7 posts tagged ‘education’
Donald Bitzer, RIP
mjtsai,
Dag Spicer (via Hacker News): Bitzer studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), obtaining a PhD in 1960. Following graduation, he joined the UIUC faculty, where he learned of efforts to bring lessons to students over a closed-circuit television network. While a committee of engineers, psychologists, and educators were unable to […]
Thomas Kurtz, RIP
Valley News (Hacker News): Tom is well known as the co-inventor, with John Kemeny, of the BASIC programming language in 1964. A version of BASIC still exists today. John Kemeny and Tom had already developed a version of the Dartmouth Timesharing System, a method of sharing computer access allowing multiple students access to the computer […]
UC Irvine Students Hospitalized After Hackers Sent Disgusting Images to Their Discord Server
Gizmodo,
A disturbing cyberattack on Discord reportedly sent some University of California, Irvine students to the hospital on Wednesday, according to a CBS News report. Hackers infiltrated student Discord servers and bombarded them with graphic images that reportedly traumatized students, causing them to cry, vomit, and even… Read more...
Ted stars reveal the worst trouble they got into during high school
AV Club,
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Citing Anonymous Complaint, Police Showed Up at a Middle School to Search for an LGBTQ Book
Jezebel,
On December 8, a police officer showed up at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and searched a teacher’s classroom for the novel Gender Queer. The search came after the Great Barrington Police Department received an anonymous complaint that the book allegedly contained obscene… Read more...
Palestinian-American Student Expelled Over Mom’s Online Support for Gaza
A Palestinian-American student named Jad Abughamda has been expelled from his private high school, Pine Crest School, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida because his mom posted support for Gaza on social media, the school confirmed this week. Maha Almasri, a Palestinian-American woman and the 15-year-old’s mother, also worked… Read more...
Cursive handwriting coming back to schools by law
Boing Boing,
California passed a law last month requiring the teaching of cursive or "joined italics" handwriting in grades one through six, emphasizing its value in reading historical documents, improving writing speed. The push for cursive education has faced criticism, with opponents arguing that time in the classroom could be better spent on skills like coding and keyboarding. — Read the rest