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Students at Indian schools get books that teach them about Krita.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1bfxqan/never_knew_that_indian_government_has_actually/

The book on the publishers' website:

https://www.kips.in/#/detail/85

Scroll down and choose the Class 6 tab to see the table of contents.

@krita

#krita #education #art #painting


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Parent or teacher interested in a Covid safe school?! Centered in disability justice. One is forming in MA/RI, location TBD. Email for more info or with questions!

@disability @mcas
@chronicillness
@disabilityjustice
@education @neurodivergents

#Covid #MaskUp #LongCovid #Education #disability #justice #school #k12


means #privacy to me by giving me the chance to make my very small #education #business save for my clients.


OK, trying an experiment with my Programming Languages class!

• Have an AI generate some of your writing assignment.
• Critique its output. Call BS on its BS.

Assignment details in screenshots below. I’ll let you know how it goes.

(Here are the links from the screenshots:)

Raw AI Text:
https://gist.github.com/pcantrell/7b68ce7c5b2e329543e2dadd6853be21

Comments on AI Text:
https://gist.github.com/pcantrell/d51bc2d4257027a6b4c64c9010d42c32

(Better) Human Text
https://gist.github.com/pcantrell/f363734336e6063f61e451e2658b50a6

#ai #chatgpt #education #writing #highered
#swift #proglang


My favorite outcome so far: a student remarked (paraphrasing here) that she didn’t realize how much she had to say in her paper until she saw how wrong the AI was, how much it missed the point.

Observing her own reaction to BS about her topic made her realize she’d underestimated the extent of her own newly-forming knowledge. That…that is the sort of outcome an educator dreams of.

#ai #chatgpt #education #writing #highered


Florida rejects social studies textbooks, pushes publishers to change others : NPR

>In one case, references to the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement were removed. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1175232763/desantis-florida-textbooks-social-studies-schools #GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter #Florida #DeSantis #education


Currently pouring over a sample exam sheet set for Finnish highschool students in German as foreign language in 2020 to assess the accessibility of the exam solution. It's got everything an accessible test needs: a table of contents, a good heading structure, native HTML 5 media player with almost perfect accessibility, native controls such as radio buttons and edit fields to give the answers.
The students were to pass the test by connecting their computers with an Ethernet cable to the examination machine running a special OS, presumably a fork of Debian. The test was taken by tunneling into the examination machine through the web browser and handling the exam in an accessible HTML from there.
Sadly, the audio recordings for the listening part do not seem to be available. Pity, as they reference Whatsapp voice messages. Would be fun to check for their authenticity based on the sound quality.
On that note: Do language exams in your countries reference modern communication methods or is it still a telephone? When I took my final in German, "Social media: pros and cons" was just a subject of the mini essay I had to put together as part of the writing assignment.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200121222502/https://digabi.github.io/exam-engine/SC/fi-FI/koe.html
#Accessibility #Blind #Finland #Education #Languages #German


Let's Share Free Software

What's free software you use the most everyday? I work as a course teacher and mine's as the following.

:gnu: :linux: GNU/Linux

:kde: KDE, Dolphin, Gwenview & Okular

:firefox: Firefox

:jitsi: Jitsi

:libreoffice: LibreOffice Writer & Calc

:thunderbird: Thunderbird

:youtube: VLC

:inkscape: Inkscape

:debian: Synaptic & apt

If you use #FreeSoftware, please boost. Thanks.

#GNU #Linux #OpenSource #Education


# Spreading In #, Sidelining Role Of #.

My Take: putting children under 24/7 monitoring, is harmful to natural development + #.

Ex: intense security (like recent proposal to add armed taser drones + force children to train with them) may do little more than put kids in more fear.

# # # # # https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/surveillance-capitalism-spreading-to-schools-hillman-esquivel-220611/


"LfDI expects schools to offer pupils alternatives to the MS365 # service for # operations by the summer vacations in 2022.

From the coming school year, the use of MS 365 at schools must be terminated or its data protection-compliant operation must be clearly demonstrated by the responsible schools."

This is how the SA of Baden-Württemberg starts its press release stating that M365 is not # compliant and it must be discontinued.

# #

https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de/nutzung-von-ms-365-an-schulen/


# #

i'm derek, he/him. currently in central california and have lived in new york for a bit too

originally went through # school up through # (lol i'd be surprised if that hashtag actually worked and referred to doctor of musical arts) studying # with aspirations of being a "new music" percussionist but didn't stick the landing in music academia. i got a # degree somewhere along the way and had been getting heavily into # and # sorts of things working at a media lab during the dma so when covid, hit decided to go back to (online) grad school studying computer science. things i'm really into studying cs-wise are #/#ml things (more leaning on the ai-side but we'll see) and "soft-cs"/"extra-cs" sorta intersectional things like # and # and starting to read about # and other things. not sure where my cs studies will go yet but it'd be nice be able to research ai things more. also, i'm really into # / # sorta things.

other things i'm into are anime and manga (mostly iyashikei, mecha, and ikuhara things), video games, riichi mahjong, animals (mostly cats, sea otters and puffins), stars are cool, and also vast desolate expanses.

think my website better sums up things: https://derekxkwan.com/