Pixie Tomacruz
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Pixie Tomacruz
The Elegance of Digital Disappearance
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on going offline
The problem with your monthly curriculum
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But there's a difference between tourism and exploration. Many monthly curriculums are just tourism, meaning a passive wandering through other people's ideas.
Consider Bloom’s taxonomy, an educational framework describing levels of learning as a pyramid. At the base: remembering and understanding (important, but still passive). Moving up: applying a
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Philippine indigenous communities recognize a woman (or man) as a Babaylan, someone who has the ability to mediate with the spirit world, has her own spirit guides, and is given gifts of healing, foretelling, and insight. She may also have knowledge of healing therapies such as hilot, arbularyo. She is a ritualist, a chanter, diviner. She has the g... See more
What is Babaylan? | Babaylan Studies
Language fluency is activism.