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Pretty dull compared to the raving lunatics you lot are friends with, but dumb nonetheless. I hate how people shove cancer awareness into every stupid facebook 'game'.    -"I just found out I've been cheated on for the past 5 months" - (an hour later) "Ahaha not really you fell for it. Cancer awareness."
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I'm not sure how that helps with awareness at all! Other than a bare-bones "yeah, breast cancer exists" at least.
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As a (skinny) dude, #2 would legitimately make for an interesting status to gently caress with people. Too bad it's all wrapped up in... that.
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Dr Scoofles posted:
That one is especially dumb, I wonder if some poor partner got a torrent of abuse from well meaning friends not knowing it's for 'awareness'
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Spalec posted:That one is especially dumb, I wonder if some poor partner got a torrent of abuse from well meaning friends not knowing it's for 'awareness' I could have sworn someone actually posted a very uncomfortable response to that one in the last thread.
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Someone got a rant that basically amounted to "I'm glad you finally realize what a piece of poo poo your husband is, I always hated trying to act like he was good for you when I saw you together."
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It seems pretty likely statistically that posting that is the way someone finds out it's actually the case.
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Here's an absolutely wonderful collection of idiots on social media. http://themetapicture.com/whenever-you-feel-dumb-just-remember/
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I don't know why I engage with stuff like this, but I'm a History teacher, I can't help it, I have to at least try to stop poo poo like this, right? I also made the mistake of commenting late at night after a long day of paper-writing, that probably didn't help my demeanor. Oh well. I'm Marv Ellis, Bart Ender is a guy I knew from undergrad.     I just have to tell myself it's not worth it and move on.
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Seems you already won that one to me, they can't win using logic so they ignored you and drop the real subject for opinions. Can somebody from the US tell me what Common Core actually is though? I understood it was a new set of guidelines of what every public school should teach. Both in methods and critical thinking skills.
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Zedd posted:Seems you already won that one to me, they can't win using logic so they ignored you and drop the real subject for opinions. That's exactly what it is, I don't know enough about it to have an opinion on it but a lot of people I know who took the time to look up stuff about it tell me it's not that great. Most of the people whining about it, however, are doing so because it's more BIG GOVERNMENT that will be one step closer to
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Doomsayer posted:I don't know why I engage with stuff like this, Sorry, but not everyone does subtraction like that, and yeah, it seems a pretty absurd way to do it me. Using your '63 - 27' example, my thought process is '60 - 20 = 40' '43 - 7 = 36', the idea of adding poo poo up never really springs to mind at all.
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SybilVimes posted:Sorry, but not everyone does subtraction like that, and yeah, it seems a pretty absurd way to do it me. Using your '63 - 27' example, my thought process is '60 - 20 = 40' '43 - 7 = 36', the idea of adding poo poo up never really springs to mind at all. That's because you were taught like that when you first started. The new method is easier for people who are coming from a blank slate and are just starting to learn math. The steps are more apparent to them, especially when doing more complex numbers, like 6 or 10 digit problems.
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Yeah I'll be the first to admit I'm not a big fan of Common Core, but that mostly has to do with the implementation (a lot of it is tied up in No Child Left Behind-esque poo poo) rather than the content. I personally don't think CC goes far enough, but as for what's actually in there, all it is is a re-emphasis on skill development rather than rote memorization. A lot of the stuff in CC is stuff teachers were doing on their own anyway, this just makes it formal. SybilVimes posted:Sorry, but not everyone does subtraction like that, and yeah, it seems a pretty absurd way to do it me. Using your '63 - 27' example, my thought process is '60 - 20 = 40' '43 - 7 = 36', the idea of adding poo poo up never really springs to mind at all. My central point was that this "complicated" system was, in fact, really not that complicated at all, and that a lot of adults already did it that way, even if they didn't realize it. If you personally didn't, that's fine! It was just part of a larger push to teach students multiple ways of doing something as a way of building a foundation for number theory later. The perception (one I agree with) is that curriculum had become too focused on just memorizing formulas and using them over and over, rather than explaining why something was done the way it was. Common Core reminds me of the ACA in a lot of ways. There's some objectionable stuff in there, it's maybe a step in the right direction, but there's much more to be done. Instead objections come in the form of OBAMMAAAAA!  EDIT: Pead posted:That's because you were taught like that when you first started. The new method is easier for people who are coming from a blank slate and are just starting to learn math. The steps are more apparent to them, especially when doing more complex numbers, like 6 or 10 digit problems. Right, that! 
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Common Core is just an attempt to change the way certain subjects are taught to make kids think out the process they use and learn how apply frameworks to other situations instead of memorizing. One example is getting rid of the multiplication table. Kids are currently timed to take a multiplication table where they have to solve 1x1, 1x2, 1x3, etc, all the way up to 12x12. This just incentivises kids to memorize their time tables, but not actually learn math skills. The point of the math exercise is to let kids learn how to multiply and divide large numbers without having to carry the 1 or use long division on a sheet of paper. The process is emphasized. The English standards follow the same principle. Currently, they ask kids to read a writing sample and then answer questions based on the sample. Again, this just encourages kids to memorize or learn how to pull facts quickly, which are useful skills, but does not teach them critical thinking. Under Common Core and English prompt would be something like: "In the story, the town had the choice to build a library at a location that was cheaper, but farther away from school or a location that was more expensive and closer to school. What choice did the school make and why? What are the advantages and disadvantages to each location and which would you choose? Why is your choice ultimately the best?" Whereas now, it is something like "On page 6 the school made a decision on where to build a certain building. What building was it and what choice did they make?"
