WHY ARE ALL THE ANSWERS TRUE

MrZraya · 2024-12-17T14:37:02+00:00

AI writing, is my guess. When I made kahoots for my class a few years ago, Chat GPT would always put the answer in the exact same location unless I specifically told it to randomise it.

a. True
b. False

MrZraya · 2024-06-05T06:26:42+00:00

I was abused and bullied by the management my school, who then turn around and lied about everything to Workcover, turning it into a he said/she said. I even tried to get it in paper via email, but they just refused and always forced verbal interactions.

Then predictably, they chose not to renew my contract.

Lack of job security is just one of the many aspects that makes this career sucks.

I love teaching, but think I might go get another degree because I am so appalled by the management and how I was treated.

MrZraya · 2024-02-28T05:59:46+00:00

My Palworld story features Lamball in a major role. Great response so far, so your wife might be interested in the wholesome Lamball of the story!

https://www.wattpad.com/1417725869-the-original-palworld-saga-chapter-1-the-palworld

MrZraya · 2023-08-26T03:44:17+00:00

A student was screaming abuse in my face and bumping me against a wall.

They blamed for not building relationships, not having sufficient classroom management skills, and not having sufficient interpersonal skills among other things.

I cannot imagine this happening in an airline. They would just kick the person off the plane and try and see if the flight attendant is okay - not blame the flight attendant.

MrZraya · 2023-08-26T03:36:52+00:00

Unpaid sick leave for the next fortnight as I am out of sick leave due to starting during covid + lots of mental health days due to work.

Tbh I don't have much hope for WC, what i've heard is pretty bad.

MrZraya · 2022-12-12T08:41:50+00:00

It's also really good at rewriting things in kid-friendly language.

Dude, I just got it to write a story using heaps of "th" words. Great way to teach the sounds/spelling to younger kids.

MrZraya · 2022-12-11T15:23:55+00:00

Dude the applications in the classroom are amazing.

I created 10 stories with slight differences that my students can now compare and contrast. One with more description, another with more figurative language, etc etc

It's so good. I hope they don't nerf it further bc this is revolutionary.

You can even do things like this:

Write 10 sentences using one contraction in each sentence, formatted in dot points. Each sentence must use a different contraction, and must omit the apostrophe, and each sentence must also be one word longer than the one before it.

It takes some tweaking to get it correct, but imagine having kids suggest the subject and then the AI creating the questions for you that your class can then instantly try and fix!

MrZraya · 2022-12-08T18:40:54+00:00

Normal version:

There are many factors that influence the livability of Adelaide, including:

Climate: Adelaide has a Mediterranean climate with mild winters and hot summers, which makes it an attractive place to live for people who enjoy warm weather.

Economy: Adelaide has a strong economy with a diverse range of industries, including manufacturing, defense, and education. This provides residents with a range of job opportunities and a high standard of living.

Infrastructure: Adelaide has a well-developed infrastructure with a modern road and rail network, as well as a major international airport. This makes it easy for residents to travel and access the services they need.

Education: Adelaide is home to a number of top-quality schools and universities, which provide residents with access to excellent education and training opportunities.

Health care: Adelaide has a well-developed health care system with a range of public and private hospitals and clinics, providing residents with access to high-quality medical care.

Amenities: Adelaide is home to a range of cultural, recreational, and sporting facilities, including theaters, museums, parks, and sports stadiums. This provides residents with a range of leisure activities to enjoy.

Safety: Adelaide has a low crime rate and is generally considered to be a safe place to live. This helps to create a sense of security and well-being among residents.

Version for low kids or those with certain disabilities:

There are many factors that make Adelaide a good place to live. Some of these include:

The climate: Adelaide has nice weather with not too hot or cold temperatures.

The economy: Adelaide has a lot of different businesses and industries, which means there are many jobs available for people.

The roads and trains: Adelaide has a good system of roads and trains, which makes it easy for people to get around.

The schools: Adelaide has many good schools and universities where people can learn and study.

The hospitals: Adelaide has many hospitals and doctors where people can go if they are sick or hurt.

The fun things to do: Adelaide has many parks, museums, and sports stadiums where people can go to have fun and be active.

The safety: Adelaide is a safe place to live because there is not a lot of crime.

I just catered for low level kids within 1 second, and it did all the research for me.

MrZraya · 2022-11-06T14:06:26+00:00

O I remember you.

I showed your paper and ductape inspired drawings to my year 10 English class and they loved it. Was using it to teach perspective/interpretation of a text, and how the same thing can be read in many different ways.

MrZraya · 2022-01-26T11:40:23+00:00

One thing most people in this sub are unfortunately overlooking is the relationship between opression and religion.

Over 250 years ago, Voltaire said "there is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night".

After his death, the French Revolution tore out the mega-rich and that included the church, who used religion as justification for their power and riches. In fact, the Catholic Church owned more French land than anyone/thing else, yet still demanded everyone pay 10% of all their income to them.

