This is the exact point I used to make to my high school students and now to the teachers I work with. The real problem is not whether or not Wikipedia is an "accurate" source. We should never trust one source as being the perfect model of accuracy. Instead we should look at multiple sources.
But overall, as I told my high schoolers, it's a quick reference and should be treated as such. You shouldn't cite Wikipedia in a research paper. Not because it's unreliable, but because it's an encyclopedia.
Good points. Another thing to remember is that a lot of this push towards STEM is in the middle and high schools. It's sorely needed there, and emphasizing it won't hurt humanities at all.
For example. Not many years ago, the high school where I taught English was not very STEM friendly or humanities friendly. We were down to one real elective in English, a very popular mythology course. The others failed to "make" becasue not enough students signed up for them. Of course that was because most students were put in a "mandatory elective" writing class so they could pass a state writing test. They didn't have the room in their schedule for a real humanities elective.
In the meantime, our "Career and Technical Education" department was going strong because students had to take a certain number of those classes. One of their more popular classes was "Sports Marketing." They had three or four sections of that.
Now, these courses are changing a bit. They have fewer courses focusing on Jerry Maguire and more on robotics and coding.This is a good thing.
I'm having the same situation. AT&T swears up and down that they can give me U-verse service . . . until the tech gets there and finds out that the nearest box is miles away. They then tell me that they can probably get me DSL. But when I talk to the call center folks, they say they can't process a DSL order while the system says U-Verse is available. Don't worry, they say, as soon as the maps are updated, we can order your DSL. Almost a year later, the maps aren't updated. It's almost like they vigorously don't want my business.
Agreed. I work on the instructional tech side of the house, but our engineers are good and would not get caught like this. We aren't invulnurable, but we have contingencies.
That was my thinking. We routinely back up the important stuff in my district. This would have been a headache, but the data would have been reasonably safe.
Good point. I'm befuddled by the recent trend of pot enthusiasts attacking alcohol and overstating it's dangers the way people overstate the dangers of pot. It's a weird way to try and prove your point.
See the thing is, as an SCA guy, if I carry the sword, I'm going to have to bring the shield to be really effective. And that's going to be cumbersome in line at the Starbucks. Actually, the polearm would be fairly easy to carry around.
Yep. Except at this point, I'd be happy be ABLE to tell Comcast or anyone else to take a hike. I live in a relatively new subdivision (2008) in a ruralish suburban community about 45 minutes from Charlotte, NC. I can't get broadband from either AT&T or Charter Cable. The cable company refuses to consider running cable into the subdivision and AT&T is so incompetent that they can't get their own system to admit that the nearest U-verse node is too far away to give me Internet.
I've called and begged for service. I've offered to pay to run the cable. They won't even consider it. I asked AT&T to let me step down to DSL. They say they can't "process the order" while the system thinks I can get U-Verse.
It's clear they don't care about competing for my business. It looks like they don't even want my business.
You mean like this?
http://www.news.com.au/national/the-grand-mufti-of-australia-joins-muslim-community-leaders-in-condemning-sydney-siege/story-fncynjr2-1227157148381
The "lone wackos" targeting abortion providers aren't alone. Do a little research and you will find that they have help, ideological reinforcement and cheerleaders among the larger group of anti-abortion protestors.
Agreed. I used to have power service from the for-profit Duke Energy (the same folks that dumped coal ash in the Dan River). Outages were frequent, service was poor and they were constantly appealing to the State power commission to raise rates so they could fatten the purses of their stockholders.
Then I moved 1 mile away into an area covered by the local rural electrical co-op. In two years, my power has gone off a total of 2 times. Each time for under an hour. Customer service is excellent. When Duke (from which my co-op buys power) got a rate increase, the co-op lowered a fee to keep our effective rate down.
Good points. I'm a former classroom teacher whose job now is to help integrate technology into the classroom. We do it slowly, deliberately and with a lot of thinking and planning. We never roll out anything to every kid at once. We study, pilot, review, pilot again if needed and then implement. When I first heard about LA's plan, I was horrified. It was too big, too fast, and not well planned. It was doomed to fail, and at the time, I figured that the fix was in, probably with Pearson. They scare me. Technology in the classroom should be used to create, to collaborate, to innovate. Instead, Pearson and other companies like them want to use it to drill and kill while making a mint off of taxpayer dollars.
You see, there are these things called friends. They are other humans we like to interact with. Some of these "friends" no longer live close to us so we like to see pictures of them, their families, and their activities. Facebook allows us to do these things.
