Hi babblers! If you’re reading this then it is officially spring! Pat on the back to us all for making it through, though we still have a couple weeks till the last frost.

Through tiktok debates, bad movie adaptation discourse, & popular headlines I’ve noticed a pattern of using the so called, literacy crisis, to diminish people’s opinions or as a vague term to virtue signal and separate yourself as an intellectual. But what even is the literacy crisis? And how easily can we fall into elitist rhetoric instead of investigating the intersectionality and root of a problem? So let’s chat about the literacy crisis!

Special thanks to my mom, Sarah Hawley, for joining me to have a deep discussion about education, the literacy crisis, and the American school system with her first hand 20+ years experience as an educator.

REFERENCES & MORE INFO: https://babblings.net/so-you-want-to-talk-about-the-literacy-crisis/

Time Stamps:

5:20 Current Events Corner

6:24 Jon Lemon & Georgia Fort - Journalist Arrested

10:37 Remembering Wael Tarabishi - ICE targeting people w/ disabilities

14:21 US/Israel v Iran

16:49 Main Topic: The So Called Literacy Crisis

20:17 The Reading Wars & Literacy Politics

24:04 Literacy Crisis or Critical Thinking Crisis?

25:16 Let’s Talk To An Expert

INTERVIEW STARTS:

26:30 What are the challenges to teaching kids how to read?

37:35 Understanding Literacy Crisis Data

49:55 Phonics vs Whole Language

56:05 The American School System

1:00:06 The Importance of Reading & Complex Texts

1:20:14 Reading & Empathy

1:24:50 AI and Future Crisis

1:26:46 JUST READ!!

1:28:23 Outro

Links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliannreed/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@babblings20

Podcast Links: https://babblings.net/category/babblings_pod/

Blog: babblings.net

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Hello babblers! I'm so excited to finally get this aging episode out to you all. Despite sickness delays and the holidays I felt this needed to come out before the 1st of the year. I hope you enjoy and may it be the start of healing for us all the fear of aging!

GO DEEPER (References/Resources): https://babblings.net/whys-everyone-afraid-of-aging-podcast/

Time Stamps:

0:00 HELLO! Happy Holidays :)

5:35 NO NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

8:23 Current Events Corner

9:04 Pantone Color of the Year????

13:05 The Met Gala Theme

17:47 Met Employees Move to Unionize

22:09 Recommended Article: Centering Sundanese Voices

23:28 WHY’S EVERYONE AFRAID OF AGING??

25:12 I like getting older! Experiencing death young, not being afraid of dying

31:57 We take aging for granted

34:55 Fear of loosing attractiveness & the beauty industry

39:19 Subliminal Messaging In Media

40:34 The real underlying fears of aging

42:12 Our fear and view of death

44:08 AGING IS NOT A DISEASE

Welcome to a special edition babblings’ report - podcast bonus episode! *tehehehehe* I have some updates and thoughts that I just didn’t feel like organizing on paper and wanted to chat with you about. If you listen to anything please jump to the section about me leaving substack and moving babblings to my own website :) I also talk about wintering, the grit you earn working a service job, and more babbles. time stamps below. xoxo, Ali Ann

Time Stamps:

0:00 HELLO!

2:39 Deleting my subscriptions, Financial Advise??

17:02 Winter Goal: Fix Attention Span

18:55 Winter Goal: Nondigital Activities

20:17 Wintering & Living In Season

24:47 Leaving Substack!

36:12 Tarot Card Reading: You Needed To Lock In & Now It Will Pay Off

39:49 I LOVE YOU!!

Links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliannreed/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@babblings20

Podcast Links: https://babblings.substack.com/podcast

Blog: https://babblings.substack.com/