@Epic_Null

"Ed Tech" as an industry is a racket. The application of schools was a mistake. Things started going south when schools started removing dedicated Computer classes and instead "integrated" tech skills in all curricula. Most teachers, although I love them, did not/do not have the requisite tech skills to support embedded 1:1 device usage, to say nothing of making relevant use of software. It was often rammed into lessons that didn't need or benefit from it. And the "integrationists" tasked with providing both technical expertise and curriculum guidance were set up for failure.

Things worsened with age of the iPad, followed closely by the Chromebook and Google Apps and largely, the golden era of big tech. Everyone was so ensorcelled by the idea that everyone had to code—not for its intellectual value, but because all jobs would require it (lol). And of course with Google stuff in particular, schools were getting this stuff for such a low price, it was a no-brainer. Your elementary school, powered by Google Apps.

And in the midst of this you had the "maker" craze. 3D printers and Arduinos are cool, but basically nobody had useful lesson plans for these expensive toys. But they looked great on the website for the STE(A)M program.

At some point we started turning all K-12 into a STEM job conveyor belt, and everything suffered because of it.

@mike805 @AAKL @IncMagazine

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#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Fog #Mountains #Colorado #MistyMountain #Stunday #SundayVibes

Dimanche d'automne #illustration #aquarelle #flore #shazenrazen #fredsaurel

@CCochard @pizza_roquette

Last year I read Percival Everett’s James paired with a reread of Huckleberry Finn. I’m not sure if or how widely James has been canceled, but Huckleberry Finn has, of course, and the topic comes up a lot in author interviews about James, which was an amazing read.

At the tram stop just now, right next to some of the best bicycle infrastructure you'll ever see, an American tourist came to me to ask me if the Dutch government was doing anything about "this terrible bicycle problem" we have in the Netherlands. 🙃

RE: https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert/117371451723895923

So far, I've had eight volunteers, with five confirmed by email.

I want to find at least 10 beta readers, and a dozen would be nice.

@misty damn, I skipped that one entirely

@toprakdeviren thanks for the explanation!

Ein erheblicher Anteil derjenigen, die einen „Linksruck“ der Gesellschaft beklagen, sind tatsächlich selbst in den letzten Jahren politisch immer weiter nach rechts gerückt. Finde das extrem offensichtlich & auch gut belegbar, aber es wird medial viel zu selten thematisiert.

Energie, équipements électriques, BTP... Les entreprises françaises participent activement à la ruée sur les datacenters. Mais ce sont des firmes étrangères qui se taillent la meilleure part du gâteau

Retour en infographie sur une enquête de Séverin Lahaye

https://multinationales.org/fr/en-bref/infographies/pourquoi-les-grandes-entreprises-francaises-soutiennent-la-ruee-sur-les

@Jaimieserotica @interpipes

I knew that you were young, but I hadn't appreciated that you were seven...

Odin, stop drooling on mommy's notebook, Plato needs to know mommy thinks he's a fascist clown advocating for the extinction of human culture

@ada @herrbischoff Counterpoint: shaming people who are doing harmful things is good, actually.

Update. I just updated the page on the end of Open Access Tracking Project with some final data on its work.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/The_End_of_the_Open_Access_Tracking_Project

* Over the life of the project, we had 121 active taggers.
* We tagged 111,411 items, which comes to 17.4 per day for 17+ years.
* Of those items, 93,909 were new (within the last six months) at the time of tagging, and 17,232 were older items tagged retroactively.
* To the best of my knowledge, we tagged every day, including weekends and holidays, with the sole exception of days when TagTeam was down for maintenance.
* We had 343 project-approved tags and more than 10,000 attested tags.

#OATP #OpenAccess
@oatp

Well well well, if it isn't the consequences to my own actions 😬

⚠️ ELIMINATED

Suspended for fedi crimes
(mass meowing)

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Don't necessarily need a solution, just. Documenting weird tech things/curious why it might be happening if anyone has an idea.

Bluetooth headset for computer. PS4 controller plugged in via USB port, using a generic cable.

If I am playing a game, headset stays on and stays with game.
If I have secondary audio running, like a podcast, if I don't put anything else on once the podcast finishes, my headset will go into sleep mode after a few minutes
(So not reading the game as an audio source to stay on for even though the headset is still playing the game audio until it goes to sleep.)

If I turn the headset back on, it does not automatically start playing the game audio again. It will still play other audio if I start it .
Making the game background, then unplugging and replugging in the controller, will make the game audio come into the headset again.
Messing with the controller while the game is the active window will not link the headset to the game.

Is very bizarre

@neil
I give a mean Chinese burn.
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