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I can't tell if this person is saying that hw has been proven to be ineffective or that hw has not been researched to be effective. I'm not conceptually in favor of busy work. The best example of how hw can be done dynamically is khan academy. If you already know the subject it can take about 5 minutes to finish, if you don't, you could take up to an hour... of course, the biggest problem is for the "soft" subjects where we don't have an easy way to score it through a computer...

Ultimately, I think of hw as structured studying. There's very little pressure in elementary (at least in the US) to learn study tactics bc tests are crazy easy. I didn't feel challenged at anything until middle school. idk if hw really taught me to study, but it did kinda force me to study. I would arrogantly say I don't need to do hw in elementary and passed all the tests, I said the same thing in middle but didn't pass the tests. It was a tiny metric that could show progression.

Unfortunately, a lot of education is pomp and circumstance. I proposed once at our coding after school program that maybe it'd be more efficient to not make accounts for every kid when we do group stuff. The problem with that is that the parents might want to see their kid's progress, and if you don't have it saved then there is nothing to measure.

Even stuff like grades have some evidence of being bad for students... which I can kinda agree with when I heard the argument. Doing that would be an extreme upheaval of schools. But then we have to ask what school even is for. If you can't measure someone's ability, how do you know that they are qualified for a job? How do you know if the teachers are properly teaching? Grades aren't for students, they are for everyone else.

I agree that there had been too much at one point. There was a lot of discourse when I was in high school abot kids just can't even get proper sleep. I think I even did a presentation on it at some point and advocated that school should start later. I think some schools did shift, but only by half an hour. There was a lot of consensus on the data but it's hard to make every parent drop their kid off at 9 when their job starts at 9. Kids are primarily dropped off here and can't just use public transport. School Buses are also available here, but you have to get up earlier than the average student bc the bus is way slower.

I also don't know why this person's post says at the end like teachers think "it's the children who are wrong". Maybe sometimes, the rhetoric isn't properly placed and accidentally gets directed at the kids. It's more like I get mad at kids when I tell them "don't use AI" and they just go "fuck you you can't tell me what to do" I don't blame kids for using the "tool" that many adults are using around them, I blame AI companies, school districts, and parents. Almost every teacher I talked to has the same sentiment. I haven't worked super long, but most of th.

I think ultimately a majority of teachers nowadays have their heart in the right place. I remember a few really grumpy jaded teachers (maybe I'm that to some of these troublesome kids). It 's just so many systemic things. Like I said, data showed school should start around 9:30-10. Teachers agreed. The district couldn't possibly follow through on that. I can confiscate phones, but the more times parents sue the district, the more times those parents win lawsuits, the more the district has a chilling effect on confiscation. There are so so many problems just like with any industry. I get that from the outside you can say all you want that hw is bad, but it doesn't help. If I grade kids who use AI they will all pretty much have the same scores. Maybe not 100% but close to the same. If they put in college applications that A doesn't mean anything anymore your GPA can't be a metric for college or anything else. Maybe the students don't care about this or the parents, but society at large still does.

Ultimately, I'd be fine with getting rid of hw or substantially slimming it down. The problem is kids use AI IN the classroom. Then when does the learning happen?! Teaching can't operate if you never force them to think. They don't read the question they might as well not even know what class it is. Literally even typing out the question is gone bc ai bots can parse images now so they just take a picture and then handwrite the answer in front of me. I could give 0 hw or the most hw and all the kids would still get the same grades.... Idk .... again if I was a proper teacher (I'm only a sub rn) and I could just ignore all this other stuff, I might consider no HW. I'd maybe try it for a semester and see how they do. I've shifted a bit on that from talking to @greenflamethegf. But I probably need to fight tooth and nail for something that might just give me more of a headache. You'd be fighting the principal, every parent whose kids have good grades in other classes, every parent whose kids have bad grades in other classes, the district policy on curriculum standards (might need to check that one), and other teachers (the kids will complain to their other teachers that they shouldn't get hw bc I don't give it).

I know this is rambly. My apologies, I don't tumblr. Hope you enjoy the text wall I guess.

A couple of years ago we were all terribly concerned about the fact that a lot of American high schools are assigning such crushing homework loads that some kids literally don't have enough time to eat or sleep (and all this in spite of the fact that there's no good evidence that assigning homework actually improves academic outcomes at the pre-university level), but now we're hearing stories about those same schools struggling to stop kids from using ChatGPT to write their essays and suddenly It's The Children Who Are Wrong. Like, do you think maybe there's a certain level of cause and effect in play here?

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Rock Lee vs. Gaara went SO hard and was so memorable, it unintentionally tricked an entire generation into thinking Naruto's underlying theme was that effort and hard work ultimately triumph over natural talent. Naruto was, in fact, not about that. It was the opposite, in fact.

