Day 106: Storybox

4 Responses to Day 106: Storybox

1. paul says:

   July 8, 2011 at 9:17 pm

   I think the story box is a great Idea.

   Nathan,

   You have inspired me to write my first humorous (sarcastic) blog. To be clear You inspired me to write down my thoughts on education in a blog, the sarcasm is my own, it is really just a little venting called “Ode to the Lecture” In Tumblr.

   http://voxprofessio.tumblr.com/

   Thanks.

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   • Tara Li says:

     July 10, 2011 at 6:31 pm

     Nice post. If I were a lecturer, I’d be sorely tempted to bring wifi and cell phone jammers to class, and watch the nervous twitches as the students find themselves unconnected from their nervous system.

     It really is getting interesting to see how important being connected is becoming to people, and how closely it resembles the old image of the Internet acting as the connection between us, uniting us as the “brain” of the Gaia entity.

     Perhaps Dr. Lowell will give us some of his ideas on the human race as the mind of Gaia, and the so-called Singularity. Are we already in said Singularity?

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2. Tara Li says:

   July 10, 2011 at 6:40 pm

   Nice comment about integrated curriculums. I’d like to see more of it myself. Things like the Language Arts teacher grading the science and history exams. I’d love to see James Burke’s The Day The Universe Changed and Connections series used as textbooks for science and history combined, as well as Isaac Asimov’s essay collections. I’d also like to see more education to bring out using our senses, with practice working blindfolded, or deafened, having to communicate via sign language and morse code, and learning to properly observe and report what is observed (somewhat like, though more modernly focused, the classes described in Jane Yolen’s Sister Light, Sister Dark)

   Perhaps part of the problem is convincing ourselves that students can do this kind of thing – which many believe they couldn’t. I think that attitude comes from the idea that people in general are dumb – something I haven’t found to be quite true. While large groups of people acting together do seem to act fairly dumbly, individuals themselves are, for the most part, fairly intelligent as far as I can tell. Not that the current educational system doesn’t seem to be doing its part to bring the intelligence of individuals down to match the intelligence of large groups.

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3. Lucie le Blanc says:

   July 12, 2011 at 7:01 pm

   200 miles ? That’s 322 km, the distance from Quebec City to Montreal ! Amazing !

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