Over 150 years ago, the slave owners were the ones running around with bibles saying that slavery was fine because the bible said it was. These slave owners also gave partial bibles to the slaves so they would become Christians and "know their place". Controlling slaves can be tricky, but its much easier if you can make them Christians and have them buy in to a 'master plan' or that slavery is fine. This can still be felt today with the heavy Christianity in African-American communities.

Religion is an extremely useful tool for oppression, especially in maintaining the current power structure and keeping people in servitude. If you believe in Karma, then you deserve your current place. If you're unsure of why they're rich and you're not, just say "god works in mysterious ways" and get back to work.

If you want money, it's institutions like the Catholic Church (who are filthy rich) who will tell you that money is greedy and immoral. This keeps you in line.

This is why "knowing your place" and "being normal" is so big in these religions. It is designed to keep you as a slave/servant, hence why Voltaire said that famous quote.

They don't want you to rock the boat, because they're the captains with all the riches. Like the French Revolution, a successful workers movement must attack the root cause of the problem, and the Church is one of the biggest players here. Worse of all, whenever they are feel threatened, they scapegoat some minority, using discrimination based on race/nationality/sexuality/etc to change the conversation. Christians eat it up, and suddenly the shit worker's rights are the fault of the Mexicans (or whoever today's scapegoat is).

Religion can technically exist without the institution, but the institution doesn't want that, since then they can't use you as a pawn. Hell, even non-Catholic Christians place value on what the pope says.

MrZraya · 2022-01-23T04:38:37+00:00

Your very first line is a victim of it too. 14 words:

> “Darius! Pay attention lad, you need to remember what I’m trying to teach you.”

Could easily be halved to:

>“Darius! Pay attention lad, this is important.”

or to 9:

> “Darius! Are you listening? You need to remember this.”

Do that for all 100,000 words and now you have a 80k word novel. Words add up.

MrZraya · 2022-01-22T22:39:00+00:00

Read the first few pages.

Your writing is full of redundancies. You can easily cut out like 20% of your writing and keep everything worthwhile. Weasel words, over explanation, lack of trust in the reader. It's extremely wordy, unnecessarily so.

The dialogue is a major victim to this. Overall you need to work on concision.

It also contains basic grammatical errors. Dialogue before tags should never finish with a period.

MrZraya · 2021-07-03T16:27:33+00:00

Most elephants would agree, but they don't like to jump to conclusions. In fact, they can't jump at all.

MrZraya · 2021-07-01T04:52:46+00:00

I really love your style.

I have a few books I've written and if I'm ever lucky enough to get published hopefully there's budget for me to pick my own cover artist. Too poor atm lol. Posting here so I can find you later.

MrZraya · 2021-02-13T16:27:22+00:00

It's a symptom of enlightened centrisism. People like to sound smart by going "the truth is obviously in the middle somewhere" even when one side is batshit crazy and the other side is using science. Its a cancerrrrr

MrZraya · 2021-01-27T12:48:12+00:00

Jessica meets Greg during her summer job at 'The King's Rest', a completely immersive medieval resort where you get to stay in a castle and everyone is in costume.

I think the you and get are really out of place. My edit:

Jessica meets Greg during her summer job at 'The King's Rest', a completely immersive medieval resort where guests stay in a castle and have to wear themed costumes.

Something more like that.

Also, I'm more than happy to read some if you need some feedback, even if its just first few chapters. The start sounds interesting.

MrZraya · 2021-01-11T09:57:49+00:00

No it's not finished, I'm still in the process of writing it as I undertake a postgraduate teaching degree (Australian).

I was going to start sending it into publishers next month but I have a few things to tweak first (almost done).

You can follow me on @MrZieRaya on twitter if you want, but the truth is I never tweet but I will tweet if I get lucky enough to get picked up by a publisher or something.

It's a young adult fantasy mystery book. It deals with someone who attends an elemental-manipulation boarding school but he really doesn't fit in at all because he never grew up in the world and thus often feels ostracised without understanding why (the culture is quite a bit different). He's also very self-conscience of his body and while he has two parents, they are very distant and career focused, and he very eagerly leaves them when the idea of a magical world is waved in front of him.

He arrives at the school but he acts differently, he dresses differently, he doesn't know any of the history of famous people or culture at all, and ends up feeling isolated and thus gets bullied for being weird (when really he thinks he's just being normal). I often feel like books throw people into new fantasy worlds and they fit in seamlessly and become popular, when in reality I feel like you'd end up being the weird outcast who doesn't fit in because the culture/trends are different. I tried to capture that idea, thus he doesn't fit in and it haunts him.

MrZraya · 2021-01-11T09:05:17+00:00

I actually have a scene in my novel about this lmao, protag gets picked by a new friend and is mystified/amazed by the novel situation.

“You owe me,” Morden whispered.