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Design Challenge #1 (let's see how this goes)

I had a fleeting idea of getting a random design prompt and seeing what I can come up with. Like how writers do. Unfortunately, making a whole game would take a lot more time and effort and I already have 3 on the back burner so this could be fun to try out. So the first randomized prompt is...

oh jeez...

okay so a top down shooter x art game already feels like a challenge. Can't think of a single example. If it can be more artsy fartsy then the term "shooter" is a lot more loose. Maybe something that isn't guns but something connecting you to the lovecraftian elements.

Idea #1: Boss rush top down shooter. Something along the lines of titan souls in that their are only bosses to fight. However, you don't have a limited space they fight you in. They can follow you to other bosses. The "shooting" is a psychic beam that lets you temporarily control the boss and move it around to fight the other boss. your body is still vulnerable while controlling a boss. This would have the rule of "everything is connected" from being able to lure bosses to other zones. The theme of betrayal from the two bosses fighting each other. Simply having cthulu and dagon beat each other up is lovecraftian. I could expand on the art game aspect more. Maybe the beam isn't an immediate possessing thing, but the two entities are arguing and you have to choose to plant certain subliminal messages to convince one to fight another.

Pros: seems fun and flashy. Probably much more puzzle oriented then top down shooter.

Cons: "betrayal" feels pretty weak when discussing eldritch gods. Novelty will wear off pretty fast. Only one way to solve a problem and doesnt really give any player choice or creativity.

Overall: meh Idea #2: Rhythm doctor but you shoot stuff. Lovecraft didn't only have eldritch gods... he also just wrote about crazy things that happened. Like a shape or color that can't exist or just some crazy dude. So, we could make changelings who enjoy human suffering. They will insert themselves into your life and ruin your relationships. Then insert you back into your life so you can experience the suffering. These feels very cosmic horror esque. You are a changeling hunter of sorts. Maybe a detective? You track them down and kill them. The story follows you trying to track down any odd behavior in people. Unfortunately, the changelings will not show their true form unless you start attacking them. In the process you might accidentally injure someone who just was being a dick. You have to be able to properly sus it out and it gets harder and harder to determine as the game goes on. The top down shooting would be more the actual moment where you fight the changeling or possibly right before. you have the chance to take the shot and you might shoot them dead on the spot or fire at their arm to give a warning.

Pros: Has a variety of gameplay elements that can all be engaging in their own way. Player choice would really impact the outcomes.

Cons: "everything is connected" didn't get put in anywhere. Narative would be better off in a telltale style game or even just an FPS imo.

overall: better but still only okay

I wanted to make 3 but it's getting late. I'll try again another day. Maybe I can make little illustrations to help out too. Tell me what ya'll think! What would you do as the challenge?

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Then why isn't she naked!? If you're going to date 3 nudists I'd think you ought to give it a go.

Oh to be a postwoman delivering love letters to nymphs

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Is this how I learn that I'm a wizard?! Where's Hagrid?!

I'm a votka wizard. My spells only work when I'm totally drunk. Unfortunately, when I cast I immediately sober up. Really annoying whwn friends ask me for party tricks

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This is such a Shonen protagonist response which I love... but I feel you and others would call me out for being naive or something. Glad to see you being more optimistic.

don't give up

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I feel like I'm being referred to in this image and idk which one I am or how to feel about this 😖

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You also don't love in a place with a large queer population so it's going to be fractions of fractions of the IT folks.

I hate the fact trans woman are stereotypically into it, however, majority of it people are not tans woman

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tumblr how do I achieve all my dreams and wishes? what should I do

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Gamers suck at naming genres so badly.

What's that game? *oh its like that game doom I played so I guess I'll call it a doom like*

What about this? *oh that's just like that super old game rogue but a little less so it's a roguelite*

And these!? *that's an rpg because they used to have game mechanics like that for games where you played a role... but now you don't play any role and we just never bothered naming them.*

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I think it says something about me that, when I tried to think of what to post, it was between: "philosophical ramblings no one cares about" or "what's my hottest take I can give so I can argue with everyone?"... 🤔

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I guess I'm contributing to this website now

I'm mostly here to follow others and occassionally reply with the lols.

Not trying to be super cool or anything. Not very perpetually online. I teach kids coding and game design. Have a long distance gf but we're both poly and open to other folks.

I like learning almost everything about the world and I will always be willing to hear new information and new perspectives. I'm highly opinionated to a very large fault and often that causes trouble in the real world instead of like Online where I would win internet points for bad mouthing a YouTube commenter.

Might post random thoughts. Might look at random thots. Talk to some random thots with random thoughts about random thots. 🤷‍♀️ ?