Teacher looking for some external testers for a student grouping app

Hey,

I’m a teacher myself and until now I’ve been using TeamShake for making student groups. At some point a few missing features (for example iCloud sync) and also the somewhat outdated look started to annoy me. There are newer apps doing similar things, but I honestly don’t see why I should pay a subscription for a small helper app. Mine will definitely be a one-time purchase and cost no more than your average kebab. Without extra cheese!

After around 6 months of working on it during holidays and weekends (I teach full-time), the app is now basically finished and the App Store release is coming up. You can create classes, import them from .CSV files and then generate groups either randomly or with different parameters like student strength, gender or a blacklist. There are also quite a few other features already working.

Something that was very important to me was being able to present the groups nicely on the classroom screen, so the app supports AirPlay. While you generate and maybe adjust the groups, the class sees a loading screen, and once you hit “Go”, the groups appear with an animated reveal. There are several animations to choose from.

Until now mostly colleagues and friends have tested it, so I’m looking for some teachers who have never seen the app before. No review, post or anything like that expected – just try it and tell me what annoys you, what is confusing or what is missing.

The app is developed for iOS and iPadOS, but also runs on Mac. The only thing you need to try it is Apple’s TestFlight app, which is used for testing apps before they are released on the App Store.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/rSfvmzM7

If you’d like to keep testing future builds and prefer to be invited directly through TestFlight, just send me a DM with the email address you use for TestFlight. Feedback here, by DM or directly through TestFlight is all fine.

Submitted 2026-09-08T08:27:11Z by Balmung1337 https://ift.tt/LpxEVg2

What do you think should be left out and what should be included in the science curriculum?

For example, i think for chemistry its unnecessary for them to get really technical about spdf orbitals, since most high school material can be explained with the octet rule. Im not saying that it shouldn’t be taught, what i mean is that time is finite and most of them that will go on a science profesional career will be taught that in college.

Also, in biology its unnecessary to get really deep about chemical processes like atp synthesis and similar processes.

On the other side, i think it should be taught the biology of human behavior. There is a course about it online on Stanford by Robert Sapolsky that tries to explain why humans behave based purely on biology (not psychology or sociology) comparing it to other animals. Talks about cooperation, beauty, war, game theory and lots of other components of human society explained by our biology instead of psychological or cultural aspects. Its really interesting and might make students see the world differently.

Submitted 2026-09-07T14:41:22Z by ElArteDePararte https://ift.tt/UN4szBO

あなたの学校は校則が厳しかったですか？

日本の学校は下着の色、靴の色、ヘアゴムの色と位置、髪型、すべて校則で決められていました

Submitted 2026-09-07T13:41:57Z by Silent_Focus7829 https://ift.tt/6uK07HP

Why are students taught so little about inflation, money creation, and currency debasement?

I’ve been thinking about how little most students learn about money itself.

We spend years studying economics, but how much do students actually learn about:

• how money is created through the banking system
• inflation and the loss of purchasing power
• currency debasement
• why hard assets can behave differently from cash
• how monetary policy affects wealth distribution
• the incentives created by different monetary systems

Keynesian economics is generally given much more attention in mainstream education, while Austrian economics and thinkers like Mises and Hayek often receive considerably less attention.

I’m not saying one school is automatically correct. It just seems strange that students aren't more explicitly exposed to competing frameworks for understanding something as fundamental as money.

There’s also an interesting historical question about how educational priorities become established in the first place. Large foundations, universities, governments, and wealthy philanthropists have all played roles in shaping American education over the past century. That influence doesn't necessarily imply anything sinister, but it makes me wonder how much of what we consider "standard" curriculum is simply the result of institutional priorities becoming entrenched over time.

Why don't we teach students more about competing theories of money and monetary policy, rather than giving them one dominant framework?

I think understanding how money actually works should be considered basic financial literacy.

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Looking for help from counselors for my project

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Fed up with stupid education system

Why is it that you are told nothing about how to choose college or which career path brings you good income and growth?...you are lucky if your parents pay attention and guide...is that not supposed to be the job of school and teachers?...what the hell are they making us study so much if at last we are not taught how to decide on universities, colleges, courses and careers. Everyone just follows herd.

Submitted 2026-09-06T16:54:47Z by Salt_Ball4173 https://ift.tt/KABkhR7