{"id":543,"date":"2008-08-19T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomideas.net\/?p=543"},"modified":"2008-08-19T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:08:56","slug":"so-much-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"So much for that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve found a way to condense about twice the material normally presented into a CS class. Unfortunately, everyone just thinks I&#8217;m overestimating the students&#8217; ability. Perhaps that&#8217;s true, perhaps not, but now there is no way to tell. Worse, there&#8217;s no way to pick out the students who would excel in such an environment.<\/p>\n<p>How are new educational methods tested, if not in a classroom? How will the system ever improve?<\/p>\n<p><em>Why am I the only one who cares?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*Shrug* No choice but to see how it works. Maybe the students really don&#8217;t have the potential I give them credit for. It is my first time teaching, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing possibilities is so incredibly frustrating. Anyone who thinks it&#8217;s a picnic doesn&#8217;t do it very often. My life isn&#8217;t easier for it. Quite the contrary: I&#8217;ve probably exhausted several typical lifetimes of mental anguish, and I haven&#8217;t even broken 25 yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve found a way to condense about twice the material normally presented into a CS class. Unfortunately, everyone just thinks I&#8217;m overestimating the students&#8217; ability. Perhaps that&#8217;s true, perhaps not, but now there is no way to tell. Worse, there&#8217;s no way to pick out the students who would excel in such an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-philosophy","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}