What do you propose to use as a teaching strategy other than "specific goals set to a given time frame"? "Learn on your own and hopefully don't stop"?
The schools that have the best records are the ones that have people there to support the students, give the students a clear opportunity to go farther, and are strict about performance requirements for both teachers and students. The schools that fail the inner cities are the ones with no individual attention, a lower required standard for grades based on the students' culture, and don't show each kid that they have an opportunity.
There really isn't much of a difference in teaching methods between the best school and the worst schools. They all use the same few books, albeit in different editions because of funding differences. They all use similar methods of teaching. The real difference is in the "extras" that come along with school. The attention factor plays the biggest role of those "extras"; if you show a kid that it matters to their teacher/parent/friends, then they take it to heart to succeed.
Our whole culture needs to be changed to show that every fact and lesson learned is an accomplishment, but not everyone will find this self gratification; they need to be shown that the people around them have interest in what they learned about corals/computers/chemistry, and that it's an accomplishment that they learned something outside of the standard curriculum. Then, and only then, will they integrate it into themselves as a part of their personality.
Neither future job placement nor immediate financial rewards teach them that learning is a joy, that the world is a place full of wonderous and interesting things, that you can value your own edification for its own sake and not just as a means to accomplish something else.
You assume most students are getting this gratification from sheer learning in and of itself out of the current system as it stands today. Even though I'm one of those kids, I guarantee I'm the exception to the rule; my brother doesn't like to learn how to change the fucking light bulb in his room (I still have to do it), but is more than willing to study and get B's in every class because our parents give him a lot of praise. If kids don't have parents that are there all the time and attentive (which many, many kids do not have, especially in inner cities where kids fail more often), there's no incentive to achieve - unless you create one at the school.
Ever wonder why someone will make a 30 minute call to technical support, just to ask a basic question that they could answer themselves with 5-10 minutes of research? It's because they have learned the dependency lesson.
No sir, it's because they aren't allowed to use Google for their research papers (if they do them to begin with; see above), and aren't taught basic concepts of computing technology in school, and are thus clueless on where to begin their search other than thinking "the people who made it must know!".
because kids aren't adults, and school isn't optional work?
Getting straight A's and B's has always been optional. C's are a passing grade; why do any better if you don't have any real motivation to?
why do you think adults require motivation?
Adults get rewarded for doing shitty work, whether that entails learning a new programming language in a week or going out into the Sahara desert and digging for fossils for months on end. Either way, they get rewarded for doing something and meeting expectations, why not get kids accustomed to doing exactly what they'll be doing as adults, rather than forcing them to do something? I'm considering this for most kids not having parents that are there all the time to be proud of them and give them any emotional reinforcement for doing well, and thus don't get anything for getting an "A" other than a different shape of ink than the kid who got a "C".
No, it's called "Ease of Use". Not everyone even knows what an IP address is, and expecting every single person on the planet to understand the concept is ludicrous.
Then consumer electronic entertainment products will become no longer available for sale.
What the hell? They have a much simpler solution: require you to agree to an EULA to use the software that happens to run on the hardware. You can't use the PS3 hardware without using the PS3 software at some point.
Because most of the interesting properties of an element are not defined by the number of protons but by the number of electrons and which orbitals they are found in in the ground state.
However, those interesting properties can be derived from the number of protons.
Vast variety of OSes? Since when is there anything other than Windows, and maybe OS X in some very special cases, that the devs have to create a game for?
I don't know if GP was alluding to this, but he may have been. The only reason we haven't gotten as far lately - not enough crap to stress out over. There's nothing pushing us to the brink, which is what forced us to improve technology immensely, including the space program, during the cold war era.
You do realize that the ability to lock a disk to a given player would/could be used by the MPAA to kill rentals of any disc, right? All the studios have to do is refuse to release disks on any Blu-ray format other than the hybrid one, and force player makers to implement locking software.
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What do you propose to use as a teaching strategy other than "specific goals set to a given time frame"? "Learn on your own and hopefully don't stop"?
The schools that have the best records are the ones that have people there to support the students, give the students a clear opportunity to go farther, and are strict about performance requirements for both teachers and students. The schools that fail the inner cities are the ones with no individual attention, a lower required standard for grades based on the students' culture, and don't show each kid that they have an opportunity.
There really isn't much of a difference in teaching methods between the best school and the worst schools. They all use the same few books, albeit in different editions because of funding differences. They all use similar methods of teaching. The real difference is in the "extras" that come along with school. The attention factor plays the biggest role of those "extras"; if you show a kid that it matters to their teacher/parent/friends, then they take it to heart to succeed.
