Elianna

I was discussing this on a teaching board, and someone shared a link to this blog, which is really interesting. I also highly recommend the sections on pseudo-teaching for anyone who teaches math/science, or thinks that they can. http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/khan-academy-my-final-remarks/

Not all college students are under 26. And not all students are in college for that matter.

Yea, I saw that, but I'm not staying at one of those places. The connection will go to my hotel, the last one is 10:25, and I am scheduled to arrive at 9:35, and I am worried that if my flight is delayed, and/or there's an issue with customs or luggage, I will miss it.

Anyone arriving late Thursday night, and interested in sharing a taxi?

I got my new one a month ago and thought _I_ was cutting it close! :) (I left it for so long because I was scared of the potential shut down, and would rather have a passport in my old name with my marriage license than no passport at all! But then it took them only about three weeks to process it, so that was very lucky.)

Finished as of this morning. It does include POV characters from FfC as it goes further in the timeline from there. But I won't say anymore and spoil it. :) Oh, except to say that you shouldn't read the appendix before you read the book. There are some mild spoilers in it.

I'm going. Not sure yet of all of my plans, though.

26% along. My goal is 50% by this evening. That may not fly with others in this house who seem to believe that I should interact with them. We'll see.

As Helene said, give us a link to a sample doc, and we can help! Also, so you know, if you use excel, you can just use excel and then transfer what you want to google docs. To allow others to be able to then edit it is a little fiddly, but VERY doable (you have to edit it, and then save, and then others can edit if you allow them to).

ETA: LOL, I missed Helene's post. I will leave mine up, anyway, because I included some websites. I have only found this quote: on both a blog: http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/quote-of-the-moment-richard-feynman-science-vs-public-relations/ and wikipedia: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman (although just because they're on two different things does not mean that they're not made up by the same person.) They both cite the Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, appendix (1986), so maybe that would be a good place to start looking? I have to finish making lunch! :)

You may not realize this, but there are many places that conduct research on education ideas. They're called "Education Departments" at major universities. People with PhDs study and do research in general ed, special ed, educational psychology, etc.

This is somewhat on the same track as my first post, but I think that I can state my problems a bit more coherently: 1) This idea is still in keeping with the old paradigm of teaching, albeit using new technology. Probably most students who learned well before would still learn well. Maybe some who struggled might struggle a little less. But unless new paradigms are explored (which is being done, btw), many of those who did worse than struggled will be as little affected by this as by what they would get in an old-paradigm classroom without technology. 2) People who have not been in a classroom since they were students, and have not studied what goes on in them in both the US and around the world, should perhaps not be so quick to think that something is the best thing since sliced bread. This is not so much directed at anyone HERE, but more at the political bodies that control public schools.

In most fields, practitioners rely on research-based solutions to problems. Take the medical field for example. Would you like that your doctor picks bunches of chemicals and says "we'll try and see what works" or would you prefer that s/he reads the current RESEARCH and tries to find the best combination of chemicals for you? Yes, it might involve some trial and error, but at least there is some previous methodology backing up the doctor's experimentation. In fact, this attitude of "we'll try and see what works" is part of what has made a mess of many school systems. A specific example: many school systems signed up for a reading program that worked in one specific location with one specific set of students (these sign-ups were directed by the school board, which usually does not include people with a lot of training in education). Needless to say, this reading program was very expensive, and did not work with many of the schools that signed up for it, because it was not designed with the diversity of student population that those school systems had, and had not been tried with many diverse learners. You could say that these school systems participated in the research and WERE the guinea pigs, but they paid a lot of money to do that.

