"Chemical imbalance is sort of last-century thinking. It's much more complicated than that," says Dr. Joseph Coyle, a professor of neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. "It's really an outmoded way of thinking."
Monday, January 30, 2012
When It Comes To Depression, Serotonin Isn't The Whole Story : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
When It Comes To Depression, Serotonin Isn't The Whole Story : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Problem-Based-Learning network Teaching for Tomorrow by Ted McCain
Problem-Based-Learning network Teaching for Tomorrow by Ted McCain
Teaching for Tomorrow by Ted McCain
Teaching for Tomorrow by Ted McCain
The premise of the book is that we need to teach for independence. In the second chapter, McCain describes the following six ways to do this:
1. We must resist the temptation to “tell.”
2. We must stop teaching decontextualized content.
3. We must stop giving students the final product of our thinking.
4. We must make a fundamental shift – problems first, teaching second.
5. We must progressively withdraw from helping students.
6. We must reevaluate evaluation.
The 4D’s of Problem Solving
Define the problem.
Design a solution.
Do – Put the design into action.
Debrief – How did it work? Could we modify our solution to get better results?
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Netiquette
Netiquette
Overview Netiquette, or Net etiquette, has become an essential part of communicating over the Internet. All to often people forget that they are, in fact, communicating with other people and not just some remote computer. A standardized set of rules--known as netiquette--has been developed to aid in human-to-human communication using simple text via a computer. Additionally, with the clever use of text characters, a general set of emotion-expressing icons and acronyms has been developed to further aid online communication. A list of the core rules of netiquette can be found at www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html. The Computer Ethics Institute outlines its “Ten Commandments for Computer Ethics” at this tekmom.com page.
E-mail Netiquette Following proper e-mail netiquette not only aids in concise information exchange but it can also help you avoid e-mail server congestion and breakdown. For advice on how to handle attachments, how to use threads, and how to use proper formatting, go to www.writerswrite.com. This site provides concise guidelines for good general e-mail behavior. For those in the business world, the site www.bspage.com/1netiq/Netiq.html offers in-depth information about international business e-mail netiquette. Here you’ll find topics such as creating proper letterheads, correct grammar and punctuation, and the use of titles, to name a few. About.com (email.about.com) gives a glossary of e-mail terminology, which is handy for a better understanding of the e-mail process. Finally, netiquette guidelines written specifically for children are provided at www.bpl.org/kids/Netiquette.htm. This site has useful advice about politeness and respect.
Smileys and Web Acronyms Smileys, emoticons, symbols, and acronyms are all ways of expressing emotion and common ideas within the boundaries of text-only communication. Smileys and emoticons are symbols used to convey emotion, often in ingenious ways. See www.muller-godschalk.com and www.computeruser.com for user-updated lists of emoticons with their intended meanings. A list of common Web acronyms used for chat groups, newsgroups, and e-mail can be found at http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms. Here you will also find some interesting, and even useful ways to abbreviate common responses.
Newsgroup and Chat Netiquette Newsgroups, chat rooms, and discussion groups are all public forums with many different people and just as many differing opinions. Here, maybe more than anywhere else on the Internet, it is most important to observe good netiquette. The Web pages at www.smartcomputing.com or home.arkansasusa.com/bborsodi/newsgrp1.html offer netiquette advice for using groups and chat. They point out to the reader that each group might have their own quirks and customs among frequent users.
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me
STUDENTS ON STRIKE: JIM CROW, CIVIL RIGHTS, BROWN, AND ME
by John A. Stokes
National Geographic Society127 pages
Students on Strike opens with John Stokes hiding in water retention ditches because his parents wanted to make sure he wasn’t harmed by white people as he found his way home at night. John lived in Prince Edward County close to Farmville, Virginia in the 1940’s and 50’s. He recently decided that it was time to tell the story of how he and his classmates ended desegregation at their high school. Eventually their cause was heard before the U.S. Supreme because it was combined with the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education by the NAACP lawyers. The story is an example of courage and massive resistance that resulted in many Virginia schools being closed rather than desegregated for up to five years.
by John A. Stokes
National Geographic Society127 pages
Students on Strike opens with John Stokes hiding in water retention ditches because his parents wanted to make sure he wasn’t harmed by white people as he found his way home at night. John lived in Prince Edward County close to Farmville, Virginia in the 1940’s and 50’s. He recently decided that it was time to tell the story of how he and his classmates ended desegregation at their high school. Eventually their cause was heard before the U.S. Supreme because it was combined with the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education by the NAACP lawyers. The story is an example of courage and massive resistance that resulted in many Virginia schools being closed rather than desegregated for up to five years.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Remaking America
Remaking America
Are you ready to repave America?
During a LIVE broadcast on C-SPAN, broadcaster Tavis Smiley and panelists will discuss solutions for restoring America’s prosperity. Panelists include: Cornel West, Princeton University professor and author; Suze Orman, America’s leading authority on personal finance; Michael Moore, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker; Barbara Ehrenreich, prolific author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America; Jeffrey Sachs, poverty expert and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University; Majora Carter, Urban Revitalization Strategist; and Vicki B. Escarra, President and CEO of Feeding America, and Roger A. Clay, Jr., President, Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
The road ahead will not be easy. We must fight — are you prepared to fight? Consider these words from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Are you ready to repave America?
During a LIVE broadcast on C-SPAN, broadcaster Tavis Smiley and panelists will discuss solutions for restoring America’s prosperity. Panelists include: Cornel West, Princeton University professor and author; Suze Orman, America’s leading authority on personal finance; Michael Moore, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker; Barbara Ehrenreich, prolific author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America; Jeffrey Sachs, poverty expert and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University; Majora Carter, Urban Revitalization Strategist; and Vicki B. Escarra, President and CEO of Feeding America, and Roger A. Clay, Jr., President, Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
The road ahead will not be easy. We must fight — are you prepared to fight? Consider these words from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside…but one day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch, you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.”
