Tag: experiential education
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Finally a bit of sanity!
Elle Griffin writes some SANITY about college. Even better, she’s writing about a FEW colleges that have reverted to the Anderson model. They’re not tiny startups; they’re big universities with lots of money available. = = = = = START QUOTE: BYU is followed by a dozen colleges and universities hoping to do the same—among…
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Interactive
Interactive gimmicks in publications have been around for a long time. The technology for die-cutting and inserting gimmicks is very old, but expensive in time and planning. This Natl Assn of Mfrs film showed various ways that corporations communicated with their employees, ranging from the usual bulletin boards and suggestion boxes to closed circuit radio…
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New thought along the same old line
Even pollsters now agree that debate doesn’t affect beliefs. Despite this nearly universal understanding, advocates and activists continue to push for “open debate” and “free speech”. They insist “the best answer to bad speech is good speech”. What really changes minds is EXPERIENCE. New thought: When was I able to change my mind about imperialism,…
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Smart idea
This Natl Assn of Mfrs film features a clever way of simultaneously training teachers and researchers. Arthur D Little Co performed various types of research for companies that couldn’t afford a fulltime lab. Little was arranging job swaps with schools. The trainees would alternate a semester teaching science then a semester working in Little’s labs.…
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Da yoots has got it right.
The Progressive Policy Institute (Will Marshall’s outfit) surveyed young working class folks. If the poll is valid, it shows a remarkably accurate understanding, despite all the toxins spewed by R and D media for decades. These people want Democrats to be like FDR and want Repooflicans to be like Ike. A couple of specific questions:…
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Proves my point
The Christians are bashing the pres of Harvard for doing EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED HER TO DO until right now. Before October they were bashing university presidents for opposing free speech. Now the Harvard pres is supporting free speech as the Christians wanted, but supporting it for people the Christians hate. This idiocy proves my…
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Exactly backwards
EnidBuzz asked a repeated question: What should schools be teaching? Most answers were variations on Life Skills. A teacher said: Most of these answers are things PARENTS should be teaching their kids. As a teacher, I frankly don’t have time to raise your kids. Exactly wrong. 90% of what schools teach is strictly unnecessary and…
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Bigger point
Anton Howe writes a VERY long and detailed critique of the failed process of peer review in tech history. The specific paper in question deals with an obscure aspect of iron work. The writers were clearly aiming for a standard elite political goal, and the journal, following modern practice, amplified the political goal instead of…
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Precisely wrong
Seen on Reddit: Kids ask how people knew facts before the Internet. Well, we asked Aunt Marge, and she gave us a pack of lies. NO. Precisely exactly diametrically wrong. Here’s what we really did: We read our school textbooks and listened to the teachers, who filled us with violently wrong toxic poison. We DIDN’T…
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What you mean EVERYONE?
This BBC piece on Sammy starts with an obnoxious headline: Everyone got duped by Sam’s big gamble What you mean Everyone, dupe man? I wasn’t duped by any of the bitcoin shit. Plenty of others with bigger voices weren’t duped, and we all tried to tell EVERYONE that EVERYONE is a goddamn fool. This has…
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Would be nice but can’t happen
A new “study” finds an obvious fact of life but misuses it dangerously. = = = = = START QUOTE: With polarization and misinformation on the rise, new research explores a solution using interactive data visualization to inform and engage readers. Getting readers of a news story interested in numbers can be a challenge. But…
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Zenith leftover
(Redated and reposted) This duplex should have gone in the Zenith set. At that time I showed the Trans-Oceanic in a generic house. Now I’ve made the proper duplex, so will more or less repeat the text with proper pictures. The duplex also has a coffee connection and a printing connection, so it does fit…
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Oldest rule
Another example of my oldest rule and oldest passion, endlessly repeated in this blog. As I animate electrotyping and stereotyping, I’m having trouble with the chemical aspects. One of the source articles made an error which was probably simple and obvious. I couldn’t spot it until I read several other explanations. I took chemistry in…
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What for?
Tara Henley, former CBC reporter who turned independent, interviews Eric Kaufmann. He’s trying to set up a School of Heterodox Social Science within an existing British college. He offers a balanced and rational approach to the whole mess of Cancel and Woke and such, recognizing that censorship and orthodoxy are permanent in academia. As I…
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Substack in 1830
In 1896 William Dean Howells, known today as one of Twain’s associates, wrote a brief remembrance of his father’s country newspaper in the 1840s and 1850s. This was in Ashtabula at the northeast edge of Ohio. He discussed the Patent Insides, which were dominant in 1896: = = = = = START HOWELLS: Twice or…
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