Didn't re-offend? You mean, didn't get caught. There's a difference.
The Anglin brothers Alfred Clarence (born May 11, 1931) and John William (born May 2, 1930) were born in Donalsonville, Georgia, and worked as farmers and laborers. Together they started to rob banks in Georgia and were arrested in 1956.
Frank Lee Morris was born in Washington, D.C., on September 1, 1926, and spent most of his early years in foster homes. He was orphaned at age 11 and was convicted of his first crime at the age of 13, and by his late teens had been arrested for crimes ranging from possession of narcotics to armed robbery.
In 2014 researchers at Delft University, using a computer model, concluded that if the men set off approximately at midnight, when the currents might have worked in their favor, they could have made landfall; but if they left in the hours either side, the currents would have been too strong to overcome and they very likely died.
Property is whatever bundle of rights, interests and privileges you hold that the state* defines as property and will defend by force if necessary.
Intangible property is still property.
The geek can live out his entire life defined by endless streams of ones and zeroes stored and processed god knows where and still not see them as property until their loss, theft or abuse affects him personally.
Careless thinking or intellectually dishonest? Your choice.
Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce.
This is BTW almost word-for-word how IP is defined by the Wikipedia.
In a lifetime of reading I have owned about 6,000 books, fiction and non-fiction. No two of these writers ever spoke in the same voice, and almost all were paid by the word, writing for a popular --- democratic --- audience.
The number of creative talents active in any generation is small, and that is a problem the Pirate Bay cannot solve.
the way to address the diversity issue is to dumb everybody down? Sure, that sounds like it would provide a level playing field, but the goddam field would be below sea level.
The geek's natural instinct to assert his god-given superiority at the worst possible moment can ruin the experience for everyone.
This isn't about "dumbing down," it's about getting the know-it-alls, the intellectual bullies, the inflated egos, out of the room, so others can prosper.
The fact is that given the same source content, high quality digital copies are by far higher quality...
Those who pay the premium for vinyl are getting the best in audio editing, not the cut for FM radio or the 99 cent mp3.
They are also paying for turntables, amps and speakers that cost a bit more and demand more space than the integrated audio of your smartphone or tablet.
Analog audio from its earliest beginnings was marketed as a social experience. In which many elements come into play and "perfection" as a whole is difficult to quantify. There was always a tension between those who would disguise a phonograph as a piece of furniture and those would celebrate its workings openly.
The high end modern turntable is both sculpture and machine.
I agree. I'm a big supporter of vaccines but one thing I find annoying is that it's almost impossible to find good numbers for vaccines.
In the United States, the 1952 polio epidemic became the worst outbreak in the nation's history. Of nearly 58,000 cases reported that year 3,145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
Three years later, Dr. Jonas Salk became a national hero when he developed the first safe and effective polio vaccine in 1955 with the support of the March of Dimes. In the two years before the vaccine was widely available, the average number of polio cases in the U.S. was more than 45,000. By 1962, that number had dropped to 910.
I was thinking if you take the exemption and subsequently infect someone you have liability for medical expenses, or criminal liability in the case of death.
I want my kids to live --- not compensation for their death.
Which, by the way, would be almost impossible to link to any single individual ---
even given the relatively simple and modest demands a plaintiff must meet in order to win in a civil case.
While I think not getting vaccinated is incredibly stupid, I also worry about setting a standard of the government being able to force things in to your body.
Historically, there were no limits when it came to the control of infectious defenses.
"Typhoid Mary" Mellon spent 23 years in island hospital quarantine.
In 1907 Mary was taken into custody by police officers, and The Health Department gave her an ultimatum - either have her gall bladder removed (where typhoid carrier germs lived), or be exiled to North Brother Island. She refused the surgical operation, which was risky and unpredictable at the time, and was placed at the hospital for three years. Mallon resided in a bungalow, away from the main hospital buildings, and lived alone except for a dog as a companion.
After a lengthy court battle, where Mary described her life akin to a prisoner's, she was released from the hospital in 1910. She immediately returned to work as a cook under the pseudonym of "Mrs. Brown" at Sloane Maternity Hospital. An outbreak of typhoid that consisted of 25 separate cases was eventually traced back to the cook, and officials identified her as Mary Mallon. She was sent back to North Brother in 1915 to live the rest of her life there.
