Hey everyone!
If you’re thinking about studying abroad and need some guidance with universities or applications, I may be able to help.
I worked with a team that helped me get into the University of Leeds in the UK and secure a scholarship I couldn’t get myself. They’ve been doing this for 15+ years.
If you’re interested, message me and I’ll be happy to help you out!
I’m 22 almost 23 and ditched school most of high school. My truancy was I showed up maybe once or twice a week. I’m not proud of it, I’m so regretful and I just want to get back on my feet and go to community college.
No adult ever stepped in and asked me what’s wrong and my guardians didn’t care if I scored good or bad. College was a scam and my dad refused to pay for my SAT or for any college classes. so I finally got the courage to get up and fix what I broke now.
My hardest subjects are probably math and science. I don’t know my multiplication table, fractions, division, etc.
When looking things up everywhere I see says that community college does remedial classes but I only ever see people complaining about algebra or things I have no clue what it’s about.
What do I do if I’m below that level? I believe my GPA was below 2.0. I never did homework but I did get my GED. It says my weighted GPA is 2.2131 and academic GPA is 1.9130. I don’t think I’m stupid. I think I grasp things quickly but I just was never in school to turn in the work or do anything.
My current goal is to watch YouTube videos and do problems within a notebook until I relearn fractions and my multiplication table. But I want to go to college, I want to be more than I am right now.
I don’t know if this enough or if I need to take a test or do something to get into college. Can I even go to college at all?
I don’t know if I need advice or just a kind word. Any advice for me would be appreciated.
What have you done in your classes that students have loved?
Hi. Recently, I had the opportunity to learn about education in other countries, and I learned that even in compulsory education, students learn things like "arguing with evidence" and "writing essays."
However, the school education I received felt closer to "memorizing historical facts." For example, even if an exam asked questions like, "Who built the Great Buddha in Nara?" or "Why was the Great Buddha built?", the format was often to simply write down what we had learned, such as "Emperor Shomu" or "Because there were conflicts and epidemics, and people were becoming increasingly anxious, so he tried to calm them." (I didn't think of the reasons myself; I was just memorizing the textbook descriptions and what the teacher said in class.)
As someone who received that kind of education, I'm curious about what history education is like in other countries.
However, not everyone in English-speaking countries is a genius, and I don't think a 10-year-old child can suddenly write a sophisticated essay.
For example, I graduated from a high school with a low academic standard.
Therefore, of course, I didn't go to university, and I don't have the academic ability to take the standardized university entrance exam in the first place.
What interests me is how people like that, who must exist in English-speaking countries, manage to pass exams. (I'm not talking about so-called geniuses or people with average academic ability, but rather people who score below average.)
For example, in a Japanese regular test that relies on rote memorization, a 12-year-old can score reasonably well if they've memorized historical facts.
So, even without critical thinking skills or intelligence, simply memorizing can prevent them from getting terrible scores.
However, if the learning involves "presenting evidence and arguing," "writing essays," and "thinking based on historical sources," then I find that in itself to be very meaningful and truly fascinating. But for a child who struggles with studying, it would be quite difficult, and if the exam were like that, wouldn't they end up with no points at all?
From my perspective, that kind of education overseas seems very appealing, and if I could experience it, I would love to. If there were workbooks for children, I would definitely want to try them!
But at the same time, I feel that if I had been born in an English-speaking country, I would have despaired at exams.
For example, when I was a child, I had the perception that "subjects like math, science, and English are subjects that only smart people can get good grades in (the image is that test scores are directly linked to a high level of intelligence), but kanji and history only require memorization, so there's still a chance for less intelligent people (it seems like you can manage with effort and rote memorization)." They were my "salvation" subjects. (Of course, if we're talking about university entrance exams, subjects like Japanese language and history are incredibly difficult.)
So, if the Force isn't available, I'm curious: what do people overseas who struggle with studying use to get through exams?
I was a student of a teaching programme of a university in Türkiye. And my cousin was a student of the same programme in a different (better) university. We both had the class called instructional technologies. While my cousin said that they had learned about tool to create educational content and even had a homework of creating a website that presents what they have learnt. We on the other hand had a weird lecturer that taught us history of technology, some weird philosophical claims about what technology is and some weird models of material development but nothing actually useful in class. He claimed that the actual purpose of this lesson existing is what he taught. But I highly doubt that.
My team has spent the last several months building a system that generates personalized worksheets (Math + ELA) for PreK–Grade 5, with the goal of giving teachers and parents free access to quality-checked practice material instead of paying for it or hunting across a dozen sites.
Genuinely torn on a few things and would love this community's take: does AI-generated content in early education worry you, or is it fine as long as a human vets it before it reaches a kid? Where do you personally draw the line?
Not linking anything here ,just want real opinions, not a promo thread. Happy to share more in the comments if people are curious.
I've had nice teachers before. We all have.
But for the mean teachers you do realize you're being mean to someone who could grow up to be your boss, right?
(If you ban me for this, it'll only make my self-esteem stronger. If you don't, it'll only make my self-esteem stronger.)
I ran a comparison of first grade curriculum standards in social studies across the 50 states, and I included Canadian provinces, as well. I found that there is some serious nuance, but a number of general similarities. Most notably, I found that only a handful of States emphasize American history at this age, but most extend the kindergarten focus on family and community. It's relevant to immediate surroundings and day-to-day life on the ground in America, but generic, considering the distinctness of American identity and the influence of outside forces.
In the past having a good degree meant something and signaled knowledge and reliability to employers. Nowadays it just signals "I have a piece of paper, do with that information what you like". it is increasingly hard for young university graduates without extensive job experience to land entry-level roles in the areas of expertise matching their degrees (and in general as well). Despite that, degrees are still often required, even if places where they shouldn't be. It's important to note that there are some exceptions where degrees do provide a clear pipeline to career building, as is the case with medical professions.
I knew someone who had 1 finished Master's degree in Finance and 1 unfinished Master's degree in accounting. All they could get is an underpaid internship in accounting, It's dreadful to imagine what the odds are for Bachelor's graduates.
Of course, it is primarily the fault of the economic system and situation, employers' fantasies translating into hardcore gatekeeping by HR sycophants and the lack of political will to change the status-quo. However, the administration at universities do realize that in many cases they're selling useless papers and can do nothing for their own graduates?
A critique I hear is that degrees don't teach skills and that's absolutely false, they do and that's their whole goal. However, they don't create experience out of thin air and don't fulfill the other unrealistic employer fantasies for entry-level jobs.
What do you think the future of higher education will be? What changes can be made to address the issue, make education work towards helping young people with unemployment? Feel free to share your thoughts on any of these points or anything related to them.
Im currently coming up on my final years of highschool and was wondering what universities across the globe would be best for marine biology.
I've been thinking about a possible long-term problem with AI that I don't hear discussed very much.
This isn't really about AI "taking our jobs." It's about how people become competent in the first place.
For most of history, learning and productive work happened at the same time.
A student wrote an essay because the teacher needed an essay to grade—but the real product was a student learning to organize and express an argument.
A new employee answered phones, worked in the mailroom, reconciled accounts, wrote simple code, prepared routine reports, or did other low-level work. The company needed the work done, but while doing it the novice learned how the organization and profession worked.
The immediate product wasn't the only product. The developing human was another product.
AI potentially breaks that relationship at both ends.
A student who can't write very well used to produce a bad paper.
