The whole point of the literary or thematic analysis that you did was to find themes which you noticed. The author never intentionally writes to insert thematic material into a book, but there are certain themes which pop out to people reading his or her book.
And I agree that content knowledge is important, but it should not be the only goal a teacher has when trying to educate. The goal I would propose is that students need to be weaned off the need for an educator, except as someone to grant new directions in exploration of a topic.
I think that the reason that there is so much difference in what constitutes "constructivism" is because students have so many different ways of communicating past experience and knowledge, not to mention expressing personality.
One other interesting idea that I've seen repeatedly, at least coming from good teachers, is the idea of using the education system as a practicum for methods of learning. Teaching students how to learn is the single most important thing teachers can do in the 21st century, especially considering how fast the quantity of information neccessary to get good and interesting jobs is increasing. There's a good chance that those historical anecdotes won't serve much of a purpose beyond making one sound well informed, but if those anecdotes also came with an improved ability to reflect on and integrate lessons learned, than the students who studied those anecdotes are better equipped to reflect on things that happened to them in the past.
It's not neccessarily the curriculum that needs to change, but rather our concept of what's important.
Crap like this stunt are what make it difficult to have any kind of serious discussion of the merits and drawbacks of using open source software without being branded a Luinix Zealot. Seriously, if you're going to advocate freedom you should at least understand what the word means. It shouldn't mean that everyone is required to produce and use exclusively modifiable software. It should mean that everyone has the right to choose the best software for their intended outcome.
For example, there are Linux distributions which don't carry any kind of closed-source or proprietary software in their package managers. I respond to that by choosing not to use those distributions. I don't campaign vehemently against them and ignore other possibilities. Right now I'm on Windows because it works for me and what I want to accomplish. The FSF sounds like an organization which would desperately like me to not be free to choose Windows. I tried Ubuntu, and it just wasn't my thing.
Can these zealots at least acknowledge that it's possible for more than one opinion to exist in the world?
Could you describe how those mechanisms are analog?
And to other posters:
I think these patents are valid because, although it's pretty obvious that some combination of potentiometers would result in an analog joystick, the actual implementation is not obvious. How many potentiometers do you own that you can adjust by swivelling them around a central axis instead of rotating them around? The whole point of patents is to protect inventors from large corporations stealing their ideas. It seems to me that this inventor hit upon an implementation that wasn't obvious, patented it, and is now attempting to make a living from his ideas.
The only reason that activist is bothered by it is because she doesn't like fireworks. She had no problems with vacuuming, even though that's another loud noise that her dog doesn't like.
What do you mean by redheads going extinct in 100 years? Granted, I might not be around by then, but I'd like to know that at least one of my preferences in women isn't going to disappear before I'm dead.
I have an axe to grind against NCLB, but the newspaper article is completely wrong about the conclusions drawn in the study. What I'm seeing is that students at the top of the class don't advance as quickly because they are already at the peak of what is expected of them at a particular grade level. And honestly, neither my idea nor the author's idea of what the data means are really meaningful.
To clarify, the paper is actually written about the closing of the achievement gap. And neither high-achieving nor low-achieving students ever dropped in average score. This doesn't seem like a problem, based on that. I'm also not seeing the conclusion that high-achieving students are suddenly getting less attention simply because the low-achieving students are getting more attention. The only change I saw between pre-NCLB and post-NCLB scores was a decrease in the gap between low-achievers and high-achievers, indicating that the low-achievers are improving faster than before. This is actually a good thing.
Well, if you're an atmospheric scientist doing research into weather, a faster system gives you finer resolution for studying the kind of time-dependent systems that they're interested in. Don't assume that this system won't ever be used to collect scientific data to analyze. One of the advantages of a faster sampling rate is that you can make better predictions based on your data. Essentially, you have a better idea of where some deterministic system has been, and so if you have a pretty good idea of the principles under which it works you can then get a better idea of where it's going. Hell, even if we don't have a technique for making better extrapolations in the face of higher resolution data, someone somewhere will come up with a way.
The other useful thing about this kind of data collection ability is that it can also be used to improve models, especially if it has a better resolution for storm cells than the current doppler system.
The international commission of scientists who originally decided that the world's scientists should standardize around System International far, far, far supercedes IEC.
Stealing my identity, even for tax purposes, despite what you may believe, is still problematic for me. It results in the most interesting situation whereby I end up liable for taxes on wages and earnings which I never in fact earned. In the event this ever happens to me because an illegal immigrant stole my SSN and used it to work, I would be extremely pissed off.
It sounds to me like you're making the assumption that what is happening is completely victimless. Not only does it change one's tax bracket for the puposes of filing and computation, it changes what we are and aren't eligible for. Essentially, using my identity illegally results in the IRS thinking that I make more money than I actually do. This prevents me from claiming things on my return which I would otherwise be eligible for.
