20 JUN 2017 by ideonexus
Choral Reading
Choral reading gives students the experience of reading aloud without the stress of reading alone. Based upon the previously described research demonstrating that repeated stimulation of neuronal networks increases their efficiency, it makes sense that the experience of reading aloud together reinforces patterns.
When we start the choral reading, I ask students to whisper the words as I read aloud. Th is process continues until students become more confident. As the reading progresses and I ... 1 
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"This Is Not a..." Game
A game called “Th is Is Not a...” encourages multiple solutions and is played in a relaxed environment that encourages creativity. Students pass around an object—such as a toy telephone—and say, “This is not a....” Younger students name an object that is not a toy telephone (for example, “This is not a pencil.”). Older students continue and say, “This is not a toy telephone, it is a...,” and they gesture or mime to suggest the object that they are pretending the toy teleph...
1 30 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
The Problem with the X-Files
The cult of The X-Files has been defended as harmless because it is, after
all, only fiction. On the face of it, that is a fair defence. But regularly recurring fiction - soap operas, cop series find the like - are legitimately
criticized if, week after week, they systematically present a one-sided
view of the world. The X-Files is a television series in which, every week,
two FBI agents face a mystery. One of the two, Scully, favours a rational,
scientific explanation; the other agent, Mulde...Folksonomies: science fiction criticism
Folksonomies: science fiction criticism
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notes27 APR 2013 by ideonexus
Handling Self Doubt
I think the more you know, the more you realize just how much you don't know. So paradoxically, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more you might tend to fixate on the growing collection of unlearned peripheral concepts that you become conscious of along the way.
That can manifest itself as feelings of fraudulence when people are calling you a "guru" or "expert" while you're internally overwhelmed by the ever-expanding volumes of things you're learning that you don't know.
However, ...Folksonomies: learning cognitive bias
Folksonomies: learning cognitive bias
1 When dealing with self-doubt about one's abilities, remember that what you don't know is a treasure map that less-skilled people don't have.
08 JAN 2013 by ideonexus
George Washington Promotes Science and Literature
Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of Science and Literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of Government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the Community as in ours it is proportionably essential. To the security of a free Constitution it contributes in various ways: By convincing those who are...As the keys to happiness and to preserve liberty.
06 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
1889 Prediction That Has Almost Come True
We may indeed live yet to see, or at least we may feel some confidence that those who come after us will see, such bodies as oxygen and hydrogen in the liquid, perhaps even in the solid state, and the question of their metallic or non-metallic nature thereby finally settled.Folksonomies: prescience predictions
Folksonomies: prescience predictions
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notesAndrews predicts our seeing hydrogen as a liquid; although, I do not know if we have seen it as a solid yet.
19 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Many Hypotheses Become Theories
The distinction between the two dictionary meanings of 'theory' is not an unbridgeable
chasm, as many historical examples show. In the history of science, theorums often start off as
'mere' hypotheses. Like the theory of continental drift, an idea may even begin its career mired in
ridicule, before progressing by painful steps to the status of a theorum or undisputed fact. This is
not a philosophically difficult point. The fact that some widely held past beliefs have been
conclusively proved ... 1 notes
notesBeliefs about things are often proven false, but evolution and heliocentric theory are here to stay.
18 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Washington Promotes Science and Education
...there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential. To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways: by convincing those who are entrusted with the public administration, that every valuable ... 1 notes
notesIn order to ensure a strong democracy.
29 MAR 2011 by ideonexus
Humans Are Strong, Civilization is Fragile
We have confidence in our science-based civilization and think it has tenure. In so doing, I think we fail to distinguish between the life-span of civilizations and that of our species. In fact, civilizations are ephemeral compared with species. Humans have lasted at least a million years, but there have been 30 civilizations in the past 5000 years. Humans are tough and will survive; civilizations are fragile. It seems clear to me that we are not evolving in intelligence, not becoming true Ho...Humans will survive the death of civilization, which has happened 30 times over the centuries.
02 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
Assessing Trust, Subjective Logic, Real-Valued Triple
Another key factor in assessing the trustworthiness of a document is the reliability or otherwise of the claims expressed within it; metadata about provenance will no doubt help in such judgements but need not necessarily resolve them. Representing confidence in reliability has always been difficult in epistemic logics. In the context of knowledge representation approaches include: subjective logic, which represents an opinion as a real-valued triple (belief, disbelief, uncertainty) where the... 1 notes
notesNeed to follow up on these concepts, learn more about them for establishing the trustworthiness and quality of content.