That failure was useful information. The student discovered that writing was difficult. The teacher could see where the student was struggling. And the only way for the student to get better was to struggle through more writing.
Now AI can produce a competent-looking paper for a student who cannot independently produce one.
So we potentially get a feedback loop:
Weak skills → greater AI reliance → less practice → weaker skills → still greater AI reliance.
AI didn't create our educational problems. Many of the trends were visible long before generative AI appeared. My concern is that AI may be an accelerant because it lets people bypass some of the cognitive work through which competence develops—and can conceal the fact that the competence is missing.
Think about how people traditionally entered organizations.
Someone started in the warehouse, mailroom, answering phones, doing junior bookkeeping, basic research, routine drafting, simple programming, etc.
Those jobs weren't just inexpensive labor. They were the bottom rungs of a career ladder.
A capable 22-year-old did relatively simple work, learned from experienced people, made mistakes, gained judgment and gradually became the valuable 25-, 30- and 40-year-old professional.
AI is exceptionally good at a lot of that entry-level cognitive work.
From the perspective of an individual company, eliminating junior positions can make perfect economic sense. Why pay a new employee to spend three hours producing something an experienced employee can generate with AI in ten minutes?
But that creates a longer-term problem:
If AI eliminates the bottom rungs of the ladder, how does anybody get onto the ladder?
The company may not need the 22-year-old novice to do that routine work anymore.
But the company does need the 22-year-old novice to become the valuable 25-year-old team member it will need three years from now.
Certain skilled trades provide an analogy.
When industries outsource work for decades, they don't merely outsource production. They can inadvertently outsource the process that creates skilled workers.
Experienced tool-and-die makers retire. There aren't enough younger journeymen behind them because there weren't enough apprentices doing the work ten or twenty years earlier.
You can buy new machinery and bring production back.
You can't instantly manufacture twenty years of human experience.
AI could potentially create the same problem across a much larger portion of the economy.
The traditional progression is:
Novice → routine work → mistakes → correction → harder work → experience → judgment → expert
If we automate the routine work, we risk creating:
Novice → AI → ??? → Expert
I'm not arguing that we should ban AI. Quite the opposite. AI may become one of the most powerful tools humans have ever developed.
I'm wondering whether we need to recognize that productive struggle has value independent of the immediate product being produced.
A seventh-grader may need to write an essay even though AI can write a better one.
A junior programmer may need to struggle through some code even though AI can generate it faster.
An apprentice may need to make something inefficiently while an expert watches.
Eventually we may deliberately assign humans work that machines can perform better—not because we need the work done that way, but because we need inexperienced humans to become experienced humans.
So here's the hypothesis I'd like people to tear apart:
Generative AI may accelerate pre-existing weaknesses in human-capital development by removing productive struggle at both ends of the pipeline: students can bypass cognitive work needed to develop foundational competence, while employers can automate entry-level work through which inexperienced adults historically converted foundational competence into professional expertise.
If that's true, the biggest long-term employment problem with AI might not be simply:
"What jobs will AI replace?"
It might be:
"If AI removes the bottom rungs of the ladder, where will the next generation of experts come from?"
School essays, junior office work and tool-and-die apprenticeships appear unrelated until you recognize that all three contain a hidden output: they manufacture experience.
I'm interested in arguments both for and against this. What am I missing?
Hope I'm ok to post here, it's essentially a post looking to strengthen my position while job hunting.
For context, I have a degree in theatre and work in sales in tech for a year and a half. Worth bearing in mind that I am 30, and decided to make a career change when I got into this job, but with my degree and experience, my people and presentation skills have always been great hence why sales. Also, I live in London.
However, I want to progress fast, especially at my age. When looking at jobs online on LinkedIn, even entry level jobs are looking for people with business, marketing or tech skills/degrees which I don't have any certs etc in. I'm currently doing 2 courses online on Udemy (IT fundamentals and Microsoft Beginners to Advanced) along with what I've learned from working over the last year, but those are more for my own benefit in my daily work rather than something for a CV.
Where can I look for more education? Is there anything I can do that isn't returning to full time formal education, or costs an absolute bomb? I want to stay in in the tech space, hopefully move into software (I'm at an MSP) but move into something stronger even another more focused sales role or even partner success, that type of craic.
Something I can do part time over a few weeks or months, there's a lot of online education but they could be waffle and a waste of my time if companies don't care about them.
I'm looking for something that is actually meaningful to recruiters or anyone reading my CV, a cert of some kind, whether in business or marketing, or some entry level technical course.
Any help would be hugely appreciated!!!!!
TLDR; work in tech sales without a technical background, looking for recognised courses with certifications that will push along my career and CV for better jobs.
Cheaper would be better but my school said they are throwing money at curriculum to fix lack of staffing.
Somehow, while we were sleepwalking our way through flipped-classroom and learning-styles fads, the word "memorization” became a dirty word in U.S. education.
This was probably misguided. We allowed knowledge to almost seem like a *bad* thing or a waste of time that should otherwise be spent on purely "critical thinking" and "making connections" between ideas.
The truth is that you can't make connections without having that knowledge live in your head first. You can’t think critically about science if you don’t know much science. ChatGPT isn't going to get you through a political debate or a nuanced cultural conversation if the core historical facts aren't yet cemented in your brain cells.
Call me crazy, but it feels like the tide may finally be shifting back toward appreciating the value of knowledge.
It is ironically the fear of AI-driven "cognitive offloading" that is actually helping the pendulum shift back toward the realization of how important knowledge is to education.
All it takes is reprioritizing regular knowledge-intensive assessment and study skills. Not as an *alternative* to project-based learning, but as a critical foundation for it.
(The Brits have been doing this right for many years via Ofsted's promotion of a "knowledge-based curriculum". I'm glad to see growing voices in the U.S. to restore meaningful domain knowledge into its rightful focus as the raw material of learning.)
I’ve been looking at what the publicly traded postsecondary companies said on their most recent earnings calls, and there seems to be a recurring theme around student acquisition and its evolution given the adoption of LLMs by prospective students.
The management teams are saying that prospective students are going through longer and more iterative evaluation processes. Folks are having conversations with their LLMs, who are providing a wealth of information and are offering alternatives. LLMs are now serving as the intermediaries between prospective students and institutions. In the case of the publicly traded companies, this has caused web leads to go down and acquisition costs to go up.
Given that the publicly traded institutions are for-profits, I have no sense if what they are seeing is reflective of their sector or if this is something that all higher ed institutions are seeing.
What are you seeing at your institutions?
What are your thoughts on what's happening regarding prospective student use of LLMs and how it's altering the student journey?
I honestly don’t know where else to put this. I feel completely lost right now.
I worked so hard for my education. I graduated as valedictorian, represented my school in national and international competitions, and recently secured a scholarship that could finally give me a chance to move forward with college.
But instead of feeling happy, I feel terrified.
There’s one financial problem from my previous school that is preventing me from moving forward. I’ve been trying everything I can think of to solve it. I’ve reached out to people, looked for loans, asked for help, and exhausted almost every option I know.
And somehow, I still have no solution.
The hardest part is that I feel like I have to carry this quietly. I know my parents already have so much on their shoulders, and I don’t want to make them feel like they have to fix another problem for me. So I keep everything to myself and pretend I’m okay.
But I’m not.
I’m scared that everything I worked for could disappear because of one problem I can’t solve. I keep thinking, What if I finally got this far just to lose it now?
