Posted on 03/07/2020 11:10:20 AM PST by ameribbean expat
Children were presumably glad to be off school – until, that is, an app called DingTalk was introduced. Students are meant to sign in and join their class for online lessons; teachers use the app to set homework. Somehow the little brats worked out that if enough users gave the app a one-star review it would get booted off the App Store. Tens of thousands of reviews flooded in, and DingTalk’s rating plummeted overnight from 4.9 to 1.4.
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Peak Brick and Mortar Edumacation has been reached.
Feynman rulz...
Can we finally lay to rest the idea that all Chinese kids love to study and are geniuses compared to their occidental counterparts?
We need to invert the education system. In the evenings, at home, you watch a series of lectures by the likes of Feynman.
In school, you do the “homework” with help from teachers as needed.
Problem Solving: A+
Teamwork: A+
Have to give them that- lol.
Locally,this is what is being talked about(online schooling for our “brick and mortar”) if this Virus gets more SHTF status.
Just another brick in the wall.
“A picture of an unfazed young man in a hospital bed reading Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order was suddenly all over the internet.”
If people in China are reading Fukuyama’s works, that country is MUCH FURTHER GONE than I had thought. There really is no hope for them now. Very sad.
ROTFLMAO!
Thanks for posting this, magnificent!
We don’t need no education....
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