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The number of English language books that have been printed is so large that it is impossible for any one person to read them all. I could read all day every day and not read every book. I probably wouldn't even be able to read every book that people think is good.
There is a finite amount of time until I die. I'm not going to spend hours of my life reading something written by an outspoken bigot. There is something else out there that is just as good if not better written by someone who doesn't have opinions I strongly disagree with.
We all pick and choose what we will read, watch, listen to based on a number of criteria such as storyline, genre, actors, directors, or any number of other factors. I just add things like known bigot to that list of factors.
Anything I can do to narrow down the very very long list of books I still want to read then that helps me to spend my time more effectively.
Either this DeepDyve thing is the best search engine ever or they are smoking crack. They have a pro version for $45 a month. http://www.deepdyve.com/why_deepdyve/deepdyve_pro that's got to be some pretty good venn diagrams to be worth $45 a month...
There are a couple other sites that give a lot more detail on the clips that were shown. From the description it seems easy to piece together the overall storyline of the film. If you don't want to know what the storyline is then don't read these links
I agree. A book on programming the latest version of java or something will get out dated. It would be better to have other types of books.
I particularly think things on the history of tech companies would be good or some things about game design or things not specifically related to programming or a version of an operating system.
Ok, I managed to get a copy of this latest study and they actually do define aggression -- but in a contradictory manner.
They write, "'Aggression' also is defined differently by behavioral scientists than by the general public. Social and developmental psychologists typically define 'aggression' as behavior that is intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid that harm. In other words, aggression is an act conducted by 1 person with the intent of hurting another person; it is not an emotion, thought, or intention." (e1068)
However, in the next paragraph they contradict the statement that agression "is not an emotion, thought, or intention" when they state, "Existing experimental studies demonstrate that playing a violent video game causes an immediate increase in aggressive
behavior, aggressive thoughts, and aggressive emotions." (e1068)
So does "aggression" include thoughts or emotions or not?
Regardless, both the Japanese and the USA groups involved self-reporting of "aggression" which puts the results in doubt and there's no information on why the participants in each group were chosen (the Japanese group was actually data from another study) so there's no way of knowing if games make kids more aggressive or if aggressive kids play more games.
Finally, the study was funded in part by the National Institute on Media and the Family (e1070) which also calls the results into question since they are an outspoken group about the evils of videogames.
Even before I read the story I suspected that Anderson was involved.
Anderson has never done a study where he didn't find that something caused aggression. He sees aggression everywhere.
The problem with this? At least in the papers of his that I have read (and it is hard to read them all because his name gets put on a lot of papers as co-researcher) he has never defined what he means by "aggression." The closest I have ever seen him define the term is in a table in one article where he gives examples of aggression. One of those examples was, "raising one's voice."
Now I'm no psychologist but I think that there is a big difference between yelling and physically hurting someone.
I couldn't get Silverlight to install in Firefox for some reason so I tried Opera. If you tell it to identify as Firefox then you can use watch instantly with Opera.
The last presidential election I voted in back in the town I grew up in there were 9 positions on the ballot where people were running unopposed. No one was looking over my shoulder or told me who to vote for but if people are running unopposed it doesn't make for much of an election.
It is good that there aren't any embarrassing videos of Sarah Palin and a pastor asking to protect her from witchcraft or that she at least used to go to a church that believes in speaking in tongues or anything. I would find that a lot more disturbing than anything I've heard Wright say.
That's true assuming it is a program that is in a repository. If it isn't for whatever reason then it is back to the command line as well as hunting around different websites to get what you need.
Synaptics is great but if I want to go off the reservation then I personally am clueless. I still don't understand why I can't download and just doubleclick on programs to install them in Linux.
The article contains the word "gynormous" and not in a quote from someone. Is that an acceptable word in a published article? I'm usually pretty lenient on grammar and word choice but that word just seems like something a junior high kid would use.
First, it is a good idea to try to do some sort of survey or something to judge their skills. However, that being said, you will almost certainly be dealing with a broad range of skills from some who may know more than you to someone who barely knows how to turn the computer on.
The hardest thing is trying not to make the advanced students feel bored and the beginning students feel like you are talking down to them. That's when good teaching methods come into play. I would suggest asking the students to explain how to do things rather than some sort of lecture.
This is one of the biggest challenges of teaching anything dealing with technology. Even in classes that aren't about technology, if you ask them to do anything on a computer you will run into difficulties. For example, I've had students turn in papers electronically and, like nearly every class, I've told them to double space the papers. In every class I've had at least one student who made the paper double spaced by hitting return twice at the end of every line.
Over the summer my university announced that they had decided that both Google and MS had their strength so they decided to let each student decide for themselves. So we can transfer our.edu email over to either google or MS.
My university is switching over to both Google and MS (they decided to let each student choose which service they wanted to use) because it is free. They take care of everything so the university doesn't have to devote the time or money to running the email server and backing it up.
