It is easy to make an app that adapts the math problems assigned to a student's performance. But it is much harder to produce group learning activities that match varied skills. And if you put kids each on a single computer which is 'personalized', you can be sure they will learn less than if they are working together learning the social skills and executive function needed to succeed in the world.
There are plenty of other activities that allow students to gain social skills, it doesn't need to be a part of every area of study. The goal of personalized learning is to bolster the basic skills needed for academic success; to allow those who can excel to go further, and to help lift up those who are struggling.
In my experience, both as a student and a teacher, group activities usually result in a few students doing the bulk of the work while the others slack off. And even if you have a peer rating on the project, the slackers will often times give those who contributed to the project bad scores just to try & cover for themselves.
Since their ultimate market plan is to have a tiny slice of every transaction on the planet, they in many ways are a much bigger threat to your privacy than the FBI.
The difference is Amazon is opt-in. If you don't want them collecting data on you, you can simply decline to use their products or services. The only way you can opt-out of the FBI is by moving to another country. The only way to opt-out of the CIA however is death.
or he can appoint Eliot Spitzer as an interim appointment, who will surely derail Chief Justice Roberts' entire agenda for he remainder of the Courtâ(TM)s term.
This one is actually easier. The insurance industry will have much better figures on the probability of having a claim to pay for the AI drivers, since all those drivers will drive the 'same'.
They might always drive the 'same' but the conditions on the road are always different.
I have 1 DVR for our main TV & 2 digital converter boxes for our upstairs TVs. The 2 DC boxes are supposed to be cheap; $2.95 each per month. When we first set them up, they didn't work. So I had to call Comcast and have them "program" them. After this, they started working, but I shortly got a letter saying that I was being under billed, and the correct price is $10. Of course, $10 was the cost of the original set-top boxes I returned to get the 2 cheaper DC boxes. I called them up to get the bill fixed, then my DC boxes magically stopped working again. Called back, got them working, got the $10 letter agin. I've done this 3 times, and just got my $10 letter, so I am giving up and returning the 2 DCs next week. It's not worth the hassle. I wonder how much time & money Comcast wastes because they are constantly screwing up?
How is health insurance different from auto insurance? You're still required to hand over money to a private company whether you want to or not. But society as a whole when everyone gets insured.
Nobody has to own a car. Obamacare is a tax on existence.
The government doesn't build the roads in most states. Typically the government pays private contractors to build the roads. Many contractors place a bid and the government chooses who gets to build the road.
My roommate has Comcast and we're debating whether or not to replace the Comcast router with a non-Comcast router. Mostly because the routers that Comcast provide have minimal features. Also because Comcast could turn on the community hotspot, which may or may not be using the bandwidth we are paying for.
The other benefit you're going to get is that you'll reduce your bill by $10 a month.
That was pretty slick how you managed to imply that Rahm Emanuel was behind 9/11.
Um, it would take a special sort of twisted logic to say that I implied anything of the sort. My point was that while the government doesn't necessarily want tragedies to happen, they're more than happy to exploit the F.U.D. that comes in the aftermath.
Its a fake conspiracy theory when my nephew believes it. 100% accuracy within 5 seconds.
While I think many conspiracies are pretty easily set aside in short order (lizard people, ancient aliens, etc.), the sad fact is that the way the U.S. government operates, I have to take a moment to consider them. While I don't think 9/11 was an inside job, I also don't consider it beyond the pale for the U.S. government to pull it's own Reichstag Fire. Didn't Rahm Emanuel say "You never want a serious crisis go to waste?"
While the fantasy that the Clinton campaign is somehow in charge of two other leading candidates - one of which is in the other party, makes for a cool narrative, it takes a particularly kind of naivete and never-mind lack of faith in investigative journalism to believe it's even logistically possible to do, let alone keep it a secret.
Really? how hard would it be for Hilary to suggest to Trump in a private conversation that he run for president as a Republican to derail the GOP? After all, it's not like she doesn't know him. Also, I didn't say she was in control, but Trump & Sanders are more like useful idiots. And you're right, I have no faith in investigative journalism. The press glosses over any kind of negative story linked to Clinton because the majority of them are in the tank for her.
He is not actually going to build that wall on the Mexican border, and whatnot.
That's because he's not actually going to get elected. My theory is that Trump is a stooge for the Clinton campaign. He's in the Republican primaries just to sabotage the GOP, but saying increasingly stupid and intolerant stuff to appeal to the lowest common denominator in the population, further damaging the GOP's brand. He won't get the nomination, because the party rank-and-file loyalists are against him, but he'll still be able to do a lot of damage, drag out the primary. After he flames out, I can see him launching an independent campaign, or be so obnoxious in his support of the GOP nominee, that he will turn off the general electorate .
