A private high school where the chem teacher had limited knowledge. About a quarter through the year of AP Chem she ran out of experience and we were teaching our selves. We were the upper division chem class but were often still doing experiments while she was lecturing to the lower division class.
Our HS chem teacher was nice/crazy enough to allow us to do any experiment we wanted as long as it wasnt too dangerous. So I ended up doing the Nitrogen Triiodide experiment. I think I made too much cause we went without using one of the fume hoods for a month. Everyone was too scared to go near the filterpapers because they would spontaneously react. It was fun watching the lower divistion classes jump when some would spark drung a lecture.
I just read your article in Technology Review
(http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep01/review s. asp) and I would like to
thank you for writing it. I am sure the point has been made before by
others; however, the call has yet to be heeded. I am (hopefully) one of
those diamonds who is pursuing a career in science/technology and has
experienced the problems of the school system. From a very young age I was
interested in science and continually hoped that the next year I would have
a teacher that would incorporate more science into their lessons. It was
always limited to a few weeks learning about the solar system or the
rainforest. I did what I could to teach myself, reading all the science
books I could comprehend at the public library. Unfortunately a seven
year-old has a hard time reading college/high school text books without some
explanation. I have always excelled at science, scoring the highest ever for
my elementary school on a national science test given in fifth grade.
When going on to high school I was excited to actually have classes
devoted strictly to science. Where others despised the subject and the
teachers that taught science, I found intrigue and excitement. I chose a
high school which I knew employed superior science teachers: the physics
teacher graduated from UC Berkeley and the biology teacher has an MS in
Mycology and worked for the state as a Mycologist. Unfortunately the
chemistry teacher had yet to actually receive an undergraduate degree and
our AP Chemistry class was teaching/her/ chemistry in the end, however that
high school was still the best around.
I have seen many bright students fail to make an effort in science
and math not only because of bad teachers but because they have learned from
parents and friends that 'science and math are difficult subjects and it is
normal to fail to comprehend them'. This creates an unending cycle of people
who won't even try in the areas of science and math. I feel that not only do
many people not care about science because it is not taught in elementary
school often but the problem also holds back those interested in science
from attaining their full potential until they reach college, and for some
that may be too late. We not only need to give teachers more respect and
higher pay but we need to change the primary and secondary schooling
requirement. We need to require that science be taught at a young age not
just to help those interested in science but also to raise the over-all
public scientific education. Our national tests also reflect an opinion that
science is not important. They focus mainly on reading and math. Only the
SAT II has one section for science (which really doesn't test on the basis
of actual scientific knowledge but rather on one's ability to read a graph).
We need to include a science portion in all our standardized testing thereby
forcing teachers to educate their students, with science as one of the major
areas of emphasis, and in turn encouraging students to learn science.
I am currently involved in a server migration at work. Luckly it is an internal web/file server so it is not at critical, yet still a big issue. All I can go is wish all the/. staff the best of luck and hope you won't need too much coffee;)
I have been a personal teach to (very rich) older people who feel it would be good to learn about computers. One problem that adults have is they are fearful that they cannot only not learn how to use one but that they will also break it somehow. You need to inform them that they can learn to use one, they will not break it, and if bay any chance anything happens you can easily fix anything. The biggest problem is dexterity. Not just moving the mouse around but also clicking. Which button, for how long, and when. I was trying to teach one guy Photoshop and he usually was pushing the wrong button or was unintentionally holding it down. I really don't have a solution to this; maybe getting the older mice whose buttons don't go down easily any stick up so they can tell that they are over the button. All the advice I could give them was just to practice and they will eventually get the hang of it.
I am looking at the pictures and I am wondering why they don't look like they have been at the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of years. They look better than ones on dry land. I am not making a claim about any sort of conspiracy or anything. It's just that they look damn good for being through an earthquake and hundreds of years in the sea.
Well there are key generators for little shareware programs up the more expensive software. How long will it take for there to be good ones made so you can buy physical stuff for free? They may have some good random number grnerators but someone can easily try a few thousand combinations in a short time to an online etailer.
I can get cable while I am at school, i have it and love it. But when I go back home I am unable to get cable which leaves me with DSL. Right now cable is a much better choice. I had DSL at home untill northpoint died but now I need to find another DSL provider. If anyone has a good DSL provider in Sonoma County, Ca reply to this I need high spped once again.
Since cable has yet to be set up in most of Sonoma county DSL was the only way for private residences to get high speed access. Now there is no northpoint guess I can no longer have high speed. Well I will look on the bright side (no termination fee) instead of the dark one ($150 for a bridge + $500 for a year of prepaid access).
If anyone has any suggestions for $50 and under I am wideopen.
Well it appears that UC Santa Cruz has insider information on who will win
the presidential election. Guess there really is a conspiracy. Check out a scan
of their news paper here
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A private high school where the chem teacher had limited knowledge. About a quarter through the year of AP Chem she ran out of experience and we were teaching our selves. We were the upper division chem class but were often still doing experiments while she was lecturing to the lower division class.