Some colleagues keep suggesting that I use Endnote to keep track of my citations and so every year or two I give it a try. Even though they seem to update it every year it is still one of the worst programs I've ever used. It is unintuitive, offers no real error messages so you can't tell if it is working or not, and its method of inputting citations by hand is frustrating and confusing.
I've only tried Zotero once shortly after it came out but hopefully it will survive this lawsuit and last long after Endnote is long forgotten...
Mainly because they don't only want to teach their children this stuff but they want to force public schools to teach every child this stuff. It is a slippery slope. Once they teach "the controversy" what else will they want to tech?
I think that being able to be suspended for something done completely outside of school is a horrible notion. At least the myspace page didn't imply that the principal supported bong hits for Jesus...
That being said, in the abstract it is an interesting situation. You are the principal and the student has done something like this. What do you do? I think that one option would be to treat it like other things that are banned on school grounds like alcohol or pornography. The school can't (or at least shouldn't) be able to control what they are doing at home but if they bring it to school then they are in trouble. So perhaps it would have been more suitable to suspend the students for looking at the website in school -- I'm sure they have some policy about looking at porn websites in school?
Then there's also the question of the parent(s). If your child had made a website like that, even if you thought that suspension was totally unwarrented, would you really defend your child and hire lawyers in this situation? Think about it, now everyone knows your kid has really really poor judgment and you are a bad parent.
It might be slander or libel. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know. However, the student was suspended, not charged with slander or libel. Saying that the student is lucky all that happened was a suspension and not a lawsuit is like saying that someone guilty of murder can be charged with income tax fraud or something else totally unrelated just because the punishment is worse. If there has been a crime committed, charge the student with a crime, not something unrelated.
It can stream just about any type of media you can think of. It can't, however, deal with drm. So if you've bought anything from the iTUnes store you best stick with the Apple stuff.
It can use the xbox remote but honestly I found using the controller to be easier to use with XBMC.
There are scripts which allow it to use youtube and such but there's no web browser so you can't go to hulu.com with it as far as I know.
While the linked to article is pretty good for the general audience, it does leave out a lot of the specifics. Here is a link to a pdf of the actual article
If it is out there on the internets I couldn't find it. I wanted my students to read it and searched and search but couldn't find it. I especially hope that the second edition is out there somewhere and someone will link to it since it has some corrections and new(er) material (not by Sheff though)
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The number of English language books that have been printed is so large that it is impossible for any one person to read them all. I could read all day every day and not read every book. I probably wouldn't even be able to read every book that people think is good.
There is a finite amount of time until I die. I'm not going to spend hours of my life reading something written by an outspoken bigot. There is something else out there that is just as good if not better written by someone who doesn't have opinions I strongly disagree with.
We all pick and choose what we will read, watch, listen to based on a number of criteria such as storyline, genre, actors, directors, or any number of other factors. I just add things like known bigot to that list of factors.
Anything I can do to narrow down the very very long list of books I still want to read then that helps me to spend my time more effectively.
Either this DeepDyve thing is the best search engine ever or they are smoking crack. They have a pro version for $45 a month. http://www.deepdyve.com/why_deepdyve/deepdyve_pro that's got to be some pretty good venn diagrams to be worth $45 a month...
There are a couple other sites that give a lot more detail on the clips that were shown. From the description it seems easy to piece together the overall storyline of the film. If you don't want to know what the storyline is then don't read these links
http://denofgeek.com/movies/144620/star_trek_four_full_scenes_and_new_trailer_reviewed.html http://www.empireonline.com/empireblog/Post.asp?id=313
I agree. A book on programming the latest version of java or something will get out dated. It would be better to have other types of books.
I particularly think things on the history of tech companies would be good or some things about game design or things not specifically related to programming or a version of an operating system.
Ok, I managed to get a copy of this latest study and they actually do define aggression -- but in a contradictory manner.
They write, "'Aggression' also is defined differently by behavioral scientists than by the general public. Social and developmental psychologists typically define 'aggression' as behavior that is intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid that harm. In other words, aggression is an act conducted by 1 person with the intent of hurting another person; it is not an emotion, thought, or intention." (e1068)
However, in the next paragraph they contradict the statement that agression "is not an emotion, thought, or intention" when they state, "Existing experimental studies demonstrate that playing a violent video game causes an immediate increase in aggressive behavior, aggressive thoughts, and aggressive emotions." (e1068)
So does "aggression" include thoughts or emotions or not?
Regardless, both the Japanese and the USA groups involved self-reporting of "aggression" which puts the results in doubt and there's no information on why the participants in each group were chosen (the Japanese group was actually data from another study) so there's no way of knowing if games make kids more aggressive or if aggressive kids play more games.
Finally, the study was funded in part by the National Institute on Media and the Family (e1070) which also calls the results into question since they are an outspoken group about the evils of videogames.
Even before I read the story I suspected that Anderson was involved.
Anderson has never done a study where he didn't find that something caused aggression. He sees aggression everywhere.
The problem with this? At least in the papers of his that I have read (and it is hard to read them all because his name gets put on a lot of papers as co-researcher) he has never defined what he means by "aggression." The closest I have ever seen him define the term is in a table in one article where he gives examples of aggression. One of those examples was, "raising one's voice."