If you think that this is an okay situation, and that I should suck it up since I'm a citizen of the wealthiest nation of the world, then perhaps you should demonstrate your commitment to such a cause by giving away your SSN to an illegal immigrant and then file your tax return.
Being a product of that system, I can attest as to its utter uselessness. We shouldn't be integrating the mathematics in the curriculum, we should be integrating our mathematics with other curricular areas and with the real world.
Regarding basic skills, the way the world is compared to even 10 years ago means that teachers have to change what is being taught. As students in a world where information is increasing at an ever faster rate, we need to be able to learn about all the new developments in our field. We also need to be prepared to change jobs at a much greater rate than the people of the past.
Most people equate teaching with jamming knowledge into students heads. But in the future teaching needs to be less about filling students with knowledge and more about teaching them how to think, what to think about, and how to learn when their skills and knowledge is no longer adequate. The article in question is lamenting the loss of higher-level mathematics in the school curriculum while ignoring all the other changes that are slowly being implemented to replace them.
How is this insightful? The guy is basically belittling people for making the choice to stick with Windows. He uses diction which is carefully designed to belittle, like "Fischer Price OS." Not only that, he's basically espousing the antithesis of freedom of choice. Someone who truly believed in freedom and choice would say "that's cool, whatever works for you," and not what essentially amounts to "have fun with your child's toy OS, you neolithic sack baby."
This is the attitude that was turning people off to Linux in the early '00s.
Yes, but India has asked us to extradite the CEO of Dow Chemical when it happened. The reason for that is that Dow Chemical bought Union Carbide shortly after the disaster. India required Dow Chemical to take on all liabilities as well as assets of Union Carbide as part of the deal. Dow Chemical did, then turned around and said they weren't liable for Bhopal. India wants to try the CEO of Dow Chemical since his company did basically nothing about Bhopal even though they took on the liability for it. He currently resides in the Hamptons, which is no secret.
Oh, and Union Carbide knowingly disabled several safety features of the plant in an effort to cut costs. Had these features been active, the disaster at Bhopal could have been prevented.
Why would we put bracing up before putting a wall up? That doesn't make sense. I think there's one viable construction use that would actually be worthwhile, and that's because otherwise someone has to stick their hand in the wall to do it.
Please note that it is VERY difficult to conceal a 4-foot long rifle in the front pocket of a hooded sweatshirt. And walking around on the street with one is likely to get you very odd looks, if not phone calls to and visits from the police.
Actually Hussein was vehemently opposed to terrorist organizations and everything that they stood for. He was on friendly terms with the US for a very long time before we decided we didn't like how he was using the guns we gave him. He affected quite a few Western fashions, including being clean-shaven and wearing business suits and ties. And he was quite a secular man as well.
Basically what I'm saying is that what you're saying is flat-out untrue.
And Pearl Harbor was an attack by a nation on another nation, not a criminal act commited by a bunch of thugs with flight training. There's a difference that a lot of people miss. Terrorists are not military, they are criminals. If you lump them in with military fighters then you are essentially granting their actions legitimacy as acts of war. We should not be making war on terrorists, we should be assisting soverign nations in arresting and prosecuting criminals. The second we started doing the former we granted our enemies legitimacy by accepting that we and they were equals internationally.
Wow, it's amazing how similar the two OSes seem if you completely ignore all the details. For example, did you know that instead of having to use the Finder to find all your applications, Windows 95 had this thing called a Start Menu which allowed all your applications to be grouped in one place completely seperately from their installation directories? This is something that MacOS didn't have until quite recently.
I'd say that, rather than borrowing heavily from MacOS which wasn't even a major competitor at the time of release, Windows 95 borrowed heavily from OS/2, which was meant to be IBM's bid for popularity.
Apparently these guys don't know what an IQ test is. The first question I got was a "general knowledge" question, which doesn't require any type of intellectual inference. It's just a matter of whether or not you've absorbed the knowledge somehow.
I've read that a typical person can only remember about 3 strings of 3-4 numbers at a time. This is why phone numbers, social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and a whole host of other numbers are in triplets or quadlets. Try remembering the number using the familiar place names like thousands, millions, billions, and you should be able to recall more of the information.
Well, if you've ever been in school, you know that the demands it makes on a person are much greater than a full-time job. Plus there's also the need to have some type of social life outside of work, and for some people a need to cook in order to eat. These things combined mean that there isn't a lot of room in life to sleep.
What I'm saying is that your solution, although the better one, is not the most feasible one.
