<![CDATA[Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going.]]>Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/1ada0bd2-1003-4a9a-97c2-c11d6604947c/teaching-fifth-graders-to-properly-bind-books-because-it-s-interesting-but-also-because-i-suspect-it-might-be-a-needed-life-skill-the-way-things-are-going.RSS for NodeMon, 05 Oct 2026 07:02:31 GMTMon, 28 Sep 2026 23:36:42 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:36:41 GMT]]>@ratiogeraet @rothko

Looking at the post-consumer apocalypse wasteland paintings of of Simon Stålenhag I must say again that he's a visionary SF artist.

It's not just the sense of a cataclysm but the nature of it suggested by the wreckage.

https://www.simonstalenhag.se/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117353650706735844https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117353650706735844Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:36:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:06:14 GMT]]>@futurebird My 3rd grader and I actually did some book binding over the summer. Basically a coptic stitch with leather straps and an exposed spine.

She had a lot of fun and she has now asked about binding different books. Once you know that it's a thing you can "just make", it really changes how you view books at all.

Even if it's just "fold paper and staple the middle", it really changes the sense of what it means to create these essential things.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/gatesvp/statuses/117352823188945928https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/gatesvp/statuses/117352823188945928Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:06:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:10:16 GMT]]>@futurebird I hope lots of teachers are thinking the way you do.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/ChristineMalec/statuses/117352603080105285https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/ChristineMalec/statuses/117352603080105285Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:10:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:36:46 GMT]]>@futurebird
I rather love this —books can also be a foundation for collecting and sharing other arts. Quite enabling.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/null_hypothesis/statuses/117352471382415049https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/null_hypothesis/statuses/117352471382415049Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:36:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:02:09 GMT]]>@FediThing @futurebird carving in stone?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/geonz/statuses/117352099316054741https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/geonz/statuses/117352099316054741Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:02:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:41:19 GMT]]>@futurebird a young girl at church the other day was advised by her mother to ask me about parakeets -- i've had many over the years, and the girl is interested in getting a pair. so we sat down and she asked me very good questions about bird care etc, and she asked where she might find more info. i had to caution her about trusting online sources for pet care as it's all AI slop now. i picked up an old copy of the same book i've had for years, going to give it to her next sunday.

is this what all the technological advances of the last 40 years have come to? "don't trust the internet, kid, go read a book instead"...?!?!?!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/rothko/statuses/117352017366588079https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/rothko/statuses/117352017366588079Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:41:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:15:51 GMT]]>@futurebird Ever read this 114 year old Jack London story, "The Scarlet Plague", about a post-apocalypse future where the Youngs don't believe the old people who try to tell them what civilization was? It's a bit underedited inho but brilliantly prescient and ridiculously relevant today: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21970

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/117351917289278013https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/117351917289278013Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:15:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:57:15 GMT]]>@msbellows

see me after class

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117351844107195469https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117351844107195469Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:57:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:57:07 GMT]]>@futurebird although who needs binding? Jack Kerouac didn't.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/muddle/statuses/117351843626446989https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/muddle/statuses/117351843626446989Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:57:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:38:32 GMT]]>@futurebird
I wonder whether any of your students are having that epiphany that comes with growing a bean plant

“Oh! That’s where it comes from.” (´∀｀)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/EscGoat/statuses/117351770538209303https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/EscGoat/statuses/117351770538209303Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:38:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:38:13 GMT]]>@futurebird What are "books"?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/117351769289153199https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/117351769289153199Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:38:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:25:07 GMT]]>@futurebird I'd have loved to do this, especially at that age. At one point my dad played around with bookbinding a bit. I remember him making me a tiny bound notebook (maybe 1" x ¾"), and later I started (but never finished) binding some magazines together like a book, treating them as the signatures.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/timtfj/statuses/117351717750304497https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/timtfj/statuses/117351717750304497Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:25:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:24:21 GMT]]>@jargoggles @futurebird The Non-Apocolypse has robbed us of style and labled it "buisness casual"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Epic_Null/statuses/117351478802349032https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Epic_Null/statuses/117351478802349032Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:24:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:07:33 GMT]]>@futurebird @asakiyume support your local loom collective.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kind.social/users/Rye/statuses/117351412781484306https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kind.social/users/Rye/statuses/117351412781484306Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:07:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:06:11 GMT]]>@Epic_Null @futurebird
If the apocalypse robs us of style, then what would we even be saving? What would be the point?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/jargoggles/statuses/117351407357041255https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/jargoggles/statuses/117351407357041255Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:06:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:03:01 GMT]]>@jargoggles @futurebird Goose quils? Can Chicken be used instead? Geese are probably not the easiest to raise...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Epic_Null/statuses/117351394912528600https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Epic_Null/statuses/117351394912528600Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:03:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:57:11 GMT]]>@futurebird
If your prepper kit doesn't include a bunch of tapers, ink pots, goose quills, and monk habits, can you really say you're ready for societal collapse?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/jargoggles/statuses/117351372007774000https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/jargoggles/statuses/117351372007774000Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:57:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:52:50 GMT]]>@asakiyume

I don't know if we have time to make a loom 😛

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117351354877538391https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117351354877538391Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:52:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:52:20 GMT]]>@futurebird So much stuff falls into this category now ... it's looming.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/users/asakiyume/statuses/117351352926764319https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/users/asakiyume/statuses/117351352926764319Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:52:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:39:46 GMT]]>@giflian

Traditional with signatures, but we also do an Eastern binding mini book.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117351303489763765https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117351303489763765Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:39:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going. on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:38:59 GMT]]>@futurebird what sort of binding methods?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://techhub.social/users/giflian/statuses/117351300448326023https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://techhub.social/users/giflian/statuses/117351300448326023Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:38:59 GMT