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Daryl Bambic

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

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  • This argument rests on the premise that we learn best through data collection without the burdens of judgment and discernment.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Do you agree with this premise?  Do you agree that the previous sentence (the argument) is based on this premise?
  • The Dumbest Generation
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  • incessant communication
  • does not lead to intellectual growth, but rather to a stunting of genuine intellectual development
  • solipsistic,
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Solipsism: means that the only thing we can really know and be sure about is the self.  All other knowledge is suspect.
  • "being online" can contribute to hyper-individualism and a sense of unearned celebrity,
  • ubiquitous
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      meaning is found everywhere
  • requires literacy
  • Human society has experienced three profound social, economic, and cultural transformations—the agrarian revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and now the electronic revolution.
  • we can blend the best of our traditional intellectual linear culture—Socrates' wisdom of the 5th century BCE—with the current digital culture, creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      What does the author want the 21st century learner to be able to do?
  • Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      What do you think the author means by technical fixes?
  • Critical reflection enables us to see the world from multiple points of view and imagine alternate outcomes
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Do you agree with his definition of critical thinking?  What else might be added to it?
  • Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Do you agree with these two paragraphs that connect empirical reasoning with abandoning the supernatural?
  • education has taken on the role of dispensing "cultural capital" to individuals on the basis of a merit system that is a camouflaged proxy for social class and social position.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      What he means is that education is more of a system for making sure the rich stay rich than for actually educating people.  The distinctions between classes is more apparent in American society than in Canadian society.
  • real basis of teamwork is the willingness to think collectively to solve common problems
  • that all knowledge is social.
  • When we think about thinking, we turn our mental pictures around ever so slowly to view them from different angles
  • multiple frames of reference
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      means...different ways of looking at a problem
  • where knowledge creation is fluid, fast, and far more democratic.
  • knowledge creation
  • Wikipedi
  • we will incorporate a whole array of technological options into how, when, and where we learn. We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfar
  • answers were always steps on the way to deeper questions.
  • Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth
  • f we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
  • "personal learning network,"
  • Even thoug
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      I think he has some assumptions about philosophers!
  • Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
     
    the 21st century mind: how are teachers educating for this?
Daryl Bambic

BrainJogging » New studies find video games to be detrimental to children's s... - 2 views

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shared by Daryl Bambic on 19 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Boys who received a game system at the beginning of the study showed an immediate increase in how much time they spent playing video games and a decrease in the after-school academic activities.  They also had significantly lower reading and writing scores than the group of boys that were promised a game system at the end of the study.  Parents reported no behavioral changes, but there was an immediate increase in teacher-reported learning problems for boys that received a game system at the beginning of the study (Science Daily).
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 19 Sep 10
       
      This is a common argument for the negative position.  Be aware that there are educators who use gaming as a teaching tool and believe that it can be positive.  
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 19 Sep 10
       
      This site is an example of how a web page can have a blog section.  The purpose of this site is to sell a product but the author (a special ed teacher) also has much experience and a point of view on an important topic.  If there is a place to leave a comment, then you may consider this as a blog.
  • Daryl Bambic on 19 Sep 10
     
    This is a good link for Steven and Malik
Daryl Bambic

Chapter 7. Deviance, Crime, and Social Control | Introduction to Sociology - ... - 0 views