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The whole point of the literary or thematic analysis that you did was to find themes which you noticed. The author never intentionally writes to insert thematic material into a book, but there are certain themes which pop out to people reading his or her book.
And I agree that content knowledge is important, but it should not be the only goal a teacher has when trying to educate. The goal I would propose is that students need to be weaned off the need for an educator, except as someone to grant new directions in exploration of a topic.
I think that the reason that there is so much difference in what constitutes "constructivism" is because students have so many different ways of communicating past experience and knowledge, not to mention expressing personality.
One other interesting idea that I've seen repeatedly, at least coming from good teachers, is the idea of using the education system as a practicum for methods of learning. Teaching students how to learn is the single most important thing teachers can do in the 21st century, especially considering how fast the quantity of information neccessary to get good and interesting jobs is increasing. There's a good chance that those historical anecdotes won't serve much of a purpose beyond making one sound well informed, but if those anecdotes also came with an improved ability to reflect on and integrate lessons learned, than the students who studied those anecdotes are better equipped to reflect on things that happened to them in the past.
It's not neccessarily the curriculum that needs to change, but rather our concept of what's important.
Crap like this stunt are what make it difficult to have any kind of serious discussion of the merits and drawbacks of using open source software without being branded a Luinix Zealot. Seriously, if you're going to advocate freedom you should at least understand what the word means. It shouldn't mean that everyone is required to produce and use exclusively modifiable software. It should mean that everyone has the right to choose the best software for their intended outcome.
For example, there are Linux distributions which don't carry any kind of closed-source or proprietary software in their package managers. I respond to that by choosing not to use those distributions. I don't campaign vehemently against them and ignore other possibilities. Right now I'm on Windows because it works for me and what I want to accomplish. The FSF sounds like an organization which would desperately like me to not be free to choose Windows. I tried Ubuntu, and it just wasn't my thing.
Can these zealots at least acknowledge that it's possible for more than one opinion to exist in the world?
Could you describe how those mechanisms are analog?
And to other posters:
I think these patents are valid because, although it's pretty obvious that some combination of potentiometers would result in an analog joystick, the actual implementation is not obvious. How many potentiometers do you own that you can adjust by swivelling them around a central axis instead of rotating them around? The whole point of patents is to protect inventors from large corporations stealing their ideas. It seems to me that this inventor hit upon an implementation that wasn't obvious, patented it, and is now attempting to make a living from his ideas.
The only reason that activist is bothered by it is because she doesn't like fireworks. She had no problems with vacuuming, even though that's another loud noise that her dog doesn't like.
What do you mean by redheads going extinct in 100 years? Granted, I might not be around by then, but I'd like to know that at least one of my preferences in women isn't going to disappear before I'm dead.
I have an axe to grind against NCLB, but the newspaper article is completely wrong about the conclusions drawn in the study. What I'm seeing is that students at the top of the class don't advance as quickly because they are already at the peak of what is expected of them at a particular grade level. And honestly, neither my idea nor the author's idea of what the data means are really meaningful.
To clarify, the paper is actually written about the closing of the achievement gap. And neither high-achieving nor low-achieving students ever dropped in average score. This doesn't seem like a problem, based on that. I'm also not seeing the conclusion that high-achieving students are suddenly getting less attention simply because the low-achieving students are getting more attention. The only change I saw between pre-NCLB and post-NCLB scores was a decrease in the gap between low-achievers and high-achievers, indicating that the low-achievers are improving faster than before. This is actually a good thing.
Well, if you're an atmospheric scientist doing research into weather, a faster system gives you finer resolution for studying the kind of time-dependent systems that they're interested in. Don't assume that this system won't ever be used to collect scientific data to analyze. One of the advantages of a faster sampling rate is that you can make better predictions based on your data. Essentially, you have a better idea of where some deterministic system has been, and so if you have a pretty good idea of the principles under which it works you can then get a better idea of where it's going. Hell, even if we don't have a technique for making better extrapolations in the face of higher resolution data, someone somewhere will come up with a way.
The other useful thing about this kind of data collection ability is that it can also be used to improve models, especially if it has a better resolution for storm cells than the current doppler system.
The international commission of scientists who originally decided that the world's scientists should standardize around System International far, far, far supercedes IEC.
Stealing my identity, even for tax purposes, despite what you may believe, is still problematic for me. It results in the most interesting situation whereby I end up liable for taxes on wages and earnings which I never in fact earned. In the event this ever happens to me because an illegal immigrant stole my SSN and used it to work, I would be extremely pissed off.
It sounds to me like you're making the assumption that what is happening is completely victimless. Not only does it change one's tax bracket for the puposes of filing and computation, it changes what we are and aren't eligible for. Essentially, using my identity illegally results in the IRS thinking that I make more money than I actually do. This prevents me from claiming things on my return which I would otherwise be eligible for.
