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by yequalsx 15y ago
You taught in k-12? I have no experience in k-12 teaching other than the project I was on two years ago. The project I mentioned in my previous post. I definitely have a negative bias toward what is done in k-12 but my experience two years
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Wow. Your logic is quite bad. 1. Man criticizes worthless activities in the classroom. 2. Man creates product to help teachers with their bingo day. 3. Bingo day can be considered to be a worthless classroom activity (I'm such a person.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The bias I perceive in you is not based solely on two comments you've made. It's just two comments that I've responded to. I'm not playing "you're only allowed to have opinions on pedagogy if you're a real teacher" game as you put it. Anyo
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by yequalsx 15y ago
He makes a product geared toward teachers. He made a comment about busywork in the classroom and, what appeared to me, to be against this and against activities that hold brighter students back. I find it interesting because using bingo c
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The orientation for new faculty ought to consist solely of your first sentence. Too many of my colleagues don't seem to understand this.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
You have what appears to me a bias against teachers. I find this curious given one of your products. I personally think that bingo is a worthless activity but I don't thrust this opinion on other teachers. Personalities come into play with
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by yequalsx 15y ago
That is a very nice explanation. It shows why intuitively we expect (a+1)/(b+1) to be greater. But note that there are some unstated assumptions. Namely that both a, b > 0. And so we see that intuition at times carries unstated assum
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The history of the free market (to the extent that markets can truly be free) shows that your view in italics is not correct. Regulation has led to clean water standards, electrical wiring standards, safe working environments, etc. In coun
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Clearly people, in aggregate, need to have some choices made for them. It's not feasible for everyone to be knowledgable enough to know what constitutes acceptable electrical wiring in a home. In such a case isn't it best to have an agency
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Patio11 made a claim that calls for reform, school choice, testing, etc. all had as their goal employment of teachers and that education of students was a by-product. Specifically he/she said this in regard to professional development. I r
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by yequalsx 15y ago
In the same way that a bad parent who becomes a better parent knows they are now a better parent. Some things are not quantifiable. I know of no effective national evaluation system for parenting and yet some parents are good parents. I
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Been in the classroom for 17 years in higher education. I'm much better at my job now than I was 17 years ago. I've learned a lot in the intervening 17 years. Wisdom and experience count for something and imparting this onto other is us
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by yequalsx 15y ago
As I understand naturalization it is a pointless question. Whether I was naturalized at birth or at a later date is entirely irrelevant. In case anyone is wondering, I'm white and a native speaker of English who doesn't speak any other la
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I'm a natural born U.S. citizen from the Canal Zone (former U.S. territory). I get harassed quite a bit whenever I come back to the U.S. from overseas. The last time I was brusquely asked if I was a natural born citizen or had been natura
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Your tone is inappropriate. There is no need for me to shut up. Step 1 of fixing a problem is to understand the nature of the problem. If one thinks that selfishness is a good thing that leads to positive outcomes then the same destructiv
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I did read that last sentence of yours and tried to think about your overall message. The part where you wrote about markets effectively translating selfish behavior into the greater good seemed to indicate that you thought the parts where
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by yequalsx 15y ago
If everyone voted selfishly then majority rule would benefit the majority? I don't think so. This definitely doesn't scale in the way you seem to think it does. An extreme example. Suppose a country consists of three tribes. Each tribe
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by yequalsx 15y ago
That was funny. Nicely put. Unfortunately side effects of legislation are rarely part of the public debate. I don't know a cure for this though. Connecting dots is just not something a lot of people have been trained to do.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I've been creating videos for my mathematics students for a long time. I've used Camtasia and Captivate. The problem is that I exported all these videos to Flash and didn't worry about the dimensions of the videos. Now it appears that Fla
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Healthcare is a scarce resource but what you say isn't all that universal healthcare provides. All healthcare systems must ration care. The goal is to ration care in the most ethical/moral way. The present system in the U.S. rationalizes
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Your claim about temperatures not rising over the last 10 years is not true. [1] [1] http://www.climateinstitute.org.au/index.php?option=com_cont...
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by yequalsx 15y ago
What you wrote pretty much sums up why I went with a Macbook Air recently. My first Apple product ever. I used to think in terms of cutting edge video card, processor, etc. But my last Windows laptop would freeze up from getting too hot.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Your country is Turkmenistan? How long ago were you 17? That's an interesting perspective. I had thought that this effect you are talking about was going to occur in the U.S. 5 years ago. I think now we are fully seeing this realization
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The truly astounding statistic to me is that Apple sold 26% more Macs than the same quarter a year ago. This while PC sales for other manufacturers declines or remained stagnant. We expect to see increases in the tablet and smartphone marke
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The truly astounding statistic to me is that Apple sold 26% more Macs than the same quarter a year ago. This while PC sales for other manufacturers declines or remained stagnant. We expect to see increases in the tablet and smartphone mar
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by yequalsx 15y ago
And yet, the number of people who learned engineering, chemistry, math, physics, computer science, etc. from books alone is dwarfed by the number of people who got such knowledge from schools. Few people have have the mental and emotional
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I've been teaching in higher education for 17 years. In that time the number of students I've had that desire to gain knowledge and really understand the material and who failed my class is zero.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I think if you talk to anyone in teaching (except at an elite university or setting) will tell you that students don't do optional. Students do problems because they will get a number for it. They won't do problems (by and large) if there
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by yequalsx 15y ago
You are absolutely correct. Humans are not rational in this respect. Every overweight person I know wants to lose weight. Well then just exercise and eat better, right? Life is more complicated than that. The contrived setting of the cl
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by yequalsx 15y ago
As stated, based on my personal experience tests are a good determinant on who should proceed and who should not. I get to know my students. Even before they take their test I know, for the most part, who are going to do well and who aren

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