Having taught for over ten years, I have worked with a couple of my previous students (after they graduated from college) and kept in touch with others over the years.
My rule of thumb is that I don't have anything beyond a casual conversation with students until they have been out of school for 3 or 4 years because information might trickle its way back if they have only been out for a year or two but even that would now be criminal in Missouri.
I suppose teachers would have to forget online games with ex-students as well. I did occasionally have fun letting the freshman slaughter me at CoD or whatever their favorite FPS at the time is.
Cable doesn't get interference from a microwave or a factory nearby that runs something every monday. It has no dark spots, no interference.
If cable doesn't get interference then why do we have shielded twisted pair cable?
Also, there is something called Alien Crosstalk which is the coupling of signals between cables, a key issue in the development and implementation of 10G-BASE T Ethernet. I am unaware of the issue being solved yet.
Hmm...lets bust out some principles of cognitive psychology here.
Knowledge is a constructive process. Your ability to learn new things, some like the term "meaningful learning," is based upon your ability to take new knowledge and connect it to something that you already know. If you do not have previous experiences to connect knew information to then the process is going to be rather hard and timely.
10 or 20 years of programming should give you countless bits of knowledge to make the right mental connections to pick up a new programming language, assuming that the language is somewhat comparable. A nice analogy is that speaking English for 50 years does not help much when learning a Chinese dialect.
A downside of being older is that you have very strong memory connections that can get in the way when you are trying to do something new. Switching from the command line in DOS to Linux and typing ls vs. dir is a simple example. With practice, however, you will develop a new level of automaticity with the new language and the strong memory habits of the old language will fade.
I believe that you are right when you say that it depends upon how motivated an individual is. Old folks tend to say, bah, I don't feel like putting in the effort. In reality, however, there is no way that a kid straight out of high school can compete with a motivated adult. They just have too many memories and experiences to compete with.
Disclaimer: Creativity is what it is and does not necessarily have a correlation to age and experience.
There are a number of different methods for the evaluation of written essays using computer analysis. You are correct in your assumption that the process has limitations but it is really quite complicated and much more advanced than the short list of factors you gave. Since you have a PhD, I am assuming that you have access to academic research databases for retrieving journal articles. I'll give you a starting point on the the subject by arbitrarily picking a method that uses singular value decomposition (reducing a large matrix into a smaller one) in combination with latent semantic analysis (statistical representation of the similarity between individual words or text passages based upon a large corpus of text):
Garcia, E. (2007). A tutorial on singular value decomposition (svd) and latent semantic indexing (lsi), its advantages, applications and limitations.
Landauer, T. K., Foltz, P. W., & Laham, D. (1998). Introduction to latent semantic analysis. Discourse Processes, 25, 259-284.
Deerwester, S. T., Furnas, G. W., Harshman, R. A., Landauer, T. K., Lochbaum, K. E., & Streeter, L. A. (1989). Computer information retrieval using latent semantic structure. U.S. Patent No. 4,839,853. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. K. (1997). A solution to Plato’s problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological Review, 104(2), 211–240
Wolfe, M. W., Schreiner, M. E., Rehder, B., Laham, D., Foltz, P. W., Kintsch, W., & Landauer, T. K. (1998). Learning from text: Matching readers and texts by latent semantic analysis. Discourse Processes, 25(2/3), 309-336.
"The study showed a substantial relationship between an individual's cognitive ability and their choice of web browser," AptiQuant concluded. "From the test results, it is a clear indication that individuals on the lower side of the IQ scale tend to resist a change/upgrade of their browsers."
AptiQuant also conducted several studies looking into possible correlations between intelligence and beer choice and favorite ice cream flavor. Results forthcoming courtesy of News Corp.
"The study showed a substantial relationship between an individual's cognitive ability and their choice of web browser," AptiQuant concluded. "From the test results, it is a clear indication that individuals on the lower side of the IQ scale tend to resist a change/upgrade of their browsers."
AptiQuant also conducted studies looking for possible correlations between intelligence and beer choice, peanut butter choice, and favorite ice cream flavor, results forthcoming courtesy of News Corp.
Not the current generation but the past two. The heavy bass from rap had gone mainstream back around 1990. My friends who graduated in 1992 have just had their kids start graduating from HS.
I think that you make a very good point here. Props and clothing are "Art" from a philosophical perspective, just as everything else can be. Ultimately, however, not everything is "Art" from a legal standpoint. A restaurant cannot put coconut on a hamburger, call it art, and claim copyright for X number of years.
