27 JUL 2018 by ideonexus
Constituative Rules of Chutes and Ladders
Players all begin with a value of zero.
Players alternate turns adding a random number of 1–6 to their current value.
The first player to reach a value of exactly 100 wins (if adding the random number to a player's total would make the total exceed 100, do not add the random number this turn).
When a player's total exactly reaches certain numbers, the total changes. For example, if a player reaches exactly 9, her total becomes 31. If a player reaches exactly 49, her total becomes 11.(This r... 1 
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The Magic Circle
The term magic circle is appropriate because there is in fact something genuinely magical that happens when a game begins. A fancy Backgammon set sitting all alone might be a pretty decoration on the coffee table. If this is the function that the game is serving-decoration-it doesn't really matter how the game pieces are arranged, if some of them are out of place, or even missing. However, once you sit down with a friend to play a game of Backgammon, the arrangement of the pieces suddenly bec...Folksonomies: gameplay
Folksonomies: gameplay
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Learning is Intrinsic to Games
As one gamer has said, “In a game, you want to learn because you’re playing it, and if you didn’t want to learn, why would you be playing it?” (Selfe & Hawisher, 2007, p. 1). For this very reason, games are uniquely powerful tools that help teachers understand how to build empowering lessons and shape how students experience learning. Each game is a curriculum unto itself; each game is a unique engine that can reengineer learning experiences. Every game gives the player an opportu...Folksonomies: education gamification
Folksonomies: education gamification
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notes27 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Connect to a Child's Left-Brain Before the Right
when a child is upset, logic often won’t work until we have responded to the right brain’s emotional needs. We call this emotional connection “attunement,” which is how we connect deeply with another person and allow them to “feel felt.” When parent and child are tuned in to each other, they experience a sense of joining together.
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It’s also crucial to keep in mind that no matter how nonsensical and frustrating our child’s feelings may seem to us, they are real and imp...
1 A strategy for dealing with chidren, who lack the emotional regulation for logical thinking. Calm them by connecting to their feelings, and then attempt to rationalize with them.
24 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
The Nominal Fallacy
The nominal fallacy is the error of believing that the label carries explanatory information.
An instance of the nominal fallacy is most easily seen when the meaning or importance of a term or concept shrinks with knowledge. One example of this would be the word “instinct.” “Instinct” refers to a set of behaviors whose actual cause we don’t know, or simply don’t understand or have access to, and therefore we call them instinctual, inborn, innate. Often this is the end of the expl...Stuart Firestein explains why naming is not explaining.
17 JUN 2013 by ideonexus
The Surveillance Ecosystem
Lifeloggers capture every instant of their existence
for their own reference. XP stars live, love, and die
with passionate abandon so everyone can enjoy it
on demand. Habitats depend on constantly updated
operational and environmental data as well as troops
of transhuman observers to function seamlessly and
provide the day-to-day necessities of transhuman
life. Hypercorps, governments, organizations, and
individuals safeguard the information they need to
survive and seek out what they need to... 1 notes
notesA futuristic peak at the world of public sharing and private protection and the different motivations for them.
16 MAR 2013 by ideonexus
Buckminster Fuller's Advice to a Youth
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done—that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or Try making experiments of anything j^
Try making experiments of anything you conceive and are inten...Find things that need doing, but aren't being done, experiment, and understand that words are tools.
23 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Plasticity is a double-edged sword
Plasticity is a double-edged sword; the more flexible an organism is the greater the variety of maladaptive, as well as adaptive, behaviors it can develop; the more teachable it is the more fully it can profit from the experiences of its ancestors and associates and the more it risks being exploited by its ancestors and associates. Folksonomies: evolution plasticity
Folksonomies: evolution plasticity
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notesQuoting Donald Symons: Too much plasticity and the organism can gain maladaptations, too little and it cannot adapt at all.
28 MAR 2012 by ideonexus
How an Atheist Recites the Pledge
Mulan started kindergarten at our local public school. And as part of her day at school, she said the “Pledge of Allegiance.” She proudly repeated it to me, and the “under God” part made me flinch. “You don’t have to say ‘under God’ you know,” I said—and her eyes widened with fear. “What do you mean?” I said, “You can just keep your mouth closed during that part. I don’t believe in God. These people in the government allowed that to get stuck in there much later. I... 1 notes
notesThey say "Under Laws" instead of "Under God".
31 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Science Takes Us Beyond Our Experience
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience. Folksonomies: inference experience
Folksonomies: inference experience
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notesThe act of inference is positing behaviors and laws onto things we have no experience of yet.
