OK UK artists: our kids are home from school indefinitely. Can we make a list of readings, YouTube videos, activities from writers and illustrators? I’ll start. 1/many (hopefully)
Humza Arshad @HumzaProduction reads from Little Bad Man, @Karyn_Parsons talks about How High the Moon, and @chrisriddell50 does a sketchalong in this 30 minute episode from the great Puffin Story Makers series
2/20
Emma Carroll @emmac2603 and her dog Olive take young readers on a tour of the real places in her 17c. novel The Somerset Tsunami 3/20
.@CressidaCowell talks to children about creating characters and using details in stories
4/20
This is adorable: Grove Junior School @GroveJnr students interview Varjak Paw author SF Said @whatSFSaid
5/20
Jamila Gavin @jamilaji talks about why she wrote Blackberry Blue
6/ 20
Elizabeth Laird and the Ethiopian Folk tale project have collected over 300 folk tales and posted them online: ethiopianfolktales.com 7/20
Chris Riddell @chrisriddell50 teaches three Ws of starting a story and create a character: 8/20
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself reads The Graveyard Book
9/20
Katherine Rundell talks about her inspiration for her books The Explorer and the exquisite Rooftoppers
10/20
Funnyman @davidwalliams reads from The Beast of Buckingham Palace (Slime, the new book will hopefully be out in two weeks when we're all finished with every single book in the house)
11/20
Tom Gates creator @LizPichon teaches kids how to doodle like him … on a t-shirt! 12/20
Some of this great content is thanks to children’s publishers. Their channels are filled with good ideas. Simon Kids for instance youtube.com/channel/UCTjLH… 13/20
For example, the History of Fun Stuff series has some great videos including the history of fire crackers:
14/20
On the HarperKids channel, US YA and middle grades author Lauren Oliver @OliverBooks teaches what goes in to making a book 15/20
The British Library has a fantastic set of resources on children's literature, such as this page featuring poet @JosephACoelho with an interview and readings bl.uk/childrens-book… 16/ 20
Running out of things to read? The Book Trust has a recommendation for 100 books to read before you're 14 booktrust.org.uk/books-and-read… 17/20
Lesson plans and activities to go along with films on the @BFI site, including a scifi module which will be a hit in my house. bfi.org.uk/education-rese… 19/20
My list is solidly for middle grades/older primary kids because that's where I'm at. Add your own ideas below because together we #BustBritBoredom 20/20
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A key Mu3k theory made it into the @nytimes opinion pages this week. Touted and burnished by a professor at a top university WITHOUT transparency that Musk funded him for $10 Million for the research. How? 🧵
Humanity is collapsing from population decline. Sound familiar? It's the pet theory of ultra-rich Western white guys like Musk. He funded the center run by the author of this @nytimes op-ed with a $10 million grant. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
What I find EXTRAORDINARY that this funding is not listed on website for the center, the Population Wellbeing Institute, nor did the author say in his op-ed bio that he leads PWI. But Bloomberg broke this story last month about Musk's donation to PWI. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"If you do not have symptoms, you must not seek a test, as the scientific evidence shows that the test may not be able to detect whether you have the virus."
How in hell are we going into a second wave with this as the NHS messaging?
I say this having returned from a US state (KY) with free, rapid, on demand testing. Waste a test? Nobody wants to do nasal swab tests for fun. I flew back to the UK knowing I wasn't putting my family at risk (neg.)
And now I sit in 14 days legally mandated quarantine because I actually follow the rules.
The best minds in AI ethics are not even one step removed from this mess.
The goals here were clear: preserve standardisation in unprecedented times. But public trust? Fairness? Equity? People in charge ranked those goals lower than that of standardising marks across schools. But absence of 'ground truth' here -- 2020 individual exam results --> FAIL.
We need instead to understand how these systems are rolled out in practice -- not just open the so-called black box but what's around that box: who built it, who is using it, what are they doing with it, who do they think it is for, what do people know/THINK they know about it.
Data are for 2017 and cover the whole year. Of course we've only had 6 months of Covid data in 2020 (Feb-Aug), but already it it is the third top cause of death in the US. cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr…