kilroy_jones

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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
The article isn't saying that classes can't be online, just that the medium doesn't work as well when employing certain teaching techniques.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Most teachers are still working doing online learning though, which why I stated they'd prefer to be in the classroom. Online learning is all the worst parts of teaching with very little of the joy. Sure, if someone wanted to pay me to
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
It does seem that way, and I hope it remains so. The demographics have shifted younger. I do worry about my parents, grandparents and friends who have preexisting conditions and the increase risk with so many more cases around.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Of course there will be people like this. Do you think they are anywhere close to the majority?
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Isn't living life in the same way pre-covid the reason the US is having so many new cases?
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Most teachers would rather be in the classroom than do online learning. They'd also like people to be safe. The issue comes with trying to force kids to wear masks when so many parents are against them in many places, maintain social d
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Maybe the issue lies more in your first statement that children need to go somewhere. That's a fairly modern notion. If we've created a society where we rely on strangers to care for our kids, then maybe that's something that
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
And how does one determine this enlightened few and how do they get out into power? It seems like you're advocating for what would quickly become an aristocracy, People can work together, but an effective system of organization needs t
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
So you're equating the banning of accounts to the blocking of the majority of internet?
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Not even remotely true. The West has myriad choices to choose from in comparison. I don't think you understand how in sync the media is there. They'll literally run identical stories at the same time on every major network, and pu
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
No need to say anything really.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Well, being good and for the public good are separate concepts in my mind. That aside, you never addressed the smoking, seatbelt or helmet laws with regard to adults. Permissible or not?
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
I came here to comment this exact thing. I was fascinated by Fuller as a teenager.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
I assume you're also against seatbelt and helmet laws. What about those laws applying to children? What about smoking laws? The US already has numerous laws that few people complain about because they've come to recognize them as
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
That people consider civil unrest because they're told to wear masks for a few months in order to prevent countless deaths is more a sign of a broken culture than anything else.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
It's not dangerous at all. The US already has helmet laws for motorcycles and kids on bikes, seatbelt laws, gun laws around safe use and numerous other laws that prevent people from inadvertently affecting others lives. Making people w
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
If they had made it a temporary law and fined people heavily at the very beginning it would have saved thousands of lives and jobs. Look at the countries that acted swiftly back in January and February.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
To get something made or to work at?
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
At what point do we stop wasting time and energy trying to build better tools to catch cheaters and start focusing on building a better system of education and assessment? If a kid can cheat, pass, get a degree and go out and not fail in th
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
I've never had a battery life problem with Arch or Mint.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Maybe there is a spatial element, as in a mental mapping that is done based on the location in the book both seen and felt in the hands.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
You could fix almost everything with education as long as parents stepped in and were competent enough to do so.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Younger students (K-12) need interaction with other students and their teachers, not lectures. I teach some of the most motivated and diligent students you could ask for, but after 3 weeks of online learning they were burnt out. To further
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
And all it took was a few thousand unnecessary deaths. Vietnam and Taiwan temporarily shutdown, and the former had 0 deaths while the latter has had less than 10.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Thanks for saying, and more eloquently than I likely could, exactly what I wanted to.
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by kilroy_jones 7y ago
The surveillance state is already here, whether we like it or not.
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by kilroy_jones 7y ago
Taiwan's leadership, ahem. Only 50 or so cases and their approval rating has soared.
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by kilroy_jones 7y ago
As someone in Taiwan, I have appreciated the 'over reaction.' Masks are still on 80% of the people riding public transport even though cases have hardly budged in weeks. What people don't get is even if you're young and
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by kilroy_jones 7y ago
Pretty bad attitude to have considering how your carelessness can adversely affect many others.
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by kilroy_jones 7y ago
I find this idea of putting everything in economic terms worrying. What does excessive food waste say about the quality of the culture?

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