China also does, actually, have University students reporting back to the government about the other Chinese students and their activities.
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 15:19 |
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# ¿ May 5, 2024 18:54 |
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2017 04:04 |
snoremac posted:Do recruitment agents get commissions when they successfully find an employee for an employer? I'm just wondering whether they have an actual stake in this that might explain why they suddenly became such assholes. As far as I know, they always get a commission, and they get a larger one if you've been unemployed for a certain period of time.
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2017 05:28 |
*looks over at feminist frequency who 3/4 this thread probably thinks is amazingly perceptive and probably backed the kickstarter* ha ha yeah!! gently caress you daily telegraph!! as if depictions of women could ever be troubling or weird!!!
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2017 13:24 |
Gorilla Salad posted:Was it this month or last month where someone pointed out that "even here in AusPol, we dismiss and cut off women"? Of course, no one wanted to believe such a thing about themselves. Yet here we are. hello yes that's exactly where the unpleasantness is coming from
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2017 01:11 |
Cling-Wrap Condom posted:hey milky you kicked my rear end in HOTS recently, I think. You were a lunara and I was a morales with a very bad team! you should add me on battle.net friend i've been playing malthael who is very cool but like all the very cool heroes in hots it's like why not pick someone who is just better
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2017 01:33 |
I read something recently where a big thing teachers feel they're not prepared for when it comes to getting into the profession is dealing with kids with special needs. I'm pretty sure shortly after I graduated with my Masters, there was talk of Melbourne Uni introducing a subject about dealing with autistic students. There're a lot more of them out there in the classroom than people think and they can be a difficulty, and there's a lot of teachers who are convinced they'll be a difficulty. Hello, feedback loop. But the answer isn't removing them from the system, particularly when I'm pretty sure the 'special schools' have been gutted for years. Where are these kids going to go? The schools which all the other kids mock? Segregated classes to the same effect? These kids need to be included, because it's the only way to make people not abuse them. I went to primary and most of secondary school with a kid with Down Syndrome. Sam was an amazing kid. Everyone loved him and took care of him and helped him out, even when he could become a real handful. But he also had two dedicated teaching aides and generally operated on his own basis when it came to classroom education. He still took part in things, even had lines in the Year 9 play. But a lot of had known him since Prep, so, we were used to him and stood up for him when newer kids tried to get him in trouble. The teachers knew him. Everyone knew him and was sad when he left at the end of Year 9. I think everyone assumed he'd be there until Year 12, with everyone else. And that says wonders for how everyone viewed him. When I read something of Tithin's, about kids telling kids like that that their brain is broken. I just don't get it. No one ever did that to Sam. As mentioned, maybe it was because we'd grown up with him. I'm pretty sure there's a lot of teachers out there who espouse the line that they need to devote a disproportionate amount of time and resources to kids like that in their classes. As far as I know, public schools are supposed to have a certain number of teaching aides for the kids who require them, but also most public schools simply don't get them. The whole thing is messed up.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 08:05 |
racing identity posted:Teachers are absolutely not given the appropriate resources or training to manage classes with diverse learning requirements This is true, too. But I'm pretty sure Anidav was quoting a dumb Internet comment.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 08:06 |
Cartoon posted:Challenge excepted. Is it OK that I did all the qualification stuff before you asked? I especially focus on the special needs kids. One time I only found out the fifteen year old couldn't read because I devoted enough one on one time. Let's be brutally frank: The HSC isn't all that loving hard. If you are bright and apply yourself you'll do well despite the attention of any number of teachers. You say a lot of poo poo, Cartoon, but this might just take the cake.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 10:51 |
"If students are intelligent and motivated, they'll do well!" No poo poo, Sherlock. What about the kids who aren't intelligent, aren't motivated, were failed by their previous teachers, have a home life that prevents them from focusing on their studies, have peers who think it's 'uncool' to display initiative or intelligence, etc. etc. etc.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 10:55 |
meteor9 posted:Presumably they'd be included in the list of 'kids who need help and attention', unless you're suggesting that teaching certain groups of disadvantaged kids justifies removing another group of disadvantaged kids. No. I'm arguing against someone who implies that anyone who doesn't succeed at secondary education is a lazy idiot, like some weird educational variant of the bootstraps argument. What, do people think the average kid comes to the HSC or VCE or whatever with the skills, knowledge, and background they need to apply themselves to their learning? I'm actually the one saying that kids who need help and attention are more than "kids that are autistic" and "kids that can't read". Because that latter category -- if expanded to kids who read below their expected level -- is huge. There're plenty of secondary school classrooms where Year 11 kids can't really read at an appropriate level, where they still need to sound words -- and these aren't poor schools by any metric. In 2013, a study found that 44% of Australians have such low levels of literacy that they have difficulty with daily tasks. That's huge! Milkfred E. Moore fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 11:08 |
Oh, and if you think I've argued that kids with special needs should be "gotten rid of", then you might just fall into that 44% edit: "But the answer isn't removing them from the system... These kids need to be included..."
