I have a habit of sleeping in on Saturdays, and my three-year-old likes to literally jump on me to wake me up. Nothing quite like a 40-pound weight not caring where he lands on you.
Last night, my wife went to a baby shower, and left the two of us together. Knowing that I had been up early, she told my son that if I fell asleep, he could jump on me.
After an hour, he got bored of playing with his legos, and asked, "Daddy, can you go to sleep so I can jump on you?"
Not only are kids alarm clocks, they are merciless, and find joy in being alarm clock.
If by "hold back", you mean "motivate them to teach someone what they already know, thereby coming to a deeper understanding of the topic, and perhaps gaining some insight into how it feels to genuinelly help someone, while keeping them away from the mind-numbing TV", I would agree with you.
Ah, the arrogance. People who think they know the whole story from reading a little blurb on/., and then proceed to make comments deriding the poster for not thinking of X or Y when, in fact, they had, just didn't mention it in the two paragraphs they had to post.
The reason I can say it is useful is by the two or three dance people a year who find creative and effective uses for computers in their dance studios. Students who post to their blogs how they've used timed PowerPoint (ugh) to show colored slides on their performance, or who give students the assignments of videotaping their classmates routines in ways that accentuate their performance, etc. The fact is, I have seen ways of doing it, but very few of the dance teachers can come up with them.
I also have a minor in visual art, and I often think of what it would be like if graphic artists never saw the value of computing. And as generation after generation of designers came and went, they kept telling the techies that, if they were a designer, they would see that there was no application in the field.
We have BB at our school. It sucks compared to the other tools out there (some of which are OSS).
Anyway, we did a survey, and over 80% of the faculty felt that BB improved student-faculty communication, while 22% of the students did.
I attribute this to teachers using BB as a fire-and-forget message service. "Oh, I forgot to write up that handout we needed for class. I'll just tell the students to look it up before class, and come with notes and questions." It doesn't matter that class in is an hour.
The results is general student moaning whenever a teacher tells them that the class will use BB.
In the end, we come, once more, to the question of how to use a tool properly.
For the sake of discussion: What's wrong with fonetic spelling? Riting was not standerdized for senterys, i think it waz sharlimane who ferst en4sed spelling in his empire. Spelling and grammer r only as good as they make something understandable. if u can read this, and i save some space, regardless of how many preposishuns i end my sentenses with, does grammer and speling really matter?
I spent some time in france reeding mid-evil manuscripts, and some of the best righting in history was done without spelling and grammer standards. in fact, back then, people just put in abreevee-ashuns whereever they wanted - that's where accents come from.
Also, people like to say that grammer is how people used to talk - Bullocks! Not only has grammarian definishuns of grammer changed over time, what the grammarians say was never how people rote or talked.
I say, 4get the whole thing, and welcome our IRC-formatted overloards.
Even better - I have a 3-yr-old, and we already keep his computer time down. (It's scary how good he is a Need for Speed.) With another one on they way, I've started look ing for ideas on how to handle multiple kids on the computer, especially when they get older.
The best solution was my sister's (she has four kids): No one, including parents, get to use the computer, or watch the TV until everyone's homework is done. It's amazing to see her 14-yr-old helping her 12-yr-old with her math because the older one wants to get in some gaming.
So, the test they did less well on was a traditional, paper and pencil test? Duh!
No matter what the change in education, we will see gains in one area, and losses in another. The question is, do the gains justify the losses?
For example, if I take my kids to France, and I decide to enroll them in a non-English school, I expect them to fall behind in their classes, at the benefit of learning French. Likewise, if we spend time teaching the life skills that are computers, and we have students use them to research, write, do math, etc., we should expect to see declines in performance on traditional educational measures.
Again, the question is: Do the gains of using a computer, justify the losses in what has been considered important in education in the past?
I teach in the school of ed at a university, classes meant to help future teachers understand the proper way of using tech to teach something else. Even by the end of the semester, after lectures, assignments, expert models, and micro-teaching with feedback, some of them still don't get it.
I find the ones who understand us quickly are the science teachers. The English teachers are usually second to get it, followed by history, dance, and everyone else. The interesting thing is that this trend seems to be independent of the time we spend, and the resources that are available in each field. Science does have tools like Logger Pro, but we cover video editing for the dance people, and they just don't see its usefullness.
Students who use books and writing to remind them of past experiences instead of memorizing and remembering them, have significantly lower recall capacity. In a shocking revelation, Professor Plato of a prominent school in Athens, Greece, said,
"[Writing] will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own."