I can't help but think of the sale of faux or replica designer handbags (the ones without the actual designer label) but I can't find much on the legality of this. Otherwise, clothing falls under the category of something that is useful or having a utilitarian purpose and typically not subject to copyright.
Hmm...one might say that your comments could be described as an attempt to justify your own background or lack thereof. Your educational background is?
A terminal degree does not guarantee anything except that the individual is highly educated but anyone who would state that a Ph.D.knows less than a B.S. is a fool. Will they be "smarter", more "creative", or make more money? Of course not. But to claim they will know less than a B.S.? Sounds like penis envy to me.
Dude. Please go read about slavery, then never compare having your license plate kept in a database to being chained in the hull of a ship for months, sold, forced to labor, quartered in a shack, bred like a dog, and fed garbage for the rest of your short, disease-ridden life.
Perhaps you should reconsider your definition of slavery. Does it include indentured servants? Many relief organizations would say that slavery is bigger today than ever before. Just because someone thinks that they see a potential rebuilding of a slave-like state does not make them a moron.
Hahaha! I'd hang myself in the process. No...I will choose to give the rope masters the credit the deserve and wait until a revolution overtakes the US for us to have such gyms as you call them. Or I'll buy a plane ticket. Looks much more fun than the Colosseum! Maybe they can design a new one with tigers.
No, I'm not trolling. For my movie watching and gaming habits, swapping movies any time I want (legacy account) means that I can go get a movie for my wife in a couple minutes with a BB store right down the street. For game rental, 1 free game a month satisfies my habit and is quite a bit cheaper than netflix + gamefly.
Wow...the first thought that ran through my mind was...How much is a plane ticket? I wanna go play on that bada** rope tower of doom like Mad Max in Thunderdome! Though I would have to say that if any of the other kids were playing Tina Turner, I might be a little scared!
Blockbuster. $23/month. 3 movies out at a time, unlimited in store exchanges, 1 video game rental a month. Yes, there is no streaming but there are many ways for me to get movies online if I feel like it. Sure, the rentals aren't as good as Gamefly but for the casual renter of movies and games, Blockbuster is hard to beat.
We are in the golden age of video rentals any way you look at it. $16/month for unlimited movies? That's basically free. I'm sure some of the other old timers can remember renting VHS for 4 or 5 bucks for a couple nights with late fees being the full rental price.
The sad thing is that streaming rentals is limited and there may come a time where the general public rues the day that they let the video stores close down. It's kinda nice to be able to go for a drive, rent a movie or two, and pick up an ice cream cone on the way home. On the flip side, I will enjoy the day where streaming lives up to its potential and lets me watch whatever, whenever. I suspect I won't like the price, however.
Makes sense if you need to actually do work on your laptop and need enhanced visuals. Sure, it's heavy but weight isn't a concern for everyone and every situation. On the opposite end of the spectrum is the Mac Book Air which weighs nothing but has lower computing power at a premium price.
But if you are traveling to nice hotels, why not just plug into the Plasma/LCD in the room for a second display?
We need hands on AND teaching to the test. If you do not test students, how do you know what they learned? If you do NOT teach to the test, what are you testing them on? Do you remember taking those tests where the teacher included items not covered in the text or in the lectures? There is a fine line separating the right way and a wrong way to teach to the test, a line I like to refer to as common sense.
Although this does not address the fundamental problem of restricting full access to the information, products such as Abbyy Fine Reader (http://www.dcainfo.com) provide the ability to use OCR to gain access to the text.
I'm not certain that a citation is needed on this one since we are all well aware that drunk driving is the leading cause of deaths on the road but here you go:
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 33,808 people died in traffic crashes in 2009 in the United States (latest figures available), including an estimated 10,839 people who died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. Drunk driving fatalities accounted for 32% of all traffic deaths last year, that is, on average someone is killed in an alcohol-impaired driving crash about every 50 minutes in the U.S. (Source: NHTSA/FARS, 2010)
Most drunk drivers, especially the real alcoholics...you know, the ones that are getting shots of vodka before work at 7am, can drive as good drunk (and often times better) as when sober. At least most of the time. I've seen hundreds of drunk drivers. Sometimes they drive erratic and very often they drive below the speed limit, kinda like old men in hats. It is very different than your average jerk behind a wheel. A nurse once told me that the number of alcohol related accidents would drop if the drivers would simply stop smoking behind the wheel because they often drop their cigarettes and reach down to find it.