See, here's the thing. Fuck Scott Tibbitts. I don't want his technology. There are so many scenarios where this would unnecessarily screw up my life. What if I'm driving and my wife wants to use my phone to answer a call? That's just one.
More importantly, my car has a built in hands free that I can operate by voice. Why should I not be allowed to use it.
If we really want to make the roads safer, give me the power to arrest the dipshits that fly around me on the Interstate doing 20 miles above the speed limit and changing lanes like they are at Daytona.
I work on the instructional side of technology in K-12. I would suggest the yearly ISTE conference. It rotates around the country in late June. Next year it will be in Philly, I believe. It is massive and has sessions on instruction, administration and pretty much anything else you can imagine. The vendor area usually draws the latest heavy hitters in software, services and hardware.
You may also want to check and see if your state has an ISTE affiliate group. They often hold quality state conferences as well. Here in North Carolina, we have NCTIES in March. It's good for a state conference.
"And every time we have an unusual hurricane, the people who were saying 'weather is not climate' point at the hurricane and say 'see, proof positive of global warming!'
No, actually we don't. The most anyone credible will say is that a warmer climate might mean more intense and more frequent storms.
Your kid doesn't bring home the standards. Your kid brings home crappy worksheets and crappy books. These are made by companies trying to take over education. The Common Core standards themselves are overall better than what they replaced. We need more freely shared teacher-created lessons, units, books and projects so we can ditch the for profit companies making garbage resources.
Wow. You are an idiot getting information from other idiots. There's a reason the Common Core standards don't mention Christianity or the Civil War. Common Core is a set of English/Language Arts and mathematics standards. They AREN'T history standards. They don't address history because they aren't history standards!
The second link is about a history textbook. It's not a common-core aligned history textbook because there are no history standards.
The closest they come is talking about what reading and literacy skills kids should have in the context of reading historical works, for example, they say students should "Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10)."
Do yourself a favor and actually go read the standards instead of reading right-wing hit pieces that have to lie because they don't have any legitimate arguments.
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This is the exact point I used to make to my high school students and now to the teachers I work with. The real problem is not whether or not Wikipedia is an "accurate" source. We should never trust one source as being the perfect model of accuracy. Instead we should look at multiple sources. But overall, as I told my high schoolers, it's a quick reference and should be treated as such. You shouldn't cite Wikipedia in a research paper. Not because it's unreliable, but because it's an encyclopedia.
Good points. Another thing to remember is that a lot of this push towards STEM is in the middle and high schools. It's sorely needed there, and emphasizing it won't hurt humanities at all. For example. Not many years ago, the high school where I taught English was not very STEM friendly or humanities friendly. We were down to one real elective in English, a very popular mythology course. The others failed to "make" becasue not enough students signed up for them. Of course that was because most students were put in a "mandatory elective" writing class so they could pass a state writing test. They didn't have the room in their schedule for a real humanities elective. In the meantime, our "Career and Technical Education" department was going strong because students had to take a certain number of those classes. One of their more popular classes was "Sports Marketing." They had three or four sections of that. Now, these courses are changing a bit. They have fewer courses focusing on Jerry Maguire and more on robotics and coding.This is a good thing.
I'm having the same situation. AT&T swears up and down that they can give me U-verse service . . . until the tech gets there and finds out that the nearest box is miles away. They then tell me that they can probably get me DSL. But when I talk to the call center folks, they say they can't process a DSL order while the system says U-Verse is available. Don't worry, they say, as soon as the maps are updated, we can order your DSL. Almost a year later, the maps aren't updated. It's almost like they vigorously don't want my business.
Agreed. I work on the instructional tech side of the house, but our engineers are good and would not get caught like this. We aren't invulnurable, but we have contingencies.
That was my thinking. We routinely back up the important stuff in my district. This would have been a headache, but the data would have been reasonably safe.
Good point. I'm befuddled by the recent trend of pot enthusiasts attacking alcohol and overstating it's dangers the way people overstate the dangers of pot. It's a weird way to try and prove your point.
See the thing is, as an SCA guy, if I carry the sword, I'm going to have to bring the shield to be really effective. And that's going to be cumbersome in line at the Starbucks. Actually, the polearm would be fairly easy to carry around.
Yep. Except at this point, I'd be happy be ABLE to tell Comcast or anyone else to take a hike. I live in a relatively new subdivision (2008) in a ruralish suburban community about 45 minutes from Charlotte, NC. I can't get broadband from either AT&T or Charter Cable. The cable company refuses to consider running cable into the subdivision and AT&T is so incompetent that they can't get their own system to admit that the nearest U-verse node is too far away to give me Internet. I've called and begged for service. I've offered to pay to run the cable. They won't even consider it. I asked AT&T to let me step down to DSL. They say they can't "process the order" while the system thinks I can get U-Verse. It's clear they don't care about competing for my business. It looks like they don't even want my business.
