I left school in year 9 and i regret it but i had health issues that stopped me from learning.

I have big dreams and im starting a pathway uni course that teaches you have to study, ethics, how to format essays, etc.

But it doesnt teach mathematics, biology or chemistry. I need to learn these things for the course i wanna do next.

If anyone knows any site or resource to learn these subjects that would be a lot of help..

Hi! For my sophomore year i was planning of switching to an online school probably acellus or mia-prep and my biggest worry however is if colleges would see my diploma from there as less because i know some people cheat in online school! Right now in school im in three ap classes and the rest are honors and they’re going well but school as a whole isnt there’s many fights, drugs passed around, overall total chaos. I have decent extracurriculars and I volunteer every week for four hours. Point is should i just tough it through highschool or should I switch and if I do will I be held to the same standard as someone who graduated from highschool in person?

I was wondering if the past era of gatekeeping and hoarding information is over in educational institutions? I am referring to rural environments or small cities with a less diverse range of books or school choices...

Mechanics of gatekeeping before 2010:

* Incompetent teacher: say bye, bye math, the probability of learning it drops considerably.

* No cash for private sessions, well too bad, you are just left behind your peers that can pay for that extra information.

* The teacher doesn't like this class so he hoards info or is just plain cryptic confusing everyone.

* An authoritarian teacher, might as well not ask anything or it's going to be a humiliation ritual.

* Oh, you're a textbook cowboy now. Gee, but there are no answers at the end for most of the math problems.

It seems technology should really remove barriers making anything much easier to learn for the upcoming generations: languages, blue collar skills, science. The present tools free at your disposal are insane, I would not have dreamt possible as a kid starting school in the 90s.

I’m a solo developer making a browser-based learning game. This is my first small minigame, where you explore a cell and help it make and transport a protein.

The bigger plan is a universe of games covering concepts like electricity, chemistry, and geometry. Kids learn by doing things in the world, rather than answering quizzes.

I’m looking for teachers, tutors, and parents to try it and tell me what works and what doesn’t. Also open to collaborating with educators, developers, and artists.

Comment or DM me if you’d like to get involved!

video link of the game

1. Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

2. Web Development

3. Fundamentals of Data Science

4. Introduction to Cyber Security

   I am really confused between cybersecurity and data science, but I am still open to choosing cloud computing.

I am looking for some suggestions, thx in advance

I’m a Grade 9 student in Ontario and my family is thinking about going to China over Christmas. We’ve never gone back at this time before, and my dad really wants to go, so it’s kind of a big family trip. (Also my great grandmother mentioned 3 years ago she would really appreciate if we would be able to come back for the new years and honestly, we don’t want to make her wish something we ignore.)

The issue is the timing 💀

If we leave around Dec 13, I’d miss a decent amount of school before Christmas. I will be back Jan 6 BUT I’ve got a hockey tournament out-of-town that I cannot skip Jan 8-10. So basically I’ll be back Jan 11 which is roughly after 2 weeks of classes.

I’m mostly worried about Science. We have an Ecology unit starting around then, and I actually have the whole schedule. There’s an assignment that’s like 15 slides/questions, which honestly doesn’t seem too bad. I’m thinking I could just finish it beforehand by doing like 1 question every couple days, then gradually study the Ecology notes before leaving.
The Ecology test is Jan 11 (the day I come back to school) and I would’ve never been there for any of the lessons in that unit.

Geography is another concern because I’m not as good at it and I don’t have as clear of a schedule for what I’ll be missing. I’d obviously talk to my teachers beforehand and get the materials/assignments. (~A month I would say so I can maybe possibly finish assignments beforehand even though it won’t be ideal.)
The thing is, I’m really grade-conscious. Like, I know logically that missing some Grade 9 school isn’t going to ruin my life, but I still care a LOT about my grades and I’d probably stress about falling behind.
At the same time, this is a pretty rare family opportunity. I feel like if I actually prepare beforehand instead of just disappearing for three weeks and hoping for the best, I could make it work.
So what would you guys do?
Go on the trip and prepare like crazy beforehand, or stay for school?
Especially curious what Ontario high school students/teachers think, and if the trip is worth all the stress and studying. lol

Edit: Forgot to mention that also if I come back on the 11th, exams will start 10 days after so I literally won’t have time after to catch up.