Not saying that it couldn't be done but a boycott might be a bit of a problem since these are three of the biggest peer-reviewed journal publishers. Consider the following lists of journals:
The transition would also be met with an extreme amount of resistance from the professors working towards tenure. If they do not publish due to the boycott then suddenly you have another problem in the system that must be addressed. For doctoral students, they suddenly run the risk of not having access to seminal articles along with the latest upcoming research. That would have a significant impact on their ability to conduct high quality research and subsequently find a job after graduation.
Sure, many of those problems could be addressed but a united front in academia, oftentimes an egotistic political train-wreck, is unlikely.
Education, as a field of study, was also in it's stages of infancy at this time. Knowledge was still believed to be acquired and much emphasis was placed upon rote memorization. The foundation set forth by Dewey was a good fifty years off and contemporary constructivism a full century.
I would imagine that the prep schools for the Ivy's were teaching to the test so not only were the students prepared, it may go to show that things haven't changed as much as we would initially think.
Really? Is that how your mom taught you to end disagreements? I'm fascinated by how certain individuals such as yourself behave when enshrouded by the anonymity provided by the internet.
You are a content creator? Is that a career? You have had a few jobs and semi-viral videos? Are you arguing for an imagined potential or an actual career? Is this different from the argument of no taxes for the rich because I might be rich someday?
I'm not going to sit back and support some dinosaur media giant such as HMI but I can hardly support a sell-out who thinks that they are a real artist describing themselves as a "content creator."
In reality, the majority of the information on the internet, youtube in particular, is subject to copyright infringement.
Two choices can be made here: a.) Change current copyright laws b.) eliminate sites such as youtube.
Saving the income of scab artists a.k.a. content creators is not on the list.
I agree and will elaborate. Here comes the boring Ed Psych stuff, forgive me because I am preparing for my comps.
Cognitive load theory, if there is any value in it, says in layman's terms that the mind suffers from overload if presented with too much information at any given time. As we teach students, we should break our information up into "chunks" to reduce overload and encourage consistent study habits instead of the night before cramming that most of us are all familiar with.
Authentic learning tasks should be promoted, as the Woz suggests, but incremental evaluations should not be removed. Instead of looking to reinvent the wheel, perhaps the Woz should look at merging two very effective learning methodologies.
US Copyright law, though rather complicated, does not typically include any works before 1923. Edison's wax cylinders would not be typically covered by copyright though I'm sure that the RIAA could find a couple exceptions.
Slashdot Mirror
Having taught for over ten years, I have worked with a couple of my previous students (after they graduated from college) and kept in touch with others over the years.
My rule of thumb is that I don't have anything beyond a casual conversation with students until they have been out of school for 3 or 4 years because information might trickle its way back if they have only been out for a year or two but even that would now be criminal in Missouri.
I suppose teachers would have to forget online games with ex-students as well. I did occasionally have fun letting the freshman slaughter me at CoD or whatever their favorite FPS at the time is.
Cable doesn't get interference from a microwave or a factory nearby that runs something every monday. It has no dark spots, no interference.
If cable doesn't get interference then why do we have shielded twisted pair cable?
Also, there is something called Alien Crosstalk which is the coupling of signals between cables, a key issue in the development and implementation of 10G-BASE T Ethernet. I am unaware of the issue being solved yet.
He can still return the device for a full refund. At that point, he can make a case for the lower price.
Hmm...lets bust out some principles of cognitive psychology here.
Knowledge is a constructive process. Your ability to learn new things, some like the term "meaningful learning," is based upon your ability to take new knowledge and connect it to something that you already know. If you do not have previous experiences to connect knew information to then the process is going to be rather hard and timely.
10 or 20 years of programming should give you countless bits of knowledge to make the right mental connections to pick up a new programming language, assuming that the language is somewhat comparable. A nice analogy is that speaking English for 50 years does not help much when learning a Chinese dialect.
A downside of being older is that you have very strong memory connections that can get in the way when you are trying to do something new. Switching from the command line in DOS to Linux and typing ls vs. dir is a simple example. With practice, however, you will develop a new level of automaticity with the new language and the strong memory habits of the old language will fade.
I believe that you are right when you say that it depends upon how motivated an individual is. Old folks tend to say, bah, I don't feel like putting in the effort. In reality, however, there is no way that a kid straight out of high school can compete with a motivated adult. They just have too many memories and experiences to compete with.
Disclaimer: Creativity is what it is and does not necessarily have a correlation to age and experience.
There are a number of different methods for the evaluation of written essays using computer analysis. You are correct in your assumption that the process has limitations but it is really quite complicated and much more advanced than the short list of factors you gave. Since you have a PhD, I am assuming that you have access to academic research databases for retrieving journal articles. I'll give you a starting point on the the subject by arbitrarily picking a method that uses singular value decomposition (reducing a large matrix into a smaller one) in combination with latent semantic analysis (statistical representation of the similarity between individual words or text passages based upon a large corpus of text):
Garcia, E. (2007). A tutorial on singular value decomposition (svd) and latent semantic indexing (lsi), its advantages, applications and limitations.
