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8 votes
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Finnish teacher Ilona Taimela secretly taught IS children in Syrian camps by text through the Lifelong Learning Foundation
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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 -
Grades as communication
21 votes -
Supreme Court weighs mandating public funds for religious schools in Maine
8 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
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‘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 -
File not found: A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans
25 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 -
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 -
Oklahoma mom of eleven helps rescue ten girls on Afghanistan's robotics team
14 votes -
He taught a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay. Then he was fired.
12 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)?
17 votes -
I signed up to write college essays for rich kids. I found cheating is more complicated than I thought.
29 votes -
You are not a visual learner: The biggest myth in education
15 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 -
Namecheap Expert Summit 2021
6 votes -
Furor over Pennsylvania teacher's pension fund widens with push to oust leaders
7 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 -
Choosing a school in a segregated city
9 votes -
Yearbook photos of girls were altered to hide their chests
21 votes -
NYC snow days: Dismay as school snow days cancelled
12 votes -
California will discourage students who are gifted at math
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Recommended training courses for graphic arts?
My fiance is an artist who was laid off because he worked for a major employer in the entertainment industry that required him to be in contact with people. So he's been unemployed for a long time...
My fiance is an artist who was laid off because he worked for a major employer in the entertainment industry that required him to be in contact with people.
So he's been unemployed for a long time now, but he has been trying to find work, but there isn't really anything available that uses his particular skills. So we invested in a digital art workstation (basically just bought a monitor with a digitizer built in to use a pen with) so that he could work on becoming an independant artist. But he's so bad at marketing and he spends so much time worrying about fine details that it takes him over a week to finish a single piece, so he hasn't had any success.
So if you combine this with a broken tooth that he hasn't been able to get taken care of because of a lapse in his dental insurance, he's not been in a good place.
I just bought a Mac and was looking for mac-native graphics programs (I sometimes work on marketing, so I need to do photo editing from time to time. Also I used to do photography as a hobby and want to get back into it), when I came across Serif's Affinity Designer Workbook. And I thought to myself that getting my fiance a training course in graphic design would allow him to shift gears into a segment where there is more work. It'll also give him a bit of a kick in the pants to get him moving and feeling better about himself.
I'm sure everyone knows there are millions of online training courses available right now, so I'm hoping someone might have any recommendations. I have some money saved up, so I don't mind paying a little bit extra if it'll result in better results. I'd prefer if it were a class that didn't rely on Adobe Illustrator if possible, but I know that it's the 'standard' and he'll probably have better luck if he has experience in it.
9 votes -
School almost 'eliminates bullying' with break-time ban on games
23 votes