After all, the transistor was invented by William Shockley, a proponent of Eugenics.
That would come later.
Shockley's contributions to the evolution of the transistor and Silicon Valley were more or less complete by the mid to late 50s. There is something about Eugenics that Is attractive to the technocrat in every generation.
Lewin was tossed for abusing his position at MIT and sexually harassing a student.
Lewin at 78 has forfeited the privilege of teaching at MIT. In the time left to him, he has the freedom to do research, to write, lecture, debate or teach in any forum which will have him.
Time to toss Richard Wagner's works seeing as how he was a racist.
Richard Wagner is dead.
Lewin is alive and at 78 years old was caught sexually harassing an MIT online student 50 years his junior. In the old days a man like this would have been quietly put out to pasture before his senility caused his school any further embarrassment.
Or... we could toss the people who makes decisions like this out on their ass, which is a much better idea.
If you are not a sexually responsible adult you have no business being on the physical or online campus. It doesn't matter if you are the frat boy, the jerk jock, the twenty year uber-geek or the eighty year old professor emeritus.
What does the professor's "on-line harassment" have to do with the quality and / or value of his lectures?
The message being sent is: "If you sexually harass our students you're done, you're gone, and we don't give a damn whether you are the star quarterback, the uber geek or the processor emeritus."
Not that there isn't something particularly gross about the elderly emeritus professor using his academic position and credentials to gain sexual leverage over a student forty or more years his junior,
A lot of businesses pay for Linux support. But at what point does that stop being worth the money? When would a company be better served by setting up their own internal support? When does it make sense for them to write their own patches, which could be submitted back to the community?
The core competence of most businesses does not lie in the internals of an operating system.
It can make perfect sense as well to "outsource" clerical work to Microsoft and Office 365, accounting to specialists in corporate accounting, and so on.
Contributions to open source that build on a deep investment in what you are really, really, good at, and perhaps better at than anyone else in the world, are far more likely to be enduring and influential.
But I don't see many warehouses here within 6 miles/10 km of a middle class residential district. 30 to 60 km would be closer to the truth. The central warehouse of our largest regional supermarket chain is 150 miles/240 km east.
That it's = it is.
It's pretty embarrassing when a published author doesn't pay attention to the basics taught to 9 year olds in third grade.
The number of hits returned from a Google search for "its vs it's:" 1,030,000,000. Searching Google for "its vs it's grammar" will return a still impressive 41,100,000 hits.
41 million online grammar lessons and no one gets this right.
It's ridiculous.
Let's take the most salient, and for some the most grating, example: its vs. it's.
The distinction is simple, the grammarian says.
''It's'' is a contraction of ''it is.'' Therefore, ''it'' requires an apostrophe. Everyone who thinks otherwise should be burned in a fire.
But wait! To form the possessive in English, we add 's to the end of the noun. Thus, we might expect '''it's'' to be possessive, and ''its'' to be plural.
What we have is two word formation rules that are in conflict: The rule for possessive formation leads us to believe that ''it's'' is a possessive, while the rule for contraction formation leads us to believe that it's a contraction. Which rule, then, gets precedence? There is no straightforward way to resolve this. We just have to pick one, accept the resulting inconsistency, and go with it.
To top it all, it doesn't really matter. The distinction between ''its'' and ''it's'' only is without force. You are never going to be in a position where you could be confused between the two.
There are many more examples: ''there'' vs. ''their, ''lose'' vs. ''loose,'' etc. Each is a clear violation of grammar, but that's it. There is no confusion in meaning or intent. No argument will be led astray because of a resulting misunderstanding. But still, it's continually made a point of argument. The contention is usually that poor grammar and spelling is an indication of stupidity, which means arguments from grammar are a particularly anemic ad hominem.
Kids don't WANT to use technology for learning or productivity. They want to use it for having fun. What's your point?
The one billion dollars spent on tech meant for educational use. You want to buy all these kids their high-tech toys, fine. But do it of your own pocket, not the taxpayers,
Better yet, let's look at your premises and see how many of them are true.
If you hand a kid a gadget he or she has never seen before, it is likely that he or she will fearlessly and successfully figure out what to do with it in short order without the slightest thought to reading instructions or seeking help. Kids are growing up with all the wonderful devices and applications that stymie their elders.
