Michael caldwell
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Michael caldwell
@Absurdum14
live in tokyo and new zealand - 3 months on and off. teach in tokyo, have a shop in new zealand. love japanese indies bands.
tokyo Katılım Kasım 2011
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@picopicogamer @writerofscratch If there is one thing that teaching high school / uni taught me, it is that students will put in almost any amount of effort if they get a cute “good work” stamp or sticker at the end of it 😆
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@picopicogamer @writerofscratch Exactly. PLUS, they are super cute, and give you a physical stamps and a star chart to track your progress - so it keeps your motivation super high.
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My two cents, based on my experience: you should practice writing kanji by hand for at least a year or two.
It's fine if you forget how to write most of them later, but the process of learning how to handwrite them makes remembering and reading kanji in general easier.
Jay@yorinimoyotte
People online will tell you to skip out on learning to handwrite kanji but I think you should try at the very least. Not due to anything like "efficiency" but for your own learning and experience.
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@writerofscratch Yup. If for no other reason than lots of tests are still hand written, and if you can’t write, you won’t pass. Like, just mechanically.
And yet I almost failed teachers college for making high school students do kanji writing drills 😆
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@picopicogamer @writerofscratch Absolutely. Using year 1-3 elementary school Kumon books did more for my general Japanese ability (including reading, writing, and grammar) than intensively studying JLPT textbooks ever did. They are absolute gold.
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@writerofscratch I agree. But I think that eventually when you know a lot of vocab you should go back and study again using elementary school drill books because it becomes so easy and it really does boost your Japanese at that point. You should be able to write the elem school kanji at least.
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@bturner4559 @Mug_of_Glop @9mmballpoint I’ll leave this here, because it’s a really good summary
swisswuff.ch/files/richards…
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@bturner4559 @Mug_of_Glop @9mmballpoint That current western culture valorises shape rotation, while depreciating things like foundational cooking knowledge, basic geography, weather knowledge etc, is a political/cultural choice, that tells you nothing about “Intelligence” writ large.
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The real reason why it's hard to have conversations is that if you're the kind of person who obsesses over your IQ bracket, you probably don't have any real accomplishments to talk about, and everyone else finds you boring.
Jøhnathan@Heavenly_Race_
Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.
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@dadsweb67 On the other hand, it would explain why Finns are all so happy, they’re genetically Finnish 😆
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@dadsweb67 Sure you do, but whether that’s genetic, epigenetic, gestational, environmental, what have you…….?
Like, I have a family member with a club foot - absolutely nothing to do with genetics, which are perfect, just happens sometimes. No reason for personality not to work that way
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Saw a video on TikTok which mentioned in passing that 50% of whether you are a happy person or not is genetically determined. It felt a little surprising, but at same time it made sense.
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My favorite new commercial is that Uber one where a kid is cut from tryouts and his mom, who is at home, doesn’t pick him up and just pays for his Uber back. It’s a sentimental moment written by reptiles lol
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@neuresthetic @9mmballpoint Wow, like I realised that you’re bad at communication, but even given that I’m surprised at how madly you mangled that metaphor. I really hope that your shape rotation is better than this, or you’re in real trouble 😆
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@Absurdum14 @9mmballpoint You can have a bike and still be able to walk. Typically, the faster the runner, the faster they will be on a bike as well, if they can even ride one. Is that human enough for you.
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@ragandboneshop Yep, and the solution is easy enough, and followed in pretty much every non-US country. Student doesn’t do what’s asked, student fails the course. Fail enough courses, fail the degree.
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that parenthetical, “when they don’t need or want your help,” is such a potent encapsulation of how wrong all this has gone. overt rejection of what a teacher could teach you, overt rejection of expertise, is now seen as if not *the*, at least *a* standard position among students
North Badu@Haliwa_Saponi
Asking a student to make time to come to office hrs to tell you what a paper is about (when they don’t need or want your help) is nuts when you could do your job and just read the paper… This is why so many ppl are turning away from traditional school. Who has the time?
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@Haliwa_Saponi I mean, sure, except ACTUAL tradition school had a super easy fix to this - just fail the student. Paper seems wrong / unfocused / weird in an undefinable AI sense, give it 40% and move on. Students don’t want a degree? No big deal, I’m sure they’ll be fine without one.
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Asking a student to make time to come to office hrs to tell you what a paper is about (when they don’t need or want your help) is nuts when you could do your job and just read the paper…
This is why so many ppl are turning away from traditional school. Who has the time?
Dr. Mia Brett@QueenMab87
Asking a student what their paper is about is not a whole other assignment. It’s part of helping students with their work. It’s literally part of teaching. And oral exams teach completely different skills. But I guess you could choose failure instead of a 5 min convo
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@RaraSensei Yep. The funny thing is that the play part doesn’t need to be intensive either so long as you keep at it and don’t get frustrated. 10-15 years of just daily puddling for 5-10 mins will get you most of the way there. If you haven’t got it in 25-30 years it’s genuinely surprising😆
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@neuresthetic @9mmballpoint The fact that you’re not capable of communication without Ai, again a skill issue.
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@Absurdum14 @9mmballpoint Think about how easy it is to translate with ai these days. All of what I’ve said is in English. The grok button is right there. Take it down to your own speech iq that’s not my job.
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