03 APR 2015 by ideonexus
Four C's of Technology and Education
Creation: Allowing students to use technology for creation purposes allows them to tap their creative juices for presentations of knowledge learned. ... I am a fan of not limiting the students and allowing them to choose how they want to "present." A well-written rubric allows a teacher to grade any content in any type of presentation fairly.
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Consumption: ... There is data out there that says students don't learn as well using a device to read, but also some very recent reports that s...Folksonomies: education technology
Folksonomies: education technology
09 AUG 2014 by ideonexus
vMemes
PURPLE (B-O) thinking works on emotion, security, rituals, tokens, sense of belonging (my family, my friends, my workplace) and is very responsive to peer and family pressures
RED (C-P) thinking is assertive (aggressive!), energetic, powerful, indulgent, self-centred and wants to dominate/be the best
BLUE (D-Q) thinking is concerned with procedures, routines, order, quality, the correct way of doing things, is highly responsive to the 'correct' higher authority and punishes 'sinners...Folksonomies: memetics
Folksonomies: memetics
17 MAR 2013 by ideonexus
Science Threatened Monarchical Power
Following the death of Christ and the preaching by his disciples, the promised prospect of salvation for all believers raised the Christian priest¬ hood to unprecedentedly powerful popularity. The combined religious and martial emperorship found its authoritarianly formulated credo (meaning "I believe") threatened by the B.C. Greek scientists' ever-unorthodox thinking and discovering. "Science," as Sir James Jeans said two millennia later, "is the earnest attempt to set in order the facts of...Thus emperors sought to destroy learning and evidence-based reasoning.
16 DEC 2011 by ideonexus
The Temperament of the Mathematician
It may be observed of mathematicians that they only meddle with such things as are certain, passing by those that are doubtful and unknown. They profess not to know all things, neither do they affect to speak of all things. What they know to be true, and can make good by invincible arguments, that they publish and insert among their theorems. Of other things they are silent and pass no judgment at all, chusing [choosing] rather to acknowledge their ignorance, than affirm anything rashly. They...Folksonomies: mathematics
Folksonomies: mathematics
Always to acknowledge their ignorance and only indulge in those pursuits in which total certainty may be achieved.