This wasn’t science and it wasn’t even the life-relevant learning that .@jasoncyip and .@TammyUMD talk about. It was 100% busy work to make the kids feel like they were doing science when they weren’t. It was essentially, academic theater.
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We totally had the means to do this, but what about other BALTIMORE CITY kids…the ones where 55% of the school district are considered low income? Do they all have the food and home security to work on this endeavor?
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The rubric focuses on taking pictures of the process (60%), answering what was different (30%) and asking what your ideal cookie is.
So we spent three nights cooking these cookies and wasting a ton of butter and ingredients for ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ from someone who actually likes sci.
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I asked lots of questions about what she thought the point was and she didn’t didn’t have a real answer. I asked about dependent variables and independent variables in both kid-speak and actual science terms and she was like
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I’m not sure what the point of BCPS 5th grade science is. My kid had to bake three batches of cookies where the butter was solid, softened, and melted respectively. First, the recipe was terrible and this was made from my semi-pro baking whiz kid. Second, where’s the science?
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I made the suggestion last year that .@mtamaryland switch from tickets for one ride to ones that last 90 minutes to make quick trips convenient. The new Charm App supports that and a ticket I pulled said “90 minutes”
You’re welcome!
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@DrRockt0pus I’m sure you can just rent Avatar.
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“To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them.”
Phew! I’m not worried anymore…
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-passwords-plaintext-change-yours/
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@CarolSOtt Ok, I thought/hoping it was more sophisticated than that.
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@NElmqvist @jeffbigham @rogueCHI I can’t get flight paid for unless go through agent and use T number. I can pay myself and get reimbursed later
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