Yet these same kids are likely to give little thought to the most efficacious or safest ways to use technology. Part of being young is to ignore warnings and directions. This combination of intuitive ability and lack of examination can lead to less productive and even dangerous use of technology by Digital Natives.
Here are some examples of what I mean:
Kids don't know how to search.
Kids don't know how to evaluate.
Kids don't know how to stay safe.
Kids don't know how to search
The simple process of varying search terms is not common to many young searchers: 10.2% responded that kids 'never' do this, and 71.2% said they 'sometimes' do. Only 2% could boast that their students always know to do this.
Narrowing a search is another simple skill utilised far too seldom, with 20% reporting this never happens.
As to Boolean searching, the gap was the greatest: 56.2% said students never use these methods, which suggests to me a lack of instruction. No one reported that students always know to employ these techniques.
But here is a bigger problem: 'bouncing'. David Loertscher, PhD, used this very appropriate label to describe...a common practice: moving quickly from one resource to another without closely reading any material. Granted, this type of skimming may be used early in a search to find promising information, but it is not productive if a reader doesn't carefully follow up on that information.
Kids don't know how to use technology for learning or productivity
It is not enough for youngsters to be masters of their sophisticated cell phones, social networking sites, and gaming devices. Yet these are the three primary areas where kids concentrate their interest and use. Teachers are assuming too much if they take it for granted that students are experts at using applications that are available at school such as office suites, mind-mapping software, graphics tools, etc. Granted, they are likely to be quick to learn, but they do still need instruction and guidance.
Kids can use Excel for all kinds of great graphs, timelines, tables and other projects, but only if they are exposed to the software.
Kids do not know how to be smart and safe online
Because [content] filters offer a false sense of security, the teaching of safe internet searching and communicating is often given short shrift. After all, the filters are keeping out all the bad stuff, right? Wrong. Here are some problems with this line of thinking:
Filters both over- and under-block. Even the 'tightest' filter can sometimes let objectionable material pass through. At the same time, a great deal of valuable information can be blocked. I have within the last year asked students to search for terms such as 'triggerfish'
, 'sperm whale', and 'breast cancer', only to be blocked.
Teachers and administrators often have a false sense of security because the filters are in place. Thus, they do not actively teach students about safe internet use. When these youngsters go home, to the mall, to the public library, etc, they may be babes in the woods due to the lack of instruction about safety.
Homes here are usually oriented east-west with rather steeply pitched roofs and minimum western exposure. What is wanted here most in winter is warmth and light and shelter from gale force winds, rain, sleet, and snow.
There seems to be a double standard where people are expected to make all sorts of completely unnecessary sacrifices to appease some control freak partner
moving the gaming machine to a spare room or the basement is simply a concession to the reality that you are no longer living alone, and that maintaining healthy relationships with your wife and kids counts for something more than the latest and greatest in RPGs and first person shooters.
What are you doing "gaming" in the living room? Dude, you are now MARRIED.
This above all.
There is too much competition for access to the big screen HDTV in a family living room. Console gaming has always been tolerated because it is readily adaptable to on-and-off the-couch social gaming.
But there are amble reasons why the next-gen consoles have been re-positioned as family friendly home media centers.
The Tea Party faction in control of the Gilbert AZ school board lost its bid for re-election.
There has been some huffing and puffing on both sides about what it might do before the new board takes control in January.
The AP Biology text is more symbol than substance.
The state of Arizona doesn't require sex education, which means that a general biology textbook is as close as a Tea Party controlled board will let students get to a serious discussion of sexual reproduction in humans, standards of sexual behavior, homosexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, abortion and so on.
Arizona law requires that districts that do offer sex ed must teach a preference for childbirth and adoption over abortion and inform students about date-rape drugs, dating violence, AIDS and other dangers.
State law requires textbooks that mention abortion to state that childbirth and adoption are preferable alternatives.
[In Tempe, debate over a proposed two-week course in sex education] derailed when board Vice President Moses Sanchez challenged a section of the curriculum that explains birth-control devices. Sanchez asked whether an intrauterine device, or IUD, should be called an abortion method instead of a birth-control device because it works by preventing implantation of fertilized eggs.