Stay tuned to this channel for more on this late-breaking story.
I run GDM, so I clicked on the "Login" field and typed my name. Gnome ignored me! Completely. I was so frustrated, I thought about emailing the devs, but then I realized my keyboard was unplugged.
* 3.8 inch high quality color LCD screen - 320 * 240 pixel with adjustable brightness * Touch Screen (for keyboard entry) * Pal / NTSC selectable * Headphone / audio line out compatible with automatic detection * built in loudspeaker with volume control * USB 2.0 high speed mass storage device. * Recognized as a computer's external hard drive for fast up- and downloading from or to PC or Mac * WiFi enabled. Optional WiFi (IEEE802.11) Compact Flash card sold separately * Menu languages include English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Swedish * Non-interchangeable high quality rechargeable Li-Ion battery (2200 mAh) * Optional external battery pack available * Firmware fully user upgradeable (http://www.jobodigital.com/products/ giga_vu_pro.h tm)
The BN - Bibliothèque nationale - is one of the hardest places I've ever attempted to get into to do research. I spent some time studying paleography and codicology, and I got into three or four great manuscript libraries in and around Paris. Too bad most of the stuff I needed was at the BN. They won't even talk to you until you're done with your PhD.(1)
I find it interesting that someone represetning such an institution, who basically holds the keys and has locked the doors to most of the history of their language, would get mad for someone else in another language open the same door.
1 - Yes, before some archivist jumps on me, I did do microfiche research at the IRHT, and I did have some questions that required the original manuscript.
I loved the Netpliance "everyone can be a geek" commerical in 99. Too bad they left the IDE ports on their internet appliace and most people just hacked it into a cheap computer (a la X-Box).
Then they refused delivery unless customers signed a post hoc TSA, which led to BBB complaints. Anyway, I wonder whatever happened to those guys.
To college students working on their teaching certs. The funny thing is the department specifically asked me to teach a 2-hour lesson security "for the common person". Boy, has it opened my eyes to how trusting people are.
Most people have come to trust brand names. Research shows, as does personal experience with my 3-year-old, that children in the US develop brand recognition at an early age, and associate Nike or, [shudder] Microsoft, with quality. It is of little wonder that when they see a hotspot with the T-Moble logo on the login page, they immediately trust it.
Don't get me started on phishing.
The class I teach meets in a lab where the students check out wireless laptops, and are supposed to use them as we work together in class, but, of course, most of them are just checking their email, etc. This week, I'm going to run Kismet on my Zaurus during the class and then show them the results at the end.
When I worked at REI (Camping, climbing, etc, gear), we were always told to handle the merchandise ourselves. A customer once came to my register with a large internal frame backpack, and instead of handing it to me, he just pointed the pricetag at me. I grabbed the sac out of his hands and said, "Hmmm. This seems a little heavy." At which point I opened it and found a $110 rope. They guy was totally pale and muttered, "Huh. I wander how that got it there." I asked if he wanted to buy it and he said, "no," so I rang him up for the backpack and restocked the rope.
More on topic, this was something that was part of the training. they taught us how to find fake pricetags, hidden items (carabiners in shoes, tents in backpacks, etc.), and a whole bunch of other tricky stuff. It goes to show that if you don't pay for good training up front, you'll pay for it later.
Actually, the Causby case was where the SC said that property rights no longer extend forever. Some farmer were upset that these new-fangled planes were flying over their property and scaring their livestock.
The courts response: Common sense revolts at the idea that flying over your property is tresspassing.
When I worked at REI, one of our best employees was a 40-something 6-figure programmer from one of the tech firms in San Jose. He worked two nights a week and Saturdays to support his canoeing habit.
Of course, at REI we got 30% off, and awsome prodeals.
One of the big reasons why Disney was wrong to start making sequels for every - and I do mean every - movie thwy ever made was that it was a short-term fix. It brought in high returns briefly, but now kids don't know the difference between Brother Bear (supposedly a Disney "Classic") and Return to the Fourth Version of the Lion King 1.3.2. I think it's called "brand dillution" or something like that.
Pixar should be kicking and screaming, though they know there's nothing they can do, because this could hurt their brand as well.
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Aren't you in the wrong place then?
I have a habit of sleeping in on Saturdays, and my three-year-old likes to literally jump on me to wake me up. Nothing quite like a 40-pound weight not caring where he lands on you.
Last night, my wife went to a baby shower, and left the two of us together. Knowing that I had been up early, she told my son that if I fell asleep, he could jump on me.