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Common Core is just an attempt to change the way certain subjects are taught to make kids think out the process they use and learn how apply frameworks to other situations instead of memorizing. These is an excellent summary and I hope you don't mind if I steal it!
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"Fox News is well respected in my circles" really says it all, doesn't it? Aside from that, we've seen millions of times from this very thread that any deviance from the way people did anything as a kid will be dismissed by them as frivolous and inferior, be it media, education or whatever. Back in my day, MP3 players weren't part of phones and only held 1 GB and that's all we needed!  (1 GB, even back then, was still way too small.) Gimnbo has a new favorite as of 19:55 on May 15, 2014 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Common Core is just an attempt to change the way certain subjects are taught to make kids think out the process they use and learn how apply frameworks to other situations instead of memorizing. I'm a social studies/history teacher, and for us the goal is to give the students experience reading primary source documents such as the Declaration of Independence. We hope that this will translate to being able to read reports in the working world. I agree wholeheartedly with the goal of the Common Core. My only concern, however, is that in the usual hamfisted nature of education legislation, we will transition our system so entirely that students no longer memorize anything at all. Yes, it is incredibly important for students to learn skills that are applicable to the real world, but if in the process they do not remember vital facts and data, we will have a problem. Basically we need to do everything.
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Gimnbo posted:Back in my day, MP3 players weren't part of phones and only held 1 GB and that's all we needed!
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SoldadoDeTone posted:I'm a social studies/history teacher, and for us the goal is to give the students experience reading primary source documents such as the Declaration of Independence. We hope that this will translate to being able to read reports in the working world. I agree wholeheartedly with the goal of the Common Core. My only concern, however, is that in the usual hamfisted nature of education legislation, we will transition our system so entirely that students no longer memorize anything at all. Yes, it is incredibly important for students to learn skills that are applicable to the real world, but if in the process they do not remember vital facts and data, we will have a problem. Yeah, I think that's really the problem with trying to explain objections with Common Core, the real answer is exactly what you said, but the rhetoric is painted as "NO YOU MUST PICK ONE OR THE OTHER, ALL IN MOTHERFUCKER!" Picking "Option C: We need to overhaul everything." isn't really an option
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Common Core is just an attempt to change the way certain subjects are taught to make kids think out the process they use and learn how apply frameworks to other situations instead of memorizing. Getting rid of the multiplication table is a horrible mistake. Canada's provinces, except Québec, stopped making students memorize the multiplication table a few years ago. Math scores have fallen dramatically in English Canada and remained steady in Québec. It's a perfect natural experiment that demonstrates one of the key "innovations" of Common Core is terrible. This is not the place, if you'd like to reply to me please do so in the American Politics thread.
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How is firefighter guy doing during firestorm 2014? 
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Pilchenstein posted:Hark at loving future boy over here, my first mp3 player was 32 megs. I still have one somewhere that can hold 32MB of mp3s or 64MB of WMA. And no, that's not some magical compression, it just only lets you use the full memory if you use protected WMAs from some obscurely old version of WMP.
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Wizard of Smart posted:How is firefighter guy doing during firestorm 2014? He's doing great! I mean, he's the guy who started the fire, but hey 
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The White Dragon posted:He's doing great! I mean, he's the guy who started the fire, but hey have a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life
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Pilchenstein posted:Hark at loving future boy over here, my first mp3 player was 32 megs. My first mp3 player was a discman that let you play data CDs rather than 'music' CDs so you could put a full 700mb of songs on rather than being limited to 60 minutes of music and I thought that was the pinnacle of human technological achievment.
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 All feminists hate all men  Goddammit. Also, isn't Rei Ayanami like middle school age?
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trapped mouse posted:Goddammit. (trap sprung  )
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Yeah yeah I know, it's tumblr, but it's otherkin oppression
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Even in these guys' anime fantasies the women only look at them with shock and naked disgust. While also preparing an overhead swing to crack them in the head with a bat or something.
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I'd also love an update on Firefighter Guy and Titanic Guy.
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dijon du jour posted:While also preparing an overhead swing to crack them in the head with a bat or something. I think those two use swords, thankfully.
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Kavak posted:I think those two use swords, thankfully. What a coincidence, they do too! It was love at first katana.
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Ragequit posted:What a coincidence, they do too! It was love at first katana. Where is that person with Satsuki's avatar when you need them? Something like: "Kill La Kill is an anime about two sisters who scissor their mother to death. I highly recommend it."
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trapped mouse posted:Goddammit. Not like these two are much better, I think they're both 17-ish.
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I don't know if this counts as social media, but I found this through a friend of a friend on FB - and apparently this person is constantly asking for all kinds of favors publicly like this... It might be the single shittiest "gofundme" I've seen yet: http://www.gofundme.com/97h5u4 TLDR: girl loses her wallet filled with HUNDREDS of dollars on her BIRTHDAY! And she needs strangers to give her money - literally $300... tiananman has a new favorite as of 02:01 on May 16, 2014 |
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