10 MAR 2017 by ideonexus
Gamification Hand Mechanic
Mr. Hedges realizes that this technique could neatly simulate the complexity of the Iowa caucuses. He creates a deck of cards to represent Democratic and Republican candidates and all of the different kinds of factions and perspectives that might influence how voters behave in their individual caucus sites. He has one of his classes play a Democratic caucus and the other play a Republican one. The game he creates is played over three turns (coffee hour, early evening, evening). Players are as...Folksonomies: education gamification
Folksonomies: education gamification
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notes24 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
The Need for Diversity and Empathy in Science and Religion
The diversity of science also finds a parallel in the diversity of religion. Once, when I was a child, walking with my mother through the English cathedral town of Winchester, I asked her: "Why are there so many different churches?" My mother gave me a wise answer: "Because God likes it that way. If he had wanted us all to worship him in one church, he would not have made so many different kinds of people." That was an answer invented on the spur of the moment to satisfy the curiosity of a fi... 1 notes
notes13 MAR 2014 by ideonexus
Phased Retirement
We should establish a new concept of retirement: phased retirement or part-time
retirement. This would permit those persons who want to work and are able to do so
to phase into total retirement over a period of years. Working part time or part year
and “retired” part of the time, they could engage in new learning ventures in an
educational environment, or in travel and group discussions. Educational institutions
should take the leadership in fashioning different kinds of programs for...Folksonomies: retirement planning
Folksonomies: retirement planning
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notesImportant concept.
13 MAR 2014 by ideonexus
Lifelong Learning
Seneca, the Latin philosopher, wrote, “As long as you live, keep learning how to
live.” Centuries later Andre Gide, the French critic and novelist said, “The wise man
is he who constantly wonders afresh.”
The scientific and technological explosion in this century has caused us all to
recognize that learning is a continuous, permanent, lifelong pursuit. It is a process
which commences with birth and only terminates at death and is then carried on by
others in a never-ending cont... 1 notes
notesA definition.
03 FEB 2014 by ideonexus
Religion is More than the Supernatural
Most developers are religious about technology
It’s true.
Don’t be ashamed, you are not alone. Myself, and just about everyone else, is with you.
Some of use are recovering from our self-imposed brain washing. Others of us are blissfully unaware of our predicament. But most of us have at least one religion we’ve managed to craft ourselves.
It is perfectly natural because most programmers got into the field of software development because they were passionate about it.... 1 notes
notesProgrammers are religious about their technology choices. What other biases are we religious about?
07 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
Understanding Heat and Temperature
Our sense of touch tells us quite definitely that one
body is hot and another cold. But this is a purely quali-
tative criterion, not sufficient for a quantitative descrip-
tion and sometimes even ambiguous. This is shown by
a well-known experiment: we have three vessels con-
taining, respectively, cold, warm and hot water. If we
dip one hand into the cold water and the other into the
hot, we receive a message from the first that it is cold
and from the second that it is hot. If we th... 1 notes
notesAn excellent description of the distinction between the two.
05 AUG 2013 by ideonexus
Sociological Metaphors for the Public
Social science and philosophy have generated a vast number of other
metaphorical descriptions of the public, rooted in different and often scientific perspectives on systematicity and relation. These are technologies in the broad sense that they enable different kinds of questions to be asked. An account of these would include the public as:
A Physical System or Mass: This metaphor underwrites work in mass commu- nications and allows one to ask questions like “What is the impact of a given... 1 notes
notesMetaphors are an important means of understanding abstract concepts.
30 JUN 2013 by ideonexus
The Past and Who Has Access to It
What we know about the past—and who has access to such knowledge—has changed dramatically with each such change. The changes run far deeper than the mere proliferation of data points. As written records of large estates held in monasteries in France achieved legal and social dominance, the role of women as the tellers of the past fell into decline (Geary, 1994): The technological and the social were deeply intertwined. The outcome was that different kinds of records were kept. With the in... 1 notes
notesThe past was once only available through memory, then only available to those who had access to records, and now available to everyone.
13 MAY 2013 by ideonexus
Public Policy Shouldn't Bet on Science
You ask whether, given a choice, I would put more resources into space or AI. My answer is that either choice would be stupid. Politicians always want to make such choices too soon, because they imagine they can pick winners. Usually they pick losers. The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all. That is particularly true for space and AI, which are not really competing with each other. They are done by different kinds of people in d...
1 It will always bet wrong. All science should be open, free, and supported.
02 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
The Mouse's Petition
(Found in the trap where he had been confined all night by Dr. Priestley, for the sake of making experiments with different kinds of air.)
OH! hear a pensive prisoner's prayer,
For liberty that sighs;
And never let thine heart be shut
Against the prisoner's cries!
For here forlorn and sad I sit,
Within the wiry grate;
And tremble at th' approaching morn,
Which brings impending fate.
If e'er thy breast with freedom glowed,
And spurned a tyrant's chain,
Let not thy strong oppressive force
A ...Folksonomies: poetry animal rights
Folksonomies: poetry animal rights
A poem by Anna Laetitia Barbauld that is considered the spark of the movement for the humane treatment of animals in scientific experimentation.
