Egan pattern language — index

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Humanities

Epic Stories°
Big History°
Philosophy Everywhere°
Playing Inside Stories°
Spiral History°
Geography by Heart° (May 1)
Dueling Histories° (May 24)
Nested Timelines° (June 19)
World Religions Throughout° (July 12)
Everyone Learns Law° (August 7)
Everyone Learns Economics° (August 30)

After that, patterns in the humanities will include stuff like Customs & Cultures°, Brief Lives°, People & Their Ideas°, Conspiracy Theories°, Worldviews°, Drawing Maps°, Shading Maps°, the Geography Game°, Metaknowledge°, Other Maps°, Intergenerational Conversations°, Know Yourself°, Asking the Big Questions°, Where do We Come from?°, What are We?°, What is a Good Life?°, What is a Good Society?°, People in Your Neighborhood°, Microhistories°, Simulations°, and Stories without Bad Guys°.

Science

Origin Stories°
Secrets and Revelations°
A Riddle Wrapped in a Game°
Star Lore°
Know a Tree°
Tracking the Sky° (March 15)
Site-Grokking° (April 10)
Local Birds° (May 3)
Shrink Ray° (May 29)
Imagining the Truth is True° (June 21)
Cryptids° (July 17)
Guesstimates° (August 9)
Masters of Measurement° (September 4)

After that, we’ll continue with Getting Comfy with Big Numbers°, Fermi Estimates°, Walking Curriculum°, Local Trees°, Size Line°, Local Bugs°, Dinosaurs & Aliens & Sharks O My°, DIY Textbooks°, Be the Creature°, Local Flowers°, Catch ‘em All°, Outdoor Detectives°, Animal & Plant Champions°, Animals & Plants in the Classroom°, World Records°, Physics of Superheroes°, Unit Conversions°, Dueling Scientists°, Draw Your Local Ecosystem°, Social Science in High School°, Biology of Imaginary Creatures°, Metaphors before Definitions°, We are Surrounded by Mystery°, Evolution Throughout°, All the Sciences at Once°, A Special Place for Animals°, See Smells°, Peering through a Microscope°, Bottoms-Up Explanations°, My Favorite Molecules°, Atoms on Up°, and, um, more.

Art

A Song a Week°
Strange Sensations°
A Painting a Week°
Mysterious Music°
Simple Doodles°
A Movie a Month° (May 8)
Making Noise° (May 31)
Songs that Teach° (June 26)
Drawing in 3D° (July 19)
Playing Instruments° (August 14)
Dancing in the Classroom° (September 6)

And after that, look forward to patterns like Going Outside°, Drawing What You See°, Aesthetics Unpacked°, Understanding Comics°, and How to Take Photos°.

Math

Origin Stories°
Boss Questions°
Concept Ladders°
Multiple Representations° (February 28)
Mysterious Messages°
Counting Rhymes°
Telling Jokes° (May 10)
Finger Counting° (June 5)
Building on Someone Else’s Curriculum° (June 28)
Pebble Computing° (July 24)
Other Number Systems° (August 16)
Ciphers° (September 11)

And after that, look forward to Counting in Other Languages°, Microscaffolded Math°, Chanting Your Times Tables°, Classic Riddles°, Solution Snobbery°, Deep Practice Books° (though you can already see a long version of that here), Foreshadowing High School Math°, Writing on Walls°, Every Game is Calvinball°, Pi = 3°, Just Board Games°, and Calendar Math°.

Language

Story Ingredients°
Other Alphabets°
Book Tastings°
Origins of the Alphabet°
World Proverbs° (April 19)
Living Books° (May 15)
Book X-rays° (June 7)
A Poem a Week° (July 3)
Strong Sentences° (July 26)
Powerful Paragraphs° (August 21)
Microliterature° (September 13)

After that, we’ll have Teaching in Another Language°, Origins of Words°, World Fables°, Get Thee to a Library°, Sentence Simplification°, Origins of Punctuation°, Moves of Disagreement°, Great Quotes°, Dissecting Sentences°, Dissecting Words°, Speed-Reading°, Slow-Reading°, Why is This Funny?°, One Very Different Language°, Book Distillations°, Narrative Theory°, Idea-Driven Fiction°, Humor at Its Finest°, Dueling Interpreters°, Canon Wars°, Teaching the IPA°, Benjamin Franklin’s Method°, and Many Subtle Words°.

Practical Superpowers

Unraveling Fears°
Art of Memory°
Learning in Depth°
Public Speaking°
Lying to Students° (April 24)
Forgetting Curve Box° (May 17)
Spaced Repetition° (June 12)
Teaching Hyperfocus° (July 5)
Teaching Habit Formation° (July 31)
Kids on Stages° (August 22)
Cooking Lunch Together° (September 18)

And after that, look forward to Teaching Deliberate Practice°, Blindfolded Typing°, Working on One Thing°, Giving Immediate Feedback°, and Handwriting You Love°.

Schools & Classrooms

A Market for Lessons°
Cumulative Content°
Named Virtues° (March 8)
Every School a Tribe° (April 3)
Radical Inclusivity° (April 26)
Youth Charters° (May 22)
Split the School° (June 14)
Cal Newport Goes to High School° (July 10)
Every Class a Brain° (August 2)
Lunch Conversations° (August 28)
10-Second Answers° (September 20)

After that, we’ll amble around Finger Code°, Quick Thumbs°, Estimating Your Understanding°, Extended Memory Systems°, Color Code°, Genius Rocks°, Stinkin’ Badges°, Impossible Conversations°, Within/Above/Beyond the Culture Wars°, Montessori Work Stations°, Question Board°, Cheese & Wine & Posters°, Meal Rituals°, and Mythic Before Romantic Before Philosophic°.

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