Log In. It was a year to be confounded, shocked, humbled. Donald J. Trump won the American presidency, defying polls, mockery and fear to defeat Hillary Clinton. Britons jolted their country and the world by voting to leave the European Union. Syria’s agony played out before a largely indifferent world, its children staring into the camera with eyes wide in terror, blood flecking their clothing. The president of the Philippines unleashed a merciless war on drugs, boasting of killing drug dealers himself when he was a mayor, and many of his citizens cheered him on. And talk about shocking: The Chicago Cubs won the World Series after a drought of 108 years. It was a year so unexpected, so tumultuous, that the fight has just begun over which narrative might possibly explain it.
One lesson was clear: Economic and cultural upheavals have consequences. Was there ever such an American election? Meanwhile, Zika continued to ravage its victims. It was a year in desperate need of grace notes. Mapping Metaphor: Home. Out-of-School Children. Uk.businessinsider. 22 Cartoons That Show How Smartphones Are Killing Real Conversations. Okay, I’ll admit it. Sometimes I look at Facebook at the table. Just a couple years ago, that thought never would have occurred to me. So I’m guilty of it, but these cartoons kinda made me think twice about the habit. You see people doing it all the time. Does this technology improve our lives? Enjoy. h/t [boredpanda]
Stick better than carrot for motivating students and staff. "From an evolutionary perspective, people tend to avoid punishments or dangerous situations. Rewards, on the other hand, have less of a life-threatening impact. " • School reward culture is harming education • Stop using classroom gimmicks and educate children properly, Michael Gove tells teachers • How to keep kids motivated at school The research involved 88 students who were asked to identify the number of clicks sounded in their right and left ears. Every time a student made a correct choice they were rewarded with a cash sum.
The research showed that those who had money deducted were more likely to make a correct choice in later rounds. "Objectively, you would think that winning 25 cents would have the same magnitude of effect as losing 25 cents, but that's not what we found,” added Dr Kubanek. Past studies on the effects of rewards and punishments on behaviour have been unclear, said the authors. "The difficulty has been devising effective tasks to probe that question. Education Needs More Wildflowers - Venspired. The longer I blog, the more I realize something. It’s really not about trying to say something. In fact it’s not about trying at all.
It’s not even about crafting a powerful message. It’s just about sharing. Whatever is in your mind, on your heart, and running through the veins of your soul. That which drives you to keep going. Blog. We may grow up, but we don’t outgrow that hope. Dream a little bigger. MOOCs and Online Instruction: Cartoons. Recently, I posted an update on MOOCs after three years in the hype cycle.
Afterwards, I scoured the web for cartoons on MOOCs and its kissing cousin, online learning (aka elearning, distance education). Here are some that might make you smile, giggle, or even prompt a chuckle. If not, maybe you can point me to one that does get you to laugh. Until then, enjoy! Like this: Like Loading... The 8 Best Fitness Gadgets to Help You Get in Shape.
There’s not many people in the world who wouldn’t like to lose a few kilos. Unfortunately, no matter how many gym memberships, New Year’s resolutions or diet programs we undertake, all but the most die-hard fitness fanatics seem to eventually let laziness get the better of them and slip into their old unhealthy habits. Yet there is hope. With the increasing onset of wearable tech, the Internet of things and smart gadgets, it is now easier than ever to get in shape. Here we take a look at some of the best fitness gadgets for you and your home. Spree Headband Spree is currently the only fitness tracker that can give you detailed feedback about your body’s core temperature at any given moment. The gadget can also provide you with data about distance travelled, speed, GPS location, heart rate, and calories burned. The gadget is accompanied by Spree’s ‘Smart Performance App’ which is designed to help your monitor your performance objectives and give feedback on recommended workouts.