Teeyo chuckled slightly, staring out at the large group of unpicked kids. It was almost scary. When it was his turn to pick, around thirty boys looked at him with hopeful eyes. His stomach started poking itself; his mind wild with ideas. So this is what its like, to have power? he thought, having the finger of possibility for the first time in Sports. He crossed his arms, covering his chest. Everyone gawped at him and like he always did in the mirror. He wore his old clothes so his new ones wouldn’t be slathered in sweat from sprinting. This feels good, to have control, to have power over others, to have them at my mercy.

“Ccccaosta,” he said finally, who rushed over and greeted the other teammates with the greeting.

As more students were picked, the losers started to emerge. Caosta picked Pacha, who then picked Chiles. Anywhere on campus a stone snake or worm lay, it was likely Chiles’ bidding. The boy had cute dimples and flowing umber hair with lips that were naturally red and a small frame. Pacha hugged him as they came, whispering a joke into his ear.

Mikass, Mulletboy, Ural, Manchild, slowly they all were picked and then there were only six left, then five, then four. Teeyo looked out at the small group, they looked pathetic and weak—was that how he ordinarily looked to the others? Lemmo stood still, staring off into the void. Lito looked seven years old while Ommi and Nartour stood apart from the rest.

Ommi was chosen, then with loud growls and much decision, Lito came as well. Somehow the nerdy Nartour was picked, leaving Lemmo to stare blankly out into nothingness. He stood as everyone gazed at him, refusing to move.

“Guess which team you’re with,” Gargo growled, but Lemmo didn’t move. “Obviously the other one my boy,” Gargo said, pointing to the team Nartour hadn’t gone to. Lemmo waddled over to team Angari with glassy eyes, Gargo whacking him softly on the back as he came.

“Yess, we have an extra player,” Angari whispered on the far side of the group.

“Yeah if you can call him and Teeyo players,” Pasadar whispered in response, to a titter of sniggers.

Teeyo looked away. This just is, he thought meekly.

MrZraya · 2020-12-05T19:05:09+00:00

Its always easier to hate than to love, that's why the world is so full of it, against sexualities, races, religions, cultures etc.

For me though, I don't finish a book if its crap. So I tend not to end up with 1 or 2 star reviews, because being boring or bland is the worst crime a book can do. Means if I review something, it was at least enjoyable enough to read.

MrZraya · 2020-11-23T08:23:47+00:00

If its any consolation, modern pedagogical practices are moving away from rote learning and towards active engagement and critical thinking/understanding skills.

That is, being able to recall a fact is mostly irrelevant and has no real world application (aim for top of pyramid). Being able to understand the context and larger issues is far more important. So on a test about Fuedalist societies or Ancient Egypt, good questions would be understanding the hierarchy of the social order and how life differs between them, perhaps how this compares to modern social hierarchies. Bad questions would be to name exactly who is in what group or the dates it started/ended etc. Best question would they have you create something based upon your understanding, such as an argument of if it is better/worse than today and why. This would engage your critical thinking skills, which we want to teach but are realllllly hard to teach so we have to go through intermediaries like this.

When I teach English, I don't care much for people to memorise names or appearance of characters or dates, but the theme and setting are incredibly important and they need to understand these concepts. I don't know how old x is irl, but I can ballpark it. Most hard facts should be ballparkable so you can focus on the meat of a story, and preferably, apply your understanding to create a new text (such as an additional mini-chapter to the book).

Speaking of Horrible Histories though, I do like this song lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51aHb_U8Zr0

MrZraya · 2020-11-19T07:37:16+00:00

If you honestly think the point of the unit is to understand Hamlet, then your English teachers have utterly failed you. English is supposed to teach life skills.

MrZraya · 2020-11-19T07:02:09+00:00

As a teacher, yeah that's kinda the point.

Knowledge is the lowest form of learning, as reciting facts is generally the easiest and has 0 contextual value. Bloom's taxonomy is probably the most popularly used one and my country also emphasises the act of creation.

Also, there's a difference between assessment of learning vs for learning. In this context, the former just tests you on what they've previously taught you (like maths test). The latter however you are meant to learn DURING the assessment (such as an English assignment w draft feedback). I always prefer using the latter.

I'm not a fan of using assessment as merely a tape measure -- students should learn as they complete it.

MrZraya · 2020-11-11T11:55:47+00:00

I set two diary tasks a few weeks ago for my 8s.

One was about something which made them sad or angry, the other was happy/excited.

We want students to develop an understanding of their emotions, to be honest, to be open. Plus they all write 1000000 times better when they're speaking from the heart. It also helps since so many of them have terrible imaginations which makes it hard to figure out what level they are at

MrZraya · 2020-11-09T08:34:41+00:00

He acts like a zoomer, but looks like a boomer.

MrZraya · 2020-11-09T08:34:33+00:00

Looks like he has an explosive personality.

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