Randomness

Just some random stuff. Things that I find interesting and want to reblog. Don't expect a whole lotta original content.

[awifubgegbfciebf]

[lengthy-artery]

tshirt concept

[yorgen-sh]

The heading "What was that"?

[boobookittenartblog]

Okumura Koichi ~ Yashima in Summer, 1949

[yorgen-sh]

[leapsandsqueaks]

Whiskers loves him a good Aldi box 🩷📦🐾

[yorgen-sh]

[boobookittenartblog]

Common Grackle by David Sibley 

[lichen-bones]

Saw a yellow-breasted chat the other day

[raven-bythesea]

More fun designing Krenyrr

[prophecydungeon]

that’s not………. how child speech works…………………………………………..

[prophecydungeon]

god okay in an attempt to be less of an asshole, here’s how child speech DOES work (or tend to work, at least)

kids tend to hypercorrect — this means that they tend to say things like “sleeped” instead of “slept,” “writed” instead of “wrote,” “goed” instead of “went,” etc

kids tend not to make errors such as omitting verbs (“i hungry”)

kids also tend not to make errors in the i/me, she/her department (“me am hungry”)

simplification of difficult sounds — consonant clusters especially, so things like st, sp, ps, etc., as well as f, v, th-sounds, ch-sounds, etc.

“babbling”-type utterances (“apwen” for “airplane,” using one babbly word for multiple objects, things like that) generally occur in children under the age of three and a half

say it with me: an eight-year-old child is not going to be saying “me hungwy”

do not confuse child speech with stereotypical learner english mistakes, that’s not only incorrect but also gross on the stereotypical learner english front (“me love you long time,” anybody?)

if you’re going to write kidfic please do some goddamn research

[prokopetz]

Totally. It can be helpful to remind yourself that young children tend to speak as though the English language actually made sense. Our brains are pattern-recognising machines: children are really, really good at puzzling out the implicit rules of the English language, but they don’t necessarily know all the silly exceptions and bizarre edge cases that break those rules yet - those can only be learned through experience and rote memorisation.

Basically, when children who speak English as a first language make mistakes, it typically reflects a tendency to treat English as more grammatically, syntactically, and/or orthographically consistent than it really is. In some cases, this can be compounded by the fact that some kids will get offended at how little sense “proper” English makes, and insist upon using the more consistent forms even though they know very well that they’re technically “wrong”.

[idiagroena-deactivated20160720]

for a long young portion of my life I insisted on pronouncing Sean “SEEN” because that’s how it’s spelled.

[pftones3482]

As someone who spends a good majority of her time working with kids, it irks me to no end when I see children written as if they’re babies.

Past the age of about five or six years old, children can have deep, intellectual conversations about the most bizarre of things. I HAD A CONVERSATION LAST WEEK WITH FOUR THIRD GRADERS ABOUT THE GAS PRICES AND TAXES IN HAWAII.

Were they entirely correct in the facts they were giving? No, because it was all from what they had heard from parents or on the news. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that I was having a genuine conversation with four eight and nine year olds about taxes.

Just about the only speech problems most kids have, unless they have a speech impediment, is not being able to pronounce certain consonants (replacing ‘th’ with ‘fw,’ for example, and some letters are harder to form with your mouth than others) and doing exactly what the person above said: using the English language the way they know how, which isn’t always the way English works.

Kids aren’t stupid. Stop writing them like they are.

[ultrafacts]

The Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) can reach speeds of up to 60 km/h (37 mph) when escaping predators. They are built for speed, with powerful hind legs that allow them to sprint and leap great distances across the snowy terrain.

[transhuman-priestess]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[transhuman-priestess]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[iheartvelma]

Yeah. You can’t learn how computers work on a machine / OS that’s been intentionally nerfed.

Plus Googlebooks are rolled out not for kids to learn about computers, but as devices for them to look at curriculum materials, access class shared Drive folders (maybe??) and take standardized tests.

You might as well give them a filmstrip viewer and Scantron bubble sheets to fill in, then expect them to have learned how the cassette tape makes the filmstrip advance.

We really haven’t interrogated the role of technology in the classroom.

By some studies, historically, general cognitive ability and reading comprehension have declined since the introduction of classroom tech, in parallel with the dreaded Standardized Testing, and it’s a combination of bad pedagogical design, a lack of understanding of neurology and human behavior, overhyped fear, and corporate greed.

You can’t learn by passively absorbing information. But a glorified PowerPoint deck and pub quiz software is just a more expensive way to deliver that passive experience.

[lichen-bones]

scribbling the heron 🌿

[yorgen-sh]

[wormsermonizer]

🐑🐑🐑

[syrenki]

i have a bunch of disgusting ideas if anyone's interested