Landauer, T. K., Foltz, P. W., & Laham, D. (1998). Introduction to latent semantic analysis. Discourse Processes, 25, 259-284.
Deerwester, S. T., Furnas, G. W., Harshman, R. A., Landauer, T. K., Lochbaum, K. E., & Streeter, L. A. (1989). Computer information retrieval using latent semantic structure. U.S. Patent No. 4,839,853. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. K. (1997). A solution to Plato’s problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological Review, 104(2), 211–240
Wolfe, M. W., Schreiner, M. E., Rehder, B., Laham, D., Foltz, P. W., Kintsch, W., & Landauer, T. K. (1998). Learning from text: Matching readers and texts by latent semantic analysis. Discourse Processes, 25(2/3), 309-336.
"The study showed a substantial relationship between an individual's cognitive ability and their choice of web browser," AptiQuant concluded. "From the test results, it is a clear indication that individuals on the lower side of the IQ scale tend to resist a change/upgrade of their browsers."
AptiQuant also conducted several studies looking into possible correlations between intelligence and beer choice and favorite ice cream flavor. Results forthcoming courtesy of News Corp.
"The study showed a substantial relationship between an individual's cognitive ability and their choice of web browser," AptiQuant concluded. "From the test results, it is a clear indication that individuals on the lower side of the IQ scale tend to resist a change/upgrade of their browsers."
AptiQuant also conducted studies looking for possible correlations between intelligence and beer choice, peanut butter choice, and favorite ice cream flavor, results forthcoming courtesy of News Corp.
Not the current generation but the past two. The heavy bass from rap had gone mainstream back around 1990. My friends who graduated in 1992 have just had their kids start graduating from HS.
I think that you make a very good point here. Props and clothing are "Art" from a philosophical perspective, just as everything else can be. Ultimately, however, not everything is "Art" from a legal standpoint. A restaurant cannot put coconut on a hamburger, call it art, and claim copyright for X number of years.
I can't help but think of the sale of faux or replica designer handbags (the ones without the actual designer label) but I can't find much on the legality of this. Otherwise, clothing falls under the category of something that is useful or having a utilitarian purpose and typically not subject to copyright.
Hmm...one might say that your comments could be described as an attempt to justify your own background or lack thereof. Your educational background is?
A terminal degree does not guarantee anything except that the individual is highly educated but anyone who would state that a Ph.D.knows less than a B.S. is a fool. Will they be "smarter", more "creative", or make more money? Of course not. But to claim they will know less than a B.S.? Sounds like penis envy to me.
Dude. Please go read about slavery, then never compare having your license plate kept in a database to being chained in the hull of a ship for months, sold, forced to labor, quartered in a shack, bred like a dog, and fed garbage for the rest of your short, disease-ridden life.
Perhaps you should reconsider your definition of slavery. Does it include indentured servants? Many relief organizations would say that slavery is bigger today than ever before. Just because someone thinks that they see a potential rebuilding of a slave-like state does not make them a moron.
Moron.
Hahaha! I'd hang myself in the process. No...I will choose to give the rope masters the credit the deserve and wait until a revolution overtakes the US for us to have such gyms as you call them. Or I'll buy a plane ticket. Looks much more fun than the Colosseum! Maybe they can design a new one with tigers.
No, I'm not trolling. For my movie watching and gaming habits, swapping movies any time I want (legacy account) means that I can go get a movie for my wife in a couple minutes with a BB store right down the street. For game rental, 1 free game a month satisfies my habit and is quite a bit cheaper than netflix + gamefly.
Wow...the first thought that ran through my mind was...How much is a plane ticket? I wanna go play on that bada** rope tower of doom like Mad Max in Thunderdome! Though I would have to say that if any of the other kids were playing Tina Turner, I might be a little scared!
Blockbuster. $23/month. 3 movies out at a time, unlimited in store exchanges, 1 video game rental a month. Yes, there is no streaming but there are many ways for me to get movies online if I feel like it. Sure, the rentals aren't as good as Gamefly but for the casual renter of movies and games, Blockbuster is hard to beat.
We are in the golden age of video rentals any way you look at it. $16/month for unlimited movies? That's basically free. I'm sure some of the other old timers can remember renting VHS for 4 or 5 bucks for a couple nights with late fees being the full rental price.