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 11:13 |
WhiskeyWhiskers posted:What the gently caress are you talking about? He specifically said kids who are bright and apply themselves will do well regardless. Now sure that sounds loving obvious, but plenty of teachers spend a lot of time with these kids because they want them to reach their absolute potential and feel good about themselves when dealing with kids who want to learn. If a kid has to sound out words in year 11 then they're likely functionally illiterate and exactly the sort of kid Cartoon was talking about. He also said the HSC isn't "all that loving hard" at the same time saying that kids who are "bright" will do well regardless. (Sure, it's not hard, to us looking back on it as adults but, y'know, hindsight and twenties...) All in all, this is contradictory rhetoric. The implication, of course, is that anyone who doesn't do well is stupid. Because the HSC is easy. For a lot of students, those exams aren't easy. Milkfred E. Moore fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 15:37 |
Cartoon posted:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-21/pauline-hanson-under-fire-repulsive-bigoted-comments-autism/8640328 This just in, Cartoon falls into the 44% of people who can't read. Tragic. Point to where I agreed with her. Quote the part of my post. edit: Wait, I found it for you, Cartoon. quote:But the answer isn't removing them from the system, particularly when I'm pretty sure the 'special schools' have been gutted for years. Where are these kids going to go? The schools which all the other kids mock? Segregated classes to the same effect? wait hang on that's the wrong part, that's the part where i disagree with hanson. poo poo. Milkfred E. Moore fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 02:41 |
Lid posted:The writer is a satirist but thats pretty lovely satire On this, we agree.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 02:46 |
Cartoon posted:You said I was full of poo poo for disagreeing with her.... So. Man who says secondary school exams are easy tries to rail against the educational standards of someone who says that's the wrong perspective to take. Oh, Cartoon. One day you'll stop making GBS threads in holes and join the 21st Century. I'm glad that you found the one kid in your class who had trouble reading, but there's way more than one kid with that issue in any modern classroom. Let's take your point apart. "Let's be brutally frank: The HSC isn't all that loving hard" The HSC -- and other secondary exams, by extension -- is easy. "If you are bright and apply yourself you'll do well" You'll do well, if you are bright and apply yourself. Therefore, the kids who don't pass the easy exam aren't bright or apply themselves. They are, in a sense, choosing to fail. This is a bootstraps-level argument. "despite the attention of any number of teachers." A strange point, given that the HSC isn't hard. If it isn't hard, why do we even need teachers? Your point -- that the HSC is both easy but also reliant on students being bright and knowing to apply themselves -- is incoherent.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 02:55 |
"Pfft, learning the alphabet isn't hard. If you were smart and weren't so lazy, you'd just know it. Nothing personal, kid." - Cartoon, to a kindergarten class.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 02:57 |
Recoome posted:Milky what the gently caress are you even arguing for here This isn't an argument. That implies a sense of equality between opponents. Just because a literal neanderthal is making GBS threads in my yard doesn't make the fact that I'm telling him that we invented sanitation years ago an argument.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 03:02 |
Futuresight posted:Here's a summary for those of you unable to keep up: Thank you, thread archivist.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 03:29 |
Anidav posted:Cartoons link says that assistant teachers exist in most classrooms for the disadvantaged meaning that the main teacher isn't distracted in the first place. That part of his post is actually from a different article. And Poed's point, while true, isn't necessarily accurate. As I said, it's not uncommon at all for schools to not have the manpower to ensure each kid has an aide with them at all times. The student in question might have an aide assigned but that aide might also have a dozen other kids spread around the school who they have to help. And that means that, while there is technically an aide for every kid, that aide might not be there in the classroom with that particular kid every single day. Similarly, her point about it resulting in better outcomes is true but inaccurate. Any teacher who teaches to a range of academic levels, from low to high, is going to achieve better results across their classes. What Poed means to say is that having a kid with those sorts of issues prompts the teacher to consciously consider that there is a range of academic achievers in their class, which prompts them to consider their teaching methods towards a wider range, which achieves better results. It's not as if the kids just magically impart knowledge. I taught at a school where they were supposed to have six aides for the kids who needed them. They had two and, while they attempted to prioritize them to the kids who needed the most assistance, it was a significant issue. It also doesn't really say that. It says: "What is more, Dr Poed pointed out that in classes where some kids had disabilities, teachers were rarely trying to teach alone — these children are typically supported by teacher assistants." But no data on what constitutes a disability that gets an aide, how many schools have the required number of aides, what the support entails, etc. I'm sure UoM's data is something like 'Is there an aide assigned to the kid? Yes/no'. Like I said, that's the same place that -- AFAIK -- is looking to implementing a whole unit in the Masters about handling kids with autism and such. Milkfred E. Moore fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 03:57 |
