If you’d like some advice as to how to start, let me know. I’d be happy to provide you with some advice on how to start.

Do you have established communities of national board certified teachers with Google drives full of resources who are happy to provide timely advice on classroom management?

The people who use social media platforms and the content they post are sometimes enough to make you have to ignore how shit the platform is, especially when those groups are hard to find elsewhere. I’ve not seen a lot on Lemmy, piefed or mastodon that makes me feel I can confidently talk shop teaching wise.

My elected representatives, as well as representatives of government departments are also often much easier to reach via Facebook than any other platform.

It was an email address, listed in a profile. Clickable, but not copyable. Was happy to pop as a new email draft up in the IOS Mail app. Just not able to populate into the field of the drafted email I had already written and had open.

It would be nice to discard Facebook, but unfortunately activism and awareness raising requires going into the spaces people already are. It’s also where most teacher communities are, and the kind of 50 year plus classroom management wizard that I want to be getting advice from is not going to be on the fediverse.

Along those lines, I’ve noticed autocorrect has gotten somehow worse in the past ten years - it’ll sometimes try to correct words that are correctly spelled but uncommon to completely random words.

“Common sense” is completely and utterly irrelevant to the legal system. It is simply a matter of who can afford a better lawyer. And LA Fitness can hire a better lawyer than you can.

Because I’m thirsty and would like a drink?

I was half asleep grabbing snacks after a twelve hour shift.

I don’t see why the “100%” is there, other than to try to trick you into thinking it’s “100% juice.” Like yeah, they aren’t literally lying, but they are trying to deceive.

My problem is mostly that HFCS tastes like ass. I was expecting it to be a blend of apple juice, pear juice, and a hint of passion fruit.

The health aspect is more about always keeping an easy to access non-beer thing in my fridge.

They want to arrest Obama and try him for treason. There’d be some bullshit reason he wouldn’t be allowed, probably wouldn’t be on the ballot at all in red states.

I’d love a return to pre-Digg exodus Reddit, or slashdot in its heyday. Hacker news scratched that itch for a while, some instances here seem close if not quite the same.

Lots more “check out this thing I made!”

Most states do require some comparative religion in high school history. I’ve taught it.

Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Abrahamic faiths were in the curriculum. What was really fascinating was having a high schooler that had no idea what Christianity was. I live in the Bible Belt!

But yeah, understanding things like the Five Pillars of Islam humanizes Muslims. Understanding why a classmate isn’t eating all day, knowing that Muslims are required to donate some to charity if they can…

I think even some of the quasi Christian groups should be covered, but that’s a lot dicier. I don’t know if JW kids’ parents would want them to learn about the Great Disappointment, or Mormon families would approve of discussing Jo Smith’s child brides… (much less that official Mormon theology was that Native Americans would turn white if converted, or the best outcome for black folks was being a servant in the afterlife)

The current administration is certainly forgetting those folks.

What topic are you trying to learn right now?

As you watch the videos, you can follow along on paper. Pause the videos to try to figure out what to do.

I’ve also found that using a mix of colors works really well as you are working problems. If you are learning composition of functions, try putting each function as a different color. Or if you are in calc and doing integration by parts, again color code each function.

Another tool is to do T chart notes. Write the math step on the left hand side, and the explanation for each step on the right. Think about why you are doing each step.

Gamifying stuff seems very appealing, but Duolingo I don’t think has shown itself as being effective long term.

The more advanced the math, the more steps and effort goes into solving a problem. I think that makes it harder to gamify. You get to the point in calc where a problem might take several pages to do.

What I would really like is daily problem/brain teaser type things. The ones I see online are either extremely easy or intentionally written in a confusing way to get engagement.

I haven’t tried Brilliant so I don’t know how good it is but that claims to do what you want.

I don’t think there’s as much money in it as you think there is. The students who struggle with math aren’t going to look for that type of resource - they just try to struggle through. The students who are interested already know about resources like Organic Chemistry Tutor and Paul’s Notes.

If an interested dev does stumble on this thread, I do frequently help students with math and would love to consult for money lol

I failed my first drivers test because my car had stickers for democrat candidates on it.

It’s kinda amazing how much leeway they have.

Metaphorically, the whore in that passage is Israel. You could switch out the Assyrians and Babylonians for the various nation states that arm Israel today…

So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”

The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

Their god is a vindictive evil fucker. A god of hate, and they mirror themselves in his image.

The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this. – “There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.” – By the mere pleasure of God, I mean his sovereign pleasure, his arbitrary will, restrained by no obligation, hindered by no manner of difficulty, any more than if nothing else but God’s mere will had in the least degree, or in any respect whatsoever, any hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment.

Johnathan Edwards

Almost as if they aren’t actually “pro life” and it’s always been a tool to control women…

Wonder how research on black maternal mortality is being treated.

Considering how many of the women that have died due to Dobbs have been women of color… if one was “pro life” the fact that black women being 3.5 times more likely to die in childbirth should be concerning.