Now I'm no psychologist but I think that there is a big difference between yelling and physically hurting someone.
I couldn't get Silverlight to install in Firefox for some reason so I tried Opera. If you tell it to identify as Firefox then you can use watch instantly with Opera.
The last presidential election I voted in back in the town I grew up in there were 9 positions on the ballot where people were running unopposed. No one was looking over my shoulder or told me who to vote for but if people are running unopposed it doesn't make for much of an election.
It is good that there aren't any embarrassing videos of Sarah Palin and a pastor asking to protect her from witchcraft or that she at least used to go to a church that believes in speaking in tongues or anything. I would find that a lot more disturbing than anything I've heard Wright say.
That's true assuming it is a program that is in a repository. If it isn't for whatever reason then it is back to the command line as well as hunting around different websites to get what you need. Synaptics is great but if I want to go off the reservation then I personally am clueless. I still don't understand why I can't download and just doubleclick on programs to install them in Linux.
The article contains the word "gynormous" and not in a quote from someone. Is that an acceptable word in a published article? I'm usually pretty lenient on grammar and word choice but that word just seems like something a junior high kid would use.
First, it is a good idea to try to do some sort of survey or something to judge their skills. However, that being said, you will almost certainly be dealing with a broad range of skills from some who may know more than you to someone who barely knows how to turn the computer on.
The hardest thing is trying not to make the advanced students feel bored and the beginning students feel like you are talking down to them. That's when good teaching methods come into play. I would suggest asking the students to explain how to do things rather than some sort of lecture.
This is one of the biggest challenges of teaching anything dealing with technology. Even in classes that aren't about technology, if you ask them to do anything on a computer you will run into difficulties. For example, I've had students turn in papers electronically and, like nearly every class, I've told them to double space the papers. In every class I've had at least one student who made the paper double spaced by hitting return twice at the end of every line.
Over the summer my university announced that they had decided that both Google and MS had their strength so they decided to let each student decide for themselves. So we can transfer our .edu email over to either google or MS.
My university is switching over to both Google and MS (they decided to let each student choose which service they wanted to use) because it is free. They take care of everything so the university doesn't have to devote the time or money to running the email server and backing it up.
If you ask the program "Do humans have the right to turn off conscious programs?" and if it doesn't give a good answer then feel free to shut it off.
If you haven't released the changes yet then how do they know what you have done? It seems as if there is some information missing here.
Some colleagues keep suggesting that I use Endnote to keep track of my citations and so every year or two I give it a try. Even though they seem to update it every year it is still one of the worst programs I've ever used. It is unintuitive, offers no real error messages so you can't tell if it is working or not, and its method of inputting citations by hand is frustrating and confusing.
I've only tried Zotero once shortly after it came out but hopefully it will survive this lawsuit and last long after Endnote is long forgotten...
Maybe they'll also teach that monkeys fly. The Roman Catholic church doesn't have any issues with evolution and they aren't exactly atheists...
Mainly because they don't only want to teach their children this stuff but they want to force public schools to teach every child this stuff. It is a slippery slope. Once they teach "the controversy" what else will they want to tech?
I think that being able to be suspended for something done completely outside of school is a horrible notion. At least the myspace page didn't imply that the principal supported bong hits for Jesus...
That being said, in the abstract it is an interesting situation. You are the principal and the student has done something like this. What do you do? I think that one option would be to treat it like other things that are banned on school grounds like alcohol or pornography. The school can't (or at least shouldn't) be able to control what they are doing at home but if they bring it to school then they are in trouble. So perhaps it would have been more suitable to suspend the students for looking at the website in school -- I'm sure they have some policy about looking at porn websites in school?
Then there's also the question of the parent(s). If your child had made a website like that, even if you thought that suspension was totally unwarrented, would you really defend your child and hire lawyers in this situation? Think about it, now everyone knows your kid has really really poor judgment and you are a bad parent.
It might be slander or libel. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know. However, the student was suspended, not charged with slander or libel. Saying that the student is lucky all that happened was a suspension and not a lawsuit is like saying that someone guilty of murder can be charged with income tax fraud or something else totally unrelated just because the punishment is worse. If there has been a crime committed, charge the student with a crime, not something unrelated.
I haven't tried it in a while so I can't remember but might the portable version of openoffice.org be a solution? http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
It can stream just about any type of media you can think of. It can't, however, deal with drm. So if you've bought anything from the iTUnes store you best stick with the Apple stuff. It can use the xbox remote but honestly I found using the controller to be easier to use with XBMC. There are scripts which allow it to use youtube and such but there's no web browser so you can't go to hulu.com with it as far as I know.
While the linked to article is pretty good for the general audience, it does leave out a lot of the specifics. Here is a link to a pdf of the actual article
If it is out there on the internets I couldn't find it. I wanted my students to read it and searched and search but couldn't find it. I especially hope that the second edition is out there somewhere and someone will link to it since it has some corrections and new(er) material (not by Sheff though)