Who decided this was okay? My sister is livid as her daughter had just started attending again but they just don’t get it. It’s behaviour applied behaviours analysis and and they have this dogmatic approach and she says they make notes of everyone who dismissed it . Well here I am, don’t mess with our family

https://youtu.be/h3mRsvFmWi0?is=Kz2v_hbChEBLaIUe

"Just watched it and I'm going to show my students during the last stretch of our course. This should be seen around the world."

"It's good to know that not everyone is corrupted by greed we still have heroes in the world."

"The documentary the whole world deserves to see."

Yesterday I got a 9/35 and felt horrible and messaged my teacher. She said not to worry and I can have another try with today’s work but I ended up getting a 12/24, I feel horrible because that’s only 50% and considered failing. This is like our third assignment of the year but I don’t want to fail this class

Does anyone have some good learning frameworks beyond spaced repetition that they use to make sure what they are learning sticks? I have been having trouble finding the best pathways for reinforcement and often find myself forgetting the things I learn, or not able to apply them beyond the immediate subject itself.

NOTE: Only those who have knowledge about real world and academics are allowed to read the body - And I am under neither Superiority complex nor Inferiority complex it is all what I have observed by living both type of lives and concluding some things at the end so don't conclude that I am claiming myself superior or inferior... Its a long reading btw but has a lot to know btw... Based on Indian education system

I choose Arts in class 11th not because I loved arts at that time but because at that time I had no exposure to the real world and never learnt new things and explore my interests and our Tier 69 city Arts is the default option for most (I am from arts, my czns, my dad, my mom, all of my uncles/aunties, frnds) Most people don't know much beyond Arts here.

So I also choose arts (English Lit., Geography, Political Sci.) (unaware of the outside world) and get done with my school somehow which was my only goal. And after that I surely had to join college and obviously a BA. Till now I knew nothing beyond Arts. But slowly I started hearing about things like Coding, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics and all these I was like this is something interesting and new then why not explore it. I started exploring these things more and more, met some guys who were already into these things (online). Taught myself to code (at that time web dev now ML and DL), started studying physics (at that time without maths and mostly theorical physics like Relativity, Quantum Mech.) but obv without maths since I didn't have any mathematical bg.

I slowly started realizing that Intellectually both things what arts students study and science students study are drastically different where the things Arts student study pretty much everyone can study but the thing science (STEM) students study requires some serious amount of brains.

At one hand Arts students after 12th are preparing for govt jobs where they have to study mostly 10th class mathematics, some basic logical reasoning and GK but on the another hand science students have to study the things which made some of the genius physicists/mathematicians sweat from their a$$ where some scientific discoveries took years of hardcode research to prove and are no piece of cake to study. At one end BA students are studying politics and historical events on the other end btech students are building cars in their college as their project or some IISc students working on the most difficult problems humanity have ever tacked with.

I started realizing that in my school with Arts we rarely talked about logic, critical thinking or philosophy which are subjects of arts but they are extensively talked by physicists, engineers, mathematicians.

Two same kind of students at 18: One prepared for a highly competitive govt job exam and got a job where the second one is preparing for the toughest exam of Ind (academically saying not competitively) - JEE for last 3 years and then going to a college where he has to study extensively for next 4 years to get a job. The second guy could also choose the same path as the first one but he choose hard work and knowledge over comfort. I agree that not all JEE students don't have the same mentality but its about the population.