Sarah Jones: What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers. Randall Munroe: Comics that ask "what if?" Don't Call Them Dropouts | GradNation. The Center for Promise research team traveled across the country to investigate these initial research questions: What do young people say about why they leave high school before graduating? What circumstances surrounded the decision to leave? What were students' lives like when they left school, and what effects did leaving school have on them and their families? Why do young people say they come back to school? What opportunities do young people have to re-engage after leaving school, and what barriers do they encounter along the way? Through systematic analysis of 200+ interviews and nearly 3,000 survey responses, four themes emerged. Clusters of Factors Explaining why young people leave high school is at once quite simple and overwhelmingly complex.
We closely analyzed the comments of the participants in the group interviews we conducted. Toxic Environments “Like I said, my father used to beat on me. School, unfortunately, did not always provide a safe haven from violence. Is Teaching Critical Thinking The Most Important (And Most Under-Taught) Skill At School? #SlowChatEd. I sometimes think that my school indulges my madness too easily. A few years ago, I suggested that we offer Chess as an Option subject for our Grade 8s and 9s. I firmly believe that the lessons chess has to teach about structured, consequential thinking, pattern recognition and even creativity make it a crucial subject at any school.
This year, I wangled a couple of periods for a Thinking Skills class for the Grade 8s. The intention was to teach critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving and metacognition. Our school year in South Africa begins in January. It is now the middle of the year, and despite rigorous planning, we have gotten stuck on critical thinking in the Thinking Skills classes.
Our big project for the year so far has been on conspiracy theories and the paranormal. Despite the success I’ve had in my class in teaching critical thinking skills, I can’t help but wonder what other teachers think about teaching kids to be little skeptics. How To Contribute: Like this: You Are Not a Digital Native: Privacy in the Age of the Internet. They say that the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II ordered a group of children to be raised without any human interaction so that he could observe their “natural” behavior, untainted by human culture, and find out the true, deep nature of the human animal. If you were born around the turn of the 21st century, you’ve probably had to endure someone calling you a “digital native” at least once. At first, this kind of sounds like a good thing to be—raised without the taint of the offline world, and so imbued with a kind of mystic sixth sense about how the Internet should be.
But children aren’t mystic innocents. They’re young people, learning how to be adult people, and they learn how to be adults the way all humans learn: by making mistakes. All humans screw up, but kids have an excuse: they haven’t yet learned the lessons the screw-ups can impart. If you want to double your success rate, you have to triple your failure rate. That’s pretty amazing. This changed the debate on privacy. PostSecret. Kultúra: Tanárok tanára. Az iskolában ő volt a legjobb.
Gombfociban. A rendes focitól gömbölyű testalkatára való tekintettel eltanácsolták. Aztán jött az iskolába a felhívás: vívónak és ökölvívónak kerestek gyerekeket. Medgyes (akkor még Markovits) Péter az utóbbit választotta volna, hogy a kiképzett öklével megtorolja a sértéseket, melyek vízszintes kiterjedése miatt érték. Az apukája viszont csak a vívást engedélyezte a számára. Abba aztán bele is fogyott, és azóta is úgy maradt. Az egyetemen Kardos László híres fordító szemináriumát látogatta, ahonnan sok kiváló műfordító került ki, Kardos közölte is a Nagyvilágban a Sillitoe fordítását. Ő és nemzedékének legjobbjai új korszakot nyitottak a hazai nyelvoktatásban. Medgyest hamarost megbízták tankönyvírással. 1981-ben átcsábították az ELTE angol tanszékére.
Medgyes azzal az ambícióval érkezett az ELTÉ-re, hogy majd változtat ezen. A rendszeromlás idején távol volt. Medgyes semmilyen pártnak nem volt tagja soha, de mindig liberális szabadgondolkodó volt. 7 Reasons Why You Will Never Do Anything Amazing With Your Life — Life Learning. 1 :: Because You Have Not Failed Enough Because you are comfortable in your mediocrity; because you choose not to try. Because it is easier to talk about learning that new (programming?) Language as opposed to actually learning it. Because you think everything is too hard or too complicated so you will just “sit this one out”, or maybe you’ll, “do-it-tomorrow”!