I’m exhausted from constantly trying to find an answer. I just want one person to tell me that things can still work out.
I don’t really need advice right now. I think I just needed somewhere to finally admit that I’m struggling, I’m scared, and I don’t know what to do anymore.
I (18F) study in 12th grade
I really want to be a good student. I crave academic validation. I want to get into a really good university. I have such big ambitions. Why don't i put in the effort? I always procrastinate. I always doom scroll. Play stupid games watch stupid videos. I try to quit it then go right back. I want to lock these things away in a vault but I'm pretty sure I'd break that vault open. I feel tired and sleepy all the time. I sleep 4 hours i feel tired. 8 hours still tired. 12 hours also tired. I want to do well but once i do one thing wrong i waste the whole day. I can't get out of this vicious cycle. I sometimes get real motivated and study super well for like 4 days then back to square one. I keep wishing for time to turn back so i could do better. I don't know what's wrong with me. Why can't i keep up with my ambitions? Even those 3 or 4 days that i study real well it feels like I don't actually get enough done. It feels like a huge mountain is in front of me. I feel like a disappointment and waste of my parents money. I'm so scared of being deemed a failure by society yet i still don't put in the work. It's like I don't know how to study until it's the day before my exam. I want to quit everything and go back to 10th grade. Back when i somehow did really well without putting in the work.
I’m a developer working on Classboard (https://classboard.online), a browser-based whiteboard tool I’m building specifically with teachers in mind. It’s still in active development, but I wanted to share it here transparently.The motivation came from seeing how many whiteboard apps are either clunky for live teaching or require downloads. Classboard aims to be lightweight and browser-based, with live collaboration sessions that include camera and microphone support—so you can teach or work with students in real time without leaving the board.It also has a math geometry figures recognition feature, which I’m hoping can save time when drawing shapes or diagrams on the fly.I’m not here to sell—just to get honest feedback from people who know classrooms better than I do. What would make this genuinely useful for you? What’s missing or broken in current tools? I’m listening.
Actually, I'm someone who wants to learn. I already have a university degree. I just want to learn things online in my free time.
I've always wondered about the quality of education a good university provides. Therefore, I'm curious if I can access all the courses a student takes in architecture, engineering, computer science, literature, or another field at a good university for free. I've looked at platforms like Edx, Udemy, and Coursera, but they either offer parts of the course or don't offer free access.
I want to watch all the courses of any undergraduate program at a good university, in a classroom setting, for free, without providing a diploma. Is there such a thing? I haven't been able to find anything comprehensive online.
This is a paper that takes a Darwinian view on education to try to understand it origins. If we go back far enough in time, education does not exist. So, when does it appear? It largely depends on how we define it and distinguish it from learning. This paper attempts to do this by examining the academic literature in hunter gatherer societies, what psychological studies say about the way children learn, and then what changes when civilizations utilize scripts and have bureaucracies that are in charge of accounting.
Olá a todos!
Sou brasileira e tenho licenciatura em matemática e mestrado em ensino de matemática feitos no Brasil. Tenho experiência de dez anos como docente por lá e atualmente vivo em Portugal e trabalho em uma associação da área da educação por aqui.
Quero muito fazer o doutorado em algum outro país para ampliar minha experiência internacional e tentar seguir carreira acadêmica na área da educação/formação de professores.
Nas minhas condições atuais eu só conseguiria fazer isso tendo uma bolsa integral de doutorado ou sendo contratada como pesquisadora pela universidade.
Meu mestrado foi acadêmico e pesquisei sobre como o ensino de matemática pode contribuir para a manutenção do sistema capitalista.
Como pesquisa para o doutorado penso em seguir essa linha de estudo relacionada as práticas neoliberais dentro da educação e suas relações com o capitalismo e desigualdades.
Aqui em Portugal trabalhei muito com intervenção comunitária e também penso que uma possibilidade seria estudar essas questões de construção comunitária principalmente em contextos com muita diversidade cultural e imigração.
Acham que é um bom caminho? Conhecem universidades, pesquisadores e países que tenham essas linhas de pesquisas?
Geralmente eu vejo muitas bolsas e editais abertos para as áreas da matemática, mas queria mesmo me dedicar a educação.
Qualquer dica, indicação ou compartilhamento de experiências nesse sentido me ajuda.
Na minha pesquisa encontrei grupos com temáticas no sentido que eu procuro na Alemanha e na Áustria, mas ainda estou na fase inicial desse planejamento.
Tenho certificado C1 de inglês, então precisaria ser nesse idioma.
Obrigada!
CA is one of 5 states that fund by student seat time. I think in CA 4 hrs and 30 min counts as a full day of funding.
But all I’ve seen is legislation repealing truancy consequences but I haven’t seen districts push the panic button on funding given the amount of chronic absenteeism.
The bar for being chronically absent is >2 absences a month. We have kids at our school who are missing 40% of the year. I think our average is ~35%. Maybe more (I have to pull the data).
Hi! I am in college in the US and trying to decide between a Spanish minor and Communications minor. My major is International Studies with a concentration on global issues + leadership. Which would be more advantageous to the international job market? Completely open to all ideas and would love to have some international feedback as well. TIA!!
im a 10th grader in jordan, and ive been sitting with this feeling for a while now, we memorize hundred page books, material we wont touch again unless we end up teaching that same page to the next kid, and thats basically a loop feeding itself, not learning, i keep asking myself where the creativity went, where the real world skill went, and i dont get a clear answer, so im asking people outside jordan now, teachers, students, parents, anyone whos been through a school system that felt different, what did your system get right, what did it get wrong, i built a small study app on the side called ilmak cus i was tired of waiting for someone else to fix it, quizes, flashcards, a worksheet solver that walks step by step instead of just handing the answer, but honestly this post isnt about the app, its about the question, is memorization ever going to be enough, or are we all just stuck grinding for a job market that doesnt even want what we memorized,
I play league of legends and AAA games. I want to know which type of education will make me a better player?!? I ask gemini and he told me psychology , math , and game theory. What do you think? Is there any proven education tatic that can help make me a better player!?!
So I've recently been discovering that I think I have low or lower comprehension to be honest in general I'm starting to feel really stupid the more I start interacting online and I don't know where to start to start fixing because I honestly feel so judged.
I'm in college I'm 19 and I'll graduate with my bachelor's next year however I started to realize that while interacting with other online people have a larger vocabulary then I do and that's where all my spiraling started. Someone made the comment that the mispronunciation words even common words means that you have low comprehension and at first I thought that's not right because people mispronounce words all the time I mispronounced words all the time. Obviously I use phonics but I seem to encounter words that I don't use on a daily basis and I don't know what they mean which led me to believe I have lower comprehension.
I don't rely on AI, I can write essays by myself, but thinking back to it. I kind of stopped reading when I entered duel enrollment school because of how rigorous it was School kind of took the fun out of reading and I used to love it when I was younger and the books I read now I feel like aren't challenging me in the way that is they're supposed to.
I usually read fantasy books and romance if I do pick up a book because that's the type of book that I do enjoy. However, I don't think it's making me more of an academic And don't get me wrong most of the time I can explain back what I just read, however, I don't feel like I can do it efficiently enough or to the caliber I thought I could.
I have already been indirectly judged, I really don't want that, this is me asking for help. If anyone could give me other ways to improve my comprehension other than daily reading and doing little book reports which I've thought of and am going to implement what else can I do because my intelligence highly tied to myself selfworth and I'm already ashamed as is.