Our HS chem teacher was nice/crazy enough to allow us to do any experiment we wanted as long as it wasnt too dangerous. So I ended up doing the Nitrogen Triiodide experiment. I think I made too much cause we went without using one of the fume hoods for a month. Everyone was too scared to go near the filterpapers because they would spontaneously react. It was fun watching the lower divistion classes jump when some would spark drung a lecture.
And the finny thing is... jason Alexander was on an episode of Star Trek if you didn't know.
Did Slashdot get tired of hearing from lawyers and remove the can of spam???
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Dear Professor Goodstein,
w s. asp) and I would like to
/her/ chemistry in the end, however that
I just read your article in Technology Review
(http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep01/revie
thank you for writing it. I am sure the point has been made before by
others; however, the call has yet to be heeded. I am (hopefully) one of
those diamonds who is pursuing a career in science/technology and has
experienced the problems of the school system. From a very young age I was
interested in science and continually hoped that the next year I would have
a teacher that would incorporate more science into their lessons. It was
always limited to a few weeks learning about the solar system or the
rainforest. I did what I could to teach myself, reading all the science
books I could comprehend at the public library. Unfortunately a seven
year-old has a hard time reading college/high school text books without some
explanation. I have always excelled at science, scoring the highest ever for
my elementary school on a national science test given in fifth grade.
When going on to high school I was excited to actually have classes
devoted strictly to science. Where others despised the subject and the
teachers that taught science, I found intrigue and excitement. I chose a
high school which I knew employed superior science teachers: the physics
teacher graduated from UC Berkeley and the biology teacher has an MS in
Mycology and worked for the state as a Mycologist. Unfortunately the
chemistry teacher had yet to actually receive an undergraduate degree and
our AP Chemistry class was teaching
high school was still the best around.
I have seen many bright students fail to make an effort in science
and math not only because of bad teachers but because they have learned from
parents and friends that 'science and math are difficult subjects and it is
normal to fail to comprehend them'. This creates an unending cycle of people
who won't even try in the areas of science and math. I feel that not only do
many people not care about science because it is not taught in elementary
school often but the problem also holds back those interested in science
from attaining their full potential until they reach college, and for some
that may be too late. We not only need to give teachers more respect and
higher pay but we need to change the primary and secondary schooling
requirement. We need to require that science be taught at a young age not
just to help those interested in science but also to raise the over-all
public scientific education. Our national tests also reflect an opinion that
science is not important. They focus mainly on reading and math. Only the
SAT II has one section for science (which really doesn't test on the basis
of actual scientific knowledge but rather on one's ability to read a graph).
We need to include a science portion in all our standardized testing thereby
forcing teachers to educate their students, with science as one of the major
areas of emphasis, and in turn encouraging students to learn science.
Thank you for you time,
I am currently involved in a server migration at work. Luckly it is an internal web/file server so it is not at critical, yet still a big issue. All I can go is wish all the /. staff the best of luck and hope you won't need too much coffee ;)
I have been a personal teach to (very rich) older people who feel it would be good to learn about computers. One problem that adults have is they are fearful that they cannot only not learn how to use one but that they will also break it somehow. You need to inform them that they can learn to use one, they will not break it, and if bay any chance anything happens you can easily fix anything. The biggest problem is dexterity. Not just moving the mouse around but also clicking. Which button, for how long, and when. I was trying to teach one guy Photoshop and he usually was pushing the wrong button or was unintentionally holding it down. I really don't have a solution to this; maybe getting the older mice whose buttons don't go down easily any stick up so they can tell that they are over the button. All the advice I could give them was just to practice and they will eventually get the hang of it.
a troll? WTF?
I am looking at the pictures and I am wondering why they don't look like they have been at the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of years. They look better than ones on dry land. I am not making a claim about any sort of conspiracy or anything. It's just that they look damn good for being through an earthquake and hundreds of years in the sea.
Well there are key generators for little shareware programs up the more expensive software. How long will it take for there to be good ones made so you can buy physical stuff for free? They may have some good random number grnerators but someone can easily try a few thousand combinations in a short time to an online etailer.
I can get cable while I am at school, i have it and love it. But when I go back home I am unable to get cable which leaves me with DSL. Right now cable is a much better choice. I had DSL at home untill northpoint died but now I need to find another DSL provider. If anyone has a good DSL provider in Sonoma County, Ca reply to this I need high spped once again.
Since cable has yet to be set up in most of Sonoma county DSL was the only way for private residences to get high speed access. Now there is no northpoint guess I can no longer have high speed. Well I will look on the bright side (no termination fee) instead of the dark one ($150 for a bridge + $500 for a year of prepaid access). If anyone has any suggestions for $50 and under I am wideopen.
It's so nice to see that Apple and Intel use the same marketing company. Check out: http://www.my-pants.org/itanium/
Well it appears that UC Santa Cruz has insider information on who will win the presidential election. Guess there really is a conspiracy. Check out a scan of their news paper here