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CriticalThinking.org - The Art of Redesigning Instruction on 2009-10-30
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what is wrong with the way teachers typically go about teaching and what is wrong with the way students typically go about learning.
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When we reason we puzzle something out, work out our understanding of it in relationship to what we already know. It contrasts, therefore, with thoughtlessly accepting what others say. It intrinsically involves testing as we learn to see if this or that is so. There are two ways we go about testing as we learn, and the two often work together: physical testing and mental testing. We physically test things by trying them out in the physical world. We mentally test things by trying them out in our minds. Hence we test ideas and beliefs by ideas, beliefs, and experiences we already have. For example, you tell me that you’ve just met a really perfect person and I, by thinking of my experience of people and my conception of human nature, inwardly decide that what you are saying cannot be true. I have tested out what you said in my mind and what you said “failed” the test.
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CriticalThinking.org - Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies on 2009-10-30
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clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance, depth, breadth, logicalness, significance
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I think with a bias in favor of myself
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CriticalThinking.org - The Role of Questions in Teaching, Thinking and Learning on 2009-10-30
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"coverage" over "engaged thinking"
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For example, the statement that water boils at 100 degrees centigrade is an answer to the question "At what temperature centigrade does water boil?"
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Questions define tasks, express problems and delineate issues. Answers on the other hand, often signal a full stop in thought.
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Deep questions drive our thought underneath the surface of things,
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imply the desire not to think
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We must continually remind ourselves that thinking begins with respect to some content only when questions are generated by both teachers and students.
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No questions equals no understanding. Superficial questions equals superficial understanding.
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Most students typically have no questions. They not only sit in silence, their minds are silent as well. Hence, the questions they do have tend to be superficial and ill-informed. This demonstrates that most of the time they are not thinking through the content they are presumed to be learning. This demonstrates that most of the time they are not learning the content they are presumed to be learning.
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If we want thinking we must stimulate it with questions that lead students to further questions. We must overcome what previous schooling has done to the thinking of students. We must resuscitate minds that are largely dead when we receive them. We must give our students what might be called "artificial cogitation" (the intellectual equivalent of artificial respiration).
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A Steady, Upward Course on 2009-10-20
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example
how to live with great faith.
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here is a responsibility to be prudent in the management of the resources,
and there are places where we need to improve. If there is an example of use it up,
wear it out, making do, or do without, we are that place. If we ever lost that, we
would be in trouble. So we need to be careful what we ask for.
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it refers to rigorously self-disciplined and self-restrained. That
is part of the spirit of Ricks at Brigham Young University-Idaho—simple, frugal,
or austere; courageous in the face of pain, danger, or adversity."
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knowing,
first, that he was raised up for this task; but secondly, that the very things the Lord
had told me, and told me over and over again, he said in better words than I could
have said them, and that's why I am quoting President Bednar so much here in this
talk; it is not to flatter him. I want you to know that the Lord revealed to him some
things that are true and are permanent and will guide this institution. Now that was
the end of the quotation from him. I say this now for myself:
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Latter-day Saint pioneers
came to this place for the Lord.
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The people here have treated all they had
as the Lord's and always counted it as enough. And they have used it as if it was
the offering of the poorest widow to her Lord and to His Kingdom
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The true disciples who have served here have believed that if they were
frugal and faithful the Lord will provide enough to do His work
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confidence that frugality was here and would
endure when he said in his announcement: "With some additions and
modifications, the physical facilities now in place in Rexburg are adequate to
handle the new program. Undoubtedly, some changes to the campus will be
necessary. However, they will be modest in nature and scope."
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need to
change and eliminate some long-standing and beneficial programs as the school
focuses upon key academic disciplines and activities.
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d be focus, not a growth and spread,
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He expected that people would willingly sacrifice what they do best and love most
for what the Lord wants even more for our students
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physical space already in place sufficient to do more
for more students. Listen to this from his announcement and consider the tribute
he was paying with his confidence:
"BYU-Idaho will operate on an expanded year-round basis, incorporating
innovative calendaring and scheduling while also taking advantage of
advancements in technology which will enable the four-year institution to serve
more students."
