Tag: experiential education
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WPA 1/5, background
Time for another review/renew series. Five parts from top to bottom. Part 1, Background (this item). Part 2, Oklahoma. Part 3, Teacherages. Part 4, Post offices. Part 5, Summary. = = = = = The New Deal set up dozens of overlapping agencies at first, then gradually simplified the arrangement. In other words, FDR didn’t…
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The missing element, part 2
Continuing from here. Passive vs active, facts vs experience, in education. Here’s a sharp comparison from the early ’30s. RCA was promoting the passive version in a sneaky way. VITALIZED EDUCATION Radio has added to the plan of teaching a third dimension through which it may project a living personality into the school room or…
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Still more Zenith musings
The Zenith memory pulled me back into those first few months after release from prison. I was appreciating freedom, but I was starting out on the wrong track AGAIN. What was the wrong track? COLLEGE, and especially college courses in physics and math. College drove me crazy, drove me into hopeless depression which led inevitably…
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The missing element
After being relatively inactive for a couple months, American Radio Library is flooding their website with new and interesting materials. In previous post I was reading some Education in Radio journals from an arrogantly elitist group. Now a larger pile of more general discussions has appeared. From 1922 to 1952 to 2022, one crucial element…
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Returning OJT
Batya’s message about the failure of modern “journalism” is focused on Experiential Education. She tirelessly repeats that journalism was previously a TRADE, learned on the job. Since the Watergate Coup journalism has been a THEORETICAL ABSTRACTION learned in grad school. I’ve been tirelessly repeating the same historical switch in the field of science. The change…
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Sort of halfway self-solving
Wolf’s latest item about credit includes some disheartening stats. Earlier it appeared that Americans were taking advantage of the Federal blood money to reduce their credit card debt. Now they’re doing the opposite. Wolf also includes a simple chart of college debt. Unlike most graphs that go exponential under the demonic influence of the exponential…
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Turnaround in SKILLS
Matt Stoller gives a history of consolidation in defense contractors, which was actually ORDERED by Clinton. Stoller is tracking a fairly sharp turnaround. The FTC is now rejecting mergers that it would have approved before, and the Pentagon has joined the switch. Amazingly, the Trump administration tried to turn the tide, and even more amazingly,…
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Sputnik again
Randomly wandering again through the old Computers and Automation mags at Bitsavers. In 1956, ran into a single statistic that activated my Sputnik gene. Statistic: Average number of students in class: USSR 19 or 20 and decreasing. USA 34 or 35 and increasing. = = = = = I can verify that 35 was not…
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This year’s yak-shaving
I tend to do the same things and think the same thoughts at the same time each year, without trying. Keeping a daily journal or worklog helps to spot these patterns. Right now I’m having fun shaving a yak. I started working on a 3d animatable waterfall spectrogram, extending the ‘live sine waves’ seen here.…
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