I'm all for anti-spam foo, especially since spammers have recently started misspelling subject lines (ie sex spelled "seks") and hence squirm past my spam filter sieve scripts.
However, this seems amusingly similar to the evolutions of spellings that led to 1337 5p34k. IRC would filter out some words like "hacker" and disguising these words with numbers and intentional misspellings was a way to get past the filters and avoid breaks in communications. They're using our own cleverness against us.:)
I learned a lot from that book that I certainly would never have picked up from a classic textbook. So true.
Under the belief that middle school was wasting my time, the only thing I learned in history classes was how to do the minimum amount of work to get by. For the general student, having a more interesting text would at least hold interest such that he/she isn't entirely turned against history.
However, in high school, you won't learn cause/effect and source analysis from clever story-like books that do all of the work for you. Albeit, while this sort of book may be appropriate for students in less-challenging courses whose goal is basic fact and event discussion, it should be kept far away from the AP level.
The application of analysis skills to history is more more important than the actual history. To understand the ideas and politics of the time of Locke and Hobbes, why not read Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Leviathan?
Basically, the presented idea of a new style of texts is a good idea for middle school and the non-college preparatory high school level, but it should not go beyond that. Academic level history is supposed to be "boring"... mainly because it is not intended for the random lay person, but the dedicated scholar.
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"Seriously?! Now I have to change my PGP key..."
However, this seems amusingly similar to the evolutions of spellings that led to 1337 5p34k. IRC would filter out some words like "hacker" and disguising these words with numbers and intentional misspellings was a way to get past the filters and avoid breaks in communications. They're using our own cleverness against us. :)
Since when are hackers and women mutually exclusive groups? ;)
Sure! Let's hand the telemarketers our personal cellular numbers all nicely wrapped up in alphabetical format.
So true.
Under the belief that middle school was wasting my time, the only thing I learned in history classes was how to do the minimum amount of work to get by. For the general student, having a more interesting text would at least hold interest such that he/she isn't entirely turned against history.
However, in high school, you won't learn cause/effect and source analysis from clever story-like books that do all of the work for you. Albeit, while this sort of book may be appropriate for students in less-challenging courses whose goal is basic fact and event discussion, it should be kept far away from the AP level.
The application of analysis skills to history is more more important than the actual history. To understand the ideas and politics of the time of Locke and Hobbes, why not read Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Leviathan?
Basically, the presented idea of a new style of texts is a good idea for middle school and the non-college preparatory high school level, but it should not go beyond that. Academic level history is supposed to be "boring"... mainly because it is not intended for the random lay person, but the dedicated scholar.