The sad thing is that streaming rentals is limited and there may come a time where the general public rues the day that they let the video stores close down. It's kinda nice to be able to go for a drive, rent a movie or two, and pick up an ice cream cone on the way home. On the flip side, I will enjoy the day where streaming lives up to its potential and lets me watch whatever, whenever. I suspect I won't like the price, however.
Makes sense if you need to actually do work on your laptop and need enhanced visuals. Sure, it's heavy but weight isn't a concern for everyone and every situation. On the opposite end of the spectrum is the Mac Book Air which weighs nothing but has lower computing power at a premium price.
But if you are traveling to nice hotels, why not just plug into the Plasma/LCD in the room for a second display?
We need hands on AND teaching to the test. If you do not test students, how do you know what they learned? If you do NOT teach to the test, what are you testing them on? Do you remember taking those tests where the teacher included items not covered in the text or in the lectures? There is a fine line separating the right way and a wrong way to teach to the test, a line I like to refer to as common sense.
Although this does not address the fundamental problem of restricting full access to the information, products such as Abbyy Fine Reader (http://www.dcainfo.com) provide the ability to use OCR to gain access to the text.
I'm not certain that a citation is needed on this one since we are all well aware that drunk driving is the leading cause of deaths on the road but here you go:
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 33,808 people died in traffic crashes in 2009 in the United States (latest figures available), including an estimated 10,839 people who died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. Drunk driving fatalities accounted for 32% of all traffic deaths last year, that is, on average someone is killed in an alcohol-impaired driving crash about every 50 minutes in the U.S. (Source: NHTSA/FARS, 2010)
Most drunk drivers, especially the real alcoholics...you know, the ones that are getting shots of vodka before work at 7am, can drive as good drunk (and often times better) as when sober. At least most of the time. I've seen hundreds of drunk drivers. Sometimes they drive erratic and very often they drive below the speed limit, kinda like old men in hats. It is very different than your average jerk behind a wheel. A nurse once told me that the number of alcohol related accidents would drop if the drivers would simply stop smoking behind the wheel because they often drop their cigarettes and reach down to find it.
Not saying that it couldn't be done but a boycott might be a bit of a problem since these are three of the biggest peer-reviewed journal publishers. Consider the following lists of journals:
Cambridge
Oxford
Sage
The transition would also be met with an extreme amount of resistance from the professors working towards tenure. If they do not publish due to the boycott then suddenly you have another problem in the system that must be addressed. For doctoral students, they suddenly run the risk of not having access to seminal articles along with the latest upcoming research. That would have a significant impact on their ability to conduct high quality research and subsequently find a job after graduation.
Sure, many of those problems could be addressed but a united front in academia, oftentimes an egotistic political train-wreck, is unlikely.
Education, as a field of study, was also in it's stages of infancy at this time. Knowledge was still believed to be acquired and much emphasis was placed upon rote memorization. The foundation set forth by Dewey was a good fifty years off and contemporary constructivism a full century.
I would imagine that the prep schools for the Ivy's were teaching to the test so not only were the students prepared, it may go to show that things haven't changed as much as we would initially think.
FOAD.
Really? Is that how your mom taught you to end disagreements? I'm fascinated by how certain individuals such as yourself behave when enshrouded by the anonymity provided by the internet.
You are a content creator? Is that a career? You have had a few jobs and semi-viral videos? Are you arguing for an imagined potential or an actual career? Is this different from the argument of no taxes for the rich because I might be rich someday?
I'm not going to sit back and support some dinosaur media giant such as HMI but I can hardly support a sell-out who thinks that they are a real artist describing themselves as a "content creator."
In reality, the majority of the information on the internet, youtube in particular, is subject to copyright infringement.
Two choices can be made here: a.) Change current copyright laws b.) eliminate sites such as youtube.
Saving the income of scab artists a.k.a. content creators is not on the list.
I agree and will elaborate. Here comes the boring Ed Psych stuff, forgive me because I am preparing for my comps.
Cognitive load theory, if there is any value in it, says in layman's terms that the mind suffers from overload if presented with too much information at any given time. As we teach students, we should break our information up into "chunks" to reduce overload and encourage consistent study habits instead of the night before cramming that most of us are all familiar with.
Authentic learning tasks should be promoted, as the Woz suggests, but incremental evaluations should not be removed. Instead of looking to reinvent the wheel, perhaps the Woz should look at merging two very effective learning methodologies.
US Copyright law, though rather complicated, does not typically include any works before 1923. Edison's wax cylinders would not be typically covered by copyright though I'm sure that the RIAA could find a couple exceptions.