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less more students at ever lower cost per student.
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The students will learn from example how to keep on a steady upward
course in times of great change. They will see leaders and teachers and staff
members for whom the Savior and His kingdom are at the center of their lives.
From that example, I make a prophesy. Now listen carefully.
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will become life-long teachers in their
families, in the Church, and in their work, and they will bless others wherever they
go by what they have learned about innovating with scarce resources and treating
all they have as if it were the Lord's.
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those graduates of
BYU-Idaho will become legendary for their capacity to build the people around
them and to add value wherever they serve.
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a
steady upward course in a world of change without fear,
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. That life, the greatest of all the gifts of God, is to live in glory forever
in families in the presence of our loving Heavenly Father. It takes a focused eye
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For our eyes to be focused on eternal life,
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"Yea, verily I say unto you, if ye will come unto me ye shall have eternal
life. Behold, mine arm of mercy is extended towards you, and whosoever will
come, him will I receive; and blessed are those who come unto me.
"Behold, I am Jesus Christ the Son of God. I created the heavens and the
earth, and all things that in them are. I was with the Father from the beginning. I
am in the Father, and the Father in me; and in me hath the Father glorified his
name."
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f you in the room that had the courage
to do that, to try to influence the persons around you, I'll make you a prophesy. I
will simply tell you: The day will co
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me that that capacity to influence people
around you for good will have you singled out as one of the great leaders in
whatever place you're in. They will not quite know why, but you will know that
the reason you are being singled out is not because of your innate gifts as a leader
but because you have done what the Savior would do—learned how to, and did,
reach out to those around you to try to lift them, to help them to be better even
when it might be a little bit difficult and you might not have been received very
well.
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One of the things that you do is to
always look at every nice thing you have as God's and treat it very, very carefully.
This campus will be beautiful because you don't think it's yours—you think it's
His, and you'll care for it that way. In addition, you will not ever, ever ask for
more than you need. You will always say, "Is there a way, with more effort, more
faith, more innovation, that I could do the things the Lord wants without asking
for more of the resources that are in scarce supply even in a Church that appears to
have great resources, as we do. But the needs are great, and the opportunities are
tremendous for what can be done.
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I testify to you that that spirit of sacrifice, that spirit of trying to give just a
little bit more and ask a little less brings down the powers of heaven. And all of
this great future that we're speaking of at this institution will depend upon
miracles regularly occurring, where students learn more than you thought you
could learn
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about frugality is an example of your faith
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The miracle that President Bednar spoke of and that I promised you—that
this will become a place renowned for its understanding of teaching and learning—will have to face the very problem he, under inspiration, pointed out in
his talk to the faculty. We can't "quantify the gifts of the Spirit." We don't know
how that works. We probably never will write academic papers about how that
works. But we will be able to do things here that will amaze the world in terms of
the rate and the quality of learning, and we will learn ways about how that is done
that will apply in other places in the world, but never quite as well as they apply
here. That's a little like the people who say, "Could I borrow your family home
evening manual? I want to have a family like yours." And the answer is, "It ain't
in the manual." The manual is a reflection of what it is that happens in those
family home evenings.
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It will be that way here as well. We will have a spiritual outpouring, because
of your faith and the faith of the faculty and those who lead here, that will lead us
to be legendary in terms of our capacity to teach and to learn and in our capacity to
innovate without needing the resources that others have to have in order to be the
remarkable contributors you're going to be. And that's going to follow you
everywhere you go.
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Where did that come from? I've never had such a person.
Why people just flock around that person. And they want to follow. They don't
have to be led; they're seeking to go where that person wants to go. And they
come up with new ideas. I don't know where that comes from. They seem to find a
better way, and the budget doesn't go up. I can't understand it." And I'll smile and
say, "Well, come with me to Rexburg." And I may not be able to show it to you,
and I may not be able to prove it to you, but you'll feel it. There will be a spirit
here, I so testify, because of the love of God for all of His faithful children. And
those blessings will be poured out here in rich abundance.
