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  • IRS cutting 12,000 jobs.

    I guess they forgot to pay their taxes?
  • Daikun said:

    IRS cutting 12,000 jobs.

    I guess they forgot to pay their taxes?

    No it's for the new initiative America Works.

  • I know everything exists on the Internet but self help guides surely don't need to be at this level, I mean people can't be this stupid. A resource on finding lost objects.
  • edited March 2015
    Yes I agree with the idea that homework is flat bullshit.

    That's my opinion but in my experience I rarely actually did homework and instead followed my own interests. I got penalized in grades but it never meant I didn't grasp the material at least as well as most other students.

    But I would support having home reading, physical and multimedia projects, and online guided self learning courses that can be done from home or a library as a replacement For bullshit worksheets and the like.
    Post edited by SWATrous on
  • All boils down to what the home work is and how its implemented.
  • Homework is a positive in my opinion, it lets kids start managing their free time. The better you understand a concept or the more interested you are in it, the faster you should be able to get through it.

    I finished both my Year 12 maths classes by the time it came to the mid year break because I would have to wait for my brother to finish his rugby practice on two days of the week. I ended up doing all my homework and did the next few lessons in the 4 hours a week that I would wait. I got free time during the second half of the year in all my Maths slots.

    On the other hand I rarely did homework or study for English Literature, scored and average A but didn't study for the exam and skated by on a pass because I knew that's all I needed.

    Using the well structured mentality alongside promising to play games after homework allowed my transition to University to be seamless while I observed others struggle or drop out even though the material was simple.
  • edited March 2015
    Most everything I learned in school I learned from doing the homework. (Well, that's partly because I often didn't pay attention in class, but still...) There's an old truism along the lines of: the worst way to learn something is to have someone tell you, the next better way is to do it, and the best way is to teach it to others. I've found that if I see something on the board in a class, I might remember it, but once I've gone through it twice in homework I'll remember it for years.

    I certainly managed to skate by in classes where I didn't do some of the homework, but I did far better in classes where I actually practiced the material.

    Practice is pretty much a necessity for learning most things. When you don't have time to do run-throughs of material in class, homework is the best way to get students to actually get that practice short of having students lead a study group.
    Post edited by Linkigi(Link-ee-jee) on
  • the worst way to learn something is to have someone tell you . . . and the best way is to teach it to others.

    So, the best way for you loops back into the worst way for someone else. Not a very sound truism, if you ask me.
  • Daikun said:

    the worst way to learn something is to have someone tell you . . . and the best way is to teach it to others.

    So, the best way for you loops back into the worst way for someone else. Not a very sound truism, if you ask me.
    Not the best way for them to learn something, the best way for you to learn it. Then you make the new person practice and teach to another person.
  • Post office delayed and wrecked a box of DnD books a friend sent to me. Books were near mint when he packed them. Box was covered in tape when it reached me and wet on the inside, dry on the outside.

    The one soft cover looks like it spent three years in a game store frequented by middle school kids.
  • Daikun said:

    the worst way to learn something is to have someone tell you . . . and the best way is to teach it to others.

    So, the best way for you loops back into the worst way for someone else. Not a very sound truism, if you ask me.
    Not the best way for them to learn something, the best way for you to learn it. Then you make the new person practice and teach to another person.
    I agree with this whole heartedly, I refreshed my maths knowledge recently by teaching someone high school level calculus and discrete maths.

    Like Linkigi I also learn by practice as well.

  • Some things are better learned from having someone to ask questions that might not have obvious answers. Compare learning, for example, Eclipse by instruction vs. by reading. Similarly, there can be skills where it's not immediately clear how to begin developing them. I spent a long time trying to self-teach guitar, but I didn't know where to start. It wasn't until I started seeing a teacher that I was able to actually develop that skill.
  • edited March 2015
    I think a mix of teacher and first hand experience is best with a lean towards teacher the more dangerous the learning is. You don't want to learn that mixing a bottle of bleach with ammonia releases chlorine gas via trial and error experimentation. Learning that adding garlic to your food makes EVERYTHING taste better is OK.
    Post edited by HMTKSteve on
  • If homework is assigned because the teacher wants to assign homework, then is pointless. If you have a really smart group or a class that tears through the material, why assign it?
    If the students have a major project and it requires out-of-class time to do, that should be the homework.
    If you get into a great discussion in class, and don't get to the classwork, then that could be homework.
    I've found it to be, often, busy work that isn't worth my time to assign or grade, and not beneficial to my students in most cases.
  • What grade do you teach, MacRoss? I'm just curious...
  • Valiant Hearts... Why do you have some of the most bizarre sweet spots?

    One of the puzzles requires throwing a stick of dynamite through a burning flag that lands on a hanging engine to blow it up. What the game doesn't clue you in to is that only the very bottom of the fire (as in almost tossing the dynamite too low and missing the flames) will ignite it.