My thought exactly. I kept wanting to hit the spacebar to deploy the chutes.
I'm all for free speech, but forcing someone to watch that may be taking it a bit too far.
You mean like this?
http://www.news.com.au/national/the-grand-mufti-of-australia-joins-muslim-community-leaders-in-condemning-sydney-siege/story-fncynjr2-1227157148381
The "lone wackos" targeting abortion providers aren't alone. Do a little research and you will find that they have help, ideological reinforcement and cheerleaders among the larger group of anti-abortion protestors.
Agreed. I used to have power service from the for-profit Duke Energy (the same folks that dumped coal ash in the Dan River). Outages were frequent, service was poor and they were constantly appealing to the State power commission to raise rates so they could fatten the purses of their stockholders.
Then I moved 1 mile away into an area covered by the local rural electrical co-op. In two years, my power has gone off a total of 2 times. Each time for under an hour. Customer service is excellent. When Duke (from which my co-op buys power) got a rate increase, the co-op lowered a fee to keep our effective rate down.
If that's socialism, Yay socialism!
Good points. I'm a former classroom teacher whose job now is to help integrate technology into the classroom. We do it slowly, deliberately and with a lot of thinking and planning. We never roll out anything to every kid at once. We study, pilot, review, pilot again if needed and then implement. When I first heard about LA's plan, I was horrified. It was too big, too fast, and not well planned. It was doomed to fail, and at the time, I figured that the fix was in, probably with Pearson. They scare me. Technology in the classroom should be used to create, to collaborate, to innovate. Instead, Pearson and other companies like them want to use it to drill and kill while making a mint off of taxpayer dollars.
Yes. Following the nice officer's commands worked well for this guy.
http://youtu.be/KeT_oSLtI-o?t=...
SkyNet!
You see, there are these things called friends. They are other humans we like to interact with. Some of these "friends" no longer live close to us so we like to see pictures of them, their families, and their activities. Facebook allows us to do these things.
The more important question is how the hell are people getting that in their front pocket? What kind of pants are you people wearing?
See, here's the thing. Fuck Scott Tibbitts.
I don't want his technology. There are so many scenarios where this would unnecessarily screw up my life. What if I'm driving and my wife wants to use my phone to answer a call? That's just one.
More importantly, my car has a built in hands free that I can operate by voice. Why should I not be allowed to use it.
If we really want to make the roads safer, give me the power to arrest the dipshits that fly around me on the Interstate doing 20 miles above the speed limit and changing lanes like they are at Daytona.
I work on the instructional side of technology in K-12. I would suggest the yearly ISTE conference. It rotates around the country in late June. Next year it will be in Philly, I believe. It is massive and has sessions on instruction, administration and pretty much anything else you can imagine. The vendor area usually draws the latest heavy hitters in software, services and hardware.
You may also want to check and see if your state has an ISTE affiliate group. They often hold quality state conferences as well. Here in North Carolina, we have NCTIES in March. It's good for a state conference.
"And every time we have an unusual hurricane, the people who were saying 'weather is not climate' point at the hurricane and say 'see, proof positive of global warming!'
No, actually we don't. The most anyone credible will say is that a warmer climate might mean more intense and more frequent storms.
I'm guessing it was probably related to a thing designed to land on land landing instead on ocean. Still. It will be fun to look at the data.
Your kid doesn't bring home the standards. Your kid brings home crappy worksheets and crappy books. These are made by companies trying to take over education. The Common Core standards themselves are overall better than what they replaced. We need more freely shared teacher-created lessons, units, books and projects so we can ditch the for profit companies making garbage resources.
Wow. If you can't argue intelligently, bring out the homophobic insults.
Wow. You are an idiot getting information from other idiots. There's a reason the Common Core standards don't mention Christianity or the Civil War. Common Core is a set of English/Language Arts and mathematics standards. They AREN'T history standards. They don't address history because they aren't history standards!
The second link is about a history textbook. It's not a common-core aligned history textbook because there are no history standards.
The closest they come is talking about what reading and literacy skills kids should have in the context of reading historical works, for example, they say students should "Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10)."
Do yourself a favor and actually go read the standards instead of reading right-wing hit pieces that have to lie because they don't have any legitimate arguments.