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by japhyr 12y ago
I teach high school math and science. I don't let my students use the phrase "believe in evolution", no matter their perspective. Instead, I focus people's attention on questions such as: "What is the difference bet
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by japhyr 12y ago
What's your teaching background, by the way?
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by japhyr 12y ago
Yes. I wanted to be a particle physicist, but decided to teach for a couple years so I wouldn't go straight HS->university->grad school. I stayed in teaching, though, because I found the intellectual challenges of teaching well j
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by japhyr 12y ago
It's an interesting post, but the copy is not very well edited overall. It's certainly part of what makes me question what happens with the quality of his projects beyond the initial sales.
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by japhyr 12y ago
I teach high school math and science. I don't let my students use the phrase "believe in evolution", no matter their perspective. Instead, I focus people's attention on questions such as: "What is the difference bet
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by japhyr 12y ago
Have you looked at sed yet?
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by japhyr 12y ago
I know Lenovo lost some respect recently, but I love my T420s. I anticipate using it another 3-5 years.
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by japhyr 12y ago
I'm most excited about the color scales. It looks like a helpful tool for situations where the standard colormaps in matplotlib/pyplot don't work well. Is that an appropriate use case? I also like seeing nbviewer used for doc
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by japhyr 12y ago
This looks really useful. I've played around with colormaps in a few visualization projects, but I've never made the time to learn about the various color packages. What does this add to colormath and grapefruit?
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by japhyr 12y ago
With 17 points in 40 minutes, any idea why this isn't on the front page? /new has more posts with more than 1 point than it normally does.
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by japhyr 12y ago
Fair questions. Word works well for students' final work, but it seems to get in the way when students are building their understanding of a topic. I like that Markdown has enough formatting options to organize a document, but not so m
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by japhyr 12y ago
Teaching the rules is straightforward, I just don't know the available tools very well. I use Markdown on GitHub mostly. My students will need to print more of their work than I do, they'll want to work on their local filesystem m
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by japhyr 12y ago
Stackedit looks great, thanks for the reference.
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by japhyr 12y ago
I'm a high school teacher, and I'd love to start encouraging students to write in Markdown instead of Word. It would be a lot easier to do that with an application like this. But I haven't looked into it too closely, so I&#x2
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Syria After Four Years of Mayhem(nytimes.com)
2 points by japhyr 12y ago|0 comments
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For Tech Titans, Sharing Has Its Limits(nytimes.com)
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by japhyr 12y ago
Is this always nepotism, or does it have something to do with the reluctance some organizations have in firing someone?
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by japhyr 12y ago
For a fuller context, and to get a better sense of why people are taking his actions seriously, take a look at the original post Schilling wrote where he explains how ugly it got: https://38pitches.wordpress.com/2015/03
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by japhyr 12y ago
Also, I believe a person's freedom of speech ends when speech creates a real threat to another person's safety. These kinds of tweets definitely create a threat to the recipient's safety.
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by japhyr 12y ago
These are not innuendos, these are threats.
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by japhyr 12y ago
In a typical college model there is no homework What did you study? I studied physics, and most of my classes were heavily dependent on homework. It wasn't always part of the grade, but it was something that was assigned and reviewed
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by japhyr 12y ago
This sounds like a pretty good policy. Was this high school or college?
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by japhyr 12y ago
They even gave bad grades. Did this have any lasting impact? I get really frustrated when grades are used more as punishment for behavior, even academic behaviors, than they are used to represent actual learning. Any homework is a comple
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by japhyr 12y ago
This sounds great; I wish more parents would advocate for their children in the face of poorly-designed homework policies. How much conflict did you have with your children's teachers over the years? How much conflict did your kids hav
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by japhyr 12y ago
It's a parenting fail if you can't control a situation to the point where your child is experiencing emotional distress to the point of kicking and screaming. This is an incredibly broad and judgemental comment. Kids experience
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by japhyr 12y ago
I hope that the anecdotes you collect here will simply be a supplement to a review of that research. Definitely. We're a small alternative school, of about 30 students. We're planning to revise our policy with students. We'
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Ask HN: What was homework like for you?
21 points by japhyr 12y ago|43 comments
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by japhyr 12y ago
Is that good or bad?
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by japhyr 12y ago
The education profession could benefit greatly from a stronger implementation of the open source model. The software industry has been using vim and emacs for 40 years now. But the education profession has no dedicated lesson planning tool
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by japhyr 12y ago
Touching the Void is the story of Joe Simpson's epic climb on Siula Grande with Simon Yates. They summited the 20,000+ foot mountain in the Andes, but Joe fell just below the summit and broke his leg. Simon could have climbed down al

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