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The more headlines I read like this, the more I feel justified in my “contrarian” decision to drop out in 2021 and double down on my side-project / hackathon experience as a signal for employability. University-level computer science programs in particular have become so woefully outdated, under-resourced and downright extortive compared to what you can find for free online. I think the very premise of higher education needs to be entirely rethought.

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Sounds amazing except that schools can ruin everything fun. I can already imagine the 5 hours of scaffolding required to get 10 minutes of playtime. https://x.com/gtdad/status/1910356252246392861

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The shape of the graph is the most noticeable feature, but also what was going on in 2000 that had scores so low?

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“as a single file please” 😱 Goodness, my college experience would have been 1000x better if the professors and administrators actually TESTED their learning management systems from the perspective of a STUDENT. In 2019 my English professor insisted on having an entire month’s worth of work turned in as a single PDF file on Canvas. I spent half the day cooked up in my dorm figuring out how to consolidate dozens of text files, pages from previously-exported PDFs, and phone pictures of peer-reviewed printouts and handwritten notes she had us take in class. (Of course, she also assigned a 24-hour take-home essay to be due the same day 😑) You can imagine this got worse as classes went fully remote the next year during COVID. The more dogmatic or technophobic the instructor, the more of a full-time IT kung fu-ninja we students effectively had to become to successfully navigate the obtuse grading systems they set up. And as a computer science student I already had way too much screen time 😵‍💫

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Computer science dropouts, where y’all at?

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study cultural provenance

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Nintil's systematic review of Bloom's Two Sigma phenomenon is still top-tier. For anyone in education (or parents who are into education research, this is a must-read) https://nintil.com/bloom-sigma

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TIL you can take ASU courses for almost free and upgrade AFTER you get a grade for official college credit. What a sweet hack. If I were in high school or younger, I would be all over this. https://x.com/dweekly/status/1792213218250936407 (setting aside obvious commentary on the overpriced higher education system, etc etc)

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