After an hour, he got bored of playing with his legos, and asked, "Daddy, can you go to sleep so I can jump on you?"
Not only are kids alarm clocks, they are merciless, and find joy in being alarm clock.
Not to feed the trolls, but...
If by "hold back", you mean "motivate them to teach someone what they already know, thereby coming to a deeper understanding of the topic, and perhaps gaining some insight into how it feels to genuinelly help someone, while keeping them away from the mind-numbing TV", I would agree with you.
Ah, the arrogance. People who think they know the whole story from reading a little blurb on /., and then proceed to make comments deriding the poster for not thinking of X or Y when, in fact, they had, just didn't mention it in the two paragraphs they had to post.
The reason I can say it is useful is by the two or three dance people a year who find creative and effective uses for computers in their dance studios. Students who post to their blogs how they've used timed PowerPoint (ugh) to show colored slides on their performance, or who give students the assignments of videotaping their classmates routines in ways that accentuate their performance, etc. The fact is, I have seen ways of doing it, but very few of the dance teachers can come up with them.
I also have a minor in visual art, and I often think of what it would be like if graphic artists never saw the value of computing. And as generation after generation of designers came and went, they kept telling the techies that, if they were a designer, they would see that there was no application in the field.
We have BB at our school. It sucks compared to the other tools out there (some of which are OSS).
Anyway, we did a survey, and over 80% of the faculty felt that BB improved student-faculty communication, while 22% of the students did.
I attribute this to teachers using BB as a fire-and-forget message service. "Oh, I forgot to write up that handout we needed for class. I'll just tell the students to look it up before class, and come with notes and questions." It doesn't matter that class in is an hour.
The results is general student moaning whenever a teacher tells them that the class will use BB.
In the end, we come, once more, to the question of how to use a tool properly.
For the sake of discussion: What's wrong with fonetic spelling? Riting was not standerdized for senterys, i think it waz sharlimane who ferst en4sed spelling in his empire. Spelling and grammer r only as good as they make something understandable. if u can read this, and i save some space, regardless of how many preposishuns i end my sentenses with, does grammer and speling really matter?
I spent some time in france reeding mid-evil manuscripts, and some of the best righting in history was done without spelling and grammer standards. in fact, back then, people just put in abreevee-ashuns whereever they wanted - that's where accents come from.
Also, people like to say that grammer is how people used to talk - Bullocks! Not only has grammarian definishuns of grammer changed over time, what the grammarians say was never how people rote or talked.
I say, 4get the whole thing, and welcome our IRC-formatted overloards.
Even better - I have a 3-yr-old, and we already keep his computer time down. (It's scary how good he is a Need for Speed.) With another one on they way, I've started look ing for ideas on how to handle multiple kids on the computer, especially when they get older.
The best solution was my sister's (she has four kids): No one, including parents, get to use the computer, or watch the TV until everyone's homework is done. It's amazing to see her 14-yr-old helping her 12-yr-old with her math because the older one wants to get in some gaming.
...had no greater impact on employability or wage levels than being able to use a telephone or a pencil.
This reminds me of when some thinktank published a five-year TCO study on Windows 2000 vs. Linux. OF course, they published the study in 2002.
This study too place in 2000 - on third graders. I'm betting the student they found making the most had a paper route, trying to save up for a PSP.
So, the test they did less well on was a traditional, paper and pencil test? Duh!
No matter what the change in education, we will see gains in one area, and losses in another. The question is, do the gains justify the losses?
For example, if I take my kids to France, and I decide to enroll them in a non-English school, I expect them to fall behind in their classes, at the benefit of learning French. Likewise, if we spend time teaching the life skills that are computers, and we have students use them to research, write, do math, etc., we should expect to see declines in performance on traditional educational measures.
Again, the question is: Do the gains of using a computer, justify the losses in what has been considered important in education in the past?
Amen.
I teach in the school of ed at a university, classes meant to help future teachers understand the proper way of using tech to teach something else. Even by the end of the semester, after lectures, assignments, expert models, and micro-teaching with feedback, some of them still don't get it.
I find the ones who understand us quickly are the science teachers. The English teachers are usually second to get it, followed by history, dance, and everyone else. The interesting thing is that this trend seems to be independent of the time we spend, and the resources that are available in each field. Science does have tools like Logger Pro, but we cover video editing for the dance people, and they just don't see its usefullness.
"[Writing] will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own."
Stay tuned to this channel for more on this late-breaking story.