Because you hate your job but won’t get a new one; because it is easy to reject rejection. Because while you’re sitting around failing to try, I am out there trying to fail, challenging myself, learning new things and failing as fast as possible. Because as I fail, I learn, and then adjust my course to make sure my path is always forward. 2 :: Because You Care What Others Think About You Because you have to fit in. Because you believe that being different is only cool if you’re different in the same way that other people are different. Because you are afraid to embrace your true self for fear of how the world will see you. PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION » Video- Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Oct 02 2011 Hi everyone, Above is a link to a video from Sir Ken Robinson’s talk about creativity and education. I know that Samantha Meyer posted another video from Robinson, and I found it very interesting. I felt that this video nicely complements the video that she posted.
While Robinson was very humorous, his message is very serious. I wholeheartedly agree with Sir Robinson. Awhile ago I listened to a commencement address that Steve Jobs gave to Stanford’s 2005 graduating class. Robinson’s talk reminded me of Job’s story. It is human to want to learn, however, it is not human to compartmentalize subject matter leaving little for connections. What are you thoughts? Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment. The Land. The saddest goodbye: Endless words are written on dementia. But can ANY match the poignancy of cartoonist Tony Husband's account of watching it steal away his father? Published: 23:55 GMT, 8 May 2014 | Updated: 07:59 GMT, 9 May 2014 When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, where he'd put things - it took a while for his family to realise that this was a different kind of forgetting. In fact, it was just the first sign of the dementia that gradually took him away from them.
Now his illustrator son, Tony, has turned their story into a heartbreaking picture book unlike any other. The result is a profoundly poignant account that will strike a chord with so many familes touched by this cruellest of illnesses. Hi Dad ... can we have a chat about your dementia ... Let me think... Because when your mum died... I loved painting ... watercolours ... I loved golf ... I liked being involved in the community. How about your great achievement? But Dad, the mental strength it took to do all that research … You were relentless. I loved playing my piano ... And, of course, my dog, Lossie ... my lovely best pal. So how did it start for you Dad? The Last Man at Nuremberg - Emma Green. The life of 95-year-old Benjamin Ferencz, the only living prosecutor from the war-crime trials that followed the Holocaust A visitor looks at an exhibit at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial and museum.
(Reuters) Benjamin Ferencz was 27 when the Einsatzgruppen trial began in 1947. There were 22 defendants, all men, all members of the German SS. “One of the counsel has characterized this trial as the biggest murder trial in history,” the military tribunal wrote. “In this case, the defendants are not … charged with sitting in an office hundreds and thousands of miles away from the slaughter.… These men were in the field actively superintending, controlling, directing, and taking an active part in the bloody harvest.”
Put simply, the Einsatzgruppen were exterminators: Their squads traveled to towns throughout Eastern Europe, rounding up Jews and shooting them with mechanized efficiency. Now he’s 95, and tired. But without his intervention, these men may have never been taken to trial. World of Stereotypes. 23 Photos That Completely Shook The World. 1. A vulture waits for the malnourished child to die (1992) www.thecollectiveint.com This photograph created quite a stir on the humaneness of photographing community. The photographer commited suicide despite being awarded for this photo. 2. A homeless and hungry man eats off a railway track in India 3.
Www.emails4all.blogspot.in 4. 5. 6. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. 7. 8. 9. 10. While this Iraqi prisoner was trying to comfort his 4 year old son, the little boy was afraid to see his father hooded and handcuffed. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. This is one of the earliest known photographs of a human. 21. 22. 23. The True Endings of Disney's Tales. 30 Places You'd Rather Be Sitting Right Now. The Philosophers' Mail. Want a job at Google? Internet giant reveals the 'five attributes' necessary for all employees. A Message From Flea. Alice-Herz Sommer | The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life. She Was 40 When The Nazis Took Her. Now, She's Outlived Them And Has Something Incredible To Say. 28 Fruits And Vegetables That You Had No Idea Grew Like That.