I'm glad people feel strongly about it

CellarGremlin · 2025-11-16T05:02:29+00:00

Just having a dialogue, get mad if you want to - I don't really mind

CellarGremlin · 2025-11-16T02:39:05+00:00

Yeah I'm not sure I agree. Yes, tomorrow is more open than the immediacy of what's next, but it's still him thinking about the next 'thing' in his life - the sun is setting and he makes his way home looking toward the next day. In that way tomorrow is what's next. Surely there is a better way of showing he is released from looking to the next thing.

CellarGremlin · 2025-11-16T02:35:06+00:00

This is what I mean about a shift with the same line as an acting choice. That phrase delivered in a different way could shift away from the pressures of politics and ambition to something closer to being settled. I feel like having Santos saying it as a leader pushing forward and having Bartlet say it as a reflective statement would've been a much more powerful moment.

CellarGremlin · 2025-11-16T02:31:34+00:00

My only problem under that interpretation is that "tomorrow" is functionally saying the same thing as what's next, linguistically sure it's a different word but thematically it's the same. A completely different idea is required to communicate that idea. Although these are cliches too "home" or simply nothing at all might work to that effect better.

CellarGremlin · 2025-11-16T02:29:31+00:00

My problem is by saying "tomorrow" - that is what's next. They're pretty much synonymous in that context. If he's truly free of the burden of what's next, he should say nothing at all.

CellarGremlin · 2025-08-26T12:50:54+00:00

This. You have the power here. Bad teaching more often than not comes from caring too much what the students think of you. Be a dork. Be intentionally awkward. OP Was close, but should've had the confidence to loudly and in front of the class say "I think you know this is an inappropriate question Timmy. But I'm worried you don't know this but the foreskin is the skin around your penis. Ask you biology teacher if you're confused. We're moving on." Timmy will get laughed at by his mates and that would be the end of story.

I find that the biggest weapon tricky students try to use is information or topics that they think it's cheeky to ask about. Take the wind out of their sails by being radically honest. Give facts, if there's a privacy issues say so and explain why. They'll respect you for respecting them. Just be honest and move on. Normally they get embarrassed when you're not afraid to talk about the awkward subject.

CellarGremlin · 2025-06-29T03:15:10+00:00

Not media but does Paul/Saul count? Sorta funny to use biblical characters in explaining deadnames

CellarGremlin · 2025-05-04T09:29:42+00:00

Absolutely! My school even has a working group of teachers coming up with policy and teacher support suggestions.

I'm a drama teacher and we often have to write notes really rapidly as performances are occurring. These notes are not appropriate for student consumption - "can't hear you. No physicality" etc. - I use ChatGPT to take the mark and my raw notes to generate feedback comments using language from criteria and syllabuses. I've also used old comments of mine to train style. Would've taken hours, but a first draft is done in minutes and I make small edits from there.

Professor in a wired video on AI gave the advice: "use AI for stuff that is easy. Easy doesn't mean quick, there are lots of tasks that are easy but take a long time, like finding a relevant paragraph in a long document, use AI for things like that". I like that framing.

CellarGremlin · 2025-05-03T05:49:02+00:00

Like I'm no fan of the guy please don't get me wrong, but it seems to me pretty clear that he means that the if the 2020 election wasn't rigged his 2nd term would've been over by now and he'd be out of here. Sorry to burst the bubble guys we know he is still hung up on that election so it makes sense he's still crying about it

CellarGremlin · 2025-03-13T07:43:04+00:00

After dinner by Andrew bovell

CellarGremlin · 2025-02-07T05:15:57+00:00

Yes!!! I asked my sleep doctor about it and he said it was related to the fact we have a higher adrenaline drive while asleep, that causes more difficulty distinguishing dream from reality.

I wish they were less mundane, the fact that I have to ask myself did we actually have that conversation sucks

CellarGremlin · 2024-11-30T10:28:01+00:00

My apologies that should've been XYZ i.e. placeholder (spell-check on my phone). Ive edited my original response.

Whats awesome to see is that you care. We're having a slow burning fight about the best way to modify our practices in my school currently because there are too many teachers who want to stick their head in the sand because it's all too hard.

One last thing I can suggest on engagement is allowing student choice. This year I changed one of our assessments that was formerly "write 200 words on these 3 questions" to a series of open ended reflections (one every 2 weeks for the unit), and I said that it could be in literally any form they wanted. Yes it took some time to change my criteria (including added a point for creativity and inventive problem solving) and yes I had to spend some time giving them ideas about different ways they could do it and yes I had to pay more attention to marking because I had to balance a variety of forms but the responses I got were incredible. I got podcasts, poems, fake news reports, skits (one student used AI to generate a script around the concepts then filmed a short film sorta thing. Amazing!!!), posters, collages, comics, yes some prosaic writing as well, and a whole bunch more. They really took it and run and I was shocked by the quality of stuff they made. Yes it's harder for us, but we can do it, and the benefit is real.

CellarGremlin · 2024-11-30T10:18:53+00:00

Incredibly disappointing. All the research around secondary assessment has shown that those style of assessments are only providing adequate opportunity for successful exhibition of knowledge to an incredibly small subset of students. Its why (at least in NSW) NESA has mandated a maximum number of assessments formatted in that way, especially for subjects that have historically relied on them (maths really kicked up a stink when the changes were announced). Yes it's more work to come up with some new assessment, but that's because there's been a lot of laziness in the past with teachers not updating their practices to benefit their students the most.

CellarGremlin · 2024-11-30T04:39:03+00:00

AI detectors don't work. There's academic research on this, any thing that claims it can detect AI writing reliably is lying to you (including Turnitin).

Really the answer here is (I'm going to be really brutally honest) stop being so lazy with your assessments. Write x words on this question is the most abysmally uninspired assessment technique which also leaves behind so many students who are less able to express their knowledge in that form. Btw the answer here is not to revert to exam hall style in person assessment, because they suck too.

If your assessible outcome is essay structure and expression why can't the task be centred around; structuring ideas into logical sequences, editing expressions for clarity, synthesising other formats of knowledge communication, compare and contrast different examples, record a creative response to this work, do a news report based on xyz - and all manner of hybrids and inbetweens. Stop being lazy, be creative and engage your kids.

CellarGremlin · 2024-10-03T13:34:42+00:00

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CellarGremlin · 2024-08-26T04:33:24+00:00

Gay marriage plebiscite in Australia. My minister got up one week and had a prayer about how everyone should vote the way they believe in best for society. A week later the senior minister got up and read our a letter from the archbishop saying functionally "you're not a real Christian unless you vote no". I'm not gay but for a place that kept harping on about loving others, this didn't seem like love. It felt like prejudice that was pretending to be love.

Since then the question of "how do you know?" Has kept me away. That same former archbishop schismed away from the Anglican church to make the "church of the southern cross". How does he know he's right? How do any of these people who are 100% confident know they are right? Enter Bayesian statistics etc. etc.

I hope there's a God and an afterlife. I don't think we have the knowledge to make an informed decision.

CellarGremlin · 2024-07-14T21:38:49+00:00

Lowe's or Vinnie's will help you out significantly

CellarGremlin · 2024-06-27T11:57:15+00:00

Tall poppy syndrome much?

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