Education Software, and your experiences. - Shit like I-Ready and Khan Academy, whatever the hell you used.

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harakirikun

harakirikun

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For a second I had a moment where I thought about the education software my past schools have used. One example can be I-Ready, which is a software which usually consists of just characters in math/reading scenarios. I, for some reason, had to use it in my middle school years, and that shit was just boring to me. The only one I can really accept was BrainPop, but it’s obviously remembered for Tim and Moby, not for how useful it was when I was growing up. Now it’s just infested with some liberal media, which I can’t really complain about (it’s a new generation after all, still gonna judge though.)

I don’t know what fucking software/website your local school forced you to use, but I’d like to hear about it! Maybe we’ve used the same thing and have a different opinion.
 
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Through middle school-high school and even college they made us use a math class related program called aleks (you do topics which consist of 3 to 5 math problems depending on the math subject the topic you clicked on is). They pretty much used it as a replacement for homework and even classwork, you had to do i think like 10 topics a week and it add to your grade. It was a shitty program and if you got one problem wrong you had to redo the topic. I do remember using brainpop on school computers in elementary.

It does suck that programs (and now AI) are slowly being used to replace teaching at this point. They can just throw you in front of a chromebook with programs designed for each class subject and call it a day.
 
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I remember when I was in grades 3-5 our math classes would have competitions on a website called Tutpup, which was pretty much just Typeracer but for basic math. Despite being for elementary school kids, the site didn't pull any punches when it came to the ranking aspect to the point where it has a tiered, global leaderboard alongside a class-specific leaderboard like you'd find in a MOBA or Counter Strike, seperating and ranking players by win rate or answer speed.

The entire grade would be in a bloodsports-tier frenzy to try to top every leaderboard they could for bragging rights to the point where we'd spend our free time or recess on the website for weeks straight. We were essentially tricked into doing math homework in our spare time. I have no idea why no one adopted this idea after the website shut down as I left elementary school, it was wildly effective.
 
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When I was in college we had some cancerous extension to the college's own "peoplesoft" stuff where profs could upload notes or assignments, and students could contact eachother directly, presumably to work on projects together without trading numbers. Very few teachers used it. It was so badly made and underused that I hadn't even heard of people harassing eachother on it.

Where I work now has "courseware" but it's just a site you watch powerpoints on to do your mandatory WHMIS/Network Security Awareness/"please stop raping eachother"/etc training. No one likes it, it's there purely for compliance reasons. But no one wants to be rid of it since if you do it at home you get paid for half a day.

Idk how young you guys gotta be that that kind of stuff is in grade or middle school. When I was that age, at best it was some casual advice of "if you're gonna waste time one the computer at least play math blaster or something"

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I remember when I was in grades 3-5 our math classes would have competitions on a website called Tutpup, which was pretty much just Typeracer but for basic math.
The entire grade would be in a bloodsports-tier frenzy to try to top every leaderboard they could for bragging rights to the point where we'd spend our free time or recess on the website for weeks straight.
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Some high-up dude at work set something like that up to test Job Knowledge across the trade, offering a !!!GRAND PRIZE!!! of a customized yeti cup and a gift card to MEC or something. So all the juniors were furiously studying to try to get a high score first try, while all the middling and senior people were like "lol I just keep that shit on a cheat sheet, I don't need a new cup either, I already have all my band stickers on this one". So I guess it worked in getting the young people engaged in what's normally pretty boring to train on?
 
Mavis Beacon and Trobble Trouble Math were the best. Oregon Trail was fun too.

Oregon Trail always seemed more like a torture simulator. Set the pace to "grueling", set out at a shitty time with nothing but bankers and no food. And always ford every river.
 
Used khan academy to help brush up on linear algebra to tutor my niece during covid to supplement her useless faggot math teacher's lowest common denominator class. Incredibly effective. I assume most of their courses are similar.
 
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Scratch for programming is the only that stuck with me in my mind.

The rest was shit or they didn't even try. Putting a scoreboard (at least national-level) is the best to get us to sperg out lmao. No need to pull punches, at least if you are shit you know it'
 
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I remember when I was in grades 3-5 our math classes would have competitions on a website called Tutpup, which was pretty much just Typeracer but for basic math. Despite being for elementary school kids, the site didn't pull any punches when it came to the ranking aspect to the point where it has a tiered, global leaderboard alongside a class-specific leaderboard like you'd find in a MOBA or Counter Strike, seperating and ranking players by win rate or answer speed.

The entire grade would be in a bloodsports-tier frenzy to try to top every leaderboard they could for bragging rights to the point where we'd spend our free time or recess on the website for weeks straight. We were essentially tricked into doing math homework in our spare time. I have no idea why no one adopted this idea after the website shut down as I left elementary school, it was wildly effective.
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Duolingo came out with a math program, though I don't know how good it is. It relies on leaderboards, too, and leagues.
 
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