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28 votes
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The SAT will go completely digital by 2024
5 votes -
Jordan Peterson’s resignation is about one thing: Money
12 votes -
University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error
17 votes -
The White House will freeze Federal student loan repayments until May 1
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Denmark says it will take measures to protect teachers' freedom of expression and prevent the risks of self-censorship
8 votes -
Finnish teacher Ilona Taimela secretly taught IS children in Syrian camps by text through the Lifelong Learning Foundation
12 votes -
I'm stuck and could use some help, pretty please
okay tildes here to tell suspended to leave their kid alone about discord on the school computer. that was easy advice to give! But how about a real challenge in what-should-i-do-about-the-boy?...
okay tildes here to tell suspended to leave their kid alone about discord on the school computer. that was easy advice to give! But how about a real challenge in what-should-i-do-about-the-boy? hold onto your HATS bc I've got a TOUGHIE~!
see I was tutoring this 13yo last year. He was super isolated and he still is. He deals with a range of insecurity and frustration. He leaps to conclusions and struggles with anger at the people around him, especially his mother. I used to spend time with him daily, but then I moved towns and now our contact is limited to chat and video call. We talk throughout the week but we always video call on wednesdays. His mother asked me if we could switch days, because she wants him to go to after school sessions with a math teacher who has noticed his grades falling. When I talked to him about the possibility of swapping so he could attend the afterschool, he told me that he didn't want go to sessions for dumb kids. I said I was flexible regardless so he can't use the time I reserve for him as an excuse not to go -- but I worry that his perception that the sessions are for dumb kids reflects a stigma that will prevent him from asking for help when he needs it.
How do I push back on the idea that getting extra help with school could imply that he is somehow inexcusably deficient? I sense that most of his other teachers are setting the bar even lower for him than they did last year; his take-home assignments are uniformly inane, and he knows it. How would you communicate around why it is important to try and to practice trying when so much of what is expected of him is transparently pointless? My friendship with him has become important, I think, but I worry a lot that I have no chance to guide him toward a better life and this episode has been a keen example.
5 votes -
Supreme Court weighs mandating public funds for religious schools in Maine
8 votes -
Grades as communication
21 votes -
Pseudowork and real work
7 votes -
US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools
18 votes -
Why I'm tired of hearing about wokeism
7 votes -
He created The Oregon Trail and he didn’t make a penny
11 votes -
Where the humanities aren't in crisis
3 votes -
‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books
17 votes -
Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
12 votes -
Goodbye, MIT
14 votes -
Improving MIT’s written commitment to freedom of expression
4 votes -
UCSB Student Housing Cube
6 votes -
Architect resigns in protest over UCSB mega-dorm
21 votes -
To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics
4 votes -
As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace & outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it
16 votes -
File not found: A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans
25 votes -
Bus driver shortages are latest challenge hitting US schools
8 votes -
The tragedy of America's rural schools
9 votes -
The cult in a boarding school
3 votes -
Inderkum High School teacher to be fired after allegedly indoctrinating students with "antifa" ideals
6 votes -
Virginia school board to pay $1.3 million in transgender student’s suit
13 votes -
He taught a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay. Then he was fired.
12 votes -
Oklahoma mom of eleven helps rescue ten girls on Afghanistan's robotics team
14 votes -
US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities
15 votes -
Schools opened, suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed
8 votes -
Walmart to pay 100% of college tuition and books for associates
11 votes -
If you had to teach a class about information literacy, what would your key points be?
I'm in an online course right now that touches upon information literacy: the ability to access, sort through, and analyze information (particularly online). It is not a very in-depth course, and...
I'm in an online course right now that touches upon information literacy: the ability to access, sort through, and analyze information (particularly online). It is not a very in-depth course, and a lot of the recommendations it gives feel a little limited/dated, or just out of touch with current internet practices (e.g. trust .edu and .gov sites -- don't trust .com sites; use Britannica Online instead of Wikipedia). It also doesn't really account for things like memes, social media, or really much of the modern internet landscape.
I know we have a lot of very technically literate as well as informationally literate people here, and I'm curious: if you were tasked with creating a class to help people learn information literacy, including how to identify misinformation online, what would some of your key points or focuses be? How would you convey those to your students (whether those students are kids, adults, or both)?
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You are not a visual learner: The biggest myth in education
15 votes -
I signed up to write college essays for rich kids. I found cheating is more complicated than I thought.
29 votes -
WeChat deletes Chinese university LGBT accounts in fresh crackdown
16 votes -
California high school stripped of basketball title after tortillas were thrown at opposing Latino players
6 votes -
When this high school valedictorian started giving a speech about being queer, the principal took the mic
11 votes -
2021 United States teacher shortage survey overview
6 votes -
Free Geek Twin Cities: E-Waste and education
5 votes -
In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance
10 votes -
After the worst school year ever, here's what students want most
7 votes -
Furor over Pennsylvania teacher's pension fund widens with push to oust leaders
7 votes -
Namecheap Expert Summit 2021
6 votes -
Lake Highlands, Texas high school valedictorian discards her pre-approved commencement speech to read a statement about abortion rights
15 votes -
Masculinity attitudes across rural, suburban, and urban areas in the United States
8 votes -
The fight to whitewash US history: At least fifteen states are trying to ban schools from teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. The reactionary movement stretches back to the 1920s.
18 votes -
Yearbook photos of girls were altered to hide their chests
21 votes