richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social
International school teacher of history, politics, TOK and film. Textbook author and frustrated singer songwriter. Welsh from the 'Diff, European, Francophile. www.internationalschoolhistory.com
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Its a particularly sad day when I have no idea which event you are referring to.
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Hard to disagree. Just wish it had all been done in the 100 day honeymoon.
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Oh I don't know. If Kier Starmer is centre-left...
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BBC iPlayer only at the moment I think.
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Don't show them that. They'll start getting ideas about the golden age of 1939-45.
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Again I don't disagree. And I suspect we should be pessimistic about the impact. Writing had wider benefits that were worth the cost of the loss, AI will have wider benefits that probably won't. I don't think it's a dichotomy though, more a cost benefit analysis.
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Not sure. Socrates (Plato) feared that writing gave only the appearance of knowledge. Without dialogue and critical questioning, readers might accept information passively, lacking true understanding or wisdom. He valued active, internal reasoning over externally stored or second-hand knowledge.
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Kidd goes out of his way to praise Skinner for sidestepping reductive approaches to political thought celebrating instead a more textured, historically situated reading of ideas. But in doing so, he commits the very reduction he claims to disdain, by flattening Marxism into a caricature.
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Why wait to university? In Switzerland we do it in primary school.
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It's not rocket science. It's Economics 101. Trump clearly paid someone else to write his essays.
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Etc? There was more?
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'In the late 1890s, Morel had investigated the imports and exports in to the Congo and had concluded that Leopold's Congo was a mere front for economic exploitation and slave labour.' There can't be many other British history teachers teaching this. www.internationalschoolhistory.com/lesson-3---c...
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There is a lot to love but I loved this in particular. 'The result is a form of design that is not neutral but strategically manipulative: a slot machine disguised as a compass.' But I also noted I had to come back here and share that thought before completing the reading. Not even a few 1000 words.
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Brilliant. Thanks.
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I got a job
Just shifting beer