Some widely held ideas about the way children learn can lead educators and parents to adopt faulty teaching principles
Source: www.scientificamerican.com
The title speaks for itself, but this is an interesting read!
Month: February 2015
Learning Theory v5 – What are the established learning theories?
Source: cmapspublic3.ihmc.us
The chart is a little complex, but there is some interesting information on learning styles in the article.
The Terry Clarke Daily (February 22, 2015) is out!
The Februart 22, 2015 edition of The Terry Clarke Daily has been published. If there are general issues of interest or geographic-specif issues you would like to see in future editions, please let me know!
Posted with BlogsyA Distressed Earth through Disney
As an environmental attorney, I feel obligated to reblog this incredible post from The Nerd Nebula (a pretty amazing blog) which captures with great feeling and amazing simplicity the destruction of the world’s environment with cartoon images from our youth.
Ex Disney artist Jeff Hong sends a powerful message about the state of our planet through these unhappy endings showcased through the eyes of our favorite animated stars:
1. Deforestation:
Winnie The Pooh
2. Polution
Mulan
3. Poverty
Lilo and Stitch
4. Global Warming
Elsa
5. Animal Abuse
Dumbo
Not that i enjoy the negative messages aligning to our current state of affairs (the truth hurts), but i do think Hong did an excellent job in hitting home the emotional messages in these pictures.
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The Terry Clarke Daily (February 19, 2015) is out!
Please list in the comment section any issues you would like to see included in future editions of my virtual newspaper!
UPDATE: SCIENTOLOGY POST–L. Ron Hubbard’s great grandson’s video calls Hubbard a FRAUD, NOT A GOD
I wrote a post a few weeks back concerning my impressions (formed primarily through popular media) of Scientology as a strange, at best, “religion,” and when viewed in its most riducolous light, a wierd scheme by a science fiction author to make loads of cash from his followers who worship an ET called Zenu. I offered my impression that Scientology followers appear to be folks who are allowed to gain additional stages of enlightenment with each large check paid to the “Church of Scientoogy.”
Because I realize that it is not really all that difficult to ridicule any particular religion (see cartoon below), I offered any Scientology adherent to correct any misconception in my post, relating to the Supreme Extraterrestrial Zenu or the Theron body snatchers. I was glad to see that an adherent to Scientology took the time to post a comment, which didn’t directly address any specific misconceptions in my post, but did graciously provide a link to a Scientology website (which I would encourage all readers to visit before forming a personal opinion about what Scientology is and is not). I am a practicing Russian Orthodox Christian and have received my fair share of ridicule by pious Protestants in my area. I suppose any strongly held belief based on the supernatural is fair game, Scientology certainly seems to offer far more opportunities for ridicule than any other world “religion.”
Because I remained curious about the issues that made Scientology such a polarizing organization, I began to read more about the “faith,” at least those Scientology resources that didn’t separate me from any cash. Perhaps because of my frugality, none of the reading material on Scientology I consulted changed my position that it didn’t seem to be much of a religion at all, but more of an expensive Facebook-type game of moving up levels of enlightenment based on knowledge dispatched by cartoonish figures. I came to this final conclusion after re-reading a Time article contained in the issue pictured below.
Just today, I received from Upworthy (an outstanding site which provides daily links to interesting videos) a video of L. Ron Hubbard’s great grandson describing his ancestor as a con man who created a scheme to get rich by starting a “religion” based on his science fiction writing, and his cruel attempts to silence his estranged son, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., to keep quiet about the “truth behind Scientology” after he fearfully left the “cult.” The video is very disturbing in places and given it was made by a direct descendant of L. Ron Hubbard, has an inherently credible sense about it–though Scientology adherents would no doubt dismiss the claims made in the video (and, as I did in my last post concerning Scientology, I again invite opposing views by those who “practice” Scientology.) The YouTube video link is provided below.
The Terry Clarke Daily (February 18, 2015)
The Terry Clarke Daily
My continuing foray into the world of social media
UPDATE: PLEASE EXCUSE THE MANY INEXCUSABLE TYPOGRAPHICAL, GRAMMATICAL AND STYLISTIC ERRORS IN THE FIRST POST, PUBLISHED JUST AFTER I FINISHED COMPOSING IT, BLEARY EYED, AND FATIQUED AFTER 2:00 AM.
This is a “quickie” post, one in which a better human would not have troubled himself, or even worse, I pity those unfortunate souls who may happen upon the post inadvertently. After building a fairly large Twitter following (at least by my standards, a bar set much lower than my teenage’s daughters). Next, I began this blog and though I wish my health would cooperate a bit more, I find writing on any subject that I find new or refreshing to be quite good for my soul . . . and I especially enjoy discussing the concepts discussed in my posts with people who may have had a very different take on a subject than me OR even downright dispised the sight of my name for coming to a particular opinion in a post.
The point of this brief (and shamefully self-serving post) is to boast that I bought a new camera and a suite of video-editing software and posted (though I couldn’t for the life of me remember how I was able to do so) my first videos on YouTube. Of course, I had the perfect subject for creating a video– my daughter (the best one on the planet I regret to advise you readers and fellow-bloggers, who, yourself have daughters-no doubt fine, upstanding daughters, just not quite as good as mine, I’m sure you would agree). I apologize for your misfortune in raising a daughter not quite as perfect as mine, but I must have at least something in my life which brings me supreme joy and unconditional love.
In any event, my daughter fits the Asian American “model minority” stereotype in that she excels in academics, but veers far from it in a Linsanity kind of way when it comes to basketball. Though she is just 15, she has heard from or taken unofficial visits (for basketball recruiting purposes) to teams from the Big East, SEC, Pac 10, and as one of the very few Asian American post players we see while playing in tournaments throughout the Midwest and Southeast, she has also heard from several Ivy League women’s basketball programs (a perfect marriage of her athleticism and her model minority approach to academics).
Back to my original point: My successful creation and uploading of rudimentary video clips on YouTube. Please check out the videos and let me know what you think, unless, of course, you are compelled in any way to critique my daughter. She is obviously easy to spot on the court for reasons that are self apparent. I am including a few pictures of her just above the YouTube links to my videos in which she was cast in the leading role. In order for you to get an idea of just how tall she is (5′ 11″), I’ll include a picture of her posing with me (the ugly old guy, just shy of 6′ 2″).
The links to my infamous uploaded videos on YouTube are as pasted below: http://youtu.be/_6jK2Tx0Nzo and http://youtu.be/7Kl6epY5s44 .
Before closing, I must say as an Ethnic Kazakh growing up in rural Kentucky, my daughter is quite an anomaly, speaking three languages: English, Russian (her first language-a combination which profoundly confuses people in our area who can identify the Russian language but cannot reconcile hearing the Russian language coming from an Asian’s mouth) and her final language, “Appalachian Hillbilly,” which betrays her even more than her use of the Russian language.
THE DEPLORABLE ACT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Our “enlightened” modern society remains as barbaric as ever.
The deplorable, dehumanizing human-trafficking enterprise and the language used in discussing its eradication makes my skin crawl. Discussing these women, brutally raped and beaten each day, as a “reusable commodity” as opposed to drug traffickers whose “commodity” (illegal drugs) is finite (one can only smoke a joint once) shows you how barbaric our “modern society” remains. The article (taken from The International Business Times), linked below, is certainly worth a read. I find it just slightly ironic that an agency whose purpose is to create, test and produce high level, cutting edge technology to help the USA defeat its opponents in war has created a system that may help the USA prevail on a vastly different battleground and against an atypical foe–Human Traffickers.
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