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by hdctambien 6y ago
It's used as a joke in a lot of circles. "My daughter's old enough to date, I better clean my gun"
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by hdctambien 6y ago
> C++ is more portable because it doesn't require the JVM to run Java is portable BECAUSE of the JVM. If a new computer architecture hits the scene, once someone writes a JVM for it your .class files will run on it (probably). Your
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by hdctambien 6y ago
I think we agree. It has become clear to me that my job is to babysit first, and educate second. If all you really want are babysitters, then you can get away with paying babysitter wages. And you'll be supplied with babysitters. Babys
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by hdctambien 6y ago
The chemistry, history, or anything teachers wouldn't get the 2500 stipend or the industry experience bump (even if they were a professional chemist for 20 years!), so would only make $60,000 after 30 years of teaching (at which point
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by hdctambien 6y ago
Teachers are not paid based on supply and demand. We all get paid the same amount (by district) based purely on years of teaching experience. With little perks for masters degrees ($1000 per year on my district) or teaching a CTE class like
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by hdctambien 6y ago
> is close to impossible to evaluate (and fire bad) teachers in public schools It is harder to hire new (good) teachers than it is to fire bad teachers. My first teaching job paid $29,000 a year in 2004 and I had a CS degree. My classmat
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by hdctambien 6y ago
Or because too many people were using it!
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by hdctambien 6y ago
I have to teach an entire lesson about downloading a file, finding it in the downloads folder, and unzipping it. Apple did a good job abstracting away the file system.
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by hdctambien 7y ago
If unions were the cause of "mediocrity" then there should be better teaching in states that don't have teacher unions right? Ranking of states without unions (2011) https://www.businessinsider.com/states-wher
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by hdctambien 7y ago
The students at my school used to joke and say KMS and KYS all the time, too... until one of those kids actually did. And then they stopped saying that to each other almost over night. Sometimes you are joking, but the person you are joking
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by hdctambien 7y ago
I believe he is refering to this[1]. Each party publishes one each election year. [1] https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FIN...
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by hdctambien 7y ago
I write my tests specifically so previous test questions do not answer future test questions on the same test. It's interesting how many "A students" get B's and C's on the first few tests I give...
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by hdctambien 7y ago
I teach computer science, and you need to know long division in order to understand the % operator. This is actually an issue I run up against because my 15 and 16 year olds ask to use a calculator for things like 23 - 7 ... And then I want
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by hdctambien 7y ago
The reality is that we are teaching as much math as we can. My school teaches Algebra 1, Geometry, Calc, and Stats. We sometimes are able to offer Multivariate Calculus if there are enough Juniors in the BC Calc class. It would be nice if w
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by hdctambien 7y ago
Geometry is really used to introduce proofs. Turns out its easier to get teenagers to understand a proof if you can actually see its results. I think that's a pretty good foundational skill, but I admit that it isn't obvious from
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by hdctambien 7y ago
For the average person a basic understanding of arithmetic would be nice. People are always complaining that schools don't teach them how to do their taxes, but for most people doing taxes is a combination of addition, subtraction, and
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by hdctambien 7y ago
Both the school I went to 20 years ago and the school I teach at now offer Probability&Statistics and AP Prob&Stats and at neither school is Calculus a required course. In fact, you can take any of our 4 Computer Science courses as
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by hdctambien 8y ago
Spinning disks, I suppose
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by hdctambien 8y ago
Cheating can take from others. Merit scholarships are given based on class rank. If the #11 student cheats to get to #10, then they took scholarship money that someone else actually earned. This is a very real problem in my school district.
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by hdctambien 9y ago
The company kept the "last check" of the employees who quit (probably by no-showing which is why they didn't pick up their last check) so the company got a few hours of free labor from each employee. "They did this"
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by hdctambien 9y ago
Here's an article from 6 months ago about new helmet technology. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/08/revolutionary-new-zer...
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by hdctambien 9y ago
Sitting is chairs has not been shown to cause cancer.
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by hdctambien 9y ago
I completely understand. I teach AP Computer Science to about 100 students a year and I assign many Open Response questions which are solved by writing code by hand on paper. I grade these using the same rubric as the College Board which
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by hdctambien 9y ago
Honestly, fixing the education of educators would be the best long term solution. Alternatively, creating a complete, ready-to-go curriculum package for every course (as defined in every state) that could be handed to anyone might be a st
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by hdctambien 9y ago
You have to imagine a school full of children like a room full of hackers that will work harder to break your system than they will to follow it. On this forum people say "all you need is a library card" to learn Computer Science,
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by hdctambien 9y ago
> a teacher "trained" in coding is not a programmer And if the "trained teacher" is a programmer, what is stopping them from taking a $100,000 programming job over their $40,000 teaching job (That caps out at $70,00
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by hdctambien 9y ago
The idea is that if you are told "you got the answer, you must be smart", then your success and failure is innate to who you are. You don't have agency over it. If you are told "you got the answer, you must have worked h
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by hdctambien 9y ago
Hanging Chads. See: the year 2000.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
An up vote on a throwaway doesn't earn your main account any internet points, so it's be a thrown away up vote.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
Every single student in the high school I teach at uses Snapchat. All day. Every day.

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