Sunday, 15 March 2020
Show HN: Awesome Home Classroom – Resources for Improvised Homeschooling https://ift.tt/38YAdzX
Show HN: Awesome Home Classroom – Resources for Improvised Homeschooling https://ift.tt/2vYebQl March 16, 2020 at 06:26AM
Show HN: Fighting Harmful Coronavirus Disinformation https://ift.tt/2IQzAOc
Show HN: Fighting Harmful Coronavirus Disinformation Hi everyone In times like these it's important to watch out for each other. A great part of that is having access to the right information that can be crucial for everyone's well being. I'm sure many of you have heard about people advising others through viral social media posts about dubious treatments, involving anything from garlic water to Alex Jones selling a toothpaste that is supposed to cure you. This is all incredibly irresponsible and dangerous for the world community. I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about this, and decided to put together a Google spreadsheet, which allows anyone to list products, the claims associated with various products and references to such claims. This way, no one is chosen as the arbitrator of truth, but rather has the ability to back up claims with a reference that either supports or refutes the claim. You can find the spreadsheet here: https://ift.tt/3d0Fhqp Right now anybody can edit the spreadsheet. If it becomes gets popular, I will probably have to limit interaction to comments, in order to mitigate spam. Stay safe out there, Fredrik March 16, 2020 at 04:05AM
Meijer Recalls Select Mixed Nuts due to Undeclared Brazil Nuts in Product
Meijer Recalls Select Mixed Nuts due to Undeclared Brazil Nuts in Product
Meijer is initiating a voluntary recall of 13,284 packages of mixed nuts due to the potential risk of an undeclared tree-nut allergen (Brazil nuts) sold at all Meijer stores, and is being issued to its customers in cooperation with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
Published March 09, 2020 at 10:45AM
Read more from the CDC
Meijer is initiating a voluntary recall of 13,284 packages of mixed nuts due to the potential risk of an undeclared tree-nut allergen (Brazil nuts) sold at all Meijer stores, and is being issued to its customers in cooperation with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
Published March 09, 2020 at 10:45AM
Read more from the CDC
Saturday, 14 March 2020
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What makes an online course amazing?
Ask HN: What makes an online course amazing?
16 by dewy | 3 comments on Hacker News.
For those of you who have taken online classes (MOOCs, at college, etc.), what have been the things that made the best classes stand out? (Or conversely, what made the bad ones bad?) Why I'm asking: I teach a college data science 101 class with at least 1 section online every semester (and will now be switching to all online for at least the next month - thanks, coronavirus...). At the same time, I'm in the process of redesigning the course, and making new teaching materials and assignments. I've taken completed several amazing MOOCs in the past (e.g. Princeton's Algorithms I & II, Stanford's Machine Learning), as well as abandoned many more that were simply terrible, so I am no stranger to the online student experience, and I know the things that made certain courses amazing for me personally (e.g. great videos, and well integrated assignments with automated feedback). However, every learner is different, and I would love to hear different perspectives so that I can better redesign my own course. Was it something about the videos? The assignments? The structure? The instructor? Or something else? Thanks!
16 by dewy | 3 comments on Hacker News.
For those of you who have taken online classes (MOOCs, at college, etc.), what have been the things that made the best classes stand out? (Or conversely, what made the bad ones bad?) Why I'm asking: I teach a college data science 101 class with at least 1 section online every semester (and will now be switching to all online for at least the next month - thanks, coronavirus...). At the same time, I'm in the process of redesigning the course, and making new teaching materials and assignments. I've taken completed several amazing MOOCs in the past (e.g. Princeton's Algorithms I & II, Stanford's Machine Learning), as well as abandoned many more that were simply terrible, so I am no stranger to the online student experience, and I know the things that made certain courses amazing for me personally (e.g. great videos, and well integrated assignments with automated feedback). However, every learner is different, and I would love to hear different perspectives so that I can better redesign my own course. Was it something about the videos? The assignments? The structure? The instructor? Or something else? Thanks!
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