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EFL teacher. Interested in education / language / philosophy / politics.
London
Joined October 2008
Lots of people think it’s very important for teachers to set learning objectives for their classes. I and my colleague discuss an article criticising this idea in my new podcast. The context is about EFL teaching but all are welcome to listen and comment! https://t.co/swZCLHlZRs
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“It is our duty to help those who need our help; but it cannot be our duty to make others happy, since this does not depend on us, and since it would only too often mean intruding on the privacy of those towards whom we have such amiable intentions.” Karl Popper, OSE Vol II p 261
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Amazing put down in Open Society Vol II: moral theories of Marx and Hegel "chatter trivialities clad in the jargon of oracular philosophy."
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I'm joined by Liberty Fitz-Claridge (@l1berty) for Episode 243 of ToKCast: Reading and reflecting on "In praise of ignorance" by @DavidDeutschOxf. You can find the original article here: https://t.co/UNBdCCXBGU
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Could anyone recommend a sound but easy to read book on the topic of psychology? It's for a student, upper-intermediate level.
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This is why learning items of language without a context is so utterly dreary and ineffective.
You don't understand a thing until you understand what problem it solves. Karl Popper famously rejected the asking of What questions. -> What is an atom? -> What is knowledge? What questions are questions that seek out statements or definitions, and Popper recognised that
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popperazzi has the memes that you need.
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It's the *source* of virtue.
@DeutschExplains @DavidDeutschOxf 🧙♂️ "The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue." -- Baruch Spinoza
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Contact me if you are, or know, a Coward soundalike who wants a one-off job singing this. Don't Let's Be Beastly to Hamasniks: a Noël Coward parody https://t.co/bXb9Ildo3z
https://t.co/JRaYHGcnet
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Continually referring to the three hostages as if that were the first time friendly fire had happened and quoting Biden as if the mere reference were an argument — he’s divorced from reality. It’s as if he were just plugging in the correct talking point for the correct guest.
"This idea that Israel is being moderate in its response I don't think is borne out by reality, is it?" Piers Morgan responds after Eugene Kontorovich says accusations of genocide against IDF are "projection." @EVKontorovich | @piersmorgan | #PMU
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One idea would be to have participants print and cut out a set of cards like these. But that’s a bit cumbersome.
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TEFL people: is there a way of doing assembly tasks with an online class? I mean tasks which involve arranging cards or Cuisenaire rods.
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With every sentence either written or read for my dissertation, my brain explodes a little more.
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Hello Twitter. I need technical help. Is there a layman-friendly way to download subtitles as text from videos on Amazon Prime or BBC iPlayer?
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Actual teaching materials presented in an actually peer reviewed journal. Is it right to find this objectionable?
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