Book: Brain Rules
Setup:
1. When you think of brain scientists, what do you think of?
2. For a college professor, what is the typical audience?
3. I expect all of my students to care about certain things: attention, memory, sleep, and stress are some of those things.
4. I'm about to play a video of a brain scientist explaining what he knows about X, what do you expect him to do?
Play a video of one of his Brain Rules.
React:
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Assignment Instructions- Find Two Errors
Purpose: To increase awareness of personal error patterns.
Purpose 2: To begin to create a "personal error list" to identify patterns of error and plan a strategy for improving them.
In order to prepare for the final examination in this course, review your own work during the term and look for patterns.
What are two errors that you have committed in previous essay assignments?
For each error, explain three things.
a. Explain the rule that is being violated.
b. Type the sentence (or paragraph) where the error occurs.
c. Type the fixed sentence. Prove that you understand how to correct it.
Value:
10 points
Grading:
5 points per error.
Purpose 2: To begin to create a "personal error list" to identify patterns of error and plan a strategy for improving them.
In order to prepare for the final examination in this course, review your own work during the term and look for patterns.
What are two errors that you have committed in previous essay assignments?
For each error, explain three things.
a. Explain the rule that is being violated.
b. Type the sentence (or paragraph) where the error occurs.
c. Type the fixed sentence. Prove that you understand how to correct it.
Value:
10 points
Grading:
5 points per error.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Ancient Aliens?
It is truly breathtaking to contemplate the mysterious and the unexplained, isn't it? I greatly enjoy the Ancient Aliens series for making me aware of ancient structures and unusual places.
I came away from this series with a few thoughts.
1. Both fundamentalists and believers in ancient aliens take ancient myths very seriously. The ancient aliens group argues that there is no need to speculate that these things were magic. Fundamentalists tend to take only their own scriptures literally, but it is difficult to take one culture's myths literally and then to hypothesize that all the others were making it up.
2. The conventional story starts the history of human culture with writing. In 6000 years we went from spear fights to space flights. However, current mainstream scholars suspect human speech might have been possible for the last 100,000 years of our development.
3. Some megolithic sites contain stones that we could only move with great effort today.
4. Some megolithic sites contain stones that are cut with magnificent precision, something that we could only do recently.
5. Stones cannot be carbon dated, so dates for ancient structures can only be found if carbon based life was buried in a similar layer of nearby Earth.
6. There are some problems with the conventional story of egypt, such as the weathering patterns on the sphinx.
7. There have been a number of worldwide catastrophes in the last 100,000.
8. Gobeckli Tepe
I came away from this series with a few thoughts.
1. Both fundamentalists and believers in ancient aliens take ancient myths very seriously. The ancient aliens group argues that there is no need to speculate that these things were magic. Fundamentalists tend to take only their own scriptures literally, but it is difficult to take one culture's myths literally and then to hypothesize that all the others were making it up.
2. The conventional story starts the history of human culture with writing. In 6000 years we went from spear fights to space flights. However, current mainstream scholars suspect human speech might have been possible for the last 100,000 years of our development.
3. Some megolithic sites contain stones that we could only move with great effort today.
4. Some megolithic sites contain stones that are cut with magnificent precision, something that we could only do recently.
5. Stones cannot be carbon dated, so dates for ancient structures can only be found if carbon based life was buried in a similar layer of nearby Earth.
6. There are some problems with the conventional story of egypt, such as the weathering patterns on the sphinx.
7. There have been a number of worldwide catastrophes in the last 100,000.
8. Gobeckli Tepe
Monday, July 2, 2012
Mistakes in perspective
The Beatles wrote 226 songs that were not hits.
Pete Rose struck out over a thousand times.
99 percent of all the species that God intelligently designed have died and gone extinct.
Pete Rose struck out over a thousand times.
99 percent of all the species that God intelligently designed have died and gone extinct.
“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - M. Jordan
Monday, April 9, 2012
I didn't expect you to say that...
I am a tremendously arrogant man. All day, nearly every day, I converse with people about subjects I know deeply and love deeply. I stand in front of a class full of twenty two people and state, "if you know what you want to say, I can help you say it. If you know who you want to say it to, I can help you sell it."
And I am at a loss.
I feel like a man who was hiding a monster under his bed and forgot about it. Then one night, he fell asleep while eating friend chicken, and a drumstick rolled within reach of a scaly claw.
And I am at a loss.
I feel like a man who was hiding a monster under his bed and forgot about it. Then one night, he fell asleep while eating friend chicken, and a drumstick rolled within reach of a scaly claw.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Grateful
The world is full of terrible things we can do nothing about.
When we have the ability to help, we should be grateful for the chance.
We should not expect others to be grateful for our help.
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Too bad that isn't how it works.
When we have the ability to help, we should be grateful for the chance.
We should not expect others to be grateful for our help.
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Too bad that isn't how it works.
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