Tired of hearing that AI is "destroying students' ability to think," I spent 35 minutes using a simple browser-based AI tool to prove otherwise. The problem isn't the technology; it's our Industrial Age classrooms. Here is a brief essay I crafted through a real-time dialectical dialogue with the AI:
Imagine you are a student tasked with writing an essay titled "Darwin in the 21st Century."
I set aside half an hour to "converse" with the AI. I started a conversation about a trivial topic, the World Cup, and chatted for two minutes about English teams. Interestingly, Charles Darwin would have known some of them, such as Cambridge University AFC (founded in 1856) and Sheffield FC (founded in 1857).
While he certainly didn't play football, he excelled in other areas. He achieved something incredible. He left us two immense legacies: the discovery of evolution and his ethical, human legacy. In less than half an hour, the AI showed me who this remarkable man was and what he accomplished.
Afterward, I distilled the conversation into a central idea and developed it into an essay.
I tested this myself. I spent 20 minutes discussing who Darwin was and what he contributed. Then, I wrote this essay with the help of Leo AI, from the Brave browser:
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The fear that AI will rob us of our ability to think is a myth. The real problem lies in our resistance to abandoning factory-model education in favor of an AI-assisted system. It is a truly Darwinian challenge that demands we understand the British naturalist's dual legacy.
On one hand, there is the intellectual legacy: understanding that the mind must evolve toward higher-level capabilities—critical thinking, synthesis, and the formulation of complex questions—while delegating the burden of information management to the machine.
And, on the other hand, the ethical legacy—a purely human contribution from Darwin: enduring humiliation, isolation, and fear while breaking the rules imposed by the dogmas of his time.
Transforming current education to use AI as a learning copilot will be a process just as painful—if not more so.
It will be very difficult. Adults and teachers clinging to tradition will get angry and lash out, driven by the fear of lacking ready-made answers—forcing us to learn and think for a world that no longer exists.
Using AI to debate and create, rather than to copy assignments, is our Darwinian challenge.
If we want to survive the future, we must evolve alongside technology, arming ourselves with the same courage Darwin had to break the rules of his time.
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Great!
We just need to develop the AI engine that integrates all of this, something that, technically, shouldn't be too hard to achieve.
But the real breakthrough must go beyond software: the AI-assisted educational model only works if it develops within a context of human community.
Ultimately, the essay or assignment a student completes isn't for the teacher or for a grade; it’s for the class and for peers, intended to spark a live debate.
AI can handle data privately, but real thought emerges in real-time when shared with other human beings. That is where, in interaction with others, one stops being a factory worker and becomes a strategist of possible futures.
It is 6:57 PM on August 19, 2026, and all of this has taken barely 35 minutes.
I believe it is possible.
I really want to study English Language and Creative Writing but I cannot justify the £5k a year on open university. If I don’t care about the label and saying hey I have a BA, how realistic is it for me to study using libraries, YouTube and books and learn the same things as if I went to uni for 3-6 years?
I know the information is there but without a dedicated class or professor, how does one know what to do or study next? Who would critique my understanding? I’m trying to decide if it’s doable and if I should just start planning for Uni.
Info: I don’t qualify for any financial help, I work full time, am a mother and adult not living with parents.
Goal is to be a novelist and I know I don’t need degrees for this but I love to learn and study.
I read a lot of AI text at work. Somewhere between the third "testament to" and the hundredth "delve", I stopped trusting long sentences altogether. So I made a small game called Long Story Short: one sentence a day, keep the five words that actually carry the story, cut the rest.
It's a week old. 12,000 plays so far. A retired news editor emails me most mornings to argue about the answers, clause by clause, and he's mostly right. Yesterday two players argued opposite sides of the same word and convinced me my sentence itself was wrong.
So from tomorrow the sentences come from real news stories, and the answer is whatever the paper's sub-editor kept.
I just immigrated to U.S, what is a good app for my child to learn English from?
Same as what happens in a literature classroom but online the teacher\ host gives assigned reading and then we join to discuss it
I really wanna find something like this so if anyone can tell me where to search :( I am 20 years old, but I really loved reading so I want to continue
does anyone have experience they can share about being in a split class in CA public school?
my kiddo was put in a TK/K split and is in the TK cohort. the school admin gave me a sales presentation on why it’s a good thing when I voiced my concerns about the placement. essentially they said tough luck and tried to tell me parents prefer a split and he will have more one on one time.
Hi! I'm an American and Russian citizen, and I've recently finished a bachelor's degree in Psychology in Russia. I've heard that there are many opportunities for students like me to pursue further education in Europe. I would be unbelievably grateful if someone could share their experience about a similar situation: what were you pursuing after graduation? I'm particularly interested in either sexology or criminology/forensic psychology, but I'm open to other suggestions as well!
Thank you so much in advance!🥹
I have been thinking about education as a one-to-many system. A teacher has to work with many students at once, even though each person arrives with different prior knowledge and gets stuck at different points.
But I do not think the answer is to turn education into one student alone with an AI. Learning is also social: discussing, collaborating, seeing how other people think and having a teacher who gives direction.
What interests me is whether the individual experience around the same knowledge could become more personal. The source and objective could stay shared, while the explanation, interface, practice and feedback adapt as the person learns.
I am building an open-source project around this idea, but I am still trying to understand the boundary. What should become personal, and what would education lose if it stopped being shared?
This is primarily directed at higher ed students but all are welcome too. I'm looking to get a sense of the various opinions/feelings on AI generated media in courses specifically. So graphics, images/"photography", video, etc.
If you know something is AI generated do you still trust the content presented?
Are all uses okay? Are all not okay? Are there uses that are okay and others that are not? When and why?
Do you have a different feeling if the AI media is a small amount and there is primarily non-AI media in other parts of the course?
Does the use of AI media impact your perception of the school? Faculty?
Any and all opinions are welcome, please feel free to elaborate on why you feel a particular way. Thank you!
Hello everyone I’m a 19 20 in September male who is seriously behind on most thing I had a undiagnosed authority problem in school I have Oppositional Defiant Disorder or (ODD) I have it in check now and days but it seriously set me back on all my academics I didn’t learn how to read till 6th grade and am not great at math I’d say I’m ok with plus and timetables and division but not fast or rly grabbing the basics basically what happened was I found my way of doing them then told it was wrong then years later figuring out it was right all along but by that point I had lost the motivation to fix it I currently read better now then some elders and degree holders I know I’m in college now and getting good grades but would like to get up and catch up no matter what it takes but am at a loss for how exactly to do that if you have any ideas or knowledge as to how I’d be very grateful to hear them thank you all
Hi, I just started my junior year of high school, and quite frankly I am disgusted by my state’s education system. It’s abysmal, requiring massive policy upheavals. Nobody is given the opportunity to live up to their full potential. So, if possible, I’d like to do something to change it. The problem is, I’m a bit stumped because I feel absolutely powerless.
For more direct context, I live in New Mexico. It is one of (if not the) lowest ranked states education-wise in the country, and from what I’ve seen is only getting worse. I know that this is also largely due to poverty, but one can’t help but feel like schools are designed to nip attempts of escaping impoverishment in the bud. I, myself, work with a tutoring group to help serve elementary school students who are behind, but my impact is small and it’s hard to make progress when (and I can’t emphasize this enough) they’re missing YEARS of content. I’m very worried for what the future might hold if things continue to trend downwards , and the American public just gets dumber and dumber until we can’t function without the government’s oh-so-benevolent handholding.
