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Rebekah Madrid

Monoculture: How Our Era's Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives | Brain Pickings - 1 views

  • What Galileo has to do with the economy, or how Wall Street is moulding your taste in art.
  • The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously proclaimed.
  • During the Middle Ages, the dominant monoculture was one of religion and superstition. When Galileo challenged the Catholic Church’s geocentricity with his heliocentric model of the universe, he was accused of heresy and punished accordingly, but he did spark the drawn of the next monoculture, which reached a tipping point in the seventeenth century as humanity came to believe the world was fully knowable and discoverable through science, machines and mathematics — the scientific monoculture was born.
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    Could be a great jumping off point for a presentation.
Adam Clark

CLC Technology Requirements | Classes | Who Is Adam Clark - 0 views

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    Setting up technology this morning for TOK as part of the CLC #ibTOK #YIS
Rebekah Madrid

Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity | Brain Pickings - 1 views

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    "combinatorial creativity"
Adam Clark

BBC News - Japan defence firm Mitsubishi Heavy in cyber attack - 7 views

  • attack
    • Adam Clark
       
      What observations do you have about the language choice in the title of the article? Is it neutral?
    • Adam Clark
       
      What emotions are conjured by the image to the right and the bold text sentence to the left?
    • Adam Clark
       
      What are your eyes drawn to naturally in this article? How has sense perception been influenced by what you are visually drawn to? Does the visual presentation have any other impact?Is there anything significant in terms of "knowledge" by the visual impact of the whole page? 
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  • The ministry will continue to monitor the problem and conduct investigations if necessary
    • Adam Clark
       
      How would you describe the language used here? Aggressive? Passive? Why?
  • "It's up to the defence ministry to decide whether or not the information is important. That is not for Mitsubishi Heavy to decide. A report should have been made,
    • Adam Clark
       
      What emotion do you sense here? Who said it? What's their relationship to the issue? Why might they want to portray a certain attitude? Is the tone they took effective? Why or why not?
  • China is one of the main victims of hacking... Criticising China as being the source of hacking attacks not only is baseless, it is also not beneficial for promoting international co-operation for internet security
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      Do you think this a valid reply that appeals to reason? In other words is this a logical reply to the accusation that China is behind these attacks?
  • hacking as a potential act of war
    • Adam Clark
       
      What significance would classifying hacking as "a potential act of war" hold for future international relations between the US and other nations? Which WOK would you use to address this question?
    • Adam Clark
       
      These points are grouped in a section? Do you think thy are related? Why or why not?
  • A typical DDoS attack involves hundreds or thousands of computers, under the control of hackers, bombarding an organisation's website with so many hits that it collapses.
    • Adam Clark
       
      Apply reason to this paragraph. What significance do you think this has for the whole story?
    • Adam Clark
       
      After all this what is the bottom line of this article? What can we claim to know having read it?
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    This is the article for the Typhoon Day lesson
Adam Clark

Bloom's Taxonomy - 0 views

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    Higher Order Thinking
Adam Clark

15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German | Mental Floss - 1 views

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    "The German language is so perfectly suited for these syndromes, coming down with them in any other language just won't do."
Adam Clark

23 Charming Illustrations Of Untranslatable Words From Other Languages - 0 views

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    "Illustrator Anjana Iyer created these lovely designs for her 100 Days Project. She's accepting commissions, and on the strength of this she must get a lot… "
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