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  • personality disorder
  • anti-social behaviour, diminished empathy, and lack of inhibitions.
  • term psychopathy is often used to emphasize that the source of the disorder is internal, based on psychological, biological, or genetic factors, whereas sociopathy is used to emphasize predominant social factors in the disorder: the social or familial sources of its development and the inability to be social or abide by societal rules (Hare 1999).
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  • ociopathy
  • sociological disease par excellence.
  • Cesare Lombroso
  • positivist criminology who thought he had isolated specific physiological characteristics of “degeneracy”
  • James Fallon
  • lack of brain activity has been linked with specific genetic markers
  • environment, and not just genes
  • psychopathy and sociopathy are recognized as problematic forms of deviance because of prevalent social anxieties about serial killers as types of criminal who “live next door” or blend in.
  • we do not know our neighbours well
  • deviance is a violation of established contextual, cultural, or social norms, whether folkways, mores, or codified law
  • Folkways
  • Mores
  • laws are norms that are specified in explicit codes and enforced by government bodies
  • rime is therefore an act of deviance that breaks not only a norm, but a law. Deviance can be as minor as picking one’s nose in public or as major as committing murder.
  • Firstly, deviance is defined by its social context. To understand why some acts are deviant and some are not, it is necessary to understand what the context is, what the existing rules are, and how these rules came to be established
  • Whether an act is deviant or not depends on society’s definition of that act
  • deviance is not an intrinsic (biological or psychological) attribute of individuals, nor of the acts themselves, but a product of social processes.
  • moral entrepreneurs
  • individuals’ deviant status is ascribed to them through social processes
  • even when these beliefs about kinds of persons are products of objective scientific classification, the institutional context of science and expert knowledge is not independent of societal norms, beliefs, and practices
  • Crime and deviance are social constructs that vary according to the definitions of crime, the forms and effectiveness of policing, the social characteristics of criminals, and the relations of power that structure society
  • social control,
  • organized action intended to change people’s behaviour
  • maintain social order,
  • enforcing rules are through sanctions
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • formal or informal
  • Formal sanctions
  • Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince (1532),
  • It was not, however, until the 19th century and the invention of modern institutions like the prison, the public school, the modern army, the asylum, the hospital, and the factory, that the means for extending government and social control widely through the population were developed.
  • disciplinary social control 
  • Foucault argues that the ideal of discipline as a means of social control is to render individuals docile.
  • The chief components of disciplinary social control in modern institutions like the prison and the school are surveillance, normalization, and examination
  • seeing machine.
  • rows of desks
  • one-way glass or video monitors.
  • normalization
  • examinations
  • disciplinary social control as a key mechanism in creating a normalizing society.
  • One way deviance is functional, he argued, is that it challenges people’s present views
  • which also contributes to society
  • crime is most likely to occur in communities with weak social ties and the absence of social control.
  • cial disorganization theor
  • A person is not born a criminal, but becomes one over time, often based on factors in his or her social environment.
  • Individuals who believe they are a part of society are less likely to commit crimes against it.
  • Attachment
  • Commitment
  • involvement,
  • belief,
  • studies have found that children from disadvantaged communities who attend preschool programs that teach basic social skills are significantly less likely to engage in criminal activity
  • strain theory
  • that access to socially acceptable goals plays a part in determining whether a person conforms or deviates.
  • Critical sociology looks to social and economic factors as the causes of crime and deviance.
  • but as evidence of inequality in the system.
  • accommodatio
  • discrepancy between the reality of structural inequality and the high cultural value of economic success creates a strain that has to be resolved by some means.
  • consensus crimes
  • Conflict crime
  • Social deviations
  • social diversion
  • The second sociological insight
  • ndividuals are not born deviant, but become deviant through their interaction with reference groups, institutions, and authorities
  • t is not simply a matter of the events that lead authorities to define an activity or category of persons deviant, but of the processes by which individuals come to recognize themselves as deviant.
  • Once a category of deviance has been established and applied to a person, that person begins to define himself or herself in terms of this category and behave accordingly
  • The major issue is not that labels are arbitrary or that it is possible not to use labels at all, but that the choice of label has consequences.
  • Government refers to the strategies by which one seeks to direct or guide the conduct of another or others.
  • differential association theory, stating that individuals learn deviant behaviour from those close to them who provide models of and opportunities for deviance.
  • White-collar or corporate crime
  • sociologist C. Wright Mills described the existence of what he dubbed the power elite, a small group of wealthy and influential people at the top of society who hold the power and resources.
  • their decisions affect everyone in society
  • The goal of the amendments was to emphasize that sexual assault is an act of violence, not a sexual act
  • secondary victimization
  • Women who are regarded as criminally deviant are often seen as being  doubly deviant. They have broken the laws but they have also broken gender norms about appropriate female behaviour, whereas men’s criminal behaviour is seen as consistent with their aggressive, self-assertive character
  • medicalize
  • n part the gender difference revolves around patriarchal attitudes toward women and the disregard for matters considered to be of a private or domestic nature
  • 1970s, women worked to change the criminal justice system and establish rape crisis centres and battered women’s shelters, bringing attention to domestic violence.
  • Interestingly women and men report similar rates of spousal violence
  • more a result of differential socialization processes.
  • Labelling Theory
  • Labelling theory examines the ascribing of a deviant behaviour to another person by members of society.
  • not so much by the behaviours themselves or the people who commit them, but by the reactions of others to these behaviours.
  • Secondary deviance can be so strong that it bestows a master status on an individual
  • Primary deviance is a violation of norms that does not result in any long-term effects on the individual’s self-image or interactions with others
  • Secondary deviance occurs when a person’s self-concept and behaviour begin to change after his or her actions are labelled as deviant by members of society.
  • The criminal justice system is ironically one of the primary agencies of socialization into the criminal “career path.”
Catherine Preston