I run GDM, so I clicked on the "Login" field and typed my name. Gnome ignored me! Completely. I was so frustrated, I thought about emailing the devs, but then I realized my keyboard was unplugged.
* 3.8 inch high quality color LCD screen - 320 * 240 pixel with adjustable brightness/ giga_vu_pro.h tm)
* Touch Screen (for keyboard entry)
* Pal / NTSC selectable
* Headphone / audio line out compatible with automatic detection
* built in loudspeaker with volume control
* USB 2.0 high speed mass storage device.
* Recognized as a computer's external hard drive for fast up- and downloading from or to PC or Mac
* WiFi enabled. Optional WiFi (IEEE802.11) Compact Flash card sold separately
* Menu languages include English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Swedish
* Non-interchangeable high quality rechargeable Li-Ion battery (2200 mAh)
* Optional external battery pack available
* Firmware fully user upgradeable
(http://www.jobodigital.com/products
A worthy replacement for my aging Zaurus.
The BN - Bibliothèque nationale - is one of the hardest places I've ever attempted to get into to do research. I spent some time studying paleography and codicology, and I got into three or four great manuscript libraries in and around Paris. Too bad most of the stuff I needed was at the BN. They won't even talk to you until you're done with your PhD.(1)
I find it interesting that someone represetning such an institution, who basically holds the keys and has locked the doors to most of the history of their language, would get mad for someone else in another language open the same door.
1 - Yes, before some archivist jumps on me, I did do microfiche research at the IRHT, and I did have some questions that required the original manuscript.
Amen.
Now I just open Thunderbird, and I just open FF when there's a topic that interests me. I don't browse anymore.
I also put FireForcaster into FF so I never check the weather anymore.
Since MS claims Linux companies can't be held responsible for Linux security, will MS claim responsibility for this?
I loved the Netpliance "everyone can be a geek" commerical in 99. Too bad they left the IDE ports on their internet appliace and most people just hacked it into a cheap computer (a la X-Box).
Then they refused delivery unless customers signed a post hoc TSA, which led to BBB complaints. Anyway, I wonder whatever happened to those guys.
To college students working on their teaching certs. The funny thing is the department specifically asked me to teach a 2-hour lesson security "for the common person". Boy, has it opened my eyes to how trusting people are.
Most people have come to trust brand names. Research shows, as does personal experience with my 3-year-old, that children in the US develop brand recognition at an early age, and associate Nike or, [shudder] Microsoft, with quality. It is of little wonder that when they see a hotspot with the T-Moble logo on the login page, they immediately trust it.
Don't get me started on phishing.
The class I teach meets in a lab where the students check out wireless laptops, and are supposed to use them as we work together in class, but, of course, most of them are just checking their email, etc. This week, I'm going to run Kismet on my Zaurus during the class and then show them the results at the end.
When I worked at REI (Camping, climbing, etc, gear), we were always told to handle the merchandise ourselves. A customer once came to my register with a large internal frame backpack, and instead of handing it to me, he just pointed the pricetag at me. I grabbed the sac out of his hands and said, "Hmmm. This seems a little heavy." At which point I opened it and found a $110 rope. They guy was totally pale and muttered, "Huh. I wander how that got it there." I asked if he wanted to buy it and he said, "no," so I rang him up for the backpack and restocked the rope.
More on topic, this was something that was part of the training. they taught us how to find fake pricetags, hidden items (carabiners in shoes, tents in backpacks, etc.), and a whole bunch of other tricky stuff. It goes to show that if you don't pay for good training up front, you'll pay for it later.
Actually, the Causby case was where the SC said that property rights no longer extend forever. Some farmer were upset that these new-fangled planes were flying over their property and scaring their livestock.
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The courts response: Common sense revolts at the idea that flying over your property is tresspassing.
http://www.netvista.net/~hpb/cases/causby-1.htm
When I worked at REI, one of our best employees was a 40-something 6-figure programmer from one of the tech firms in San Jose. He worked two nights a week and Saturdays to support his canoeing habit.
Of course, at REI we got 30% off, and awsome prodeals.
But you can't go to the Pixar Store to buy the plush toy of characters from any of those movies.
One of the big reasons why Disney was wrong to start making sequels for every - and I do mean every - movie thwy ever made was that it was a short-term fix. It brought in high returns briefly, but now kids don't know the difference between Brother Bear (supposedly a Disney "Classic") and Return to the Fourth Version of the Lion King 1.3.2. I think it's called "brand dillution" or something like that.
Pixar should be kicking and screaming, though they know there's nothing they can do, because this could hurt their brand as well.
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