Arizona law and board policy say a sex-ed curriculum must:
Emphasize the power of the individual to control one's own behavior. Instruct students on how to say no to unwanted advances and peer pressure. Teach students about the prevention of dating abuse.Stress that sexually-transmitted diseases have severe consequences. Discuss the consequences of pregnancy. Promote respect. Stress abstinence until the students are mature adults. Promote childbirth and adoption over abortion.
Instructional materials may not:
Promote a homosexual lifestyle. Portray homosexuality as a positive alternative lifestyle.Include tests with questions about students' or their parents' beliefs regarding sex, family life, morals, values or religion.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless it was foggy as all hell, which is definitely possible.
what are the chances of making a blind crossing in the fog in a homemade rubber raft?
Didn't re-offend? You mean, didn't get caught. There's a difference.
The Anglin brothers Alfred Clarence (born May 11, 1931) and John William (born May 2, 1930) were born in Donalsonville, Georgia, and worked as farmers and laborers. Together they started to rob banks in Georgia and were arrested in 1956.
Frank Lee Morris was born in Washington, D.C., on September 1, 1926, and spent most of his early years in foster homes. He was orphaned at age 11 and was convicted of his first crime at the age of 13, and by his late teens had been arrested for crimes ranging from possession of narcotics to armed robbery.
In 2014 researchers at Delft University, using a computer model, concluded that if the men set off approximately at midnight, when the currents might have worked in their favor, they could have made landfall; but if they left in the hours either side, the currents would have been too strong to overcome and they very likely died.
June 1962 Alcatraz escape
In other words, habitual criminals with limited skills and prospects.
Morris, with an IQ of 133. had never found a way to walk away from a crime that would not end in his arrest.
The timing would have had to have been damn near perfect based on computer models constructed some fifty years later.
And indeed, some of us are. If you drive an electric car and live near a nuclear power plant, you might be one of them.
The atom powered car, ship, train or aircraft as imagined in the late forties, fifties and sixties was powered by an internal nuclear reactor.
The ideal would be a vehicle or a vessel that would never need refueling.
"Intellectual property is neither"
Property is whatever bundle of rights, interests and privileges you hold that the state* defines as property and will defend by force if necessary.
Intangible property is still property.
The geek can live out his entire life defined by endless streams of ones and zeroes stored and processed god knows where and still not see them as property until their loss, theft or abuse affects him personally.
Careless thinking or intellectually dishonest? Your choice.
Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce.
What is Intellectual Property?
This is BTW almost word-for-word how IP is defined by the Wikipedia.
In a lifetime of reading I have owned about 6,000 books, fiction and non-fiction. No two of these writers ever spoke in the same voice, and almost all were paid by the word, writing for a popular --- democratic --- audience.
The number of creative talents active in any generation is small, and that is a problem the Pirate Bay cannot solve.
Maybe to a mundane person, but anyone with at least the curiosity of a mollusc might try to understand something beyond the level of the UI.
or maybe their curiosity is focused elsewhere, on subjects in which the geek shows no interest in pursuing.
one size does not fit all.
Even as a massive firestorm burns uncontrollably threatening to scorch the very foundations of the internet....
Bennett Haselton fans rejoice. We have a new candidate for the most incoherent and mangled prose ever posted to Slashdot.
the way to address the diversity issue is to dumb everybody down? Sure, that sounds like it would provide a level playing field, but the goddam field would be below sea level.
The geek's natural instinct to assert his god-given superiority at the worst possible moment can ruin the experience for everyone.
This isn't about "dumbing down," it's about getting the know-it-alls, the intellectual bullies, the inflated egos, out of the room, so others can prosper.
The fact is that given the same source content, high quality digital copies are by far higher quality...
Those who pay the premium for vinyl are getting the best in audio editing, not the cut for FM radio or the 99 cent mp3.
They are also paying for turntables, amps and speakers that cost a bit more and demand more space than the integrated audio of your smartphone or tablet.
Analog audio from its earliest beginnings was marketed as a social experience. In which many elements come into play and "perfection" as a whole is difficult to quantify. There was always a tension between those who would disguise a phonograph as a piece of furniture and those would celebrate its workings openly.
The high end modern turntable is both sculpture and machine.
I agree. I'm a big supporter of vaccines but one thing I find annoying is that it's almost impossible to find good numbers for vaccines.