Chapter 09 - Stratification - 0 views

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  • Layers occur almost everywhere in nature: in tissues of the human body, rock formations in the ground, atmospheres around the earth, and in societies of every nation on the earth. We call these layers strata and the process of layering stratification.
  • Social Stratification is the socio-economic layering of society's members according to property, power, and prestige. Property is all the wealth, investments, deeded and titled properties, and other tangible sources of income. Power is the ability to get one's way even in the face of opposition to one's goals. Prestige is the degree of social honor attached with your position in society.
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 13 Nov 13
       
      What makes the layers are the gaps between the haves and the have-nots as well as the gaps of the different economic classes.
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  • here are layers of social stratification in every society
  • here are the "haves" who coexist with the masses or "Have nots."
  • he PRB uses a measure of relative economic well being called the GNI PPP. The GNI PPP is the gross national income of a country converted to international dollars using a factor called the purchasing power parity.
  • lets you understand how much a person could buy in the US with a given amount of money, regardless of the country's currency.
  • That means the stratification difference between the world's top five countries is over 149 times higher than the bottom 5 countries.
  • The US ranks high $45, 840 per capita (per person) but is the 6th wealthiest behind Luxembourg, Norway, Kuwait, Brunei, and Singapore.
  • More Developed Nations are nations with comparably higher wealth than most countries of the world including: Western Europe; Canada, United States, Japan, and Australia-these are also called Now Rich Countries.
  • lso called Now Poor Countries.
  • Africa is the poorest region with the average person making less than 1/10th of what the average US person makes.
  • Again Luxembourg at $64,400 has a score over 20 times higher than Africa's; 11 times higher than Asia (Excl. China); and 7 times higher than Latin America.
  • The higher the GNI PPP the better off the average person in that country
  • Females made much less income than males in all categories.
  • The Hispanic category is lowest for males and females.
  • Asians had the highest personal income for both sexes (Data for Asians was not reported prior to 2004).
  • The first thing you see is that dual-earner marrieds (both husband and wife work in labor force) by far have the highest income levels between 1990 and 2006.
  • husband only in labor force) comes in next followed closely by single males
    • Catherine Preston
      Catherine Preston on 13 Nov 13
       
      This is a great example of how the value of a woman as capital does not lie in income because it is inferior to male's 
  • In sum, the females with the highest income are married.
  • Single females reported the lowest income
  • Basically, the higher the education, the higher the annual income in 2007.
  • higher for Whites and Asians
  • Blacks and Hispanics
  • Official data begin to tell you the story about how the layers look in a society.
  • Over 40 percent of Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans dropped out.
  • In the US, non-Whites, non-Asians, and non-males are more likely to be found in the lower layers.
mira ahmad

The Apathetic New Generation - CBS News - 2 views

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  • We can't let apathy and ignorance become the status quo
    • mira ahmad
      mira ahmad on 03 Oct 10
       
      What this quote signifies is that we can't let ignorance and apathy be a reason for people not to make a difference. We need to change what's going on and make people realize the importance of several fundamental issues going on in today's world.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      Well said. The status quo - accepting things as they are and not making necessary changes- is like death because it's a state of non-growth.
  • The report found that younger people "do not understand the ideals of citizenship, they are disengaged from the political process, they lack the knowledge necessary for effective self-government, and their appreciation and support of American democracy is limited."
    • mira ahmad
      mira ahmad on 03 Oct 10
       