That said, if anyone has experience with stuff like this or tips in general, I’d really appreciate it.
Also, I didn’t take too long to write this (it’s mostly just train of thought) so if you need some clarification on anything please ask. I could spiel for days.
im 19F living in the uk. i dropped out of college after passing my level 2 health and social care course. i left when i was 18. i was retaking my maths and english exams and i ended up passing english but didn’t pass maths. im working full time but only for the money. the job i have currently is not even in the career i want. i cry a lot because i regret leaving college. i want to go back but the only thing thats stopping me is the fear of going back into an education with loads of people. school has always made me nervous as ive had previous bad experiences all throughout my education (before college) and im also just a socially anxious person. another thing thats stopping me is my age. i worry that ill be the oldest person in my class and ill feel weird and embarrassed. does anyone have any advice? it’s making me really depressed, i feel so lost in life and i just hate where i am right now. all i want to do is study and get my maths qualifications, progress onto the next health and social care course level and eventually go onto uni. please any advice would be much appreciated!!!
Hiii
I am class 9 and studying french
Pls recommend me extra book with good content for studying and that teachers use for exams😝
Hello, I’m a 19-year-old who is starting university for the second time next month. When I was 18, I got into a fairly decent university where I studied Product Design. It wasn’t my first choice, but I chose it because the university had a good reputation, and I felt like I had something to prove academically.
Before I even started university, I was going through some personal problems that had a significant impact on my mental health and how I performed academically. A few days ago, I was academically withdrawn from my university after failing one of my final modules, and I was devastated.
I’ve always compared myself to someone I used to be friends with. He was always an excellent student, consistently achieved the highest grades, attended a private college, and is now studying at one of the best universities in our city and is about to start his second year. He has also told me that because I wasn’t academically successful at school or college, I will never amount to anything in my life.
Next month, I’m starting university again, this time on a foundation year studying Construction Management. Although the university I’m going to isn’t as highly regarded as my previous one and is looked down on, I genuinely want to work hard, build a career, and make something of myself.
However, I constantly compare myself to this person and feel as though I’ll never be as successful as him or achieve anything meaningful. I know that I shouldn’t let someone else’s opinion define my future, but it’s difficult to stop thinking this way.
I really want to use this opportunity to turn things around, dedicate myself to my future, and prove to myself that I am capable of achieving something. I would really appreciate any advice or tips on how I can overcome these feelings, stop comparing myself to others, and focus on building a successful future for myself.
https://youtube.com/shorts/g3\_WSzLNTAw - Jeff Bezos talk about theoretical physics that inspired this post. Idc about politics or his persona
Math and phisics is about solving problems. The closest you can get to solving a problem is to solve a similar problem.
But do we need to actually solve anything? The option is to find an answer and think through the problem, simulate your way of solving it from the begging to end and why exactly answer is like this and what are pros and cons of this answer if there are possible multiple answers.
The problem with that is does it stimulate brain enough so pattern recognition and problem solving skill is activated and works wonderfully to solve similar but other of this kind problems?
If you think about it 90% or even closer to 100% of what mathematicians and any kind of expert knows is about what they learned based on other people's solutions, theories. Ability to solve problems comes from deep understanding of topics complemented with great but simple, straightforwar thinking abilities. Human brain is developed when it sees and uses structures, patterns, so we should use more system like approach. For example:
problem statement
Simplification, sumarization, refinement
Analyzing
Mind map, pattern recognition, research on similar problems
Criticizing
Highlighting what's important again and what can be used from already solved problems
Trying out ideas, brute force and simulations
Fail, analyze/criticize downpits, start the cycle from 1. point again
Difference between criticizing and analyzing:
Analyzing - looking from facts, logic perspective. Similar process is synthesis
Criticizing - that's the neet part when humans shine more ig. Judging the problem based on your feeling, intuition. People understand more subconsciously then they realize, thinking part is a layer that's killing subconsciousness. Creativity is also a part of subconscious processes? With a layer of abstraction which thinking is it's impossible to think creatively or it's very limited. Thinking is used to analyze and simplify ideas, problems only. So without this step it's not possible to solve any unique problem but it's important to state that problems are not 100% unique. Some previous solutions to similar problems can fit to those 99%. It's a reference to bio-engineering where solutions of nature are implemented in technical problems.
Maybe the way to go is to have this approach to anything in life to ask questions why it work and why in this way to deepen our understanding because a shallow understanding will often times be incorrect
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What is written above is correct?
How would you rate the importance of mindset and this type of bullshit talk in math, physics, thinking in general?
This is an interesting article on the future of education environments from a few trusted brands in the education furniture and design industry.
What struck me as important take aways from this article is the necessary design for face to face connection and collaboration, and how flexibility in education furniture is crucial for success in an ever-evolving enviroment.
I'm curious what you'll have to say about the subject. What does your ideal education facility of the future look like?
This year, thanks to a new Florida law, high school students can now satisfy both their arts and physical education credits if they're in marching band for two years.
For all the former and current band kids, would you agree?
So last year my son was bullied relentlessly upon entering high school. It affected him so drastically that his confidence took a complete nosedive that never fully recovered. I had to pull him out of school because he refused to go. I moved him from NY to my old high school in NJ (with my parents) for the rest of the school year, where he encountered no further issues. I found and applied my son to a charter school for the following year, and things were looking great at first.
At the end of the school year, I moved him back up to NY. My parents are moving and so he cannot continue in NJ. I waited to hear from the charter school for next steps. When I did, the woman was strangely cold as she informed me that because of block scheduling in NJ, my son was short 2 courses and would not be able to enter the 10th grade. She said that she would get back to me regarding alternative options, but somehow I knew that I'd never hear from her again, and I never did. The problem is that this woman appears to "run" the entire charter school, even though she is not even the principal. She seems to have developed some kind of vendetta against me as well. When I called back I found out from someone else that the charter school offers makeup courses that would resolve our issue, something the woman never mentioned. That person said that they would get back to me. That person never did.
I briefly tried to get in touch with the public school, but they were similarly apathetic and unresponsive, and my son has no interest in setting foot in the building anyway.
At this point I feel completely abandoned by the school system. If I do nothing I will be forced to home school my son, which I am willing to do even as a single mother who works full time. But can I at least make a complaint so this never happens to anyone else again? And to whom? Is there any option I haven't thought of? Please help.
My goal is to eventually work in k12 administration. I plan on majoring in education then getting my teaching license. I'm not sure if I want to work as a principal or assistant principal but that might be because I did research into these roles. I'm not sure what else is out there. My skills lie in english, reading, writing, presentations, and basic admin skills.
If yes, then prove me wrong 😭😭
I recently built Next Dollar, a 90-minute financial literacy course for teens, and I’m looking specifically for middle and high school teachers to test it and give me honest feedback.
My long-term goal is to make it usable in classrooms, so I’d really value an educator’s perspective.
If you’re interested, comment or message me and I’ll give you a free access code.
Full disclosure: this is a course I created and normally sell, but access is completely free for testers.
The world feels increasingly fractured because we don't put enough emphasis on empathy and emotional intelligence. We don't need more highly intelligent people in positions of power who lack the ability to understand or care about how their decisions affect others. A leader or business owner can generate revenue while still causing serious harm to society, the environment, and the people who work for them.
We shouldn't be surprised that society struggles when schools do so little to develop empathy, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal skills.
