<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Emergence on TouchingFish.top</title><link>https://touchingfish.top/en/tags/emergence/</link><description>Recent content in Emergence on TouchingFish.top</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://touchingfish.top/en/tags/emergence/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>An Angel Passes: The Phenomenon of "Spontaneous Silence" in Unsupervised Classrooms</title><link>https://touchingfish.top/en/2020/angel-passing-by/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://touchingfish.top/en/2020/angel-passing-by/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="background"&gt;Background&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think we can all agree on the following facts of life: an unsupervised self-study class, the moment the teacher's footsteps fade down the corridor, immediately becomes the closest thing to a livestock market that a school building has ever hosted. Then, the second those same footsteps return — never mind that the teacher is still a solid thirty seconds away and probably looking for their lanyard — the room achieves a level of collective silence usually reserved for the funerals of people we didn't much care for.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>