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ec2y | 4 months ago | on: Homeschooling hits record numbers

Lemme just question how home schooling is at all possible without one parent (statically more likely to be a woman) staying home to supervise the learning. I don’t think we’re talking about remote ranch situations where you either do online school or have to send them to boarding school.

So I’m genuinely wondering if there’s a corresponding exit from the workplace or other demographic trends allowing/pushing this boom in home schooling to happen?

ec2y | 3 years ago | on: Better to micromanage than be disengaged

I think you’d enjoy reading about regulatory focus from the HR research, which makes exactly these types of tables. Here’s a readable HBR article:

Halvorson, Heidi Grant & Higgins, E. Tory. 2013. Do you play to win - or to lose? Know what really motivates you. Harvard Business Review 117.

ec2y | 3 years ago | on: Workers’ Pay Globally Hasn’t Kept Up with Inflation

You obviously don’t have my sucky union. The idiots let our agreement lapse over the pandemic and can’t their act together for a new one. (I’d suspect they were being union busted but I’m in Australia where unions are normal.)

ec2y | 3 years ago | on: I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems

I just want to say that your comments made me laugh super hard, but truly get to the heart of why a blunt engagement metric is a trash metric. (I also study gatekeeping and intermediaries, so it’s interesting from that angle also.)

ec2y | 5 years ago | on: Syllabus for Eric's PhD Students

Very true! And you can even be a good project manager and be nice about it. For example, setting clear expectations, working together toward deadlines, etc.

ec2y | 5 years ago | on: New Zealand eliminates Covid-19

If there ends up being a NZ-AU bubble, as is being talked about, that is likely to allow some tourism. That might grow to include other Asia Pacific counties with good virus stats.

ec2y | 6 years ago | on: Some school districts plan to end the year early, call remote learning too tough

Interesting article. I’ve taught three masters level classes this week and even these motivated students can find it challenging. Most are OK with passive listening, even if that’s not my favorite thing, and having some discussion, but as with in person, there can be issues trying to flip the classroom to make things more engaging and for pedagogical reasons. For example, I noticed that over 10% dropped off the zoom session on Monday, rather than discussing a case with other students in a breakout session for 15 minutes. I much prefer teaching in person where I can see their faces and get some feedback about where they are in terms of learning, interest, tiredness... and where I can more easily push them into doing group discussions that are pedagogically useful and enhance their networking skills. (Business students, not CS.)

ec2y | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you organize document digests / personal knowledge?

This is going to sound old school, but I keep things nicely organized with OneNote2016. (A version that still allows you to keep the files on Dropbox, rather than having to deal with the inferior MS cloud.)

What I like is the fact that there is intuitive structure, with (project) notebooks, folders and pages. That makes it easy to add external content and then make notes, although for true annotation, you probably want to manually copy webpages into OneNote, rather than the PDF-style print to OneNote.

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