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posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 13 2020, @11:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the virtual-teaching dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

With Wuhan Coronavirus spreading in New York City, parents, Parent Teacher Associations, and schools seem to be inevitably headed for extended shutdowns and quarantines. The Department of Education is crossing its fingers, wiping down all surfaces, and hoping to avert the worst without closing schools, but parents are going to need contingency plans.

Do Soylentils have recommendations for online resources that members of NYC's school boards can share with the parent community to help kids keep up with their school work? Khan Academy is an excellent resource for math & science; it doesn't span every subject but something like it that grade school kids can understand would be ideal.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday March 13 2020, @03:37PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Friday March 13 2020, @03:37PM (#970731) Journal

    I've got a chess board, kind of hard to find someone to play with, but it's fun in a casual setting. Best Chess game ever: Battle Chess. Even as a kid I could win, but it was always interesting to see the pieces fight it out.

    Definition of Not Fun: Playing a computer Chess opponent that knows it all. That's what I call computer cheating. Like pitting human opponents against AIs, it's stupid. Sure, I can program a game to run, where the computer always wins too.

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Friday March 13 2020, @03:52PM (1 child)

    by vux984 (5045) on Friday March 13 2020, @03:52PM (#970738)

    "Battle Chess. Even as a kid I could win"

    Hah. I could beat my little kasparov chess computer at 4 reliably, 5 sometimes, out of 8 difficulty levels. I couldn't win BattleChess to save my life. I'd always sabotage my game with bad moves just to watch the fights.

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday March 13 2020, @03:57PM

      by Freeman (732) on Friday March 13 2020, @03:57PM (#970742) Journal

      I hear that, it was quite entertaining. It runs well on DOSBox, FYI.

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      Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Friday March 13 2020, @07:22PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Friday March 13 2020, @07:22PM (#970837)

    Battle Chess also provides a nice corollary of Parkinson's law of triviality [stackexchange.com] or "bikeshedding" for programmers/content creators.