Moving everything in class seems like a good idea in theory. But in practice, kids need more time than 50 minutes of class time (assuming no lecture) to work on problems. Sometimes you will get stuck on 1 homework question for hours. If a student is actively working on something, yanking them away from their curiosity seems like the wrong thing to do.
On the other hand, kids do blindly use the hell out of ChatGPT. It's a hard call: teach to the cheaters or teach to the good kids?
I've landed on making take-home assignments worth little and making exams worth most of their grade. I'm considering making homework worth nothing and having their grade be only 2 in-class exams. Hopefully that removes the incentive to cheat. If you don't do homework, then you don't get practice, and you fail the two exams.
(Even with homework worth little, I still get copy-pasted ChatGPT answers on homework by some students... the ones that did poorly on the exams...)
It's easy to break your phone addiction—I've done it a 1,000 times...
But, seriously, I've tried launchers, leechblock, and other software solutions. For me, they don't work long term because I end up just reverting and unblocking. I always have some justification in my head as to why I need to reinstall Discord or browse YouTube and then it's over.
For me, I've had much better luck with a device where those types of slips are impossible. Mostly... although sometimes I really do need a smartphone to scan a QR code or to pay a foodtruck with Venmo.
The Jelly Star seems to be the best compromise for me so far. It's still a smartphone, but the screen is so small that it's a lot harder to be on it for hours.
I'm a current owner of a Ratta Supernote A5X. I use the Supernote all the time. I previously had a Remarkable 2, but thankfully Remarkable added a subscription which made me look elsewhere and led me to the Supernote.
This seems right up my alley. Although, $800 seems steep.
The new Supernote A5X2 is due this year... at probably half the price? Granted it doesn't have the 60fps display, but it definitely has a bunch of other features. Is the 60fps worth $400 more?
Question for folks who live in non-English speaking countries: do you guys wear watches with calendars in English?
Last time I was in a mall in Mexico City, I asked a guy behind the counter of some store if they had any watches that had either the months or days of week in Spanish... surprisingly, the answer was no. English only.
For users, one of the ways PWAs are superior to native apps is that the user gets to use an app at all. It's hard to maintain 2 or 3 different codebases of an app, which means it might not get built at all. As a user, I'd rather use a decent app that exists, than not get to use an app at all.
I'm working on a todo app called Tasket. The goal of Tasket is to provide an
unopinionated way to create and manage todos.
We work towards this goal by allowing users to:
1. create any task attributes they want, for example, status, priority level,
schedule date, deadline—or nothing if they want to keep it simple
2. custom app actions, for example, a user can tap on a todo and move it
to a different section—or they can tap on a todo and open a web browser, a
phone dialer, prepare an SMS—with more interactions on the way
I started working on this because I found some todo apps, like Todoist, too
limiting, but other apps, like Omnifocus, too complex. I believe Tasket can
strike a better balance between easy to use and powerful.
The reason I believe a better balance is needed is to fight against task
bankruptcy, where our todo list ends up overwhelming us.
Neat! I recently bought a Sony NW-A306. I wish the battery lasted longer. Also, Android is slow and janky. On the other hand, it's Android so it runs Spotify.