Our whole culture needs to be changed to show that every fact and lesson learned is an accomplishment, but not everyone will find this self gratification; they need to be shown that the people around them have interest in what they learned about corals/computers/chemistry, and that it's an accomplishment that they learned something outside of the standard curriculum. Then, and only then, will they integrate it into themselves as a part of their personality.
Neither future job placement nor immediate financial rewards teach them that learning is a joy, that the world is a place full of wonderous and interesting things, that you can value your own edification for its own sake and not just as a means to accomplish something else.
You assume most students are getting this gratification from sheer learning in and of itself out of the current system as it stands today. Even though I'm one of those kids, I guarantee I'm the exception to the rule; my brother doesn't like to learn how to change the fucking light bulb in his room (I still have to do it), but is more than willing to study and get B's in every class because our parents give him a lot of praise. If kids don't have parents that are there all the time and attentive (which many, many kids do not have, especially in inner cities where kids fail more often), there's no incentive to achieve - unless you create one at the school.
Ever wonder why someone will make a 30 minute call to technical support, just to ask a basic question that they could answer themselves with 5-10 minutes of research? It's because they have learned the dependency lesson.
No sir, it's because they aren't allowed to use Google for their research papers (if they do them to begin with; see above), and aren't taught basic concepts of computing technology in school, and are thus clueless on where to begin their search other than thinking "the people who made it must know!".
because kids aren't adults, and school isn't optional work?
Getting straight A's and B's has always been optional. C's are a passing grade; why do any better if you don't have any real motivation to?
why do you think adults require motivation?
Adults get rewarded for doing shitty work, whether that entails learning a new programming language in a week or going out into the Sahara desert and digging for fossils for months on end. Either way, they get rewarded for doing something and meeting expectations, why not get kids accustomed to doing exactly what they'll be doing as adults, rather than forcing them to do something? I'm considering this for most kids not having parents that are there all the time to be proud of them and give them any emotional reinforcement for doing well, and thus don't get anything for getting an "A" other than a different shape of ink than the kid who got a "C".
Hey, guess what?
rm -r /home/*user* will work to destroy all of your shit before you know "something weird" is happening.
Good thing you're talking about number of players familiar with the world, and not amount of material. Oh, wait....
The IP address is intentionally hidden. It's like saying that the address 123 fake street corresponds to zone 6134 according to the zoning board.
They're not just any ad company. They're the ad company serving the highest portion of those ads.
No, it's called "Ease of Use". Not everyone even knows what an IP address is, and expecting every single person on the planet to understand the concept is ludicrous.
They do this in the US too, so don't feel alone.
As forms of entertainment go, MMOs are actually relatively expensive. Time is an expense, and most MMOs require a decent deal of it.
No one bought a PS3 specifically for the otheros feature.
Did you seriously just say that on /. ?
Then consumer electronic entertainment products will become no longer available for sale.
What the hell? They have a much simpler solution: require you to agree to an EULA to use the software that happens to run on the hardware. You can't use the PS3 hardware without using the PS3 software at some point.
I think this particular turn was a right turn, but ok.
"Terms are subject to change without notice" is commonplace in nearly every contract in the US, even though that doesn't hold up in court.
posting to undo misclick on redundant.
Because most of the interesting properties of an element are not defined by the number of protons but by the number of electrons and which orbitals they are found in in the ground state.
However, those interesting properties can be derived from the number of protons.
Vast variety of OSes? Since when is there anything other than Windows, and maybe OS X in some very special cases, that the devs have to create a game for?
Good thing this is Mattel, and not Hasbro. That means it's everywhere other than the US and Canada that gets the dumbed-down rules booklet.
OH MY GOD!
Do you seriously mean to say that Americans are going to be the ones that don't have the dumbed-down version of Scrabble???
I don't know if GP was alluding to this, but he may have been. The only reason we haven't gotten as far lately - not enough crap to stress out over. There's nothing pushing us to the brink, which is what forced us to improve technology immensely, including the space program, during the cold war era.
Two for each crew member.
OTT = over the top...I don't get RTG though.
I think he's mistaking the fact that the atmosphere doesn't absorb any energy when you're in space for efficiency.
You do realize that the ability to lock a disk to a given player would/could be used by the MPAA to kill rentals of any disc, right? All the studios have to do is refuse to release disks on any Blu-ray format other than the hybrid one, and force player makers to implement locking software.
As if the Germans didn't bomb London at night? And the Japanese didn't fly planes straight into our ships?