If we consider ourselves an intelligent society, we should be able to recognize this. Intellectual ability alone clearly isn't enough to solve complex social problems.
We keep repeating the same patterns while expecting different outcomes.
The world already has abundant resources, yet some people accumulate far more than they need while prioritizing themselves over the wellbeing of others. Education could play a much larger role in developing people who understand the consequences of that behavior.
And when people say, "Parents should teach this," I have to ask: what about the parents who were never taught these skills themselves?
We will really look back and think "Wow, they really thought that teaching kids only math and history would make them good citizens?"
During my freshmen and sophomore year I took Honors spanish 2 and 3. I am wondering if I should take Honors Spanish 4 for my junior year or if I should swap that for a (virtual) AP Cybersecurity course on a website called VHS. This website is for courses that aren’t given on school, so all our work for this class is done on chromebooks with a virtual teacher.
I want to be a STEM major (likely engineering) or do something with physics and astronomy. My mom is telling me to drop spanish to take an AP cybersecurity course. I honestly am stumped.. what will colleges like to see better?
Background info: This year I’m taking Honors Physics, Honors Precalc, APUSH, AP Lang, AP Env. Sci, AP Comp Sci Principles, and IDK IF I SHOULD DO SPANISH OR VHS COURSE BECAUSE I LIKE THE GPA BOOST OF ANOTHER AP COURSE BUT DONT COLLEGES LIKE TO SEE MORE THAN 2 YEARS OF LANGUAGE?? HELPP
I’ve also been learning chinese for 7 years, gone to actual chinese schools aswell, so idk if that makes a difference!!
I’m not sure which course college would like to see more 😔 I also like the gpa boost of another AP but at the same time i feel like 3 years of language might be important
PLS HELP
Hi, I enrolled my daughter (8) with an OG student this summer who was starting her practicum and needed students. We started sessions twice a week. I just received a message from her saying she is stopping all tutoring effective immediately. We are now in a pinch as, my assumption, most students are beginning their practicum and already have their practicum students. Does anyone have any leads on programs or tutors that might have availability? We were doing online sessions. I'm so disappointed and my daughter was really doing well. Any contacts to reach out to would be so very very appreciated.
my parents are gonna make me go abroad in either of these two countries because i have relatives there.
will be a college student and i just wanted to know which is better? when working as part time while being a student, because i will be starting to live independently.
Would love to hear others unorthodox classroom management strategies. Things that actually work but are a bit different or outside of the box. I think every year first years are just getting worse in terms of their boundaries and respect for teachers. I can usually manage my classes with very few issues but found last year hard as I had huge numbers in a practical subject that I wouldn’t usually have. The constant talking and not being able to pinpoint who it is drove me crazy. Currently I use a seating plan to help and go over expectations but I don’t always follow through on my threats! I also find that the older I get the less patient I am. I used to be considered a young, fun teacher but those days are gone! 😂 I feel I can be very cross at times which is a new thing for me! Anyway, the more imaginative the better!
I’m posting this in a serious manner, and only for thoughtful and considerate replies in return.
Those of you that have graduated over the past couple of years with your bachelors (business / finance / marketing, etc), but something business related for sure…
I am really puzzled as to why we continue telling folks, but not just kids, to go to college. I hear often… well, it’s required, I won’t get a job.
My follow up question to that is, were you in worse condition before or after you got your degree? Are you now in debt from the degree and not able to get a job in your chosen field making what you thought you would?
I got a versatile business degree because I was advised this was a good investment. I can tell you now that it wasn’t, and it hasn’t done well for me. I’m 40 with 15-20+ years of professional experience and good skills. And I feel the market is flooded with me X 1,000. I equate this to mean low wages, no value in a degree, no longer a premium benefit.
So, do we turn around and start getting Masters now? If we do, this, to me, is a called credential inflation, and in my words is a selling a guarantee that doesn’t exist.
I applied to a classroom assistant role and the principal contacted me Thursday regarding an interview this week. I contacted him the same day told him the days and times that worked for me and he confirmed the time, but not the date. I told him tomorrow or Wednesday would work for me and reached out via email again to confirm which day would work but havent heard back.
Would it be inappropriate to call the school and ask? I just feel like with email, the principal won't see it in time and I could lose out on the interview.
Please tell how you all are doing it ? Any suggestions , advices are most welcome . Me being 25 i am a bit curious to know how does that work , i have no clue 🙆♂️
Question says it all in the title. I live in Ontario Canada if that makes any difference.
I believe that the utopia of AI in education, is serving as an educator and facilitator for students who are struggling with a concept or problem. This educator can serve as an expert in that field, giving a step by step break ground of the solution, and why it's the solution.
AI has access to virtually infinite knowledge and datasets, so one would think that it would follow that this would create an automated machine, that helps those struggling with a concept be able to communicate to that machine, and receive a world-class explanation of that topic. However, there are both sort-term and long-term problem with this utopia coming into reality.
As per short-term problems, most AI models are generally designed to receive positive feedback from the end-user. This is done primarily through 2 ways. The first of which being agreeing to whatever the student has to say, without giving any opposition, and the second being having heavy confidence within their answer, even when it's incorrect. This is problematic because it risks the miseducation of individuals. In both of these ways, AI is confidently assuring the student that an incorrect solution is correct, and is giving confident assertions as per the logic as why that is the case. I have had instances where I have asked AI a question, and it so confidently gave me the incorrect answer, and later when I emailed my instructor they said the exact opposite of what the AI told me. This lead me to be really skeptical of AI's responses, and if it's reliability is poor, then that's not a tool that should be heavily utilized, or used without regulation, and that is creating a large-scale risk of hurting student's learning towards a subject. This is a short term problem, because AI can be retrained to not have this level of arrogance, and programmed to not just give out new information.
As per the long term applications, I don't believe that AI will ever have the empathy and contextualization abilities that a real, human educator can give. I don't believe that AI will ever be able to truly understand the nuance of one's understanding, the same way an individual can, as it lacks empathy and context. AI will never be able to grasp the misconception and student's difficulty understanding a topic, and give a personalized response and feedback. It will instead give universal and generic explanations, and not be able to accommodate for the student. AI will never be ablet to replace the empathy that a real person can bring.
Overall, I don't really believe in the potential of AI in education in the future, and I don't believe anything will ever be able to replace human tutoring and educating.
Following up on a post a few days ago - sharing an editorial from The Advocate’s John Casey about what’s been happening in King George County, Virginia, after the community there reacted with voiceferous bigotry after the story broke. It gets at a much bigger question about who gets to make decisions about student belonging and support.
Last year, students at King George Middle School tried to start a Gay-Straight Alliance. They wrote a constitution, found a faculty sponsor, and received approval from the principal. Seventeen students signed up within three days.
Then conservative community members took to Facebook. The faculty sponsor was targeted online, accusations of “grooming” started flying, and the School Board ultimately changed its rules to block noncurricular clubs at the middle school, effectively stopping the GSA from meeting. The students and their families are now suing in federal court.
Casey writes about growing up without anything resembling a GSA and what it means to watch adults take away a space that LGBTQ+ kids themselves were trying to create.
From an educational perspective, the situation begs the question: What responsibility do schools have when students organize an approved club, only for community pressure to intervene?
Hi everyone! I have created a subreddit at r/neurodivergentEd for neurodivergent educators to support and advocate for each other.