If you think that this is an okay situation, and that I should suck it up since I'm a citizen of the wealthiest nation of the world, then perhaps you should demonstrate your commitment to such a cause by giving away your SSN to an illegal immigrant and then file your tax return.
The spirit world is bullshit!
Being a product of that system, I can attest as to its utter uselessness. We shouldn't be integrating the mathematics in the curriculum, we should be integrating our mathematics with other curricular areas and with the real world.
Regarding basic skills, the way the world is compared to even 10 years ago means that teachers have to change what is being taught. As students in a world where information is increasing at an ever faster rate, we need to be able to learn about all the new developments in our field. We also need to be prepared to change jobs at a much greater rate than the people of the past.
Most people equate teaching with jamming knowledge into students heads. But in the future teaching needs to be less about filling students with knowledge and more about teaching them how to think, what to think about, and how to learn when their skills and knowledge is no longer adequate. The article in question is lamenting the loss of higher-level mathematics in the school curriculum while ignoring all the other changes that are slowly being implemented to replace them.
How is this insightful? The guy is basically belittling people for making the choice to stick with Windows. He uses diction which is carefully designed to belittle, like "Fischer Price OS." Not only that, he's basically espousing the antithesis of freedom of choice. Someone who truly believed in freedom and choice would say "that's cool, whatever works for you," and not what essentially amounts to "have fun with your child's toy OS, you neolithic sack baby."
This is the attitude that was turning people off to Linux in the early '00s.
Yes, but India has asked us to extradite the CEO of Dow Chemical when it happened. The reason for that is that Dow Chemical bought Union Carbide shortly after the disaster. India required Dow Chemical to take on all liabilities as well as assets of Union Carbide as part of the deal. Dow Chemical did, then turned around and said they weren't liable for Bhopal. India wants to try the CEO of Dow Chemical since his company did basically nothing about Bhopal even though they took on the liability for it. He currently resides in the Hamptons, which is no secret.
Oh, and Union Carbide knowingly disabled several safety features of the plant in an effort to cut costs. Had these features been active, the disaster at Bhopal could have been prevented.
Why would we put bracing up before putting a wall up? That doesn't make sense. I think there's one viable construction use that would actually be worthwhile, and that's because otherwise someone has to stick their hand in the wall to do it.
It's almost like I was aware of that.
Please note that it is VERY difficult to conceal a 4-foot long rifle in the front pocket of a hooded sweatshirt. And walking around on the street with one is likely to get you very odd looks, if not phone calls to and visits from the police.
Actually Hussein was vehemently opposed to terrorist organizations and everything that they stood for. He was on friendly terms with the US for a very long time before we decided we didn't like how he was using the guns we gave him. He affected quite a few Western fashions, including being clean-shaven and wearing business suits and ties. And he was quite a secular man as well.
Basically what I'm saying is that what you're saying is flat-out untrue.
And Pearl Harbor was an attack by a nation on another nation, not a criminal act commited by a bunch of thugs with flight training. There's a difference that a lot of people miss. Terrorists are not military, they are criminals. If you lump them in with military fighters then you are essentially granting their actions legitimacy as acts of war. We should not be making war on terrorists, we should be assisting soverign nations in arresting and prosecuting criminals. The second we started doing the former we granted our enemies legitimacy by accepting that we and they were equals internationally.
He's trolling. Don't be stupid.
And where all the pretty english girls went?
Wow, it's amazing how similar the two OSes seem if you completely ignore all the details. For example, did you know that instead of having to use the Finder to find all your applications, Windows 95 had this thing called a Start Menu which allowed all your applications to be grouped in one place completely seperately from their installation directories? This is something that MacOS didn't have until quite recently.
I'd say that, rather than borrowing heavily from MacOS which wasn't even a major competitor at the time of release, Windows 95 borrowed heavily from OS/2, which was meant to be IBM's bid for popularity.
Apparently these guys don't know what an IQ test is. The first question I got was a "general knowledge" question, which doesn't require any type of intellectual inference. It's just a matter of whether or not you've absorbed the knowledge somehow.
I've read that a typical person can only remember about 3 strings of 3-4 numbers at a time. This is why phone numbers, social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and a whole host of other numbers are in triplets or quadlets. Try remembering the number using the familiar place names like thousands, millions, billions, and you should be able to recall more of the information.
Well, if you've ever been in school, you know that the demands it makes on a person are much greater than a full-time job. Plus there's also the need to have some type of social life outside of work, and for some people a need to cook in order to eat. These things combined mean that there isn't a lot of room in life to sleep.
What I'm saying is that your solution, although the better one, is not the most feasible one.