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maureen greenbaum

Edu-Traitor! Confessions of a Prof Who Believes Higher Ed Isn't the Only Goal | HASTAC - 52 views

hastac.org/...ieves-higher-ed-isnt-only-goal

education Higher

shared by maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • many brilliant, talented young people are dropping out of high school because they see high school as implicilty "college prep" and they cannot imagine anything more dreary than spending four more years bored in a classroom when they could be out actually experiencing and perfecting their skills in the trades, the skills, and the careers that inspire them.
  • The abolishing of art, music, physical education, tech training, and shop from grade schools and high schools means that the requirement for excellence has shrunk more and more right at the time when creativity, imagination, dexterity, adaptability to change, technical know-how, and all the rest require more not less diversity. 
    • Peg Mahon
      Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
       
      AMEN!
  • we make education hell for so many kids, we undermine their skills and their knowledge, we underscore their resentment, we emphasize class division and hierarchy, and we shortchange their future and ours,
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  • There are so many viable and important and skilled professions that cannot be outsourced to either an exploitative Third World sweat shop or to a computer, that require face-to-face presence, and a bucketload of skills--but that  do not require a college education:  the full range of IT workers, web designers, body workers (ie deep tissue massage), yoga and pilates instructors, fitness educators, DJ's, hair dressers, retail workers, food industry professionals, entertainers,  entertainment industry professionals, construction workers, dancers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, landscapers, nanny's, elder-care professionals, nurses's aids, dog trainers, cosmetologists, athletes, sales people, fashion designers, novelists, poets, furniture makers, book keepers, sound engineers, inn keepers, wedding planners, stylists, photographers, auto mechanics, and on and on.  
  • maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11
     
    Cathy Davidson
  • Carol Ansel on 09 Aug 11
     
    In general, I agree. However, novelists and poets don't need college?? And perhaps less so to artists and musicians? Perhaps... but what better way to learn the history and analysis of their Art, in order to place their own work in context?
  • Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
     
    I could not agree more with you Maureen. As a long time middle school teacher in Oakland and Mpls I am thoroughly convinced that our nation and our states are nuts to have cut all of the tech and arts classes out of elementary, middle and high schools. EVERY student should learn a trade/skill set in high school. The hs drop out rate is horrifying and no surprise that the crime rate follows. We have a nation of under achieving teens because the adults have not kept up with funding the myriad of opportunities that would capture and harness their interests and creativity. I look forward to reading your book Maureen and to following you on here.
Martin Burrett

Guess-the-Google - 5 views

grant.robinson.name/...game

game Google search search engine image

shared by Martin Burrett on 25 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 25 Jul 11
     
    A reverse Google image search game where players must guess what has been searched for. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
Bob Rowan

twtrland - 32 views

twtrland.com

Twitter search engines searching

shared by Bob Rowan on 11 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Bob Rowan on 11 Aug 11
     
    analyzes a user's twitter profile to determine what they talk about frequently, how often they use twitter, and how often they are retweeted
M Holthouse

Gear Design - 14 views

www.geardesign.co.uk

engineering CAD mechanism gear

shared by M Holthouse on 14 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • M Holthouse on 14 Aug 11
     
    Basic intro to gears
M Holthouse

eGFI - For Teachers » Lesson: Concrete for Kids - 36 views

teachers.egfi-k12.org/concrete-for-kids-2

engineering structures forces

shared by M Holthouse on 06 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • M Holthouse on 06 Sep 11
     
    hands-on project for experimenting with concrete
James Spagnoletti

Göbekli Tepe -National Geographic Magazine--"Origin of Religion" - 36 views

ngm.nationalgeographic.com/...mann-text

WHAP World_History_One agriculture religion prehistoric archaeology

shared by James Spagnoletti on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
    • James Spagnoletti
      James Spagnoletti on 17 Sep 11
       
      Very cool photographs--take a look.  You will be doing your first art/artifact case studies this week. 
  • Most of the world's great religious centers, past and present, have been destinations for pilgrimages
  • Göbekli Tepe may be the first of all of them, the beginning of a pattern. What it suggests, at least to the archaeologists working there, is that the human sense of the sacred—and the human love of a good spectacle—may have given rise to civilization itself.
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  • In the 1960s archaeologists from the University of Chicago had surveyed the region and concluded that Göbekli Tepe was of little interest. Disturbance was evident at the top of the hill, but they attributed it to the activities of a Byzantine-era military outpost.
  • Schmidt had come across the Chicago researchers' brief description of the hilltop and decided to check it out. On the ground he saw flint chips—huge numbers of them. "Within minutes of getting there," Schmidt says, he realized that he was looking at a place where scores or even hundreds of people had worked in millennia past.
  • s the months and years went by, Schmidt's team
  • found a second circle of stones, then a third, and then more. Geomagnetic surveys in 2003 revealed at least 20 rings piled together, higgledy-piggledy, under the earth
  • The pillars were big—the tallest are 18 feet in height and weigh 16 tons. Swarming over their surfaces was a menagerie of animal bas-reliefs, each in a different style, some roughly rendered, a few as refined and symbolic as Byzantine art.
  • The circles follow a common design. All are made from limestone pillars shaped like giant spikes or capital T's. Bladelike, the pillars are easily five times as wide as they are deep. They stand an arm span or more apart, interconnected by low stone walls. In the middle of each ring are two taller pillars, their thin ends mounted in shallow grooves cut into the floor.
  • "They hadn't yet mastered engineering." Knoll speculated that the pillars may have been propped up, perhaps by wooden posts.
  • To Schmidt, the T-shaped pillars are stylized human beings, an idea bolstered by the carved arms that angle from the "shoulders" of some pillars, hands reaching toward their loincloth-draped bellies.
  • The stones face the center of the circle—as at "a meeting or dance," Schmidt says—a representation, perhaps, of a religious ritual.
  • As for the prancing, leaping animals on the figures, he noted that they are mostly deadly creatures: stinging scorpions, charging boars, ferocious lions. The figures represented by the pillars may be guarded by them, or appeasing them, or incorporating them as totems.
  • The site may have been built, filled in, and built again for centuries.
  • Bewilderingly, the people at Göbekli Tepe got steadily worse at temple building.
  • The earliest rings are the biggest and most sophisticated, technically and artistically. As time went by, the pillars became smaller, simpler, and were mounted with less and less care. Finally the effort seems to have petered out altogether by 8200 B.C. Göbekli Tepe was all fall and no rise.
Deborah Batzer

