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  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • As someone in the classrooms (student teaching in fifth grade in Illinois), I don’t disagree that the tech provides this. However, I also see how it benefits the students with workflow and access to a diverse form on texts which is needed for a multitude of diverse learners whether they are multilingual, have a disability of some kind, are special education, or have IEPs or 504s.

    The access to parents at home with instant ability to the same videos or resources as well as translation tools can mean more parental help for the kids.

    What I see as the problem is that the way we measure students and their cognitive knowledge/capabilities hasn’t changed with how we teach. Everything is to the test and set up without any national standards. I see kids able to make some amazing inferences and see patterns with small prompting and the ability to deep think is there even with tech being a huge part of the classroom.

  • Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say

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  • That’s exactly my thought as well. We will likely be seeing an uptick in autoimmune diseases because of the hyperactive response for everything.

  • Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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  • Ok, Shaggy

  • UK refusing to allow Trump to use RAF bases to attack Iran

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  • I had to look it up because I’m not super familiar or exactly following it, but yes he was. However, he is still under investigation.

    I’m just assuming the arrest is what the other thing the commenter was hinting at.

  • Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.

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  • Well, that might change after this though.

  • UK refusing to allow Trump to use RAF bases to attack Iran

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  • Arresting Andrew

  • US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land

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  • Bonus points if God gifted it to you through the striations of the burn marks in your toast.

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    Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Americans want rich powerful pedos and rapists strung up on gallows, even if it collapses our government"

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  • I absolutely love this! Going to steal it for future use.

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    RFK Jr ridiculed as he promotes strange fitness initiative topless with Kid Rock

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  • I don’t understand this. Why are you targeting gay people? You wouldn’t put this up with replacing it with Black, Latino/Latina, Jewish, Muslim, etc.

    Whether it points to positive or negative, why does it have to be a gay person? I guess I’m missing something about what this is meant to be for/do?

  • More Americans believe Bad Bunny embodies the country’s values better than Donald Trump

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  • Just curious, but do you have statistics to back that up or are you just angry with Americans and making a statement?

    As an American, I don’t even know what most people’s decision to not vote is beyond a multitude of reasons I have read about.

  • More Americans believe Bad Bunny embodies the country’s values better than Donald Trump

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  • Sounds like you don’t understand the people of America. Yes, the people vote and we have an electorate that is supposed to vote on what people want.

    However, a vast majority of Americans do not turn out to vote. Either they can’t because of logistics (e.g., gerrymandering, can’t get time off of work, etc), they abstain, or some other reason. We still, historically, have under half of the population actually turn out to vote. Voter turnout graph of the United States by share of population.

  • Where the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation stands as it enters its 3rd week

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  • The thing that is baffling to me about this is why the Guthries? If this is as sophisticated as it seems, then why a well known journalist? There are hundreds or thousands more targets with way more money and/or clout from a social standpoint. This just seems like a weird target.

    I saw someone say in another comment on a different article that she did some of the first investigating into Epstein stuff? Is this purely a political threat and warning to others?

    Edit:

    From the transcripts below the video:

    Johnson said national databases could help narrow down a suspect.

    Is this a hit job to test out databases and make it look like they’re a good idea to ease American minds into supporting them? Once again, this almost screams political.

    Or am I just tinfoil hatting?

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • She’s (the relative) lucky she can do that. Some districts or schools have homework policies. As I am finishing up my master’s for elementary education, if I can get away with NOT assigning homework then that’s what I will do. They are kids and need their mental breaks as well. There’s research that shows homework doesn’t correlate to better learning or growth. It’s just busy work and play is really good for kids’ minds.

    If anything, I will encourage them to read and tell me what cool thing(s) they are reading about the next morning!

  • ESL homework

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  • Thank you! I’m a late career changer (in my early 40s), but I am loving it so far! I am student teaching in fifth grade currently and absolutely love it. I just want to do things that help others and I feel that teaching is one of those ways I can positively impact a kid’s life.

    It probably helps that I’m also a dad, so I do have that empathy and an appreciation of kids and their humor as well.

  • ESL homework

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  • I’m in my master’s program for elementary education. If I saw this, I would just pull them to the side and ask them to translate it to me as English. If it comes out sounding plausible, I’d give them full points because they knew how to say it. They could obviously already read it since they knew how to answer the question. So the writing could come later if that was an issue. I could even try and decode it with a translator first before asking for their translation just to see if they were bullshitting me.

    If it was a joke, I’d let it slide but let them know that in the future I need them to write it fully in English.

  • Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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  • I think his comment was really just him acknowledging UAPs and referring to them generically as “aliens”. That’s why he’s never “seen” them. He can’t confirm or deny little green men in these weird flying craft so his answer is he believes but he has not actually seen one.

    Or he was just being cheeky for a fun clip. 🤷‍♂️

  • Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant

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  • No idea why you’re downvoted. You’re right.

  • Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On

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  • Ah ah ah, you didn’t say the magic word!

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • For someone that used discord only for video chat and the chat sidebar for D&D since we have players in person and a couple in other states, what would you all recommend?

    Should we just switch to Zoom or something?

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    Gaming Laptop Recs?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What happened to FlyingSquid?

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    Tired of Hawk Tua, but this is a good usage

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    Gift for Muslim Family

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    No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2023/07/reddit-makes-no-apologies-but-offers-disgruntled-mods-feedback-sessions/