In the United States, the 1952 polio epidemic became the worst outbreak in the nation's history. Of nearly 58,000 cases reported that year 3,145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
Three years later, Dr. Jonas Salk became a national hero when he developed the first safe and effective polio vaccine in 1955 with the support of the March of Dimes. In the two years before the vaccine was widely available, the average number of polio cases in the U.S. was more than 45,000. By 1962, that number had dropped to 910.
Polio History
Charts. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF IMMUNIZATIONS
Chart 1. Reported cases of H. influenzae type b, United States, 1991 - 1997
Chart 2. Hib meningitis in children less than 5 years old according to the National Bacterial Meningitis Reporting System, 1980 through 1991.
Chart 3. Reported cases of measles, United States, 1960-1997
Chart 4. Reported mumps cases, United States, 1968-1997
Chart 5. Reported pertussis cases, United States, 1922-1997
Chart 6. Reported poliomyelitis cases, United States, 1920-1997
Chart 7. Reported rubella cases, United States, 1966-1997
I was thinking if you take the exemption and subsequently infect someone you have liability for medical expenses, or criminal liability in the case of death.
I want my kids to live --- not compensation for their death.
Which, by the way, would be almost impossible to link to any single individual ---
even given the relatively simple and modest demands a plaintiff must meet in order to win in a civil case.
While I think not getting vaccinated is incredibly stupid, I also worry about setting a standard of the government being able to force things in to your body.
Historically, there were no limits when it came to the control of infectious defenses.
"Typhoid Mary" Mellon spent 23 years in island hospital quarantine.
In 1907 Mary was taken into custody by police officers, and The Health Department gave her an ultimatum - either have her gall bladder removed (where typhoid carrier germs lived), or be exiled to North Brother Island. She refused the surgical operation, which was risky and unpredictable at the time, and was placed at the hospital for three years. Mallon resided in a bungalow, away from the main hospital buildings, and lived alone except for a dog as a companion.
After a lengthy court battle, where Mary described her life akin to a prisoner's, she was released from the hospital in 1910. She immediately returned to work as a cook under the pseudonym of "Mrs. Brown" at Sloane Maternity Hospital. An outbreak of typhoid that consisted of 25 separate cases was eventually traced back to the cook, and officials identified her as Mary Mallon. She was sent back to North Brother in 1915 to live the rest of her life there.
Riverside Hospital (North Brother Island)
After all, the transistor was invented by William Shockley, a proponent of Eugenics.
That would come later.
Shockley's contributions to the evolution of the transistor and Silicon Valley were more or less complete by the mid to late 50s. There is something about Eugenics that Is attractive to the technocrat in every generation.
Lewin was tossed for abusing his position at MIT and sexually harassing a student.
Lewin at 78 has forfeited the privilege of teaching at MIT. In the time left to him, he has the freedom to do research, to write, lecture, debate or teach in any forum which will have him.
Time to toss Richard Wagner's works seeing as how he was a racist.
Richard Wagner is dead.
Lewin is alive and at 78 years old was caught sexually harassing an MIT online student 50 years his junior. In the old days a man like this would have been quietly put out to pasture before his senility caused his school any further embarrassment.
Or ... we could toss the people who makes decisions like this out on their ass, which is a much better idea.
If you are not a sexually responsible adult you have no business being on the physical or online campus. It doesn't matter if you are the frat boy, the jerk jock, the twenty year uber-geek or the eighty year old professor emeritus.
The only thing removing these lectures does is make it harder for others to learn physics without attending school in person.
MIT employs over a thousand faculty members of all ranks.
Over and above that, MIT has about 600 active senior lecturers, lecturers, and professors emeriti. MIT Facts
Lewin is not irreplaceable.
Which is a damn good thing because he is. after all, 78 years old,
MIT makes it easy to study physics outside the classroom, if learning matters more than academic credits.
MIT Open Courseware Physics
What does the professor's "on-line harassment" have to do with the quality and / or value of his lectures?
The message being sent is: "If you sexually harass our students you're done, you're gone, and we don't give a damn whether you are the star quarterback, the uber geek or the processor emeritus."
