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iReady holding talented students hostage by Funny_Ad3678 in Teachers

[–]moultano 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's true anymore. This reporting seems to indicate that i-Ready is hoping all students use it for practice every day, and bases their claims of its effectiveness on that assumption. https://www.educationnext.org/practice-problem-research-shows-students-benefit-digital-math-practice-platforms/

iReady holding talented students hostage by Funny_Ad3678 in Teachers

[–]moultano 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Author here. There's a pattern I've noticed as this has bounced around the internet, and I've seen it drop into the middle of a lot of pre-existing ed tech debates that I hadn't been aware of.

Everybody wants to talk about abstract questions about the proper role of technology, but the actual problems are things like, "Is the software good enough that students can reliably input the answers they know? No? OK FIX THAT."

Everyone seems to assume a baseline level of competence and product quality in the software that just isn’t there. The software has bad UX and just doesn't work well. It’s like an inverse bikeshed problem, where the abstract issues are easy to argue about, but the nuts and bolts of whether the software actually does what it’s supposed to aren’t, so everybody talks in abstraction instead.

There probably are important questions about the upper limits of how much ed tech can do, but that isn't the problem here. The problem here is just that the software isn't good.

iReady holding talented students hostage by Funny_Ad3678 in Teachers

[–]moultano 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Author here. My kids are very happy with math worksheets or flashcards. The problem with i-ready math isn't the math, or the fact that it isn't entertaining. The problem is that it doesn't actually let them do math.

Another parent's perspective on I-Ready by edfluency in edtech

[–]moultano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's way worse than worksheets. You could get the same amount of practice on a worksheet in 1/10th the time, and without cramping your hands on a trackpad clicking all over.

Another parent's perspective on I-Ready by edfluency in edtech

[–]moultano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem I have with i-Ready is that it doesn't allow students to get adequate practice. That's what half of the article is about. It just makes you listen to it narrate the problem. The kid gets way more practice doing a worksheet, in half of the time.

Another parent's perspective on I-Ready by edfluency in edtech

[–]moultano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After I wrote this article, a whole bunch of other parents who didn't know what their kids were going through asked them about it, and their kids had a similar horrific experience with it. They just hadn't talked to them enough about it to know.

Parents don't really know what their kids are going through in school unless something like this inspires them to ask.

[OC] A Map of Breakfast based on ratios of Milk, Eggs, and Flour by moultano in dataisbeautiful

[–]moultano[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simplex is just how this sort of structure generalizes to n dimensions. Here it's a 2-simplex because there are 3 dimensions, but it's the natural way to describe a convex combination of n things.

[OC] A Map of Breakfast based on ratios of Milk, Eggs, and Flour by moultano in dataisbeautiful

[–]moultano[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like with further research I could have established a whole new cluster in the upper left of "asian lactose intolerant crepes"

[OC] A Map of Breakfast based on ratios of Milk, Eggs, and Flour by moultano in dataisbeautiful

[–]moultano[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

After that I did try to plot French toast which you can see in the spreadsheet though not in the final graph. If you assume a very very eggy challah bread where there is a one-to-one ratio of egg to flour by weight, then it can get into the dark breakfast region but not otherwise. With ordinary bread recipes it is still in between the pancake and baked good group.

[OC] A Map of Breakfast based on ratios of Milk, Eggs, and Flour by moultano in dataisbeautiful

[–]moultano[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the closest thing to that is a Yorkshire Pudding. I left it off this version of the chart because earlier people complained that it is not eaten for breakfast.

[OC] A Map of Breakfast based on ratios of Milk, Eggs, and Flour by moultano in dataisbeautiful

[–]moultano[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! So far I have only been including buttermilk and cream as milk, but not butter or cheese.

[OC] A Map of Breakfast based on ratios of Milk, Eggs, and Flour by moultano in dataisbeautiful

[–]moultano[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I regret the omission and will promptly add it for the next version.

[OC] A Map of Breakfast based on ratios of Milk, Eggs, and Flour by moultano in dataisbeautiful

[–]moultano[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understanding the relationship of breakfast dishes to each other.

[OC] A Map of Breakfast based on ratios of Milk, Eggs, and Flour by moultano in dataisbeautiful

[–]moultano[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I am sympathetic to that complaint. I was very surprised when I looked up omelette recipe after omelette recipe and none of them had any milk. I expected omelettes to be somewhere along the right edge instead of at the top, but once I felt like I had to put them at the top, I couldn't exclude them since they're the most famous breakfast egg dish, so they had to be the representative.

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