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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[โ€“] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Woe is you, being asked to prove you learned anything, open book and at a time and place you decide on. Skill issue.

Based on that description of an essay, I don't think you've been to college.

Writing an essay isn't supposed to be a test of what the student has learned; it's a test of what the student has found out.

Essay writing is (theoretically) an exercise in research. Maybe you'll do primary research via the scientific method, conducting and reporting on experiments, but vastly more likely you're supposed to find essays written by other researchers and cite their work, drawing conclusions based on their data.

Doing this properly requires critical thinking and logic skills...which they don't bother to teach. Instead, they focus mainly on the clerical aspects of the assignment; focusing more on font selection and document formatting than the actual content of the ideas.

What is a take-home open-book test other than busywork? I'm a flight instructor, I teach people how to fly airplanes. I don't care how much or how little time a student studies, they've got to show me they can fly the airplane before I send them to the examiner. College professors seem to approach their job as "How can I make this hard on my students?" I've always seen my job as "How can I make this easier for my students?" Because my job is to teach a skill, not gatekeep a decent living.