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Integers in the Real World

his identity of the school system forces us to recognize the profound world-wide identity of myth, mode of production, and method of social control, despite the great variety of mythologies in which the myth finds expression.

The alternative to dependence on schools is not the use of public resources for some new device which "makes" people learn; rather it is the creation of a new style of educational relationship between man and his environment. To foster this style, attitudes toward growing up, the tools available for learning, and the quality and structure of daily life will have to change concurrently.

By her own account, she came to writing books in a meandering way. Born in Philadelphia but raised in Florida, she spent her 20s working jobs at Disney World, Circus World and a campground, harboring secret ambitions to be an author.

“It wasn’t until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I’m trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room,” Ms. DiCamillo said. “That’s the same thing that I want here: to get as many different people into the room as I can. I don’t know that I will resonate with a particular group of kids, but I want to get as many kids and as many adults together reading as I can.”

When you’re standing in front of a classroom of students who’re not quite sure they even want to be in your class, much less pay attention to what’s being said

Brain Target 2: Creating the Physical Learning Environment

Brain Target 1: Establish the emotional climate for learning

Brain Target 3: Designing the Learning Experience

Neuroscience: The brain feels before it thinks. The amygdala (think fight/flight) receives stimuli 40 milliseconds

Neuroscience: The brain craves novelty. Posner & Rothbart, 2007); lighting, background noise impact on attention;

Neuroscience behind it: The brain looks for patterns between known and unknown information (Posner & Rothbart

Brain Target 4: Teaching for Mastery

Neuroscience behind it: In order for information to be retained it must make its way from short-term to long-term memory.

Brain Target 5: Teaching for the Extension Neuroscience behind it: The brain is plastic. Significant changes occur in the brain due to repeated sensory experience (Fu & Zuo,2011, Karmarkar & Dan, 2006)

Brain Target 6: Evaluating Learning Neuroscience behind it: Assessments provides feedback that informs and motivates students; retrieval of information recruits memory systems, reinforcing memory for that information.

Both Maryland and Virginia gave land for the new capital. The land was on the border of the North and the South. At that time, there were no western states! George Washington named the land the District of Columbia, in honor of Christopher Columbus.

John Adams, the second president of the United States, moved into a cold, damp White House in November 1800.

Washington, D.C., is one of the only cities in the world that was designed before it was built.

Next it was time to decide what kind of house to build for the president. Thomas Jefferson suggested having a contest. He advertised the contest in newspapers across the country. A committee picked a simple but elegant design by James Hoban, a young Irish American architect.

The first stone was laid on October 13, 1792. It took eight years

to finish enough of the house to make it livable.

Washington decided to put the Capitol Building on a hill at one end of the city, and the president's house on a hill at the other end.

The White House was the largest residential house in America!

Madison's wife, Dolley

War of 1812

would not leave the house until two men agreed to take down the famous portrait of George Washington.

the picture that Dolley saved is the only thing that has been in the White House since it first opened.

repainted white to cover the smoke marks. People began to call it the White House.