As a future teacher I'm already working on a gamification system for my future classroom. I was inspired after watching this awesome edition of Extra Credits on PATV http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/gamifying-education which is definitely worth watching.
If you do not have a smartphone you can get another plan through Straight Talk that is $30 a month for 1000 minutes, 1000 texts and 30mb of data.
Here is a link to all the "plans" they have: https://www.straighttalk.com/secure/ServicePlans
Don't forget that $25 per hour figure does not add up to $50000 yearly because they do not work 12 months a year. It actually adds up to around $36000 a year which is below the median US income.
I don't think you appreciate how much teachers really make, especially if they've been there for a while. Teachers get some of the most generous automatic raises you'll ever see, can get all kinds of salary bonuses for becoming nationally certified, etc. I used to work for a school district in an area where the average income is around $35,000/yr and some of the senior teachers in my district were making very close to six figures. The principals even more. They're hardly the poor street urchins the unions sell them as.
This is only if your school district does not have a freeze on raises like every single school district within 40 miles of where I live. With the budget crunch in education teachers are not getting their automatic raises for time spent teaching or advancing their education.
I don't think there is anything preventing them from working in the off season. Just another form of seasonal worker like lifegaurd or Mr Plow.
So a working professional with a Masters degree should have to get a "summer job" as a lifeguard or in retail in order to survive the summer? Does any other line of work that requires a college degree require a summer job like they are a high school student? Give me break!
"Better, faster, stronger," Apple could have easily lifted those Kanye West lyrics for their press release announcing the coming of the iPhone 3GS in 2009.
*facepalm* Sorry, I know its a minor detail, but Daft Punk originally wrote "Better, faster, harder, stronger", and Kanye sampled it (with permission) for his song. They have a cameo in his video, which is an awesome tribute to Akira for those that haven't seen it.
The sales and profit figures for Apple in the smart phone industry are pretty impressive. I'm surprised other companies haven't adopted a similar business model with a limited number of phones.
As others have metioned you can use the OpenDNS FamilyShield settings (http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls/) with your router which will block out the majority of adult content out there. I would also enable safe search on google for each computer (http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2519950&rd=1) which will filter out adult image and web search results and make sure you lock the settings so they can't just go in and remove safe search (http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=144686&rd=3)
As others have metioned you can use the OpenDNS FamilyShield settings (http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls/) with your router which will block out the majority of adult content out there. I would also enable safe search on google for each computer (http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2519950&rd=1) which will filter out adult image and web search results and make sure you lock the settings so they can't just go in and remove safe search (http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=144686&rd=3)
I did the same thing until my brother handed me down his iPhone. Now I have a wifi-equiped smart phone without the additional data plan or increased price of my cell phone service (T-Mobile). It's more convenent now because it's all in one device but I really don't need the additional data plan. I have wifi access just about every where I go except work and do I really need it at work? No. I think more people could do well to keep their smart phones and just cut out the data plan and use wifi instead.
There are a lot of individuals slamming viewpoints and harsh criticism in both directions on here based on "facts" but no sources are listed. If you reference under this post please post your sources as reference for the "facts" that you portraying, whether for or against vaccines.
> Are there schools that ban unvaccinated children from attending? I think that'd be a more effective way than kicking them out off the doctors list.
This would be impossible since under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act section 504 all children are entitled to a Free Appropriate Public Education. Any unvaccinated student can still go to school and bypass the vaccination requirement by simply signing a waiver.
in relationship to yesterdays article on physical models in the age of computers (http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1736231/physical-models-in-an-age-of-computers). This is a great example of when a physical model is invaluable to scientific research even though a computer model could have been used. What happens in theory doesn't always hold true in practice.
Computer models may be far more efficient for research but physical models still have a very important role. Children, while far more efficient then ever at using technology, do not have the ability/opportunity to learn from these computer models like a researcher would. I think physical models are still very important for teaching the next generation about different science and engineering principles, like the tide cycle from the article. The ability for kids to physically see and experience the science and engineering topics is what gets them interested and engaged in learning about those topics in the future. Models like this are essential for future education for kids. I mean what kid doesn’t start to wonder about the world around them after going to the local science center?
If this thing can really handle 1080p video, has Bluetooth and wifi and can run when plugged directly into an HDTV why not use it as a perfectly silent HTPC. Have your files stored on a network hard drive that you access via wifi and use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you are good to go. For a good chunk of the general public all they would want with a HTPC is to watch movies, listen to music and go on the web which this thing should be able to do no problem.
Also, kids need to told loudly: getting a degree from a school not competitive in the field is not worth anything more than going to your closest state school. Expensive schools that aren't competitive to get in are just a place for rich kids to go get drunk. Don't take out loans to go to those schools!