Then she has her other stooge Bernie out there. He's out there vocalizing all the far left-wing stuff Hilary wants to say, but can't because she needs to appear more moderate for the general election.He's able to energize the far-left base, and will endorse Hilary after he concedes the primaries. He might win in Iowa & NH, but he'll be done after that.
So basically, Bernie primary voters == Hilary general voters, and Trump primary voters != Republican general voters if he runs independent/3rd party. Pretty smart tactics on her part.
Are you suggesting that the owners of businesses should not be responsible for the actions of those businesses?
Go back and re-read what I wrote. If I invest $1000 in a company's stock, let's say a pharmaceutical corp, and it's found out that their drug kills people, and the value of my stocks plummet, shouldn't that be enough? I'm not in the board room making decisions, I don't have access to research, etc. Don't you think I would have paid enough of a penalty by my investment losing value?
The only way to even dream of making companies not do this is to make the decision makers and eventually the shareholders liable for crimes against humanity personally, without the possibility of the corporation buying off the government as they do for such things now.
Shareholders are held accountable by losses in stock value. That should be the limit of accountability for them, otherwise it would be almost impossible for anyone to invest. Are you going to go after a teacher because they have 3% of their TIAA-CREF retirement in a mutual fund that happens to have CISCO as a part of the fund?
Can all Americans who had the right to vote during the 2005 election please make their way to the local incarceration centre? Your crime is being the decision makers who elected someone known to support the use of torture... apparently this is the only way to change things, so nothing personal.
I take it you meant 2004? Not all of us voted for Bush. I take it your logic would also apply to anyone who voted for Obama in 2008 & 2012?
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It is easy to make an app that adapts the math problems assigned to a student's performance. But it is much harder to produce group learning activities that match varied skills. And if you put kids each on a single computer which is 'personalized', you can be sure they will learn less than if they are working together learning the social skills and executive function needed to succeed in the world.
There are plenty of other activities that allow students to gain social skills, it doesn't need to be a part of every area of study. The goal of personalized learning is to bolster the basic skills needed for academic success; to allow those who can excel to go further, and to help lift up those who are struggling.
In my experience, both as a student and a teacher, group activities usually result in a few students doing the bulk of the work while the others slack off. And even if you have a peer rating on the project, the slackers will often times give those who contributed to the project bad scores just to try & cover for themselves.
How about mounting an automatic weapon in the back of a pickup truck?
Better yet, how about mounting sharks with frickin' laser beams in the back of a pickup truck?
Since their ultimate market plan is to have a tiny slice of every transaction on the planet, they in many ways are a much bigger threat to your privacy than the FBI.
The difference is Amazon is opt-in. If you don't want them collecting data on you, you can simply decline to use their products or services. The only way you can opt-out of the FBI is by moving to another country. The only way to opt-out of the CIA however is death.
I like to call them "Social Justice Whiners." No need to embolden them with the word warrior in their moniker.
The John William Pope Center is a mouthpiece for a right-wing think tank, and is no friend of higher education.
I know George Leef. The John William Pope Center may be right wing, but he's a libertarian, and greatly concerned with civil liberties.
or he can appoint Eliot Spitzer as an interim appointment, who will surely derail Chief Justice Roberts' entire agenda for he remainder of the Courtâ(TM)s term.
What agenda? Ruling Obamacare constitutional?
Would one take a sex robot to Panera?
Maybe the sex robot is just *that* good!
*You did read TFA didn't you?
Your UID is lower than mine, but I'm going to throw out the obligatory "You must be new here." anyway.
This one is actually easier. The insurance industry will have much better figures on the probability of having a claim to pay for the AI drivers, since all those drivers will drive the 'same'.
They might always drive the 'same' but the conditions on the road are always different.
Canonical has revealed their BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet...
Ah, the name just rolls off of the tongue! "Say, is that the new BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet?"
I have 1 DVR for our main TV & 2 digital converter boxes for our upstairs TVs. The 2 DC boxes are supposed to be cheap; $2.95 each per month. When we first set them up, they didn't work. So I had to call Comcast and have them "program" them. After this, they started working, but I shortly got a letter saying that I was being under billed, and the correct price is $10. Of course, $10 was the cost of the original set-top boxes I returned to get the 2 cheaper DC boxes. I called them up to get the bill fixed, then my DC boxes magically stopped working again. Called back, got them working, got the $10 letter agin. I've done this 3 times, and just got my $10 letter, so I am giving up and returning the 2 DCs next week. It's not worth the hassle. I wonder how much time & money Comcast wastes because they are constantly screwing up?
How is health insurance different from auto insurance? You're still required to hand over money to a private company whether you want to or not. But society as a whole when everyone gets insured.
Nobody has to own a car. Obamacare is a tax on existence.