Is anyone else also facing receiving continuous spam messages over Calls and WhatsApp from this new Spamming University called MASAI School from Bengaluru? For the past 2 months, I've been receiving multiple messages asking to enroll for a course in AI while all along riding on the back of the IIT name. You block one number and you receive from another, an endless loop of scum marketing.
I've never enquired about a course in my life let alone online, and yet here I am being harassed by these scammers for something which I will NEVER in my remaining life enroll for.
Information available online show the owners as Prateek Shukla, Nrupul and Yogesh who seem to be a band of bandits from some IIT (as claimed). They have perhaps completed a course in stealing people's personal data and spamming and harassing them. With these credentials, one can only wonder what kind of education will be imparted at such scam universities run by these pathological and desperate scammers!
Hello everyone. So, I am an assistant at a university and this year we plan to open a new lecture about the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence. We plan to make an interactive lecture, like students will prepare their projects and such. The scope of this lecture will be from the early ages of AI starting from perceptron, to image recognition and classification algorithms, to the latest LLMs and such. Students that will take this class are from 2nd grade of Bachelor’s degree. What projects can we give to them? Consider that their computers might not be the best, so it should not be heavily dependent on real time computational power.
Also, I’m thinking about a lecture on “how to use AI properly”. Like, it blows my mind how terrible some students use AI to write code. Antigravity is free for them, and surely they will be using some kind of AI tool to write code either way. I’m using Claude Code for like a year now, and spending at least one hour to write the first prompt to start working everyday. Yet, students usually give the exact text of the homework as prompt. What would you people recommend me to check out and refer to students as tutorials on how to use AI tools for beginners?
I learned programming before AI and thought myself how to use AI. The tutorials I watched on Claude Code and stuff were basically tips and tricks for me. So I’m not sure how I can teach what I do to students without making it look like witchcraft, which it isn’t really.
For AI homeworks, My first idea was to use the VRX simulation environment and the Perception task of it. Which basically sets a clear roadline to collect dataset, label them, train the model and such. Any other homework ideas related to AI is much appreciated.
I recently sat down with a Florida teacher with over 25 years of teaching elementary aged children. They shared with me their difficulties in teaching in the present times. They have children dressing as the opposite sex (example 8 year old boys in dresses and hair bows); children that are to be addressed by name other than what is on their official records. And fellow teachers that are transitioning to the opposite sex, complete with hormones etc, while teaching. The atmosphere in the classroom is not supportive of the students learning and concentration. There’s a lot going on. And the school boards, county officials and principals are walking a very fine line from a legal standpoint. So basically, our teachers are on the frontline alone. I was not aware of this (I am childless), and I was just wondering if parents are aware of what’s going on in elementary school these days. For the record I totally respect parent’s and teachers decisions within their own home but why bring that in the classroom? Surely an individual can transition to the opposite sex and dress neutrally. Where is the line?
IT education sucks 😭
I don't know how to start this rant but I believe I would start with my experience in high school computer science which really just is IT at this point. Computer science in Cambridge o level's is one of those things that's given more credit than it deserves in under developed countries that have spent a fair share of time under colonial rule. The reason I say this is because in the name of computer science, I was taught:
How bar codes work
How printers physically work
How touch screens physically work
Different types of storage devices
Keywords used for the application of IT in different domains
An inaccurate view of AI
A terrible introduction to networking and cryptography.
Inventing keywords for psuedo code, keywords that literally no one uses aside from our curriculum
And the only useful things: some sorting algorithms, flow charts, and logic gates (truth tables and stuff), the very basics of some programming languages.
Making us memorize SQL (without even telling us which flavor or for which SQL engine, this syntax is for)
A break down on how bad it was:
1.Now teaching bar codes is fine, but making us memorize exactly how it works in theory, at this level is useless and is the wrong way to introduce one to computer science.
2.knowing the types of printers and touch screens is useful, but teaching us the exact physical steps is useless unless you also teach us the physics behind it and even then the utility would be null. All we were thought were abstract steps, rather than the process in terms of physics.
We were taught storage devices in terms of utility and speed, and that was in abstract terms rather than concrete speed based on different generations, and whether a device is SATA, makes use of PCIe, and the moving parts and other possible points of failures of each one.
The keywords that were invented out of nowhere and the definition of AI was "an imitation of the human brain through artificial neurons".
Introduction to networking and cryptography was also terrible, like in networking we were shown a IPv4 packet format as an "internet packet", and we skipped over everything except for looking at diagrams and classifying them as half duplex or full duplex, or filling in a missing device like a router or a switch, while in cryptography, it was just public key and private key in assymetric encryption, and private key in symmetric one, again a terrible incomplete introduction. We were thankfully atleast taught about data integrity techniques like checksums, but even that was purely theoretical, and quite outdated for practical usage.
Psuedocode keywords that we had to memorize so we could pass an exam was their way of introducing us to problem solving.
The SQL part is self explanatory.
A levels:
A levels (which comes after o levels) isn't any better either, except for a project that you must complete at the end, but even the project is a joke, since any trash computer game made with Pygame or something would pass, but a computer driver won't since there aren't enough people to check those stuff.
Conclusion:
1.If they want to teach us computer science theory, then start with the theory of computation, and from there take us to data structure and algorithms.
2.If they want to teach us theory about IT then start with teaching us what a shell is, the directory layout of Linux systems, different file systems, different boot systems, configuring the different types of init process, managing users, managing network interfaces, managing ip tables, and then slowly taking us to networking, from managing a small networks with a single router, to managing a network with many routers using IGPs, the moving to managing autonomous systems using BGP, and so on. All this while also teaching some details about ways to specify hardware specification for different components(clock speed, ppt, tdp, instructions per seconds, etc for CPU, and similar specs for other important components) , cryptography(a proper introduction this time, and improving data redundancy using some data integrity techniques and teaching how to design them.
Final words:
I guess the main goal of this kind of "education" is easy marking and for certain types kids to feel smart. In my case, four years ago (when I was 14), I simply couldn't learn those stuff. My parents thought, I was failing because I didn't try hard enough, but every subject in school was either highly abstract or there to brain wash me. Like the only subjects that functioned the way they are supposed to were the once meant to brainwash me, while the rest were easy to mark placeholders with abstract concepts that maybe helped a teaching business boom, but at the cost of my grades and education. Atleast, the other kids who are good at abstract/unconnected ideas passed, so good for them.
Looking for some honest takes on where video learning is heading.
I’m working on an engine where the core idea is simulative video learning. Basically, you input what you're trying to learn, and it generates a video simulation tailored to that concept- allowing you to visually see how variables change, how systems interact, or how complex ideas play out in real time.
Do you guys think simulative video is actually the logical next step for learning, or do people just prefer standard video/text explanations? Would love to know if this is a real pain point or if current tools are good enough.
In South Korea, one’s undergraduate institution is often treated as a kind of social pedigree.
The name of a university is not regarded merely as information about where someone studied. Rather, it tends to function as a broad indicator from which people infer a person’s academic performance at the time of university entrance, family background, social network, and individual ability. An OECD report has also noted that, in South Korea, people are ranked for long periods according to the prestige of the university they attended, and that educational achievement is closely connected not only to employment opportunities but also to social status and marriage prospects.
What is particularly revealing is that many Koreans mock those who attend a more prestigious university for graduate school than they did for their undergraduate studies, describing it as “academic credential laundering.” In other words, they tend to fix a person’s social status according to the first university that person entered, as though one’s undergraduate institution permanently determined one’s worth.