Cartoon posted:Well if you include the context that someone (Dancing Shade) was having an arguement from authority jab at Anidav for saying:
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 04:44 |
Hobo Erotica posted:I was going to spare the thread the full text, but since JBP so lovingly created a cover, here it is: lol nice post milky
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 07:00 |
wait a second
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 07:00 |
Anidav posted:Okay schools need more funding because most public schools haven't had a makeover since the early 2000s- I know a school that was supposed to have some work done -- new rooms, upgrades, etc -- in the 80s-90s. Still hasn't happened. So, the school is held together by duct tape and good wishes in a few places and teachers are like, well, no poo poo the kids have no pride, look at what we have to work with.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 01:21 |
despite the incredibly bad name that makes you think of My First Half Life mod, playerunknown's battlegrounds is ridiculously good fun. it's basically a competitive survival shooter. the core gameplay idea is this: about a hundred people are dumped on an island, last person standing wins. you begin with nothing and must track down weapons and safe spots. there are additional complications, such as artillery strikes, and a blue forcefield of electric death, that complicate things. overall, the rounds take maybe thirty minutes -- shorter if you die, of course. and, despite being an incredibly unoptimized, somewhat janky alpha, that core gameplay idea (and the core gameplay loop within it) is fantastic. basically, it works like this. from the moment you land, you land needing to find resources to give you an edge in survival -- weapons, armor, medical supplies. with the resources, you kill players who are competing for the same resources. killing players expends resources, which means you need to scavenge for more resources, which means... the action is janky and the game is pretty unoptimized, but that core loop is really well executed. additionally, depending on how the game plays it, you get a variety of drastically different scenarios. did you land far from the safe zone? well, you better prepare for a cross-island adventure. did you land well within the safe zone? then you get to fortify and hold your ground against the people who'll be coming there. a lot of the game relies on listening out for other people, as there are no visual cues for where people are coming from. you need to listen for gunfire and footsteps and even people talking as they get closer. you can play solo, duo or squad (three or four). each method offers a fairly different experience. i've been playing with a variety of auspol goons and it's been a lot of fun blowing away pubbies (this is untrue, i often die in the first exchange of gunfire) and trading verbal jabs with the various strange characters who inhabit oceania. "taiwan is number one", for example, is a good thing to spit out at your killer as you bleed out. generally, the combat is split between short bursts of frantic, murderous action and longer stretches of tense waiting, watching and observing. it works really well because the map is large enough, and the spawns random earth, to prevent any sort of rote memorization with the lack of visual hud elements (eg: highlighting enemies or incoming fire) forcing players to communicate and call things out, such as coordinates and location. it's also neat because the game gives this feeling of being stuck on an island with a bunch of murderers, which is probably assisted by the purestrain verbal idiocy that people will be shouting over chat. it all comes together really well and it's really fun to boot. once this game gets better optimized and less janky, it's going to be pretty amazing. as it is, its very solid and definitely worth the purchase.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2017 07:11 |
gently caress. wrong thread. oh well. the game has bike helmets.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2017 07:12 |
NPR Journalizard posted:so basically hunger games that's what i said but i was told NO IT'S LIKE BATTLE ROYALE MILKY YOU loving IDIOT
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2017 07:40 |
Anidav posted:Ni.... Hao...*fires plasma beam at conservative opposition leader while snorting robo cocaine off the body of my robo wife* i sent you that fanfiction in confidence
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 01:05 |
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# ¿ May 5, 2024 18:54 |
cyclists are hosed up, though, let's be honest. they're always like haha i'm going forty km under the speed limit on a busy road where no one can overtake me haha i'm saving the environment XD whoops i'm getting on a train now and i need to wedge my bicycle in-- sorry, yes, sorry, yes it's stuck in the door. oof, clipped you with the wheel there mate, haha, no biggie, right? oh you need to get around me and my bike is blocking the door? sure, mate, wait until the bicycle community hears about this they're basically shouting I'M BETTER THAN YOU with every push of those pedals if i'm allowed to poison household vermin with poison i can purchase from my local supermarket, i don't see why i'm not allowed to poison roadway vermin aka cyclists
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2017 09:50 |