Tag: experiential education
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Skills != books
Randomly looking through old architect books on the web, trying again to find an equivalent to Grandma’s apartment building, a fourplex with a separate service hall. Previously I’d looked through my bookshelf of Dover plan books from that era, with no results. There are some fourplexes but no service halls. While googling, another aspect of…
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Will this be on the test?
When I was teaching at DeVry in the 80s, I was constantly frustrated by the pressure toward memorized theory and against job-type experience. Even in an officially job-oriented school, most students just wanted to memorize and get done. From their viewpoint it’s completely understandable. They were only seeking a CREDENTIAL so they could start EARNING.…
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Wrong end of the variable
From Above The Line: = = = = = START QUOTE: For weeks, multiple studios and streamers have been planning to use AI to generate scripts based on books and other IP that is in the public domain, with lists of titles making the rounds among development executives, multiple insiders have told Above the Line.…
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Sieve
The purpose of patents and copyrights is to block innovation, not to enable. The purpose of the current school system is to block most people from developing their skills, letting only the selected few percolate through the holes. Without school, most skills would be fully mature and experienced at 21. The old apprentice system accomplished…
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So close…
Leah Libresco is worrying about AI cheating. There’s an important and valid worry in this area, but the cheating itself is not the serious problem. These companies use machine-learning models to count how many times per minute a student blinks or shifts his gaze (while taking an online exam, for example); they then compare this…
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Ovens
Interesting experiential note from Kirn: Years ago while teaching creative writing to grad students I noticed a new kind of short story that was not about deep conflicts but differences of opinion. One character would have the right opinions on some issue, another the wrong ones. Bad things would happen to the person with the…
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Why 1906?
I’ve been fascinated by two major inflection points. The more recent one, 1946, is not mysterious at all. After FDR died, Deepstate recaptured the territory it had lost, and started to obliterate the universe. UN, WHO, NSF, NIH, CDC, NSA, CIA. All the three-letter** demons were founded in 1946 with the same demonic purpose. The…
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AOL coming back to life?
AOL was the Web’s main home page for many years. I came into the web from Compuserve, and ended up inside AOL because Compuserve’s email automatically became AOL. In the last 10 years AOL seemed to be gradually fading, bought by various larger entities, with only its email still functioning. My personal email is still…
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Makes sense.
Pointed via Reddit, an interesting observation from a survey about scam-spotting. Extroverts have a harder time detecting fake reviews. Makes complete sense. Unpopular people NEVER experience a positive reaction in real life, so we KNOW from long and painful experience that EVERY positive reaction is fake. Popular people ALWAYS get positive reactions, so their experience…
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How do you trust?
I stopped reading Berenson a long time ago because he seemed to be working both sides of the fence. Peeked at his substack today, and he has moved on to other subjects, which is probably wise. He’s discussing AI and consciousness, but he seems unwilling to trust the real experts. My question to you –…
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Math is pope (reprint).
Naomi Wolf writes a long and scholarly piece on the 2020 holocaust. She believes that the uniform unison action of ALL governments at ALL levels could only happen because we’ve abandoned the single Abrahamic god and resumed the old poly-gods. This is backwards. Those old gods were the exact opposite of uniform and unison. They…
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Best thing in the universe
Noted via Reddit, the Broken Arrow schools near Tulsa are teaching biology and physics as part of fly-fishing! = = = = = START QUOTE: “Over a month ago, we started taking a look at insects,” he said. “Then we started learning how to mimic insects, to fly tie, and now we’re putting these flies…
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Fake all the way down
I always knew that our “wakeup” response to the surprise of Sputnik was fake, or maybe just incalculably stupid. We ruined our own science and math education in an alleged effort to surpass the genuinely excellent Soviet education. This article shows that our SURPRISE was also fake. The context makes sense based on what I…
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Good point, best point
Pretty good point from Kirn: AI Chatbots simply formalize & make explicit the profoundly inert nature of collective thinking that made real artists & writers attractive in the first place. They are more important than ever now, in fact, as second-rate pseudo-creativity has consolidated itself as never before. Vastly stronger point from one of his…
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Reprint on superhet
Linked in previous, worth bringing out on its own. This 2015 piece fits nicely with the newly found Carver quote: Start where you are. Work with what you have. Make something of it. Never be satisfied. The latter part of the piece also applies to this year’s AI cheating trend. Now that cheating is undetectable,…
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