Not that there isn't something particularly gross about the elderly emeritus professor using his academic position and credentials to gain sexual leverage over a student forty or more years his junior,
How about a culture that practices sex the same way the black widow spider does - by eating their mate? (ritual cannibalism)
In real life, what you get is either:
1) Thw pulp fiction shocker, based on an idea which had been run into the ground back in the days when beer was still 5 cents a glass.
2) The author's defense of incest or whatever, which rambles on forever and with the dice so loaded they would be banned in every casino in Vegas.
A lot of businesses pay for Linux support. But at what point does that stop being worth the money? When would a company be better served by setting up their own internal support? When does it make sense for them to write their own patches, which could be submitted back to the community?
The core competence of most businesses does not lie in the internals of an operating system.
It can make perfect sense as well to "outsource" clerical work to Microsoft and Office 365, accounting to specialists in corporate accounting, and so on.
Contributions to open source that build on a deep investment in what you are really, really, good at, and perhaps better at than anyone else in the world, are far more likely to be enduring and influential.
Open Source
To assess the costs, D'Andrea initially uses two assumptions:
Payload of up to 2 kg.
Range of 10 km with headwinds of up to 30 km/h.
Is package delivery using drones feasible?
I don't know the situation where you live.
But I don't see many warehouses here within 6 miles/10 km of a middle class residential district. 30 to 60 km would be closer to the truth. The central warehouse of our largest regional supermarket chain is 150 miles/240 km east.
That it's = it is.
It's pretty embarrassing when a published author doesn't pay attention to the basics taught to 9 year olds in third grade.
The number of hits returned from a Google search for "its vs it's:" 1,030,000,000. Searching Google for "its vs it's grammar" will return a still impressive 41,100,000 hits.
41 million online grammar lessons and no one gets this right.
It's ridiculous.
Let's take the most salient, and for some the most grating, example: its vs. it's.
The distinction is simple, the grammarian says. ''It's'' is a contraction of ''it is.'' Therefore, ''it'' requires an apostrophe. Everyone who thinks otherwise should be burned in a fire.
But wait! To form the possessive in English, we add 's to the end of the noun. Thus, we might expect '''it's'' to be possessive, and ''its'' to be plural.
What we have is two word formation rules that are in conflict: The rule for possessive formation leads us to believe that ''it's'' is a possessive, while the rule for contraction formation leads us to believe that it's a contraction. Which rule, then, gets precedence? There is no straightforward way to resolve this. We just have to pick one, accept the resulting inconsistency, and go with it.
To top it all, it doesn't really matter. The distinction between ''its'' and ''it's'' only is without force. You are never going to be in a position where you could be confused between the two.
There are many more examples: ''there'' vs. ''their, ''lose'' vs. ''loose,'' etc. Each is a clear violation of grammar, but that's it. There is no confusion in meaning or intent. No argument will be led astray because of a resulting misunderstanding. But still, it's continually made a point of argument. The contention is usually that poor grammar and spelling is an indication of stupidity, which means arguments from grammar are a particularly anemic ad hominem.
Criticizing grammar errors impedes communication
[[I think it only fair that the grammar Nazi should be forced to post a quote like this into every forum page where cut-and-paste does not work.]]
Kids don't WANT to use technology for learning or productivity. They want to use it for having fun. What's your point?
The one billion dollars spent on tech meant for educational use. You want to buy all these kids their high-tech toys, fine. But do it of your own pocket, not the taxpayers,
Let's look at the premise:
Better yet, let's look at your premises and see how many of them are true.
If you hand a kid a gadget he or she has never seen before, it is likely that he or she will fearlessly and successfully figure out what to do with it in short order without the slightest thought to reading instructions or seeking help. Kids are growing up with all the wonderful devices and applications that stymie their elders.
Yet these same kids are likely to give little thought to the most efficacious or safest ways to use technology. Part of being young is to ignore warnings and directions. This combination of intuitive ability and lack of examination can lead to less productive and even dangerous use of technology by Digital Natives.
Here are some examples of what I mean:
Kids don't know how to search.
Kids don't know how to evaluate.
Kids don't know how to stay safe.
Kids don't know how to search
The simple process of varying search terms is not common to many young searchers: 10.2% responded that kids 'never' do this, and 71.2% said they 'sometimes' do. Only 2% could boast that their students always know to do this. Narrowing a search is another simple skill utilised far too seldom, with 20% reporting this never happens.
