If the intention is really to absorb learning or news, stress on colors and visually appealing images not a noise?

Finding a corollary between GUI and CLI in computer and the trend of moving away from text books with fewer colors to audios/videos/short texts in learning. In the 1980s as a kid, our text books once passed KG would be text-based with fewer images. Even images were in black & white. If a book colorful, I would smell not intended for serious learners and kind of a lollypop.

Today, there is perhaps too much emphasis on colorful images and videos. Is our core learning impacted? I fail to understand why a website that will be say focused on learning or even news stories needs to have a visually appealing website design. After all, if the intention is really to absorb learning or news, are other things not a noise?

Submitted January 01, 2024 at 12:28AM by DigitalSplendid https://ift.tt/L2mjtf7

Are children less racist now than in previous generations?

Hi, I and my colleague in school were having a debate as to whether children are more or less racist to each other than previous generations. I personally would say yes they are, but racism is still a problem.

My colleague argued that how people are racist has just changed and that they are still just as prejudiced as previous generations but in a more indirect manner

I've read some research suggesting that Cooperative based teaching could reduce racial prejudice between students in a class so surely we have some influence over if children develop racism?

How Cooperative Based Teaching can Reduce Racial Prejudice In UK Schools
I was wondering what other educators' experiences are around racism in this generation, Are children less racist now?

Submitted December 31, 2023 at 03:06PM by Humblypowered https://ift.tt/YTWjC4V

My son's algebra class is supposedly "flipped" but no work is done outside of class.

Background: I have twins in eighth grade. Their algebra class is taught by the same teacher, with my daughter being in the standard algebra and my son in the advanced. My son is less motivated but things tend to come naturally to him. My daughter has ADHD but is motivated and works very hard. Both are honors students. This is the first year they have split classes in this way. The advanced class takes on a few more topics and that's basically it.

Son, who has generally high marks in math, recently failed a test. He could recall very little of the material when we went over the test. A common refrain was, "We never went over this."

We have seen complaints about this particular teacher before. That she doesn't lecture. That everything is done with notes. That there is no formal instruction being done. Parents of past students have also concurred that this is how this class is run. Specifically, it is a flipped class though they don't tell that to parents at the time.

I begin researching flipped classrooms and discover that this is effectively the design. But is it? My understanding is the students watch the videos before coming to class, and spend class time doing the "homework". But this is not what is happening here. The teacher's videos are watched during class. The notes are copied down by students during class. The practice is done during class. Mastery quizzes are multiple choice, undertaken in class, and can be repeated as many times as necessary (which to me encourages gaming of the system rather than learning).

I thought the whole point of flipped classrooms is the rote teaching is done outside the classroom to free up class time for higher thinking. But it sounds like this has been corrupted into something which is leaving kids behind at a similar rate as the old ways. Please tell me I'm wrong about this and there are just growing pains here. I just find it bizarre that we're this deep into a unit about slope and both my kids - one getting a B and the other staving off a D grade - can't tell me the definition of a slope, cannot graph y=x, and have to refer to their notes to recall any work.

Submitted December 31, 2023 at 11:34AM by EdgeBandanna https://ift.tt/4Kj0mEn

Preparation of three questions for the final exam in Media Studies

Hello,
I need to work on the last three questions for my Media Studies exam. But I don't know how to handle them, just like my classmates. Do you know where it is possible to have these questions prepared by someone? Or do you have any other tips?
Thank you
The topics are:
1. Technological properties of new media
- Digital media, digital encoding, digitalisation.
- Feldman and the properties of digital information as defined by him.
- Manovich and the properties of new media as defined by him.
2. Textuality of new media: hypertexts, cybertexts
- Virtuality, virtual.
- Cybertext.
- Hypertext, theory and history of hypertext.
3. New media, interactivity and the culture of convergence
- Types of definitions of interactivity.
- Author/text/reader relationship.
- Henry Jenkins and the culture of convergence.
- New media and the crisis of legitimacy of content producers.

Submitted December 31, 2023 at 10:10AM by picklerick8898 https://ift.tt/vmZd08C

Coping with the fact that I feel I’ve lost the opportunity to properly learn complex subjects

This is just a rant but I feel I’ve lost my opportunity on learning things like math, chemistry, and physics properly. Much of this stuff was taught in specifics only around 11th grade, and that’s when COVID hit and I clocked out during online school. The blame is on me, and I just feel so stupid for neglecting these subjects. While self teaching is possible, I always have this nagging thought that I’m doing it extremely inefficiently. Learning it in university for the first time is so hard for me personally as many profs just have that “you should know this from HS” expectation (which is fair) and the speed is much too fast for me. I just feel like I’m missing out on a huge aspect of our world and it’s hard to accept that sometimes. That’s all.

Submitted December 31, 2023 at 04:27AM by pifthy https://ift.tt/BFUVXtW

A generational curse is families not taking education seriously

When I was in school, there were a lot of kids who would skip class to smoke with their friends. And when they did come to class, they would be on their phone the whole time and passing notes to friends. Too much fooling around and not enough learning. The teachers didn't care and would rather put their energy into students who wanted to learn instead of babysitting half the class. There's a good chance that their parents didn't take their education seriously as well. Statistics show that kids of high school dropouts are more likely to dropout. It's a generational curse. I am from the hood (a poor community) and a lot of families there don't understand the importance of education. If the parents don't care about education, you can't expect their children to. It's all about familial values.

Submitted December 30, 2023 at 02:27PM by PandasHaveSex https://ift.tt/hVzAiSb

Stop slave "education" in China, Defend students’ human rights

In China, countless students, engulfed by despair, opt to end their lives every year. School environments have deteriorated into places more terrifying than prisons. Under a despotic regime, educational institutions strip students of all their human rights and freedoms, inflicting rampant physical punishments, subjecting them to immense psychological torment, and placing colossal mental pressures on them. Brainwashing is rampant, ensnaring numerous children in unbearable agony. Students rise at 5-7 AM each day, staying in school until 10-11 PM. They barely receive 1-3 days of respite per month (in most cases, schools are boarding schools, effectively imprisoning students within campus boundaries). It's akin to daily imprisonment; looking out of a window during class invites punishment, and even sitting together during meals can result in corporal punishment, rendering some unable to walk! With only 15 minutes allotted for meals each day, any lateness is met with punishment. Students are forbidden from conversing amongst themselves, and the consequences of laughing in class are unimaginable. Students are treated akin to prisoners...

More: https://chng.it/9pFZjrdNym

Submitted December 30, 2023 at 10:17AM by Sensitive_Job_5792 https://ift.tt/zMCu8bL