Thank you! I am a student at ASU in the teachers college. Just yesterday I overheard a fellow student complain about how much debt she is in due to student loans and so I investigated as to why. Instead of going to one of the million state schools in California she came to ASU to get a TEACHING CERTIFICATE and pay 5 times the tuition as instate tuition. How is she paying for this? All student loans. Why the hell are you going to pay significantly more money for a degree that, if you manage to get a job to begin with since you are going to teach English, you will start at a salary that is less than paying for one year of school? I wanted to get in her face and tell her to stop bitching that she is in so much debt. If debt was a concern then she should have stayed in California. ASU’s teaching program is nothing special and I know the only reason she came here is to party.
Provided my last year and a half at ASU go like the previous 3 ½ years (yes it’ll take 5 years to finish my undergrad since I changed majors from Biomedical Engineering to Secondary Education, Chemistry/Biology) I will graduate as a married man with one kid and completely debt free. I worked my ass off in high school/college to get scholarships and have been working 20-30 hours a week so that I wouldn’t have to go into debt to finish school. Even though I know I could have made it into a school like MIT or CalTech I decided to go to my local state school ASU because I knew I couldn’t afford to pay for these schools. I have made and continue to make sacrifices now so that I do not have to sacrifice later in life. This is a foreign concept to so many of my peers. Oh and I have done all this with no support from me or my wife’s parents. We’ve actually had to help them a few times pay their bills because of the massive amount of debt each of them have. I learned from the non-example of my parents of the debt trap when I was very young and so I’ve avoided debt like the plague. More of America should follow suit.
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As a future teacher I'm already working on a gamification system for my future classroom. I was inspired after watching this awesome edition of Extra Credits on PATV http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/gamifying-education which is definitely worth watching.
Face it - the DEA is either lying, completely full of bullshit, or so hopelessly incompetent they should all be fired.
Or all of the above ;)
If you do not have a smartphone you can get another plan through Straight Talk that is $30 a month for 1000 minutes, 1000 texts and 30mb of data. Here is a link to all the "plans" they have: https://www.straighttalk.com/secure/ServicePlans
Don't forget that $25 per hour figure does not add up to $50000 yearly because they do not work 12 months a year. It actually adds up to around $36000 a year which is below the median US income.
I don't think you appreciate how much teachers really make, especially if they've been there for a while. Teachers get some of the most generous automatic raises you'll ever see, can get all kinds of salary bonuses for becoming nationally certified, etc. I used to work for a school district in an area where the average income is around $35,000/yr and some of the senior teachers in my district were making very close to six figures. The principals even more. They're hardly the poor street urchins the unions sell them as.
This is only if your school district does not have a freeze on raises like every single school district within 40 miles of where I live. With the budget crunch in education teachers are not getting their automatic raises for time spent teaching or advancing their education.
I don't think there is anything preventing them from working in the off season. Just another form of seasonal worker like lifegaurd or Mr Plow.
So a working professional with a Masters degree should have to get a "summer job" as a lifeguard or in retail in order to survive the summer? Does any other line of work that requires a college degree require a summer job like they are a high school student? Give me break!
"Better, faster, stronger," Apple could have easily lifted those Kanye West lyrics for their press release announcing the coming of the iPhone 3GS in 2009.
*facepalm* Sorry, I know its a minor detail, but Daft Punk originally wrote "Better, faster, harder, stronger", and Kanye sampled it (with permission) for his song. They have a cameo in his video, which is an awesome tribute to Akira for those that haven't seen it.
*watches Daft Hands and Daft Bodies on youtube*
Thank you. Daft Punk FTW
The sales and profit figures for Apple in the smart phone industry are pretty impressive. I'm surprised other companies haven't adopted a similar business model with a limited number of phones.
As others have metioned you can use the OpenDNS FamilyShield settings (http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls/) with your router which will block out the majority of adult content out there. I would also enable safe search on google for each computer (http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2519950&rd=1) which will filter out adult image and web search results and make sure you lock the settings so they can't just go in and remove safe search (http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=144686&rd=3)
Forgot to mention that :D
As others have metioned you can use the OpenDNS FamilyShield settings (http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls/) with your router which will block out the majority of adult content out there. I would also enable safe search on google for each computer (http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2519950&rd=1) which will filter out adult image and web search results and make sure you lock the settings so they can't just go in and remove safe search (http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=144686&rd=3)
now devs and companies just have to click a few buttons and we got some games... hopefully
After you pay for the second copy :(
If you asked Siri what the best smartphone is a month ago it would have told you it was the Nokia Lumina 900 Windows Phone. Just sayin http://www.pcworld.com/article/255508/siri_says_nokia_lumia_900_not_apple_iphone_is_the_best_smartphone_ever.html?tk=rel_news
"If you think playing endless hours of Call of Duty will create a desire to get into the information technology, think again.
