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This is an abstract distilled from the MOOC "Jo Boaler's 'How to Learn Math' ." It graphically or through glyphs reflects the main points of a vid showing five professionals and how they approached math personally and practially. It is possible that I will continue to update this graphic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093701881794860647.post-15670195711718653342013-09-08T11:54:00.002-07:002013-09-08T11:54:33.210-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is alarming how ugly the Conservative Party in the United States has become. Their loss in the last National Election has sent them into full blown berserk mode, their politics and their luminaries are loathsome. Their naked hatred is odious. Their bigotry is embarrassing.</div>
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A new MOOC: <b>How to Teach Math</b>. This is the first "internet artifact" assigned, and this post is mainly to provide a url for the above graphic. It is a concept map that contemplates the stumbling blocks to students having fair access to learning math. This is the first session of the course.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093701881794860647.post-76175310390897465032013-06-26T17:41:00.003-07:002013-06-26T17:41:48.889-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is Socrates most controversial doctrine. He claimed that "No-one willingly does wrong." The first instinct is to deny it. But after consideration, provided there is nothing organically wrong with an individual, it is true. I submit no person decides to do something that will bring condemnation from friends, family and, even, strangers. Everything we do, even on the spur of the moment, has some rationale behind it, some kind of justification. Even the individual that thinks they might be on the edge of impropriety can accept their actions if they think no one will be harmed if they never learn of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are many people we meet and hear of whose actions passeth all understanding; but I think, without excusing them for the consequences of their actions, we owe them at least a measure of compassion. Whether through ignorance, confusion or just plain stupidity, no thinking human wants to harm another for fun. There is no fun in it. The reason that many of us do the right thing is not, alas, because it is the right thing but because we want to avoid the punishment that will result later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the basis for Mercy. The worse the wrong, the greater the actor will eventually pay, sometimes for the rest of their lives, with a misery that can never be washed away. Whatever short term punishment we can properly deliver will pale in a lifetime spoiled by a foolish act.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The most difficult problem comes with the pathological or the sociopath, the ones that have no way of knowing or caring for whatever wrong they do. Even worse, some of them delight in it. What should be done with such a one? Is it not cruel to confine them in solitary for the span of their lives? Should they be chemically or physically neutralized to stay alive but harm no others, rendered unaware of their surroundings? Would those remedies be no better, or worse, than putting them to death?</span></div>
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I am a teacher, and though liberal, I am more than a little disturbed by the sexual activity of young folks. The infection rate of STD's is embarrassing, and no telling what long term effects. I have gotten old enough now to be annoyed by their fashions - in my day it was long hair that upset the fuddy-duddies, now it's tattoos and body piercing. I am a late term Baby Boomer, and find all of this more than a little perplexing.<br />
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But there is a very strong upside to the current generation developing, at least from my empirical observations. There is much less evidence of racism and bigotry in the midst of this swirl of artificial, even extreme, culture. For a deep understanding of all this investigate the Burning Man event. At first blush its a Hippie resurgence, but it's much more than that. Consider just one of their principles: Radical Self Reliance! Nothing wrong with that.<br />
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Every Generation thinks the next one is going into the sewers, Aristotle infamously condemned his successors. But for the most part we are progressing. Modern technology is propagating so rapidly, it's making our heads spin. In five years time, we will not be able to recognize the current world! Perhaps it's just wishful thinking on my part, in a politically and economically, even culturally, broken moment in time. But the advances in the Multiverse give me great hope!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093701881794860647.post-660985818004215202013-04-18T08:54:00.002-07:002013-04-18T08:54:33.726-07:00Oh joy, rapture! I am starting a new MOOC. I had one intervening but had to drop it, touching on graduate level programming I woulda been in over my hayd.<br />
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Now a new Language, a sophisticated one but not esoteric. Or so I hope:<br />
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The course is through Rice University. Hmmm. Looks like an extended make good!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093701881794860647.post-34142423301553911442013-04-02T12:32:00.001-07:002013-04-02T12:32:58.076-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">There are many friends that I once knew</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Who felt the same special thing that I share with you</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">They've grown apart in different ways</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I wonder if someone hears as I start to say</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'm Hoping love will last</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'm hoping love will last on and on</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Why do I dream love's labour's lost</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'm just a face with a name that you soon forgot</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">But when I'm scared the most, the nightmare ends</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Then safe and sound I awake in your arms again -</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Hoping love will last</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Yes I'm hoping love will last on and on</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">How can I go on alone when your love is all I've known</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Sometimes we stay many miles away</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">You know you're here every minute throughout the day</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Within my thoughts, so take good care</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">I only wait for the moments we both can share</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Hoping love will last</span><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Yes I'm hoping love will last on and on</span><br />
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So, this is my first real foray into the blogosphere, inspired by my desire to begin to explore the Multiverse. This blog was initiated for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course">Massively Online Open Course</a>, an experiment in education that has lately drawn a good deal of interest. The original content on this first page is no more, as it is dreadfully dated and somewhat of a failure, as a machinima I wished to post was beyond my skillsets at the time. I entertain the notion I will post an abstract version of it later just because I need to practice that 'completeness' stuff.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This portrait gathers all the main avatars I have developed on one of the virtual grids. You can guess which one, but there are quite a few out there. They are individual characters, with individual characteristics, through which I have been developing an alternate world which could possibly allow a universe for my writing designs. And they are just good clean fun!</span></div>
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