The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements - 177 views

www.uky.edu/Chemcomics

diigo chemistry science comics elements periodic periodictable

shared by Deborah Batzer on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Deborah Batzer on 29 Oct 09
     
    This site contains comic book images linked to the chemical elements via the periodic table. Comics include Uncle $crooge, Metal Men, Metamorpho, Batman, Fantastic Four, Superman, and many more."> The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements BODY { color: rgb(0,0,0);} Th
anonymous

Mugurdy Search Engine - 47 views

www.mugurdy.com/search.aspx

education Search searchengine mugurdy

shared by anonymous on 21 Nov 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 21 Nov 09
     
    Great for ESL/EFL/ELL or other learners
Roland Gesthuizen

COMP8440 - ANU - College of Engineering and Computer Science - 24 views

cs.anu.edu.au/...lectures.php

anu college programming opensource curriculum FLOSS projectmanagement

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 10 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 10 Apr 11
     
    This course provides an overview of the historical and modern context and operation of free and open source software (FOSS) communities and associated software projects. The practical objective of the course is to teach students how they can begin to participate in a FOSS project in order to contribute to and improve aspects of the software that they feel are wrong. Students will learn some important FOSS tools and techniques for contributing to projects and how to set up their own FOSS projects.
Alvar Maciel

Bienvenido - 7 views

www.pilas-engine.com.ar

Educación programacion Python

shared by Alvar Maciel on 08 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Pilas es un motor para hacer videojuegos de manera sencilla. Está dirigido a personas que comienzan a programar videojuegos y quieren lograr resultados interesantes y divertidos en poco tiempo.
  • Pilas es un motor para hacer videojuegos de manera sencilla. Está dirigido a personas que comienzan a programar videojuegos y quieren lograr resultados interesantes y divertidos en poco tiempo.
  • Alvar Maciel on 08 Apr 11
     
    "Pilas es un motor para hacer videojuegos de manera sencilla. Está dirigido a personas que comienzan a programar videojuegos y quieren lograr resultados interesantes y divertidos en poco tiempo."
A Gardner

Brain Food: Realistic Lateral Thinking Puzzles - 201 views

www.rinkworks.com/...latreal1.shtml

lateral thinking puzzles

shared by A Gardner on 06 Apr 11 - Cached
  • A Gardner on 06 Apr 11
     
    Link from coxmath.blogspot
  • Sigrid Murphy on 07 Apr 11
     
    These puzzles are not for me. Perhaps I'm too right-brained.
  • Mark Falcon on 07 Apr 11
     
    It's probably my Engineering background but some of these assume (incorrectly) alot. For example. "A man is lying dead in a room. There is a large pile of gold and jewels on the floor, a chandelier attached to the ceiling, and a large open window." "Lying" leads one to believe the man is being held down by weight. If we assume he properly set his ballasts for zero/neutral buoyancy he would be floating especially given his now empty tank. Also most wreckage divers use some form of balloon or cabling system attached to a boat to help "carry" heavy loads to the surface. So he wouldn't have been held down by the find. Finally, only the most experienced divers, with the proper training dive for salvage. An experience diver would never be caught out with no air. Not to mention the problems states there is an easy access path with the "large window" so even if things went completely wrong, the diver could have at least tried for the surface. I'm with Sigrid, not for me. ;-)
ivan alba

Infographics & Data Visualization | Visual.ly - 121 views

visual.ly

illustrator tutorial infografias

shared by ivan alba on 13 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Jul 11
     
    A good site for exploring, sharing and creating stylish infographics. Get your class you make visually stunning displays and posters to explain their ideas. [Be aware - Site was in Beta last time I checked]
  • Susan Harari on 26 Jul 12
     
    Visually is the largest data visualization showcase in the world. Create and share infographics. Site has own search engine for web based infographics, holds data from govt agencies, non-profits and other research and data-focused entities
Martin Burrett

Power Play - Construct energy machines - 116 views

www.sciencenetlinks.com/...powerplay.swf

science physics engineering energy

shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Jul 11
     
    A game where you build machines to harness energy by dragging the right parts together. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Deborah Chang

Goal-Based Scenarios - 0 views

www.engines4ed.org/...NODE-227-pg.html

goal-based scenarios pbl pd

shared by Deborah Chang on 17 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Deborah Chang on 17 Jul 11
     
    Read more about goal-based scenarios (seems just the same as project-based learning.
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