Such families often accumulate PCs, gaming consoles and smart phones, but use them only for nonconstructive activities.
Find me a constructive activity to do with gaming consoles and smart phones. Stack them up like blocks? Practice marksmanship? Learn circuit bending?
How about being a kid and having fun with your friends outside of the 8 hours a day you are at school and the 4 hours a day you are doing homework?
Sounds an awful lot like the precursor to the new Deus Ex game. I wonder if we'll see this as a result http://www.sarifindustries.com/
I did the same thing until my brother handed me down his iPhone. Now I have a wifi-equiped smart phone without the additional data plan or increased price of my cell phone service (T-Mobile). It's more convenent now because it's all in one device but I really don't need the additional data plan. I have wifi access just about every where I go except work and do I really need it at work? No. I think more people could do well to keep their smart phones and just cut out the data plan and use wifi instead.
Giving up your Rights and Freedoms won't make you safer, only less.
This reminds me of one of my favorite Ben Franklin quotes:
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"
Earlier today Bender was elected head of the DC school board. Now he'll set his sights on President of the United States of America! http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/02/1547206/voting-system-test-hack-elects-futuramas-bender-to-school-board
There are a lot of individuals slamming viewpoints and harsh criticism in both directions on here based on "facts" but no sources are listed. If you reference under this post please post your sources as reference for the "facts" that you portraying, whether for or against vaccines.
> Are there schools that ban unvaccinated children from attending? I think that'd be a more effective way than kicking them out off the doctors list.
This would be impossible since under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act section 504 all children are entitled to a Free Appropriate Public Education. Any unvaccinated student can still go to school and bypass the vaccination requirement by simply signing a waiver.
in relationship to yesterdays article on physical models in the age of computers (http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/1736231/physical-models-in-an-age-of-computers). This is a great example of when a physical model is invaluable to scientific research even though a computer model could have been used. What happens in theory doesn't always hold true in practice.
Computer models may be far more efficient for research but physical models still have a very important role. Children, while far more efficient then ever at using technology, do not have the ability/opportunity to learn from these computer models like a researcher would. I think physical models are still very important for teaching the next generation about different science and engineering principles, like the tide cycle from the article. The ability for kids to physically see and experience the science and engineering topics is what gets them interested and engaged in learning about those topics in the future. Models like this are essential for future education for kids. I mean what kid doesn’t start to wonder about the world around them after going to the local science center?
If this thing can really handle 1080p video, has Bluetooth and wifi and can run when plugged directly into an HDTV why not use it as a perfectly silent HTPC. Have your files stored on a network hard drive that you access via wifi and use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you are good to go. For a good chunk of the general public all they would want with a HTPC is to watch movies, listen to music and go on the web which this thing should be able to do no problem.
Pretty pretty please say this is just flamebait
Also, kids need to told loudly: getting a degree from a school not competitive in the field is not worth anything more than going to your closest state school. Expensive schools that aren't competitive to get in are just a place for rich kids to go get drunk. Don't take out loans to go to those schools!
Thank you! I am a student at ASU in the teachers college. Just yesterday I overheard a fellow student complain about how much debt she is in due to student loans and so I investigated as to why. Instead of going to one of the million state schools in California she came to ASU to get a TEACHING CERTIFICATE and pay 5 times the tuition as instate tuition. How is she paying for this? All student loans. Why the hell are you going to pay significantly more money for a degree that, if you manage to get a job to begin with since you are going to teach English, you will start at a salary that is less than paying for one year of school? I wanted to get in her face and tell her to stop bitching that she is in so much debt. If debt was a concern then she should have stayed in California. ASU’s teaching program is nothing special and I know the only reason she came here is to party.
Provided my last year and a half at ASU go like the previous 3 ½ years (yes it’ll take 5 years to finish my undergrad since I changed majors from Biomedical Engineering to Secondary Education, Chemistry/Biology) I will graduate as a married man with one kid and completely debt free. I worked my ass off in high school/college to get scholarships and have been working 20-30 hours a week so that I wouldn’t have to go into debt to finish school. Even though I know I could have made it into a school like MIT or CalTech I decided to go to my local state school ASU because I knew I couldn’t afford to pay for these schools. I have made and continue to make sacrifices now so that I do not have to sacrifice later in life. This is a foreign concept to so many of my peers. Oh and I have done all this with no support from me or my wife’s parents. We’ve actually had to help them a few times pay their bills because of the massive amount of debt each of them have. I learned from the non-example of my parents of the debt trap when I was very young and so I’ve avoided debt like the plague. More of America should follow suit.