Joanne Kiernan's List: Blogs

• I’ve got a post brewing about what our students really know and can do in this Web 2.0 world, and I think I’m slowly coming to understand that this type of rhetoric (of which I have been guilty of kind of dreamily espousing myself) is really still hope, not reality. Kids have the potential to do this in ways that no other generation ever has, but not so many are doing a great job of creating content and coversations and exhibiting “writeable behaviors” to the extent that most would like to think.

  • Really interesting post....I totally agree...we need to ensure students have opportunities to have 'writeable behaviours' that present professional content on the web. Enhance their portfolios and present a 'face' of skills and professionalism.

• • This is brilliantg

• seem to be asking for a lot of help on the blog at the moment - I can only thank those who take the time out to respond. This one should be amusing to see develo
• • This is a very interesting blog

• • Oh dear.... when is this going to stop? Why have we got ourselves into such a mess concerning evolution?
• • Why is this crazyness going on? Its like we have extremism that has to fundamentally oppose evolution and read scripture as if it is literal.
• cience education, where false ideas like
• evolution are rammed down the throats of helpless students, producing
• faithless little monsters, who will become drug-taking, communist
• atheists.
• "protecting the rights of students and teachers who don't agree with the science behind Darwinian evolution"
• Activists persuaded the board to qualify evolution as a "theory,"
• Those who oppose Darwin's theory of evolution aren't all religiously motivated,
• she thought kindergartners should not be taught Darwinian evolution because "that may be brainwashing." She also told the committee of her own experience in college, where she refused to answer a science exam question about evolution with the accepted Darwinian answer and instead copied down the creation story in Genesis, Chapter 1.

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• A business associate wants a sketch of a new kind of impeller your firm is putting out for sports boats. You reach for your attache case and draw the diagram with a pencil-thin infrared flashlight on what looks like a TV screen lining the back of the case. The diagram is relayed to a similar screen in your associate’s office, 200 mi. away. He jabs a button and a fixed copy of the sketch rolls out of the device. He wishes you good luck at the coming meeting and signs off.
• Electrostatic precipitators clean the air and climatizers maintain the temperature and humidity at optimum levels. Robots are available to do housework and other simple chores. New materials for siding and interiors are self-cleaning and never peel, chip or crack.
• prepackaged meals into the freezer and lets the automatic food utility do the rest. At preset times, each meal slides into the microwave oven and is cooked or thawed. The meal then is served on disposable plastic plates. These plates, as well as knives, forks and spoons of the same material, are so inexpensive they can be discarded after use.

• 2008 households is the computer. These electronic brains govern everything from meal preparation and waking up the household to assembling shopping lists and keeping track of the bank balance. Sensors in kitchen appliances, climatizing units, communicators, power supply and other household utilities warn the computer when the item is likely to fail. A repairman will show up even before any obvious breakdown occurs.

   

  Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities. Not every family has its private computer. Many families reserve time on a city or regional computer to serve their needs. The machine tallies up its own services and submits a bill, just as it does with other utilities.

   

  Money has all but disappeared. Employers deposit salary checks directly into their employees’ accounts. Credit cards are used for paying all bills. Each time you buy something, the card’s number is fed into the store’s computer station. A master computer then deducts the charge from your bank balance.

   

  Computers not only keep track of money, they make spending it easier. TV-telephone shopping is common. To shop, you simply press the numbered code of a giant shopping center. You press another combination to zero in on the department and the merchandise in which you are interested. When you see what you want, you press a number that signifies “buy,” and the household computer takes over, places the order, notifies the store of the home address and subtracts the purchase price from your bank balance. Much of the family shopping is done this way. Instead of being jostled by crowds, shoppers electronically browse through the merchandise of any number of stores.

  • The understanding of home computers and the way they work is quite profound in this article.

• programmed TV courses, which can be rented or borrowed from tape _ * libraries. In fact most schooling—from first grade through college—consists of programmed TV courses or lectures via closed circuit. Students visit a campus once or twice a week for personal consultations or for lab work that has to be done on site. Progress of each student is followed by computer, which assigns end term marks on the basis of tests given throughout the term.

   

  Besides school lessons, other educational material is available for TV viewing. You simply press a combination of buttons and the pages flash on your home screen. The world’s information is available to you almost instantaneously.

  • This is starting to be realised but there is still a long way to go.
• TV screens cover an entire wall in most homes and show most subjects other than straight text matter in color and three dimensions. In addition to programmed TV and the multiplicity of commercial fare, you can see top Broadway shows, hit movies and current nightclub acts for a nominal charge. Best-selling books are on TV tape and can be borrowed or rented from tape libraries.

  • Yep pretty much there already...tv's covering all walls...lol

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• I’d like to use something other than my recent posts as my home page.  Is that possible within WordPress?

  • Need to spend some time with this one to help me customise wordpress.

• Firstly, Ruth Ostrow makes me want to staple feather boas to her ass and call  for the RSPCA to have her exported as pest fauna. She has a book out – oh dear  holy Hades… I’ll have to give some links later to demonstrate how  airy-fairy-creationism-supporting-twitty she is. Urgh.

  • LOL ....what a great phrase!!