- One Laptop Per Child is going to change the world.
- The US schooling system is in crisis.
- The Internet is very free, but schools are very rigid.
- Schools aren't succeeding.
- She mentioned The Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) at Stanford University
- Social interaction has a positive impact on eLearning.
- "Teaching to the test" is destroying education.
- nickjr.com is amazingly educational.
- Constructivist teaching is great, but it's hard.
- Programming is one of the most beneficial eLearning activities.
- Not enough time is given in schools to eLearning; it doesn't matter because they're too constrictive anyway.
- Let kids learn at their own pace.
- Inquiry-based, project-based, group-based learning is good.
- Lecture-oriented classrooms are bad.
- The best learning is the type kids do when they aren't in school.
I decided to give Ubuntu 20.04 a try on my 2015 15" MacBook Pro. I didn't actually install it; I just live booted from a USB thumb drive which was enough to try out everything I wanted. In summary, it's not perfect, and issues with my camera would prevent me from switching, but given the right hardware, I think it's a really viable option. The first thing I wanted to try was what would happen if I plugged in a non-HiDPI screen given that my laptop has a HiDPI screen. Without sub-pixel scaling, whatever scale rate I picked for one screen would apply to the other. However, once I turned on sub-pixel scaling, I was able to pick different scale rates for the internal and external displays. That looked ok. I tried plugging in and unplugging multiple times, and it didn't crash. I doubt it'd work with my Thunderbolt display at work, but it worked fine for my HDMI displays at home. I even plugged it into my TV, and it stuck to the 100% scaling I picked for the othe
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Or maybe people were so put off by her seemingly negative initial thesis (which of course was meant to be a trope, a turning) that they just didn't listen to the rest.
Anyway, thanks for providing some evidence that I may not be losing my mind. You heard the same speech I did.