Pblakeney
Squire
I got bored about 3 years ago.
Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind
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I got bored about 3 years ago.
briantrumpet
Timewaster
I've got to the point that I pretty much won't bother listening to any podcast, particularly if it's a 'video podcast', either with one person looking straight at the camera with A Big Microphone in front of them, or two or more 'chums' amiably chattering about something or other (again with Big Mics). They are getting ubiquitous, and turning into clichés of themselves.
Whether it's Katie Phang, or The News Agents, Private Eye, The Rest is Politics, or someone in Ukraine or Crimea, I last about 30 seconds before I get impatient for them to get to the point or provide genuine authoritative analysis. But all I hear is amiable chatter with little focus, and little real insight. It just feels like a cheap and easy way to fill video time with something news-related.
I'd rather trawl Bluesky and bang ideas around here, which I find much more enlightening, and much pithier. But then I'll accept that I am someone who will always prefer (good) text-based mediums to visual ones, as I think the process of putting ideas into text promotes analytical thought, if it's going to read well.
Obviously, that doesn't preclude really bad text-based stuff, but at least it's not wrapped up in the video clichés of podcasts that draw attention away from lack of analysis.
Whether it's Katie Phang, or The News Agents, Private Eye, The Rest is Politics, or someone in Ukraine or Crimea, I last about 30 seconds before I get impatient for them to get to the point or provide genuine authoritative analysis. But all I hear is amiable chatter with little focus, and little real insight. It just feels like a cheap and easy way to fill video time with something news-related.
I'd rather trawl Bluesky and bang ideas around here, which I find much more enlightening, and much pithier. But then I'll accept that I am someone who will always prefer (good) text-based mediums to visual ones, as I think the process of putting ideas into text promotes analytical thought, if it's going to read well.
Obviously, that doesn't preclude really bad text-based stuff, but at least it's not wrapped up in the video clichés of podcasts that draw attention away from lack of analysis.
All uphill
Slow and steady
I'm with you on that.
Video lends itself to the cult of personality.
Give me text every time.
briantrumpet
Timewaster
The flipside to that is well-constructed documentaries, that are, in effect, visual essays. I'm thinking of this like the ones on architecture by Jonathan Meades, and there were fantastic ones on Social Housing, and Care in the Community, done by the BBC, both (IIRC) about 90 minutes long, with great arcs of expositions and argument (and both with unexpected conclusions).
The Meades ones in particular not only had arguments running through them, but the video was integral to the presentation (and he also has fun playing with the cliches of the medium). You end up being both entertained and informed, which is what the BBC is supposed to do, and this is the epitome of it, from 15 years ago.
Do yourself a favour, and watch this one and the second part, also on Youtube.
PurplePenguin
Über Member
Schools. Why do they have so many rules that seem to be from another century and have little to do with education? e.g. ties, Mr/Mrs, making kids keep on jumpers/blazers when its really hot.
icowden
Pharaoh
Schools should be making hot weather changes. My daughters school allowed PE kits (breathable) for example. My old school used to issue "Short Sleeve Orders" permitting blazers and jackets not to be worn and ties to be removed.
PurplePenguin
Über Member
Sure, but what does it have to do with education, and how many adults require such a level of micromanaging in their day to day lives?
icowden
Pharaoh
Educational establishments have uniforms. They make decisions about uniforms. Adults don't need to be told to go to school or to do their homework. Kids need rules to learn to be decent adults.
C R
Legendary Member
That's why every continental school is a smoking ruin, because without uniform and dress codes the pupils become unruly and take over the running of the school.
BoldonLad
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PurplePenguin
Über Member
That's what was said about corporal punishment.
OP
OP
First Aspect
Legendary Member
Abolish school uniforms in exchange for 12m national service.
A year of walking up and down the square will make them productive adults.
A year of walking up and down the square will make them productive adults.
Electric_Andy
Regular
Totally agree. The messages sent to today's students are all over the place. e.g. at my son's school, he forgot to do his homework, so they gave him detention, but they're not allowed to do homework in detention. So they punish for not learning, but then don't let them learn in that time.
And the homework is now 100% online. That's right, no marking, no feedback. The answers are marked by the computer system, and if they're wrong they just have to google the answer and try them again. The Trust/Academy board members are going the same way with education that the government is with the NHS. Provide a bare bones service and let the student deal with everything else themselves.
icowden
Pharaoh
And yet Labour are dead set against learning anything from Private Schools.
At my daughters school, forgetting to do your homework will get you a behaviour point. At a set number of points you have a 1:1 meeting with your Form Tutor to work on remedying the situation - is extra support needed, are extra classes or tuition needed etc. If that fails the next meeting will be with head of year and so on. Detentions are not used. Instead girls may be required to attend catch up sessions with a tutor, after school hours. Eventually the child will move into the realm of suspensions, but the idea is to address the problems rather than mete out random punishments.
If however, the girls work well, they get reward points. Accumulate enough and you get to claim little rewards. Wear your choice of shoes to school. Order in a take-away for lunch etc. Get enough in a group and you can organise something fun with your friends (not sure what - there are limitations).
They wouldn't do this if punishment worked.
