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  He’s shaken off our strongest str(ule)ategies

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  Finding out that so many Americans seem illiterate because they stopped teaching kids how to sound out words (rule) If you graduated before they implemented this or aren’t American, the system they started to use to teach kids how to read is called three cuing. They teach kids to identify unknown words by guessing based on clues in pictures with the sentences, what word would ‘make sense’, and whether the answer they came up with looks right based on the first letter. As you may have noticed,...

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  Get rained on rule I’m deprived of solarpunk memes since slrpnk.net is down, so I’m posting here instead. I’m so hyped thinking about all the growth that’s happening underground with the new plants! Rainy season is always so cool in Southern California, and being here for a big El Niño is exciting (since I’m not in a flood plain or landslide area!), I can’t wait for things to get lush!

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  AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work As part of the bootcamp, students are also required to pass an eyebrow-raising heart rate challenge, in which they’re hooked up to live monitors in front of their classmates and presented with a pre-recorded video of their parents berating them. “The challenge rule was simple,” one student wrote: “my resting heart rate was 80bpm, and I had to stay within 10 percent of that the whole time....