K-12 school made me hate math. It was presented by people that didn't understand it or it's implications. They followed a workbook created by the book industry who's main motivation is profit.
On the flip side, I learned to program in high school through resources on the Internet (late 90's). They were usually created ad-hoc by real programmers and computer scientists. When I got into college and was taught math by professionals, I gained interest, but the damage was already done.
Modern education is a business. Teaching something in K-12 school is pretty much a guarantee it's going to be taught poorly and make students hate it. I'm not sure the alternative, but I do know what the answer isn't.
I'm not a millennial, but I've definitely seen their struggle. I can attest that they have to work twice as hard for half what their parents had. I look at all the opportunities to prove myself I was given as a borderline gen-x before 9/11 and the financial crash and there's not a snowballs chance anyone would get that today.
I doubt his comment can be taken at face value. This might be a ploy for more funding. Who knows, but I very highly doubt his statement was honest due to the number of very obvious issues.
I forgot my password on a Pearson website, so I did the whole "forgot password" thing. Low and behold I receive an email with the original password I chose.
The stories about jobs and careers are getting so tiresome. I realize Dice bought Slashdot to datamine the comments (free focus group!), but it seems like half the stories are a variation on the same these days.
Dice cares. Oh, and certain advocacy groups. The general population really doesn't care. Why should they? No one has yet actually demonstrated that this is a problem and anyone is being denied opportunity.
In the age of cheap body fat % measuring devices, why not make body fat % the standard? I'm tall and borderline overweight according to BMI, but I have about 14% body fat percentage. It's much easier to compare across body types with that metric than BMI. Yet I've never had a doctor record my body fat %, only height and weight.
Reality TV who's entire premise is traditional gender roles is extremely popular right now. Can't blame silicon valley when 19 kids and counting is on the home TV every night.
Good technology use is subtle. You mention whiteboards. This is a perfect example of good technology use. No chalk dust and in most cases the ink is more visible. Simple technologies like recording lectures is another example. We've had cheap video recording for a very long time. Now we have cheap delivery methods of those recordings (youtube). Maybe one day we'll reach the point where someone can do their calculus homework on a pressure-sensitive tablet and have a computer recognize where they made the mistake and explain why it's wrong.
A perfect example of where technology goes wrong is the Pearson mylab products. The technology is not subtle and not flexible. People spend a lot of time screwing around with inputting equations and other issues that don't help with learning. You don't spend time learning, you spend time making the software happy.
I have no doubt the submitter is serious, but I think the reality is Dice is just data mining with this post. They want to hear feedback to make money on their main product. There were far fewer of these "I have X skills and need a job" posts pre-dice purchase.
Maybe this tells us more about intelligence tests than anything. IQ has mostly been dismissed as an end all measure. We now know we can measure a persons intelligence a number of ways. IQ may have been a measure of a very specific type of intelligence, but had little correlation with one's life happiness.
I agree in principle, but the reality is a huge number of reviewers don't really understand the research paper they're reviewing. They are more concerned with things like "no previous research has been done" vs "little previous research has been done" and independence assumptions.
My high school education in Florida (about 10 years ago) consisted of studying for the FCAT and almost nothing else. We'd typically have 1 or 2 dedicated classes in our schedule called "research" or some other euphemism for FCAT where we'd just study for that test. Florida really let down a whole generation of children with that test. I didn't receive a meaningful K-12 education because all we did was study for one test. It took me many remedial classes in college to catch up to where I should have been.
Statistics and economics. It's always statistics and economics.
The vast majority of decisions and funding in this country come from statistics. Unfortunately, the powers that be rarely have that background and don't understand that most statistics act as a proxy for the underlying issue they are trying to affect. We want "smarter" kids, so we give them a test which measures their "smartness." If their test scores improve, we give the schools more money. What we've actually done is incentivized everyone to cheat and disconnect that proxy measure from the child's "smartness."
That's the problem we have when the administrators of this country have degrees that never required a calculus based stats course. They don't understand the complexity of the numbers and think all numbers are equal.
From Simpsons Poochie episode
"So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show that’s completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?"
My experience with most companies is that what they say and do are two completely different things. Of course they're going to ask for all skills ever possible, but they aren't willing to pay for the skills they claim to want. The question I always see is "are critical thinking skills important to you?" Of course every business is going to claim they want critical thinking skills. But in reality, most won't pay the premium those skills cost, nor do they want those skills to question stupid business practices.
Again, how they respond to these stupid surveys and what they do in practice are two different things.
EV's are an afterthought for every manufacturer except Telsa. At best, they're tinker toys to help get their average MPG to a rate that makes Uncle Sam happy. 100% of Tesla's sales are EV's. Less than 1% of GM's are EV's. I just still don't see anyone taking EV's seriously except Tesla. They want an EV presence "just in case."
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K-12 school made me hate math. It was presented by people that didn't understand it or it's implications. They followed a workbook created by the book industry who's main motivation is profit.
On the flip side, I learned to program in high school through resources on the Internet (late 90's). They were usually created ad-hoc by real programmers and computer scientists. When I got into college and was taught math by professionals, I gained interest, but the damage was already done.
