Tag: education
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Campfire Learn Together: Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real
For our June 7 2026, Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Chris McNutt’s “Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real” — a narration drawn from the forthcoming Human Restoration Project Primer, on what it means to teach truth in a world engineered to make truth feel unknowable.
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We Are Fiscal Sponsors of Lilypad Library
Lilypad Library is a children’s show built on a simple premise: neurodivergent kids deserve to see themselves in stories written by people who actually know what that’s like. Creator Kiersten Case draws from lived experience. The show’s characters are written by and with neurodivergent people — that’s the standard. Nothing About Us Without Us (NAUWU).…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 20 2026: From Crosswalk to Cosmos, From Framework to Fabric
From framework synthesis to glossary depth, Week 20 built the /space/ ecosystem into a citable, interconnected design system — and kept expanding the vocabulary of neurodivergent life.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 19 2026: From Series to Surface, From Glossary to Ground
Week 19 was a week of architecture and surface — simultaneously. We built series infrastructure that gives the site a new navigational logic, and we rewrote page after page to do the argumentative work they always promised. Series pages. Landing pages. Section intros. Bridge paragraphs. The site now has five named series, a hub to…
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Campfire Learn Together: Solving the Frankenstein Problem
For our weekly Campfire Learn Together, we watched “Keynote: Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang | Solving the Frankenstein Problem: Why all learning is social, emotional, cultural and cognitive to the brain”.
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The Incredible Inconvenience of the Neurodivergent to the “Science of Learning”: You’ll Never See Us Through Your Complexity Controls
Neurodivergent people are treated as noise to be filtered out in most studies supporting the “science of learning”. We are discounted as outliers. Our needs and ways of being are deemed too inconvenient to consider. So, the vast majority of studies just ignore us.
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Niche Construction and Toolbelt Theory: Developing the Tools and Terroir of Coping and Learning
Niche Construction focuses on shaping the environment. Toolbelt Theory emphasizes personal tool selection. Together, they promote autonomy, adaptability, and personalized learning experiences.
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One Size Fits All? A story about the education system.
Zoe Williams is a late identified autistic parent, who writes about autistic identity and culture. Find her on Medium and Mastodon. Imagine that one day you decide to go clothes shopping. You go into a clothes shop and realise that the shop only sells one item of clothing, in one size. Let’s say it’s a…
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Classroom Conflicts: An Autistic Student’s Classroom Challenges
For autistic students, whose sensory sensitivities, communication styles, and learning requirements differ from those of their neurotypical peers, the mainstream classroom can be an overwhelming environment. Many educators often lack the awareness, sensitivity or training required to identify and support autistic students effectively.
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Next Steps as a Community of Resistance
We have a lot of work to do in the USA (and everywhere) to combat what’s coming. Care systems will be attacked. We must build a counterculture of care. Care work makes all other work possible. Here are some next steps for our community at Stimpunks.
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Instead of metrics, fixate on joy to motivate learning.
Instead of metric fixation, joy fixation. Learning goes where intrinsic motivation leads. Measurement kills curiosity, joy, and intrinsic motivation.