The government doesn't build the roads in most states. Typically the government pays private contractors to build the roads. Many contractors place a bid and the government chooses who gets to build the road.
Sorry, forgot my <sarcasm> tags...
That doesn't seems like a very good use of tax money, for something that can be nondestructively reused once created.
You must be new here. Par for the course. "But without the government, who would build the roads???"
My roommate has Comcast and we're debating whether or not to replace the Comcast router with a non-Comcast router. Mostly because the routers that Comcast provide have minimal features. Also because Comcast could turn on the community hotspot, which may or may not be using the bandwidth we are paying for.
The other benefit you're going to get is that you'll reduce your bill by $10 a month.
That was pretty slick how you managed to imply that Rahm Emanuel was behind 9/11.
Um, it would take a special sort of twisted logic to say that I implied anything of the sort. My point was that while the government doesn't necessarily want tragedies to happen, they're more than happy to exploit the F.U.D. that comes in the aftermath.
Its a fake conspiracy theory when my nephew believes it. 100% accuracy within 5 seconds.
While I think many conspiracies are pretty easily set aside in short order (lizard people, ancient aliens, etc.), the sad fact is that the way the U.S. government operates, I have to take a moment to consider them. While I don't think 9/11 was an inside job, I also don't consider it beyond the pale for the U.S. government to pull it's own Reichstag Fire. Didn't Rahm Emanuel say "You never want a serious crisis go to waste?"
What about the conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an inside job orchestrated by the government?
They aren't competent enough to orchestrate something like that. They also weren't competent enough to stop it, despite getting plenty of notice about some of the orchestrators. That doesn't make them any less responsible.
...registering for Ashley Madison is pretty good evidence that a mad did not actually cheat on his wife.
No, but it's pretty good evidence that he wants to.
Hilary is as far left as you can get, but she knows if she spouts the same stuff that Burnie spouts, she couldn't get elected.
While the fantasy that the Clinton campaign is somehow in charge of two other leading candidates - one of which is in the other party, makes for a cool narrative, it takes a particularly kind of naivete and never-mind lack of faith in investigative journalism to believe it's even logistically possible to do, let alone keep it a secret.
Really? how hard would it be for Hilary to suggest to Trump in a private conversation that he run for president as a Republican to derail the GOP? After all, it's not like she doesn't know him. Also, I didn't say she was in control, but Trump & Sanders are more like useful idiots. And you're right, I have no faith in investigative journalism. The press glosses over any kind of negative story linked to Clinton because the majority of them are in the tank for her.
He is not actually going to build that wall on the Mexican border, and whatnot.
That's because he's not actually going to get elected. My theory is that Trump is a stooge for the Clinton campaign. He's in the Republican primaries just to sabotage the GOP, but saying increasingly stupid and intolerant stuff to appeal to the lowest common denominator in the population, further damaging the GOP's brand. He won't get the nomination, because the party rank-and-file loyalists are against him, but he'll still be able to do a lot of damage, drag out the primary. After he flames out, I can see him launching an independent campaign, or be so obnoxious in his support of the GOP nominee, that he will turn off the general electorate .
Then she has her other stooge Bernie out there. He's out there vocalizing all the far left-wing stuff Hilary wants to say, but can't because she needs to appear more moderate for the general election.He's able to energize the far-left base, and will endorse Hilary after he concedes the primaries. He might win in Iowa & NH, but he'll be done after that.
So basically, Bernie primary voters == Hilary general voters, and Trump primary voters != Republican general voters if he runs independent/3rd party. Pretty smart tactics on her part.
Are you suggesting that the owners of businesses should not be responsible for the actions of those businesses?
Go back and re-read what I wrote. If I invest $1000 in a company's stock, let's say a pharmaceutical corp, and it's found out that their drug kills people, and the value of my stocks plummet, shouldn't that be enough? I'm not in the board room making decisions, I don't have access to research, etc. Don't you think I would have paid enough of a penalty by my investment losing value?
The only way to even dream of making companies not do this is to make the decision makers and eventually the shareholders liable for crimes against humanity personally, without the possibility of the corporation buying off the government as they do for such things now.
Shareholders are held accountable by losses in stock value. That should be the limit of accountability for them, otherwise it would be almost impossible for anyone to invest. Are you going to go after a teacher because they have 3% of their TIAA-CREF retirement in a mutual fund that happens to have CISCO as a part of the fund?
Can all Americans who had the right to vote during the 2005 election please make their way to the local incarceration centre? Your crime is being the decision makers who elected someone known to support the use of torture... apparently this is the only way to change things, so nothing personal.
I take it you meant 2004? Not all of us voted for Bush. I take it your logic would also apply to anyone who voted for Obama in 2008 & 2012?