Random Win: The irl Fuck Ya thread

[Aksannyi]

It's almost like students should be reading actual books sometimes.

And no, not every student has tablets and smart phones, go to the inner city and a lot of them don't.

[Anoat]

What, exactly, is the purpose of a library in a modern school? Doesn't every student have a tablet and google? And if they don't, can we get our schools to a 2000 standard please? We only spend about 2 Trillion in education in this country every year. wtf a library. I love books, but I'm not checking out Encyclopedia Britannica for my paper on Peruvian exports.

Remember from your group research projects in college where you all had to meet up in the library and research stuff together and write a huge paper? And there was always that one asshole who had no clue how to use the library's resources and just kinda dicked around on Facebook while everyone else did the work? We don't want a generation where EVERYONE is that guy.

[synistar]

And because LAUSD tried doing the whole tablets/ipads for students and it ended up being a waste of nearly $1.3 billion in bonds because the system was so messed up due to lack of internet/networking infrastructure in the schools where it was piloted and some students hacked their devices for non-academic purposes.

[Ksandra]

What, exactly, is the purpose of a library in a modern school? Doesn't every student have a tablet and google? And if they don't, can we get our schools to a 2000 standard please? We only spend about 2 Trillion in education in this country every year. wtf a library. I love books, but I'm not checking out Encyclopedia Britannica for my paper on Peruvian exports.

I work at a shit poor inner city school, and we need the library more for regular books, than for research purposes. Though as someone said, there is still a lot of value in knowing how to find research from a book than online. Most kids are ELL, and the more the read the better at English they will become. We have a mandatory SSR everyday in our Advisory class (not unheard of), and as it is right now, most kids just grab a random book in the room and open up a random page and stare at it.

I was given approval to bring Scholastics ReadingCounts to the 9th grade (will continue on to each grade level each year if it helps improve reading scores). I am going to institute a reward system for those that pass the quizzes. So having access to books the kids can choose from is a huge help.

There is also something to be said about borrowing. The kids at our school really have no respect for school property whatsoever. I think it good practice to borrow something and having to take care of it.



One that note, I found out George Lopez grew up in the area I work in. So all those stories about like 40 mexicans in one car, yeah that's the kind of place I work in.

[Ksandra]

And because LAUSD tried doing the whole tablets/ipads for students and it ended up being a waste of nearly $1.3 billion in bonds because the system was so messed up due to lack of internet/networking infrastructure in the schools where it was piloted and some students hacked their devices for non-academic purposes.

iPads in schools are just the worst. Even the private school I was at was moving away from iPads to Macbook Airs.

It's so hard to type on an iPad, even with the keyboard attachments. And switching between what your typing and your research is a pain.

[Marootsoobutsu]

What, exactly, is the purpose of a library in a modern school? Doesn't every student have a tablet and google? And if they don't, can we get our schools to a 2000 standard please? We only spend about 2 Trillion in education in this country every year. wtf a library. I love books, but I'm not checking out Encyclopedia Britannica for my paper on Peruvian exports.

April Fools!

[BaneTheBrawler]

my local schools use ipads. or at least the elementary school does. they're quite handy for certain things; we use them for lego instructions, sharing videos with the kids, etc.

it's funny because i've never owned or really used apple devices before so the kids actually know how to use them more than i do, even the kids who dont have internet/computers at home. i often just hand it to them and tell them "hey can you open the web browser for me" or whatever, then 5 minutes later i'm explaining to the kids what an ethernet port is and what it looks like and why the xbox kinect is relevant to robots

for more standard classwork i think they'd be less useful. also, bigger class harder to keep an eye on what theyre doing, etc. fantastic for extracurriculars tho


i hate navigating the things tho. i hear people say it's got a user-friendly UI but it just seems counter-intuitive to me.

[dasva]

It's almost like students should be reading actual books sometimes.

And no, not every student has tablets and smart phones, go to the inner city and a lot of them don't.