As to Boolean searching, the gap was the greatest: 56.2% said students never use these methods, which suggests to me a lack of instruction. No one reported that students always know to employ these techniques.
But here is a bigger problem: 'bouncing'. David Loertscher, PhD, used this very appropriate label to describe...a common practice: moving quickly from one resource to another without closely reading any material. Granted, this type of skimming may be used early in a search to find promising information, but it is not productive if a reader doesn't carefully follow up on that information.
Kids don't know how to use technology for learning or productivity
It is not enough for youngsters to be masters of their sophisticated cell phones, social networking sites, and gaming devices. Yet these are the three primary areas where kids concentrate their interest and use. Teachers are assuming too much if they take it for granted that students are experts at using applications that are available at school such as office suites, mind-mapping software, graphics tools, etc. Granted, they are likely to be quick to learn, but they do still need instruction and guidance.
Kids can use Excel for all kinds of great graphs, timelines, tables and other projects, but only if they are exposed to the software.
Kids do not know how to be smart and safe online
Because [content] filters offer a false sense of security, the teaching of safe internet searching and communicating is often given short shrift. After all, the filters are keeping out all the bad stuff, right? Wrong. Here are some problems with this line of thinking: Filters both over- and under-block. Even the 'tightest' filter can sometimes let objectionable material pass through. At the same time, a great deal of valuable information can be blocked. I have within the last year asked students to search for terms such as 'triggerfish' , 'sperm whale', and 'breast cancer', only to be blocked.
Teachers and administrators often have a false sense of security because the filters are in place. Thus, they do not actively teach students about safe internet use. When these youngsters go home, to the mall, to the public library, etc, they may be babes in the woods due to the lack of instruction about safety.
What kids know (and don't know) about technology
Posting from upstate New York.
Homes here are usually oriented east-west with rather steeply pitched roofs and minimum western exposure. What is wanted here most in winter is warmth and light and shelter from gale force winds, rain, sleet, and snow.
There seems to be a double standard where people are expected to make all sorts of completely unnecessary sacrifices to appease some control freak partner
moving the gaming machine to a spare room or the basement is simply a concession to the reality that you are no longer living alone, and that maintaining healthy relationships with your wife and kids counts for something more than the latest and greatest in RPGs and first person shooters.
What are you doing "gaming" in the living room? Dude, you are now MARRIED.
This above all.
There is too much competition for access to the big screen HDTV in a family living room. Console gaming has always been tolerated because it is readily adaptable to on-and-off the-couch social gaming.
But there are amble reasons why the next-gen consoles have been re-positioned as family friendly home media centers.
The Tea Party faction in control of the Gilbert AZ school board lost its bid for re-election.
There has been some huffing and puffing on both sides about what it might do before the new board takes control in January.
The AP Biology text is more symbol than substance.
The state of Arizona doesn't require sex education, which means that a general biology textbook is as close as a Tea Party controlled board will let students get to a serious discussion of sexual reproduction in humans, standards of sexual behavior, homosexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, abortion and so on.
Arizona law requires that districts that do offer sex ed must teach a preference for childbirth and adoption over abortion and inform students about date-rape drugs, dating violence, AIDS and other dangers.
State law requires textbooks that mention abortion to state that childbirth and adoption are preferable alternatives.
Sex ed controversies in Gilbert, Tempe an anomaly
[In Tempe, debate over a proposed two-week course in sex education] derailed when board Vice President Moses Sanchez challenged a section of the curriculum that explains birth-control devices. Sanchez asked whether an intrauterine device, or IUD, should be called an abortion method instead of a birth-control device because it works by preventing implantation of fertilized eggs.
Arizona law and board policy say a sex-ed curriculum must:
Emphasize the power of the individual to control one's own behavior.
Instruct students on how to say no to unwanted advances and peer pressure.
Teach students about the prevention of dating abuse.Stress that sexually-transmitted diseases have severe consequences.
Discuss the consequences of pregnancy.
Promote respect.
Stress abstinence until the students are mature adults.
Promote childbirth and adoption over abortion.
Instructional materials may not:
Promote a homosexual lifestyle.
Portray homosexuality as a positive alternative lifestyle.Include tests with questions about students' or their parents' beliefs regarding sex, family life, morals, values or religion.
Tempe Union High district still debating sex-ed program