      Younger people don't know what's going on politically. When it comes time to vote, they won't be able to make their own decisions; they will most likely be lead to follow something that they don't truly understand.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      Do you think that it's only knowledge that they lack? Do you think that young people think their efforts won't make a difference in a 'corrupt' system?
    • mira ahmad
      mira ahmad on 24 Oct 10
       
      No, I do not think that it's the only knowledge that they lack. I was just giving an example. There are elements of corruption, but our society is always looking for change. I think that if people are really passionate, that their efforts will be worth while.
  • The baby boomers, the World War II generation and our schools have failed to teach the ideals of citizenship to young people."
  • mira ahmad on 03 Oct 10
     
    This article is useful for my project because it states facts and shows statistics that really show how younger people are unaware and apathetic towards issues that revolve around their own government. It helps us make our hypothesis of teen awareness more thorough.
dunya darwiche

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  • the fundamental task of adolescence is 'ego identity' or 'self-definition.'" (1969, p73) This does not suggest that a child entering adolescence has no concept of self, but it becomes the critical need of the teenager.
  • three stages of adolescent development: Early adolescence (ages 12 to 14), Mid-adolescence (ages 15 to 16), and Late adolescence (ages 17 to 21)." (1987, p20)
  • The brain is bombarded with questions about what to do about all of these feelings so new and so demanding
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  • but many questions still remain. "What am I going to do with my life," and "Should I go to college or take a job."
  • There are many factors involved in a teenager forming that self-image or self-ideal.
  • rough adolescen
  • inherited traits
  • two ways
  • Families account for one of the largest areas of impact
  • structure and content of the values espoused by the family
  • young person may reject all or part of the parental value system
  • look around to replace it with one of their own
  • physical traits of the individual
  • Do they consider themselves too short or fat?
  • It would appear from autobiographical material, that the adolescent not only is acutely aware of every physical variation from his concept of what is normal or beautiful or handsome, but that is perhaps his most frequent frustration
  • physical deviation can be of great concern
  • to any young person
  • positive or negative
  • Anywhere that teens spend a large percentage of their time
  • spiritual life
  • Social and economic factors, geographic location, rebellion, television, movies, music, radio, books, hobbies, clubs, death of loved ones, divorce, remarriage, heroes, role models, and many more.
  • many other factors
  • re they popular, artistic, or athletic.
  • If they are seen by their peers as
  • he relationship between the teachers, coaches, and administrative personnel
  • Relationships with peers
  • Any group that teens belong, or adhere to, will affect their development of identity
    • dunya darwiche
      dunya darwiche on 30 Sep 10
       
      This web page is useful for our project becomes it talks about Teen identity and the steps and variables leading to teen identity.
    • dunya darwiche
      dunya darwiche on 30 Sep 10
       
      Can you imagine that the physical of a teen can have such a great impact on there self esteem that it changes the whole perception of themselves.
    • dunya darwiche
      dunya darwiche on 30 Sep 10
       
      We often forget about spiritual life and the presence of religion in a teen's life. It is also a great and important factor on identity.
steven bloom

Video games help focus on fine detail - 1 views

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  • Video games help focus on fine detail From: The Australian February 13, 2007 12:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these? PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university. "After just 30 hours, players showed a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their vision, meaning they could see figures like those on an eye chart more clearly, even when other symbols crowded in."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      Why highlight this?
  • PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university.
  • These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it," she says. "That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      An interesting article.
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    This website talks about how video games help looking at the fine detail. It states that playing action video games such as halo or call of duty refine your ability to see fine detail. This characteristic is important for doctors or architects. This website is credible becuase it took it's information from the university of Rochester in the United States study.
dunya darwiche

CBC News Indepth: Crime: Youth Criminal Justice Act - 1 views

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  • April 1, 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)
  • emphasize the rehabilitation and re-entry of a young offender into society.
  • "The youth criminal justice system is to prevent crime by addressing the circumstances underlying a young person's offending behaviour, rehabilitate young persons who commit offences and reintegrate them back into society, and ensure that a young person is subject to meaningful consequences for his or her offences, in order to promote the long-term protection of the public."
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