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AH RK, there is a hardcore fan club on Litopia. Headed by Lyse.

I’ve started Dungeon Crawler Carl. Too funny! Is it just me? I swear the beginning reminds me of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , just a bit: the announcement.

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I’ve started Dungeon Crawler Carl. Too funny! Is it just me? I swear the beginning reminds me of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , just a bit: the announcement.

I'd like to try to be there for at least a little while, if it's all right.

OW, this blog hurt. But I get it when you are maybe in the 3rd rewrite you want to turn it over to someone to fix. Isnt this what we kind of expect from trad publishing? I think it's this phase that people are beginning to turn over to AI, but...

For those like me.... Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, Pete can we have a brief on what you think this really means to authors and readers?

I think they (The authorities? Publishers? Whoever makes these decisions?) see students struggling and want to help. But instead of giving extra targeted support to those who need it, which requires time, resources, effort, etc., they simply dumb...

@Aethalope - Ahhhhhh, I misunderstood. I thought it was the same info, just presented in less boring than block-text kinda way. Got it! So @Hannah Faoileán was on the money! (I should have never doubted you!) but it just seems so absurd...

Ah. Looks as if written by AI. Not exactly a good teacher. We homeschooled but with the help of Lindamood Bell and a retired teacher. As administrator my method was to awaken curiosity about whatever needed to be learned and then stand back. I...

Lyse, yes the right-hand one is the 2025 textbook and I actually think that's part of the problem. In the attempt to make the topic look less boring, they've made it a webpage that isn't even clickable. The students skim the headings and that's...

Laura, I'm assuming the 2025 one is on the right? Wow, that's really interesting. Good to see the books have improved at least. Do you think this is a global thing, or does it vary greatly country to country? (I mean kids not thinking, not better...

I'm wondering if the helicopter parenting I've often witnessed has any impact on this? Because I see kids who are never given the opportunity to work anything out on their own. All problems are solved for them and they are kept in a 'safe-place'...

Perhaps it's not the kids or the big-money-spending parents - it's the way the curriculum is taught (no offence to teachers; I've been one and know there are "rules" and "methods" you're supposed to stick to), and the way society encourages...