Monday, 21 October 2013
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Charlatans and Frauds: The never-ending supply of popular credulousness
According to science, what is homeopathy?
Pseudo-medicine, a placebo, ineffective.
Homeopathy is very expensive water. (full marks on the mid-term, any other materially different answer gets zero).
Homework: go to http://www.randi.org/site/
Report on what you find there.
What is the purpose of the organization?
Who is James Randi?
What is Avogadro's limit?
Leave your answers in the comments to this post.
Pseudo-medicine, a placebo, ineffective.
Homeopathy is very expensive water. (full marks on the mid-term, any other materially different answer gets zero).
Homework: go to http://www.randi.org/site/
Report on what you find there.
What is the purpose of the organization?
Who is James Randi?
What is Avogadro's limit?
Leave your answers in the comments to this post.
The Hole in the Wall
01. What is the "hole in the wall" project?
It's a project where children in remote areas have access to a computer which allows them to teach themselves without a teacher.
It's a project where children in remote areas have access to a computer which allows them to teach themselves without a teacher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jYVe1RGaU
Sugata Mitra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhhgI4tSMwc
Meg Ray homework
:Homework for Monday, complete the exam questions with model answers. Add a tl;dr. The first one has been done for you.
Define the following terms as they are used by Psychologist Meg Ray.
Extended adolescence
Adolescence is commonly understood as beginning at birth and ending with the end of puberty. Extended adolescence is the detrimental prolongation of adolescent behaviours beyond puberty and the deferment of adult roles and adult responsibility. Some consequences named in the video include not being able to have the career you want, not being able to marry the person you want, not being able to have the children you want.
tl;dr
Extended adolescence is a continuation of pubescent behaviour post-puberty. Biological adulthood without social or mental adulthood.
Twixters
Neologism describing a new generation of young adults trapped between adolescence and adulthood. They are mostly people who still live with their parents. They don't have jobs; or their jobs are part-time and often paid. Twixters tend to marry later and defer other important life decisions until later as well. synonym: kidults, peter-pan, young-at-heart, empty of wallet.
Polish equivalent: gniazdowniki (people who won't leave the nest)
Being intentional and making mindful choices.
Doing something on purpose. Thinking out your actions and acting on them.
Infantilization
To infantalize is to treat an adult person like a child or reduce their status to that of an infant or child.
Trivialized defining decade
Deprecating the value of your twenties.
Underestimating the most flexible time of our lives.
Benign neglect
Ignoring or dismissing as unimportant some issue immediately which manifests adverse consequences much later.
Blowing it
Failing to take advantage of an opportunity, when you are messing up, or screwing up, or doing something wrong
Robbed of urgency and ambition
Society's attitude towards twentysomethings encourages them to waste time, delay important life decisions, slack off. This is epitomized in the phrase "Your 30s are your new 20s"
The perception that twentysomethings have the option of 'do over,' ie. they can defer indefinitely important life decisions again and again.
Identity capital
An investment in who you want to be and what you want your life to look like. Identity capital is achieved by exploring work opportunities and engaging in meaningful relationship.
Investment in your adulthood and creating a social network to make a proper foundation for the future. It's about adding value to who you andwho you want to be.
Sugata Mitra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhhgI4tSMwc
Meg Ray homework
:Homework for Monday, complete the exam questions with model answers. Add a tl;dr. The first one has been done for you.
Define the following terms as they are used by Psychologist Meg Ray.
Extended adolescence
Adolescence is commonly understood as beginning at birth and ending with the end of puberty. Extended adolescence is the detrimental prolongation of adolescent behaviours beyond puberty and the deferment of adult roles and adult responsibility. Some consequences named in the video include not being able to have the career you want, not being able to marry the person you want, not being able to have the children you want.
tl;dr
Extended adolescence is a continuation of pubescent behaviour post-puberty. Biological adulthood without social or mental adulthood.
Twixters
Neologism describing a new generation of young adults trapped between adolescence and adulthood. They are mostly people who still live with their parents. They don't have jobs; or their jobs are part-time and often paid. Twixters tend to marry later and defer other important life decisions until later as well. synonym: kidults, peter-pan, young-at-heart, empty of wallet.
Polish equivalent: gniazdowniki (people who won't leave the nest)
Being intentional and making mindful choices.
Doing something on purpose. Thinking out your actions and acting on them.
Infantilization
To infantalize is to treat an adult person like a child or reduce their status to that of an infant or child.
Trivialized defining decade
Deprecating the value of your twenties.
Underestimating the most flexible time of our lives.
Benign neglect
Ignoring or dismissing as unimportant some issue immediately which manifests adverse consequences much later.
Blowing it
Failing to take advantage of an opportunity, when you are messing up, or screwing up, or doing something wrong
Robbed of urgency and ambition
Society's attitude towards twentysomethings encourages them to waste time, delay important life decisions, slack off. This is epitomized in the phrase "Your 30s are your new 20s"
The perception that twentysomethings have the option of 'do over,' ie. they can defer indefinitely important life decisions again and again.
Identity capital
An investment in who you want to be and what you want your life to look like. Identity capital is achieved by exploring work opportunities and engaging in meaningful relationship.
Investment in your adulthood and creating a social network to make a proper foundation for the future. It's about adding value to who you andwho you want to be.
Homework
If Sugata Mitra's vision is fullfilled, how would this affect the ability for future employers to verify whether job applicants have aquired the necessary standard of education?
homework: write a short paragraph answer to this question and leave it in the comments to this post.
homework: write a short paragraph answer to this question and leave it in the comments to this post.
Short Answer Questions
01
What does S.O.L.E. stand for and how does it work?
It stands for Self Organised Learning Environment. SOLE's purpose is to give people a chance to organize the process of learning for themselves by providing broadband internet access, collaboration, encouragement and praise. (2 marks)
Question 02
Compare and contrast the national Polish educational system to SOLE learning.
What does S.O.L.E. stand for and how does it work?
It stands for Self Organised Learning Environment. SOLE's purpose is to give people a chance to organize the process of learning for themselves by providing broadband internet access, collaboration, encouragement and praise. (2 marks)
Question 02
Compare and contrast the national Polish educational system to SOLE learning.
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