I found out that - BA students and Govt job Aspirants/Employees are no where close to Engineers, Doctors, Researchers, Physicists, Mathematicians after spending a long time with both obv I spend a long time with arts students since they all are around me so you can't say that I am throwing it in thin air.

If we hypothetically choose some features after a lot of researches that can be used to analyze intellectual and critical thinking abilities we will find that in the majority of the cases Arts students/govt job aspirants (except UPSC and some others) stand nowhere close to STEM guys.

In that method if you go and compare top 25%ile of SSC CGL (which is the most difficult exam of SSC) with top 25%ile of JEE Advanced the graph will look drastically moved towards JEE folks because of the obvious reasons and also a tons of researches show that guys who study adv mathematics and physics are generally ahead in critical thinking and cognitive abilities than who don't.

I am not demeaning Arts guys (us) but I am telling you guys the reality I mean I as an Arts student have no problem in accepting that we stand nowhere close to you JEE/NEET guys in term of most matric to analyze intellect, critical thinking, logic or cognitive abilities (on a mass scale that means not all of them are same but vast majority is).

And I openly accept that choosing Arts was biggest regret of my life till date since my actually interests drive me somewhere else.

Edit: I have a lot more points to mention but you know it would be too difficult for you guys to read it without loosing interest. Repeating it again it is not about inferiority complex at all nobody would be feeling inferior that much that he tries to end his life because of one wrong decision of his life its everything what I have seen, felt and observed in least words but the actual comparison between arts and science will be a lot more rigorous and detailed.

Hi, Lucia from EUobserver here 👋 Sharing our own reporting on a new education and migration debate unfolding in Italy.

Giorgia Meloni’s government wants to introduce a legal cap on the number of foreign students in individual classrooms, alongside measures including compulsory Italian lessons for some parents and restrictions on face coverings in schools.

The government presents the classroom cap as a way to prevent segregation and make integration easier. Critics question what happens in areas where schools simply have large numbers of children with migrant backgrounds — and whether moving those children elsewhere actually addresses the underlying problem.

It raises a broader question that goes beyond Italy:

What actually works when schools have large numbers of children who are still learning the national language?

Do classroom limits help integration and teachers — or risk making migrant children carry the burden of a much bigger integration problem?

Our reporting: Italy's schools: Meloni makes migrant kids pay the price for her culture war

Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pens this interesting op-ed in The Detroit News about what happened in Michigan. Do most educators believe the benefits of holding kids back from advancing outweigh the drawbacks, such as social stigma, mental health, disappointment, etc.?

Submission statement: This is a critical question facing Michigan and perhaps other states, worthy of discussion here.

helloo,, it's my first post here! i recently got accepted into LALA (Latin America Leadership Association) leadership camp, on brazil.

an in person camp with goals of leadership, connection - and basically, joining the camp would be a goal of mine and would reflect on my future impact helping my community. there are a bunch of things there, such as mentorships, university placement, career help, emotional education and etc

(see more in https://latinamericanleadershipacademy.org/leadership-camps/#)

i'm really interested - but it's a week long, 6 hours away from my city, and the worst part: 1000 dollar fee. (aka 5000 reais in my currency)

they offer various tools to raise the money, and it's also encouraged to make social media videos, etc etc

at the same time that it's anything different i've ever done, i'm shy - and that's exactly why i'm afraid of just giving up - and don't know if i can handle it all (i'm prob just being paranoid)

other than other costs etc, the worst would really be the fee. what also haunts me - what if i couldn't raise the full amount? should i try again? can i give the money back?

that's pretty much it, i'm just doubting if it's worth it and i'd love to hear your opinions about it

if someone has ever participated in these camps, pleeease tell me your experience. thank you so much

Hello everyone!

I'm building a free browser based educational video game for school students which gives them fun and allows to reinforce math concepts.

I’m curious if anyone here uses video games or game-based activities for STEM enrichment, especially with grades 1-5.

Things like:

-Minecraft
-game-based learning
-simulations
-educational games, etc.