Monday, January 16, 2012
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Columbia News: Political Science Professor Fredrick C. Harris
Columbia News ::: Q & A with Political Science Professor Fredrick C. Harris
Professor Fredrick C. Harris
“I was socialized in a political environment that really got me interested in politics because of the changes that were happening all across the country, particularly in my home town,” Harris said. “In the household, family members always talked politics.”
Harris’s life still revolves around race and politics, as he is head of the newly created Center on African American Politics and Society, part of the University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.
The center, which opened in January, just released its first study (pdf) exploring racial attitudes toward the presidential nomination process. Among its major findings, reported in a story last month: 76 percent of black voters find a candidate’s electability is one of the most important factors in choosing which candidate to back, compared with 65 percent of whites.
Professor Fredrick Harris was involved in race and politics long before he became an expert in the field. After Atlanta elected Maynard Jackson its first black mayor in 1973, many blacks were hired in large numbers, including Harris’s mother, who worked in the mayor’s office as a secretary and in human resources.
Professor Fredrick C. Harris
“I was socialized in a political environment that really got me interested in politics because of the changes that were happening all across the country, particularly in my home town,” Harris said. “In the household, family members always talked politics.”
Harris’s life still revolves around race and politics, as he is head of the newly created Center on African American Politics and Society, part of the University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.
The center, which opened in January, just released its first study (pdf) exploring racial attitudes toward the presidential nomination process. Among its major findings, reported in a story last month: 76 percent of black voters find a candidate’s electability is one of the most important factors in choosing which candidate to back, compared with 65 percent of whites.
Q. What is your primary goal for the center?
A. What I really want to do in this first semester is to look at the political side. And that will [encompass] information about the presidential election process and bringing together scholars who may be interested in participating in cooperative research within the center … and providing an intellectual forum to talk about these different political issues in the presidential process through a visiting speakers series. I really want to develop a major think tank where Columbia, through this center, will play a leading role informing the public as well as policy makers about these social-economic conditions.
Q. Why is this new center essential to the University?
A. I want to develop an umbrella of scholars in psychology, political science, sociology, law, economics and urban studies. So to bring together this talent and to develop both theoretically sophisticated work as well as work that will have policy ramifications that inform conditions that affect black communities … is good for Columbia. We have a broad base of talented people who are distributed throughout not only the college but the entire University.
Professor Fredrick Harris was involved in race and politics long before he became an expert in the field. After Atlanta elected Maynard Jackson its first black mayor in 1973, many blacks were hired in large numbers, including Harris’s mother, who worked in the mayor’s office as a secretary and in human resources.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
CHRISTIANITY AND APARTHEID:
CHRISTIANITY AND APARTHEID:
James Oliver Buswell, Slavery, Segregation and Scripture
Leo Marquard’s The Peoples and Policies of South Africa
INTRODUCTION
South Africa is in the news, and Christians are called upon to explain the relationship between Christianity and apartheid. Critics of apartheid often blame Christians for its existence claiming that racial oppression in South Africa is the fruit of Christianity. How are Christians to respond?
This annotated bibliography is an attempt to remind the Christian community that the question of the relationship between Christianity and apartheid is hardly new, that already a large literature exists dealing with the subject. It is written in the hope that Christians who are truly concerned about South Africa will pause before rushing into print and will acknowledge the work of others before them. It is also written to draw the attention of the Christian community to writers who have al ready struggled with what is one of the most pressing issues of today.James Oliver Buswell, Slavery, Segregation and Scripture
Leo Marquard’s The Peoples and Policies of South Africa
Friday, January 13, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
The Progressive Review: AN ONLINE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE NEWS & INFORMATION
AN ONLINE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE NEWS & INFORMATION
It all began in 1964 with the Idler, a strong critic of the Johnson administration and the Vietnam War and a supporter of the civil rights movement. It published the cartoons of Hugh Haynie and columns by Charlie McDowell and Edward P. Morgan. In 1966 it published two articles on auto safety by Ralph Nader.
LINKS
It all began in 1964 with the Idler, a strong critic of the Johnson administration and the Vietnam War and a supporter of the civil rights movement. It published the cartoons of Hugh Haynie and columns by Charlie McDowell and Edward P. Morgan. In 1966 it published two articles on auto safety by Ralph Nader.
LINKS
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Jonathan Fields: " Work, play, entrepreneurship and life"
Disruption is the seed of evolution. And innovation its spawn.
Why Judgment Matters
Last week, I shared how inviting judgment can and should be a critical part of any creation endeavor; how judgment is really just data plus emotion. And we shouldn’t reject the data simply because we’re not equipped to process the emotion in a constructive way.
Now, a word of caution…Being open to outside opinions and data does not mean “surrendering” your intuition.
know when the whole damn world has got it wrong and you’re the only sane person in the room…even if that means you’re viewed, for the moment, as the bastion of lunacy.
It’s important to invite feedback, but it’s also mission critical to maintain enough of a strong sense of independent vision and leadership to know when the whole damn world has got it wrong and you’re the only sane person in the room…even if that means you’re viewed, for the moment, as the bastion of lunacy.Every new paradigm breaks an old one.
And the people who create, push, massage and shape these new constructs are inevitably viewed as nut-jobs, at least in the beginning. In part, because new paradigms necessarily unseat long-held “comforting” beliefs, and along with them the long-seated creators of the last big paradigm. And often, entire institutions, bodies of work and worlds.
Judgment Be Damned
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