For people that don't like reading long posts, my first sentence below is basically a summary. I don't think that this guy knows what's happening in many classrooms now. Or a lot of educational theory. Yes, he's got many good ideas, but the "classroom" that he keeps comparing to is dying anyway. Also, it is rather interesting contrasting what he is promoting to some other new research in math education (granted, most of what I've learned is about middle school/high school). He is still based on the model of "person in authority says what to do - then learner shows what they've learned". What's been shown to work even better (especially with at risk students) is a student-centered classroom, where the student builds the knowledge by doing exercises that lead to them figuring out the central idea. I do think that what he's doing could work in certain levels, and his model for elementary school seems like it works, except that it seems to lose the inquiry-based side, which seems sad. And while there's some student-student interaction in that he wants "green" students to help "red" students, I think that at all levels (1st-12th grade) that help usually consists of "here's the answer" instead of an explanation how to do it, especially because peers don't tend to understand the subject in multiple ways enough to be able to explain in the way that their fellow student would understand. Lastly, in upper grades, peer tutoring in classrooms wouldn't work in many classrooms, because some "red" students would tend to resent the "green students, and have emotional responses to that. Also (and more prevalent in my experience), many "green" students don't like to help their fellow students because they think it slows them from learning something (and for various other reasons), and sometimes parents have called and complained about it. Sorry for this post being rather stream-of-conscious.

I know that this is a minority, unpopular opinion, but I did not like Arya in the books. I found her annoying. In the TV show, though, I thought that she was great, and now I really like her as a character. Bookwise, my favorite characters were Tyrion, two people introduced in book 2 (I don't want to spoil book 2 by naming them and saying anything about them), and two people who get more rounded out in later books (again, don't want to spoil anything). But that's the thing. She's DEPICTED as being among the "good" people, and better and virtuous, and she's definitely all "holier than thou" throughout the books, which makes her much more annoying and less of a person I would care about than those that just come straight out with their villainy. I don't base my like/dislike of characters based on whether they're one of the good guys or the bad guys, or even on their virtue, but more on whether or not they are entertaining and if I can relate (or understand/sympathize) to their decision-making process (simplifying a bit...)

It was probably the most amusing hand I played that week. And the look on your face was amusing too. I would have given you back your money for that expression! :)

Who "owns" the content of our posts? If it's the writers, then we should have the ability to control it and delete it. If it's BBO, then I guess BBF moderators can refuse to have things deleted, but I would prefer that if someone wants to delete a post (to stop a flamewar, for example, or if they were not themselves when they wrote it, or if someone had their computer and access to their BBF account, or...) that they should be able to do so.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

And in that case, many people have the agreement that you lead 3rd from an honor, and top of a bad suit (since you've supposedly already shown three).

Someone was clearly the instigator of this, and that person was clearly rounded on by many BBOers. Someone else decided to fight what that person did with the same tools. Probably wrong, too, but not equally. And honestly, many of the rest of us were just bystanders, and weren't really affected. I don't really care that Justin upvoted himself or downvoted others with other personas. (BTW, I find it really amusing that many of them have MANY more posts than I do). I can totally see why the person on timeout (banned? not sure I understood Rain's post, and not sure that I really care or that it's my business) would be upset that Justin and his personas weren't treated in the same way, but I don't understand why it should be my business, nor anyone else's. If someone is really bothered, they can take it to the moderators, but two (at least, that I saw) posts on BBF calling for his banning seem really over the top to me. What is meant to be accomplished? An idea of "equal treatment" (equal != fair, btw) which I think is off? Banning someone whose post have (for the most part) increased the amount of knowledge and expertise shared on BBF? For those who this was TL;DR: If you have a complaint, PM the moderators, stop attacking someone, and let's all let this die down.

I remember you playing inverted psycho suction. That was amusing.

They're different on 6 card suits, too. (with your first you lead 5th best, with the second you lead 3rd best).

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Thank you, I didn't know that. But I still don't really understand what overall reputation is good for. I mean, I guess it's good for newbies who see conflicting posts and are trying to decide who to believe, but better would be to just see the voting on those individual posts. In other words, I like having both up and down voting, with names attached as they are now, but would prefer if overall up/down votes were not counted cumulatively, and that people could give as many as they thought appropriate for any amount of time, and could undo their up/down votes if they change their mind or more commonly, misclick (as I've already seen one person claim to do).

I play a different version of Gazilli, but I'm a bit confused by your question. I don't see what KI has to do with this problem. Imagine you WEREN't playing KI. Now you have the auction 1H-1S 2C You still are stuck with that hand, because that is a pretty bad five card suit to repeat. As to what to bid with your hand, I don't know. I'm guessing something to do with partnership agreement about followups.