    I just spent 30 minutes on this puzzle thinking my game was glitched. I finally gave up and looked on YouTube. Which is where I learned that not all fire is fire.
  • edited March 2015
    HMTKSteve said:

    Valiant Hearts... Why do you have some of the most bizarre sweet spots?

    One of the puzzles requires throwing a stick of dynamite through a burning flag that lands on a hanging engine to blow it up. What the game doesn't clue you in to is that only the very bottom of the fire (as in almost tossing the dynamite too low and missing the flames) will ignite it.

    I just spent 30 minutes on this puzzle thinking my game was glitched. I finally gave up and looked on YouTube. Which is where I learned that not all fire is fire.

    I felt that bit was slightly difficult but when I realised the colour difference it made it obvious (were you in the barn or is this later?).

    I've found it to be, often, busy work that isn't worth my time to assign or grade, and not beneficial to my students in most cases.

    Wait there are teachers that give out homework which is marked? I was only speaking of homework in the sense of exercises which improve your ability to do tasks (practising essay writing or preparing for one, maths and science exercises). I did get assignments and what not that was marked however they were pretty trivial and fun.
    Post edited by sK0pe on
  • This was on the crashed Zeppelin stage when you play as the dog, Freddie, and Emile. At the very end you have to use the wheel to move the flag into the fire and then toss the dynamite through the fire to destroy the prop engine blocking your progress.

    The earlier part where Freddie has to toss the dynamite to destroy the metal obstruction also took several tries to get right.

    Emile tossing the dynamite to land on the tank turret was also a bit of a bitch. Sometimes it would ignite and slide down towards the tank while other times it would just ignite and not slide at all.
  • HMTKSteve said:

    This was on the crashed Zeppelin stage when you play as the dog, Freddie, and Emile. At the very end you have to use the wheel to move the flag into the fire and then toss the dynamite through the fire to destroy the prop engine blocking your progress.

    The earlier part where Freddie has to toss the dynamite to destroy the metal obstruction also took several tries to get right.

    Emile tossing the dynamite to land on the tank turret was also a bit of a bitch. Sometimes it would ignite and slide down towards the tank while other times it would just ignite and not slide at all.

    I think I must have gotten lucky and noticed that you had to catch the part of the first that lit it on the first try.
    I personally found the tank turret too easy, it's surprising how different our experiences are. Well I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
  • I am still enjoying the story. My main problem is that the puzzles are generally obvious as to what needs to be done but sometimes the 'hit box' for the puzzle does not match what is on screen.

    One of the early puzzles has you tossing a brick to distract a guard. I had a grenade from an earlier puzzle. I thought I could use the grenade to kill the guard, I thought wrong.

    It can be frustrating when what you are doing should work, and has worked in similar puzzles, but doesn't work in this puzzle.
  • Meanwhile, in Australian politics.

    I am slowly becoming more and more convinced that Tony Abbot is actually just a really confused alien who ended up on earth, and doesn't quite know how to act human or how he ended up ruling a country.
  • Churba said:

    Meanwhile, in Australian politics.

    I am slowly becoming more and more convinced that Tony Abbot is actually just a really confused alien who ended up on earth, and doesn't quite know how to act human or how he ended up ruling a country.

    To ABC and your post: So?
  • edited March 2015

    Churba said:

    Meanwhile, in Australian politics.

    I am slowly becoming more and more convinced that Tony Abbot is actually just a really confused alien who ended up on earth, and doesn't quite know how to act human or how he ended up ruling a country.

    To ABC and your post: So?
    Motherfucker is eating an onion like an apple, skin and all. Even people who really like onions take the skin off first. That shit's just weird.

    Also - it's a vine, not exactly a news report.
    Post edited by Churba on
  • Churba said:

    Churba said:

    Meanwhile, in Australian politics.

    I am slowly becoming more and more convinced that Tony Abbot is actually just a really confused alien who ended up on earth, and doesn't quite know how to act human or how he ended up ruling a country.

    To ABC and your post: So?
    Motherfucker is eating an onion like an apple, skin and all. Even people who really like onions take the skin off first. That shit's just weird.

    Also - it's a vine, not exactly a news report.
    Maybe he had a stuffy nose.
  • Yeah, suppose the skin is kinda strange. One of my good buddies has told me he used to eat raw onions like apples though so maybe it's not too strange. Also Shia LeBouf did it in that shitty Holes movie, but then he also became this:

    image

    Sooooo....
  • Yes, but that's also Legendary Cannibal Shia Lebouf.
  • And Shia Lebouf isn't running your country lol.
  • A triple helix DNA strand makes no sense. If all three strands connect with a hydrogen bondg you've got a larger chance of replication error, and if only two strands connect with any hydrogen pair then you're looking at a much more complicated method of replication.
    Assassin's Creed, J'Accuse!
  • A triple helix DNA strand makes no sense. If all three strands connect with a hydrogen bond...

    I don't think that's how hydrogen bonds work.
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