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I was feeling better yesterday but today.. so I’m sick again but I was productive. I went to study for a while in my garden to have a little natural vitamin d and telling myself that it was going to motivate me despite the fatigue and the feeling of being sick. No Mardi Gras for me.
• Mails
• Administrative stuff
• Epistemology humans sciences and social, research, definitions and plan of the assignment, with rerun of « Who’s The Boss? » in the background.
i like how yo-kai watch is in an awkward state of popularity where it's not super popular but it's popular enough to get crossovers with like. final fantasy and sanrio and shit. kind of amusing-
Maybe you have discussed this before (come to think of it, you probably have) but inasmuch as media literacy online is terrible these days how much is that related to the decline in humanities majors among college students?
I mean I'm sure that's part of it; consistently the worst media literacy you see is among the "I only took STEM in college and I'm proud of it" crowd, who then try to make up for that later by "teaching themselves" and that's how you get a lot of the garbage on TVTropes, etc. (This is true across the humanities, like a lot of bad online philosophy e.g. LessWrong comes from a similar place.) But I also think that where media literacy is the most dire in Online Discourse is specifically film and television, and that is a separate set of media literacy skills than the ones you learn in a literature class. There are lots of people who are just bad at media literacy in general, but also a lot of people whose specific way they are bad is trying to analyze a movie or TV show like it's a book -- focusing on the story and mayyyybe the acting (but they usually don't understand acting as well as they think) but totally ignoring anything else that contributes to the meaning of that work -- and the problem there is that film studies courses are not required. If I could wave a wand over university humanities curricula it would be to require film/media studies and also music courses (because the other bane of my existence is people who don't know how to talk about music beyond the lyrics). I think this is way overdue; we know that way more adults in 2023 regularly watch movies and TV, play video games, watch online video, etc. than regularly read books -- and also more of them listen to music than read books -- and it's not that we should stop teaching books, far from it, but our media courses should also do something to address that changing landscape. Or not even really "changing" per se, because this has been the case for half a century at this point!
Taking a moment to brag about my little brother!!! Look, I knew he was smart. He's so fucking smart, it's honestly a little intimidating lol. He's a high school junior and he just got back his PSAT scores. And he got 1500 out of 1520!!!!! My dad said he missed ONE English question, that's it!!!! I'M SO PROUD OF HIM!!!!!!
Mine is from when I was about two or three. I was in a stroller, at my cousin’s Irish dancing recital. After the recital, my aunts were talking down to me in the stroller, and to each other. I was experiencing extreme anxiety because I couldn’t understand what they were saying, when I felt I should have been able to communicate with them like they were communicating with each other. I was also very tired and dazed. I did not cry though… I probably looked normal on the outside.
I also remember when I was about four or five, I went to the beach with my dad and one of his friends. I somehow found my way onto the dock, planted my little rear end on a jet ski, untethered it from the dock, and started floating into the sunset. There was an old lady lounging in a donut inflatable out some way; she said something to me, but I couldn’t understand what she said, despite trying really hard. I’m assuming it was something along the lines of “Oh my god get off that jet ski you’re going to fucking DIE, kid,” but again… couldn’t understand a word of what she said, and got frustrated because she was speaking English (without an accent) and I should know how to understand adults speaking English to me.
At this point, my dad is yelling at me from across the water, and a young lifeguard drags the jet ski back. On land, my dad lectured at me very harshly as he led me back to the car. I didn’t know I had done anything wrong, and was very confused. At some point this guy starts quoting the Bible at me, and the only thing I could pick out were the words (spoken very emphatically), “Your days are numbered.”
“My days are numbered?” cue a vivid mental image of a calendar, with dates listed for every day of the week, “What does that mean?” Later on I figured out this was the Bible’s way of referencing death at God’s hand which just made me even more confused as to what I did, until at age thirteen, I figured out, “Oh a baby who can’t swim floating on a jet ski is terrifying, actually.”
i'm learning russian and french at the same time and I swear to god if I accidentally find a random cyrillic letter in the middle of a word writen in latin alphabet one more time or accidentally mix languages mid sentence, I will yell
or sometimes I find that when I'm writing a translation of a word in russian that sounds similar in polish I just write the russian word again but in latin alphabet for some reason
or I can somehow remember all of my miniscule spanish when I'm trying to learn french even though I literally don't remember a word in spanish otherwise
my language module is broken at this point, if you ever find my notes and there is something like boнjour, just ignore it, I literally don't pick up on it when I'm making and rereading my notes
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i’ve mentioned before that i had to drop out of high school due to poor mental health (like, “stress induced psychosis” poor). so i have a lot of trauma surrounding education but i am now proud to say i am going to community college 🥲🥲
woooo ok well time to stop looking at furthering education options for right now. It's just overwhelming. I have genuinely zero direction right now so I can't narrow down the most useful degree when I don't even know what I'd be putting it towards. 4-year is very much expected of me, so I need to find SOMETHING, but I'm really coming up empty right now. Sigh. Just kind of complaining. I know this is THE MOST NORMAL FEELING EVER for being my age, but that doesn't make it any easier.
Laughing in all good humor, Senritsu waved a small hand dismissively. "Maybe I was in my youth.", said the young woman who very much was still in her youth.