Vicarious Learning

Games with Words science and society | Monday September 06, 2010 |

Every time I go to Russia, the first thing I notice is the air. I would say it's like sucking on a car's exhaust pipe, but -- and this is key to my story -- the air in American exhaust pipes is actually relatively fresh. You have to image black soot spewing...

kitchen table math, the sequel Catherine | Monday September 06, 2010 |

Examination dreams are reported to persist even into old age... - Time magazine You will never graduatefrom this dream of blue books. No matter how you succeed awake, asleep there is a test waitinmg to be failed. The dream beckons with two dull pencils,...

Cronaca Monday September 06, 2010 |

Chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis, likely from a special brew of beer. The

Jane's Pick of the Day Monday September 06, 2010 |

Recently there has been a lot of interest in paper.li , which is a service that lets you create a Daily Twitter newspaper from the tweets of those you follow.  MyTweetMag , takes a different approach; it lets you create a Twitter magazine from your own...

Langwitches Blog Lists | Monday September 06, 2010 |

I must say that I enjoy reading other bloggers’ “favorite iPad apps lists”. I usually check some of their apps out and end up with some gems, I would have otherwise not found. Below you will find a screenshot of one of my screens which...

Savage Minds SM Authors | Monday September 06, 2010 |

In the spirit of self-serving, nepotistic favoritism which is my trademark, I’m pleased to welcome Michael Powell, graduate of Rice University Anthropology. Actually, the other Minds here all agreed that Michael would be an excellent choice for a guest...

Harold Jarche Wirearchy | Monday September 06, 2010 |

Tweet A while back I wrote on the age of dissonance and how our way of structuring work, particularly the job, was inadequate for the networked, creative economy: New design principles, from instructional development to job descriptions, are needed for...

Psychology Today Blogs Evolutionary Psychology | Monday September 06, 2010 |

In Part 1 of this post I wrote that the reality of life today includes much confusion, uncertainty, and confused emotions about pursuing success and wellbeing. In fact, our tumultuous, changing world spurs actions that often undermine rather than support...

SCC ENGLISH Leaving Certificate | Monday September 06, 2010 |

Our new Fifth Form have just set off on a two-year journey towards their English Leaving Certificate. Click here for the summary of the course (all documents are always available for download for you in Department Documents as well). As well as some...

World of Psychology General | Monday September 06, 2010 |

Ahh… We work all year and get a whole day off to celebrate our working achievements. Yay! I don’t think Labor Day means all that much to most Americans, other than the official mark of the “end” of summertime and the beginning of 8...

Psychology Today Blogs Animal Behavior | Monday September 06, 2010 |

"I'm tired of being controlled by other people. It's time for me to honor my true self." The idea of getting in touch with one's true self has become a joke, mostly because people who pledged to do so back in the 1980s were too earnest, and, well, out of...

Linguaphiles turkish | Monday September 06, 2010 |

So.. again I ask for your help :3 This time it's a Turkish song. Lyric below the cut. Googletranslate can only help me understand the main theme of the song, not the meaning>x< Uh I've asked so many times in this comm. In return if there's...

The Greenbelt miscellaneous | Monday September 06, 2010 |

So I just saw one of those "Windows 7 was my idea" commercials. This one has some college kid named Kevin using Windows 7 to watch videos from the US "right here in good old Deutschland". What? Trust me, Kevin. I could do that with Windows... what was it...

languagehat.com Monday September 06, 2010 |

I've been having an exchange elsewhere about the word gyp 'cheat, swindle,' and I am (with some trepidation) bringing it here in the hopes of having a productive discussion and perhaps learning a few things. I will lay out the facts as I know them and my...

A Way with Words Monday September 06, 2010 |

[This episode first aird March 13, 2010.] When it comes to joining Facebook affinity groups, grammar lovers have lots of choices. Take, for example, the group whose motto is Punctuation saves lives. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-eat-Grandma-or-Lets-eat-G...

The Brooks Blog conference watch | Monday September 06, 2010 |

The Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, based at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden, New Jersey, will host a two-day symposium on Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice (Harvard 2009) on Friday April, 15th and Saturday, April 16th, 2011. The...

Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog Philosophy in the News | Monday September 06, 2010 |

If you're not familiar with this useful site, check it out.

Teachers Teaching Teachers Susan Ettenheim | Monday September 06, 2010 |

Download VoiceThread and Teaching the iGeneration after the BP Oil Spill - TTT 214 -08.18.10On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Steve Muth and Ben Papell founders and on-going co-conspirators at VoiceThread join Susan Ettenheim and Chris Sloan to...

Parents as Partners Parent Involvement | Monday September 06, 2010 |

Thanks again to Larry Ferlazzo for the heads up on this article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Too often students’ parents lost in the equation addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourschool.ca%2Ftoo-often-students-parents-get-lost-in-the-equ...

EdTechTalk Teachers Teaching Teachers | Monday September 06, 2010 |

On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers , Steve Muth and Ben Papell founders and on-going co-conspirators at VoiceThread join Susan Ettenheim and Chris Sloan to talk about what’s new at VoiceThread AND how they can imagine VoiceThread...

Psychology Today Blogs Creativity | Monday September 06, 2010 |

At the moment, I happen to be reading a 700-page Stephen King novel, left over from time in an airport. In Duma Key , a nasty dead person under the sea bed is able to influence events on this small but spooky island in the Florida Keys. This evil spirit...

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... best of the year | Monday September 06, 2010 |

Last week, Hindus celebrated Janmashtami, a two-day holiday marking the birth of the god Krishna. Here are a few resources about the holiday that readers might find useful (and accessible to English Language Learners): In pictures: Hindus celebrate...

Psychology Today Blogs Animal Behavior | Monday September 06, 2010 |

The views of Thorndike and Watson were refined by their most famous adherent, B.F. Skinner (1904-1990). Skinner built on Thorndike's "law of effect" - the tendency of whatever behavior immediately preceded an animal's escaping from the cage to increase in...

The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks Monday September 06, 2010 |

I guess the actions that could merit a $10 fee are fairly wide-ranging. Thanks, Trip.