Banning Laptops in Class: It's Academic, Silly
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Banning laptops in the classroom
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060530-6941.html talks about banning laptops in the classroom. The laptop is blamed for causing the mind to wander. If my mind is going to wander, it will wander whether the laptop is there or not, although without the laptop to provide something "out there" to wander to, my mind usually wanders internally. I have a whole lifetime to wander to, and awareness isn't an all or nothing game. The trick is to arrange it so that when I need to put more resources towards what the teacher is doing, I do so.
It doesn't seem reasonable to be thrown out of a lecture just because every single momen
In http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/174096756/m/553002839731/r/767002839731#767002839731 fil says that the teacher has to have a reasonable degree of control over the environment, and then proceeds to make an assumption about what that reasonable degree of control is. Shurik after him points out, I believe correctly, the fact that a student is distracting himself with his laptop is not a problem. However, he jumps to the conclusion that the student is not willing to learn. I have received A's in classes where I was using the internet for non-classwork, during a lecture, and occaisonally could either track the lecture enough to participate a little or just ask the lecturer to repeat the question, at which point I could usually answer the question correctly.
It doesn't seem reasonable to be thrown out of a lecture just because every single momen
In http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/174096756/m/553002839731/r/767002839731#767002839731 fil says that the teacher has to have a reasonable degree of control over the environment, and then proceeds to make an assumption about what that reasonable degree of control is. Shurik after him points out, I believe correctly, the fact that a student is distracting himself with his laptop is not a problem. However, he jumps to the conclusion that the student is not willing to learn. I have received A's in classes where I was using the internet for non-classwork, during a lecture, and occaisonally could either track the lecture enough to participate a little or just ask the lecturer to repeat the question, at which point I could usually answer the question correctly.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Acclaim's Game Titles Auctioned
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It'd be really good if some could get together and buy this with the intent to open source the code.
The IP rights to some of the best video games in the world are being sold today (May 11, 2006) as part of Acclaim Entertainment's Chapter 7. More than 150 titles, includes Myst and Riven, Alien, Alias, multiple Double Dragon titles, numerous MLB and NBA and NFL titles, multiple Ferrari titles; the list goes on and on.
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It'd be really good if some could get together and buy this with the intent to open source the code.
The IP rights to some of the best video games in the world are being sold today (May 11, 2006) as part of Acclaim Entertainment's Chapter 7. More than 150 titles, includes Myst and Riven, Alien, Alias, multiple Double Dragon titles, numerous MLB and NBA and NFL titles, multiple Ferrari titles; the list goes on and on.
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Jesus and the fig tree
Mt 21:18 Early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.
Mt 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.
The so-called Christians that I've interacted with would have told Jesus to calm down and tried to explain to him calmly that figs weren't in season.
Mt 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.
The so-called Christians that I've interacted with would have told Jesus to calm down and tried to explain to him calmly that figs weren't in season.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Open Letter to the Aliance for Marriage
You sent me an e-mail that presumes that you were given permission to e-mail me. You used my mother's name. You are more interested in legally defining marriage than you are actually protecting marriage. Care to define what you think the government's role in marriage is? Mind helping me find a girlfriend first? How about teaching people how to be good husbands and wives? But no, you want to whack people's heads with the law, rather than educate the ones who are in danger of never getting together, or those having gotten together, in danger of falling apart. Losers!
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