Modern education is a business. Teaching something in K-12 school is pretty much a guarantee it's going to be taught poorly and make students hate it. I'm not sure the alternative, but I do know what the answer isn't.
I'm not a millennial, but I've definitely seen their struggle. I can attest that they have to work twice as hard for half what their parents had. I look at all the opportunities to prove myself I was given as a borderline gen-x before 9/11 and the financial crash and there's not a snowballs chance anyone would get that today.
I doubt his comment can be taken at face value. This might be a ploy for more funding. Who knows, but I very highly doubt his statement was honest due to the number of very obvious issues.
I still admire roads with no homes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I haven't seen much problem solving and thought process on the few I watched. It was mostly "google: how to get current mouse position in Unity"
I forgot my password on a Pearson website, so I did the whole "forgot password" thing. Low and behold I receive an email with the original password I chose.
The stories about jobs and careers are getting so tiresome. I realize Dice bought Slashdot to datamine the comments (free focus group!), but it seems like half the stories are a variation on the same these days.
Dice cares. Oh, and certain advocacy groups. The general population really doesn't care. Why should they? No one has yet actually demonstrated that this is a problem and anyone is being denied opportunity.
In the age of cheap body fat % measuring devices, why not make body fat % the standard? I'm tall and borderline overweight according to BMI, but I have about 14% body fat percentage. It's much easier to compare across body types with that metric than BMI. Yet I've never had a doctor record my body fat %, only height and weight.
Reality TV who's entire premise is traditional gender roles is extremely popular right now. Can't blame silicon valley when 19 kids and counting is on the home TV every night.
Good technology use is subtle. You mention whiteboards. This is a perfect example of good technology use. No chalk dust and in most cases the ink is more visible. Simple technologies like recording lectures is another example. We've had cheap video recording for a very long time. Now we have cheap delivery methods of those recordings (youtube). Maybe one day we'll reach the point where someone can do their calculus homework on a pressure-sensitive tablet and have a computer recognize where they made the mistake and explain why it's wrong.
A perfect example of where technology goes wrong is the Pearson mylab products. The technology is not subtle and not flexible. People spend a lot of time screwing around with inputting equations and other issues that don't help with learning. You don't spend time learning, you spend time making the software happy.
He was on The Simpsons? I always thought he was the radio DJ on Wayne's World. Handsome Dan!
I have no doubt the submitter is serious, but I think the reality is Dice is just data mining with this post. They want to hear feedback to make money on their main product. There were far fewer of these "I have X skills and need a job" posts pre-dice purchase.
There's little we couldn't do 5 years ago because of lack CPU power that we can magically do today. Scientific computing included.
I realize the analysis is probably a little tongue-in-cheek, but this is probably the worst analysis I've ever seen. Nothing of use was gained...
Maybe this tells us more about intelligence tests than anything. IQ has mostly been dismissed as an end all measure. We now know we can measure a persons intelligence a number of ways. IQ may have been a measure of a very specific type of intelligence, but had little correlation with one's life happiness.
I agree in principle, but the reality is a huge number of reviewers don't really understand the research paper they're reviewing. They are more concerned with things like "no previous research has been done" vs "little previous research has been done" and independence assumptions.
Don't worry, we'll find another panacea statistic.
I'm a very special type of magician, I'm a MATH-emagician
My high school education in Florida (about 10 years ago) consisted of studying for the FCAT and almost nothing else. We'd typically have 1 or 2 dedicated classes in our schedule called "research" or some other euphemism for FCAT where we'd just study for that test. Florida really let down a whole generation of children with that test. I didn't receive a meaningful K-12 education because all we did was study for one test. It took me many remedial classes in college to catch up to where I should have been.
Statistics and economics. It's always statistics and economics.
The vast majority of decisions and funding in this country come from statistics. Unfortunately, the powers that be rarely have that background and don't understand that most statistics act as a proxy for the underlying issue they are trying to affect. We want "smarter" kids, so we give them a test which measures their "smartness." If their test scores improve, we give the schools more money. What we've actually done is incentivized everyone to cheat and disconnect that proxy measure from the child's "smartness."
That's the problem we have when the administrators of this country have degrees that never required a calculus based stats course. They don't understand the complexity of the numbers and think all numbers are equal.
Hidden Markov Models?
From Simpsons Poochie episode
"So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show that’s completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?"
My experience with most companies is that what they say and do are two completely different things. Of course they're going to ask for all skills ever possible, but they aren't willing to pay for the skills they claim to want. The question I always see is "are critical thinking skills important to you?" Of course every business is going to claim they want critical thinking skills. But in reality, most won't pay the premium those skills cost, nor do they want those skills to question stupid business practices.
Again, how they respond to these stupid surveys and what they do in practice are two different things.
EV's are an afterthought for every manufacturer except Telsa. At best, they're tinker toys to help get their average MPG to a rate that makes Uncle Sam happy. 100% of Tesla's sales are EV's. Less than 1% of GM's are EV's. I just still don't see anyone taking EV's seriously except Tesla. They want an EV presence "just in case."
Do math instead. Abstract algebra, Discrete math, many other topics in that vein. You'll come out a better programmer.