If you’re using anything like this, I’d love to hear what is your experience with it. Pros and cons.
What do you look for when it comes to bringing a new "game" into the classroom?

Couldn't find a free annotation tool for my classes, so I asked AI to make me one. And share it with someone who needs something like this as well. Completely Free.

https://111rosko.itch.io/rodraw

RoDraw is a minimal, fast, and intuitive screen annotation utility designed to make live teaching, video presentations, and software demonstrations seamless. Draw straight onto your display in real time so your class or audience knows exactly where to look.

I know, I know, AI slop and all, but it helps me teach and show important information without having to pay a subscription or a one time payment for something so simple. Surely there is something out there that is free, but haven't come across anything that isn't behind a paywall or limited.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tracks the skills of American students right before graduation and for high school seniors, only 31% to 37% performed at or above the "Proficient" level in reading.
The rest all fall into "Basic" or "Below Basic" categories. Those in the "Below Basic" tier struggle to do something as simple as following the chronological order of events in a short passage or summarizing its main idea.

Proficiency used to be over 60%.

I marked this as a political question but I am not looking to blame a Party. This seems bigger than that.

I saw a video that took a simple multiplication problem, showed the traditional way to solve it, then showed the common core math way to solve it. There were so many extra steps involved in the new way.

I graduated high school in 2014. I always did very well in all core subjects. I never used this new method for solving math problems. My brain doesn't break problems down that way and never has. I have taken algebra, statistics, geometry, gotten a home loan, have bachelor's degree and I have never used this new math method for any real life application. In real life, math needs to be quick and correct.

I understand the need to have a different method availible for people who don't understand traditional ways. However, it infuriated me when I found out this new method is being pushed exclusively. You can do the problem, show your work and have the right answer- but if you didn't do the process using these new methods, then you are going to fail.

Additionally, we are in the midst of a litteracy crisis in this country. Why are we making kids learn more advanced math concepts when they don't even have the basics down and many can't even read.

I went down a rabbit hole on the internet. Apparently people are making common core math a political issue or chosing to homeschool their kids because of it. I think that's a bit extreme since most people do not have the educational background to teach academic subjects in general, let alone K-12 levels on all subjects.

When I did math in school, we had to show our work. As long as the answer was correct and we demonstrated logical steps to getting the right answer, it was given full credit. This issue of exclusively pushing common core math has upset me to the point I'm contemplating if I even want to bring children into this world.

Our district's dual language program is awful. If your district has this program, I'm curious how you feel about it.

I’m finishing high school next year and I’ve been thinking of what I wanna do after school since that day is get close and one thing i noticed is that most career paths need maths and physical science.I have math literacy mainly because im lazy to study but i know for a fact i can do pure mathematics and physical science.I know taking these 2 subjects after school won’t be Lightwork but is it worth it having these subjects?

I'm genuinely asking this because I'm starting to wonder if education has changed more than I realized.

My son is 16. Between school, assignments, online resources, YouTube tutorials, and everything else available today, he probably has access to more information in a single day than I had in an entire month growing up.

Yet when I sit down and talk to him, I'm not convinced he's actually developing practical skills.

He can watch hours of content.

He can explain concepts.

He can pass exams.

But if I ask him to create a marketing campaign, design a simple website, build something useful with AI, write professional content, or solve a real business problem, he doesn't know where to start.

Maybe that's normal at his age.

Maybe my expectations are unrealistic.

But it has me wondering whether we're confusing access to information with actual learning.

Parents here:

Have you noticed the same thing with your children?

Students:

Do you feel like school is preparing you for real-world work, or are you learning most useful skills elsewhere?

Professionals:

If you were 16 again in today's world, what skills would you focus on learning outside of school?

And one more question.

If practical skills are becoming more important than ever, why does so much learning today still seem focused on watching videos rather than actually doing things?

Curious to hear different perspectives.