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ask in prayer to be shown
where the hand of God intervened in your life that day,
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you. That you will see that He is leading and
guiding and lifting you, and that He knows you.
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k, you will have revealed to you evidence that the hand of God was lifting you
and this institution. I so bless you.
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capacity to influence others.
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I
bless you that you will be a lifter, a teacher, and a leader.
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There is a loving
Heavenly Father. He has been watching us today as He always watches us. He
knows you. He has known you and has nurtured you. He has a plan for you as He
has a plan for this institution of what it might become if it can just have revealed,
both to the institution and to you, who you really are. Oh, He loves you! He knows
you. He smiles down upon you. I so testify. He wants you to come home again to
Him, I so testify. And He's provided a Savior, Jesus Christ. He lives. I know He
lives. The Savior is resurrected. He is in one place at a time because He is a
resurrected being, but He is aware of us and all of our Heavenly Father's children.
And for all of them, He atoned for their sins and broke the bands of death, I so
testify.
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God will provide a living prophet.
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who've
allowed Him to shape them to the great opportunities that He has before you and
before this place, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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Rhetoric Associates of Utah State University on 2009-10-13
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RAs work with students to revise their papers, similar to consultants in the Writing Center.
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GradeSaver: Bartleby the Scrivener Study Guide : Summary and Analysis of Pages 25-38 on 2009-10-13
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savagery. He cites the example of a recent Wall Street murder, and explains why an office can be conducive to otherwise unthinkable acts: "Often it had occurred to me in my ponderings upon the subject, that had that altercation taken place in the public street, or at a private residence, it would not have termi
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Finally, the narrator's resolve to help Bartleby weakens, and it's because of his work. Apparently, the modern office also makes possible the neglect of another human being.
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GradeSaver: Bartleby the Scrivener Study Guide : Summary and Analysis of Pages 14-25 on 2009-10-13
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n: "They err who would assert that invariably this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart. It ra
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GradeSaver: Bartleby the Scrivener Study Guide : Summary and Analysis of of Pages 3-14 on 2009-10-13
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emptiness of modern business life is an important theme. T
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The work environment is sterile and cheerless
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Doubling is a recurring theme in "Bartleby." Bartleby is a phantom double of our narrator, and the parallels between them will be further explored later. Nippers and Turkey are doubles of each other. Nippers is useless in the morning and productive in the afternoon, while Turkey is drunk in the afternoon and productive in the morning. Nippers' ambition mirrors Turkey's resignation to his place and the sad uneventfulness of his career, the difference coming about because of their respective ages. Nippers cherishes ambitions of being more than a mere scrivener, while the elderly Turkey must plead with the narrator to consider his age when evaluating his productivity. Their vices are also parallel, in terms of being appropriate vices for each man's respective age. A
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Pale from indoors work, motionless, without any expression or evidence of human passion in him at all, he is a man already beaten.
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"I would prefer not to," is an act of exhaustion rather than active defiance
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otional response rather than some philosophical or ethical choice
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detach from the world in stages
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GradeSaver: Bartleby the Scrivener Study Guide : Major Themes on 2009-10-13
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he is a victim, in some ways, of progress.
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similar bureaucratic change
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The modern economy includes constant and unfeeling change, which comes at a cost.
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How responsible is the narrator for Bartleby's salvation? Our narrator fails the scrivener, who clearly needs help, but Melville in no way demonizes his narr
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Bartleby's environment cuts him off from nature and often, from other men.
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the bustling human population vanishes and the streets become desolately empty.
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not as the event in time that finishes a life, but as a kind of poison permeating every aspect of the world we live in. The act of living is the real death. Living is a tiring and arduous process, full of numbing compromises and submission to meaningless tasks. Our mortality is unavoidable, and our best intentions are often futile. The final image of the story is the Dead Letter Office, where the last undelivered communications to the dead are burned without ever having been read.
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M. David Merrill on 2009-09-25
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