Fuck even I don't have a tablet and didn't get my first smartphone till a few years ago. Money don't grow on trees people

[Kalmado]

I think I didn't get the job at Best Buy because they asked me what I knew about Apple and I said not much because (in professional words) the real world uses windows or even Linux.

[BaneTheBrawler]

best buy doesnt sell to professionals


their target demographic is people who for some reason aren't buying on the internet

[Kalmado]

I wasn't really too concerned with getting the job so it's no biggie, but yeah it was funny to hear them talk about how basically they pretty much want their sales team to sell mostly apple because "it's simple". They talked about how one metric they measure is accessories which external hard drives count as. I asked if solid state drives do as well. There was an awkward silence for about four seconds and then a nervous "yes"?

[Omniyoji]

lol

[zoobernut]

I think I didn't get the job at Best Buy because they asked me what I knew about Apple and I said not much because (in professional words) the real world uses windows or even Linux.

That isn't true at all. Mac's have a huge market share in creative fields including video game studios and special effects studios. Not a big deal if you didn't want the job I guess. Also increasingly ipads are being adapted for PoS systems in the hospitality industry.

I get really tired of apple vs. windows vs. linux arguments. They are largely untrue and irrelevant these days. You want a job? Know whatever system they happen to be using bottom line.

[Kalmado]

That isn't true at all. Mac's have a huge market share in creative fields including video game studios and special effects studios. Not a big deal if you didn't want the job I guess. Also increasingly ipads are being adapted for PoS systems in the hospitality industry.

I get really tired of apple vs. windows vs. linux arguments. They are largely untrue and irrelevant these days. You want a job? Know whatever system they happen to be using bottom line.

I'm not going to argue what's already known but I'll say to think Windows isn't used by the majority of the business world is just silly. And as far as the bolded? Duh? Don't even understand where that is coming from...

[Zetanio]

That isn't true at all. Mac's have a huge market share in creative fields including video game studios and special effects studios. Not a big deal if you didn't want the job I guess. Also increasingly ipads are being adapted for PoS systems in the hospitality industry.

I get really tired of apple vs. windows vs. linux arguments. They are largely untrue and irrelevant these days. You want a job? Know whatever system they happen to be using bottom line.

It's still not remotely close in every other industry. Windows is king.

[Zetanio]

10 seconds of googling produces this.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/opera...10&qpcustomd=0

[zoobernut]

10 seconds of googling produces this.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/opera...10&qpcustomd=0

Can't view. Don't have a subscription. Assuming it shows Windows has a much higher market share, that doesn't take away from what I said. The original statement is a silly one. Windows doesn't automatically mean professional and Apple isn't unheard of in the professional market. Why bother going to the interview and wasting your own time and their time then make a nonsense statement like that.

[dasva]

Not asking me for any subscription... must be an apple thing

Interesting thing about that though is that old outdated windows xp alone beat all of mac OSs combined

[Kalmado]

Can't view. Don't have a subscription. Assuming it shows Windows has a much higher market share, that doesn't take away from what I said. The original statement is a silly one. Windows doesn't automatically mean professional and Apple isn't unheard of in the professional market. Why bother going to the interview and wasting your own time and their time then make a nonsense statement like that.

!) No, you don't need a subscription. I can see it just fine. It basically says, "Windows has a stranglehold on OS". 2) I don't know what the blue blazing fuck your problem is but I never said anything about Apple not being used in the professional market. And you clearly do not have a fucking clue about the context of my statement. Let me break it down in baby terms so maybe, just maybe you can understand. Job interview was for selling pc at Best Buy. Interviewer asks if I know Apple Products because they sell a lot of them. I say no. They say no problem we teach it anyways. NOT A BIG FUCKING DEAL. Who the fuck are you to say who wasted who's time? Oh that's right. You are no one. Now shut the fuck up.

[Aksannyi]

A little hostile, are we?