I believe that this irrational social structure is one of the major factors behind South Korea’s persistently high suicide rate, which has long remained among the highest in the OECD.
Education is often described as the foundation of a nation's future, yet students continue to face additional financial burdns beyond their tuition fees.
In many colleges and universities, students are required to pay separate exam fees, and these charges are not always clearly disclosed at the time of admission. If the examination centre is far from the college, students often have to arrange and pay for their own travel. Even when a college provides transport, an additional bus fee may be charged.
On top of this, many students also have to pay convenience fees or payment gateway charges simply to make mandatory payments such as admission fees, tuition fees, or exam fees.
Education should not become a source of hidden or avoidable costs. Colleges and universities should be transparent about every fee they charge, and students should not be required to pay convenience or transaction charges for making compulsory education-related payments.
No convenience fee or transaction charge should be levied on students for paying admission fee, tuition fees, exam fees, or any other mandatory educational charges.
Crazy story here - Students and their families are suing a rural Virginia school district after officials allegedly changed club policies several times after conservative outrage on a local Facebook group, to prevent a gay-straight alliance from forming at King George Middle School. (The comments on a post about this story do NOT pass the vibe check at all in that group.)
The lawsuit says the district continued allowing groups including yearbook, robotics, an outdoor club where kids learned to skin squirrels, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes while telling students they could create a similar club only if they removed explicit references to LGBTQ+ people.
The families argue that the district violated the First Amendment and the federal Equal Access Act by discriminating against the students’ viewpoint.
I am working at the moment doing my bsc in information technology as well on the weekends.
I honestly don't understand whats the point of a bsc is.
Modules in it are all self learnable and literally what we study irl.
I used almost all the tools and theories explained in the courses either self learned or at work, so there's no new logic behind it either.
I have no idea what's the use of a desertation. I'm doing it for the sake of doing it for a really dumb topic as well. No one's gonna read it, lecturer ain't gonna read it completely so what's really the point.
Hi everyone! I recently finished building Next Dollar, a 90-minute financial literacy course designed primarily for teens preparing to leave home.
It covers paychecks, banking, budgeting, credit, loans, education costs, moving out, and investing, and includes interactive simulations throughout.
I’m looking for a small number of people willing to complete it for free and give honest feedback on the content, clarity, and overall experience. You do not have to be a teen—parents, educators, and other adults are welcome too.
Please comment or message me if you’re interested, and I’ll send you a free access code.
Full disclosure: this is a course I created and normally sell, but access is completely free for testers.
i went to a charter school that we couldn’t afford because my mom insisted. i struggled heavily in elementary school with mathematics and socialization, the teacher was openly wondering if I should be held back because I excelled everywhere else and ultimately I wasn’t. I wish I were held back.
in middle school I contributed to struggle with both subjects far more than the average student. and during middle school I experienced a severe death in the family and was in a disruptive unstable home. I should have been held back or placed into special ed.
instead i Wasn’t and just kept being pushed through. I eventually improved grade wise at math but I was never quite alright mentally or academically.
looking back I desperately wish I had been in public school instead and had been held back and placed in special ed. I desperately needed it. It would have been noticeably easier financially. I could have actually gotten help And career guidance. The charter school offered minimal classes and no practical life skill classes at all. I had very poor advising during college applications as well
i know it’s absurd but I wish things could have been different
I informally surveyed 100 university professors on what advice they give students about their future given the advancements in AI.
The first takeaway is that the answers were more generally advice about using AI rather than the impact of their future because of AI. Tsk, tsk. My lesson learned is about asking a question more clearly to get the results I’m looking for.
Still, I synthesized the answers into three sections: The consensus viewpoints, interesting minority viewpoints, and controversial opinions.
If you are interested in the source responses, feel free to DM me and I can share them.
Here are the results synthesized with an AI tool:
Preparing for the Future of AI
We advise students to approach artificial intelligence as a powerful, evolving tool that requires a balanced mindset. You should aim to master the technology rather than fear it, using it to handle repetitive tasks or as a scaffold for brainstorming, while fiercely protecting the core human skills that define your unique value.
Consensus Viewpoints
Interesting Minority Viewpoints
Controversial Opinions
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Hi, I recently finished my first academic year in my bachelor degree of Applied informatics. I studied chemistry in secondary school and decided I want something different, so I chose IT. That came with many challenges including having to learn everything from scratch compared to my classmates who mostly came from IT field already. All this to say, I have a very little experience and I don't know what is normal and what is not so feel free to tell me off for being stupid.
Onto my question. During the year, I was quite surprised by the amount of AI we were made to use in our projects and overall studies? Like, it was almost a daily occurrence where a teacher said "generate the code based on the prompt I gave you and then tweak it so it works".
I felt like I was behind a lot because I tried to actively understand what the code the AI generated was saying. One teacher even redirected all the questions I had about a certain issue to AI saying "just tell it your problem, and it will solve it for you".
I understand that professors have a very little time to explain every single issue to every student, but I feel like I have learned very little and just let the AI do all the hard thinking for me. That is not what I want to do, I don't want to be dependent on it, I do understand that the current market will demand AI use, but I also want to be able to think and problem solve for myself.
So far I resorted to self study in my free time, reading "Head first in Java" and trying to program some simple applications, sketching out the idea first and looking for answers online when it doesn't work as intended. I do admit that I use AI for some very specific problems that I wasn't able to find in any forum (or simply didn't understand since English is my second language) but I try to not rely on it.
I don't know much but this excessive use of AI in my daily education is worrying me, it is possible I am just not getting it correctly, but I wanted to ask if this is normal I guess? What are your thoughts.
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Unfortunately, Last Friday (31/7/2026), suicide had claimed the life of a dedicated educator in Malaysia. A teacher who's been subjected to numerous workload and pressure by the principal. It's tiring, painful, but being responsible and dedicated, she obeyed and tried to survive until she can't do it anymore. Thank you teacher for your fight. Rest in peace 🙏
As an educator, I'm sad but now I'm enraged by the pure silence from the related authorities, the MOE, the school, the policymakers from top to bottom. And it's not new, teachers had been voiced out a number of issues they faced. Only a small number of it were mentioned without proper solution.
A student made a headline and they sent a memo, IMMEDIATELY. But a teacher? It's been 24 hours since the news came out and guess what? Silence.
People must been asking. Why teachers aren't openly taking action about this? The answer is our hands are tied. Speak criticism against the gov and you'll lose your. And there's been cases where a teacher got dismissed from speaking the truth.
HOW CAN WE EDUCATE THE FUTURE IF THIS KEEPS HAPPENING
Basically I'm american but I did all my education in mexico, now at my that I have moved to Texas how can I do to get an American diploma? Thanks guys
My family has opted to attend our neighborhood school for many reasons. It is, on paper, a decent school, and I think my children can be successful there. That being said, I do sometimes get a little pang of anxiety as I watch friends send their children to private schools that boast amazing outcomes. I have often read that parental support and engagement can have a more positive impact than any particular school, and that gives me comfort. However, I guess I don’t know what people mean by that! Beyond the obvious of knowing the teachers, and being aware of completing homework, is there something more I can do? TIA!
My child attends a private high school in LA, California. This is the second year at the school, but my financial situation has drastically worsened. I won't be able to afford the full tuition fees anymore. My child likes the school, but unfortunately, I cannot afford the fees any longer. If anyone has experienced this situation, what are my options? Thank you
