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11 Nov 09

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    Finally settling into the new house. Working on essays about problems when using second languages with native speakers.



28 Jul 09

Notional Slurry » There are exactly two ways: one, and many

  • ou suck as a specialist; you’re not evolved to be one. Your meat wants you to pay attention to what’s around you, what’s inside you, the top part and the bottom part and the inside part. Your head keeps dragging you back into meandering daydreams. Your heart keeps making your head change, from day to day, subjecting your mythical “rational” mind to physiological buffets modern life doesn’t even have nonpathological descriptions for

  • All these things you look at, in your role of the “imaginary” generalist in my experiment; all these roses you stop to smell, these friends who interrupt you with demands, these places you go and things you see and people you meet. They are delays of what? Of you?


    In what way am I delayed by paying attention to more, different, inarguably interesting stuff? Gratifying stuff?

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28 Jun 08

The Informal Learning Review 1999-0304-c

  • Can assessments be
    made which show that learning is indeed occurring when visitors interact
    with exhibits? How can we gain a better understanding of the visitor learning
    experience? E
  • The eight learning behaviors do not describe
    the learning experience sequentially or in isolation. A rich learning
    experience means that many or most of these behaviors occur during an
    interaction with an exhibit. In fact, the behaviors can occur in a variety
    of sequences.

MW2002: Papers: Learning by Design: Teachers / Museums / Technology

  • We argue the need to rethink the relationship of teachers, museums,

    and museum education, to acknowledge the on-going and significant role

    museums can hold in teachers’ professional development.
  • If teachers are considered a dynamic source of

    knowledge that can contribute to the advancement of an analysis of digitized

    collections and 'users' (and museum education), then the museum will approach

    the teacher in a different manner.
17 May 08

Earthquake in China Highlights the Vulnerability of Schools in Many Countries - New York Times

  • schools “routinely” collapsed in earthquakes around the world because of avoidable design or construction errors, or because existing laws and building codes were not enforced.
  • The risks are growing, experts say, as populations in poor regions continue to rise and the world, rich and poor, shifts ever more toward urban centers, many with well-charted seismic threats.
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20 Apr 08

Reinventing the Big Test: The Challenge of Authentic Assessment | Edutopia

The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind-numbing drill-and-kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.

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  • The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind-numbing drill-and-kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.
19 Apr 08

Eldis - Welcome to Eldis

  • This paper also describes the history of the discovery of h. pylori bacteria as the cause of peptic ulcers against strong opposition by the medical establishment. - themingway on 2008-04-19
    • from page 20: "Michael Gershon, whose work on the neuroanatomy of the gastrointestinal system has helped to change
      paradigms in neurology, recently commented caustically on how new idea in science get rejected: "A herd instinct often grips the imagination of scientists. Like lemmings we are prone to charge over cliffs when a large enough pack of us moves in that direction" (1998: 34). What else but a paradigm could provoke such solidarity among persons who have been trained to question?"       - on 2008-04-19
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  • Paradigm traps are not restricted to any particular discipline, profession or era. It is instructive, and appropriately humbling, to recall the confidence that previous generations have had, each in its turn, in the correctness and sufficiency of their understandings of the world, being wiser, of course, than their predecessors.
    • from page 20:" Michael Gershon, whose work on the neuroanatomy of the gastrointestinal system has helped to change
      paradigms in neurology, recently commented caustically on how new idea in science get rejected: "A herd instinct often grips the imagination of scientists. Like lemmings we are prone to charge over cliffs when a large enough pack of us moves in that direction" (1998: 34). What else but a paradigm could provoke such solidarity among persons who have been trained to question?"       - on 2008-04-19
    • Michael Gershon, whose work on the neuroanatomy of the gastrointestinal system has helped to change paradigms in neurology, recently commented caustically on how new idea in science get rejected: "A herd instinct often grips the imagination of scientists. Like lemmings we are prone to charge over cliffs
      when a large enough pack of us moves in that direction" (1998: 34). What else but a paradigm could provoke such solidarity among persons who have been trained to question?       - on 2008-04-19
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when will we ever learn?current issues, food for thought, background information

internalising evidence from evaluations: three perspectives on learning.

Development agencies are consistently required to improve their performance, in terms not only of project outcomes, but also of the quality of their programming and their institutional capacity. In a very practical sense, evaluations are now perceived as learning opportunities. It only seems logical, therefore, to try and improve the internalisation of evaluation results at different levels.

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