Math teacher Brendan Jeffreys from the Auburn school district in Auburn, WA created simple hand gestures to accompany or replace mathematical terms. Examples included making a Pac-Man shape with one's arms to describe an acute angle, spreading one's arms wide as if to hug someone to indicate an obtuse angle, or flexing your arm to show your muscles to indicate a right triangle. Other examples included a karate chop to indicate division or a motion imitating using a knife to butter bread to indicate finding the area of a shape.

Mathematics can often be more difficult compared to other subjects as students learning new concepts are forced not only to understand entirely new concepts, but simultaneously are required to know new vocabulary to describe those concepts. Utilizing gestures to help lighten the cognitive load of the new vocabulary to allow students to focus on the concepts and operations can be invaluable.

https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/10/are-digital-gardens-blogs/

We definitely need better definitions of digital gardens (public or otherwise) to delineate them from blogs, zettelkasten, wikis, social media, and other forms of information exchange.

Wouter Groeneveld describes some of his thoughts here.

Link to notes from https://collect.readwriterespond.com/are-digital-gardens-blogs/

Wouter Groeneveld here is mixing up a digital garden and a blog with social media enhancements. I personally wouldn't expect a digital garden to necessarily have features like checkins, bookmarks, etc. Ideally it would be a mix of of a zettelkasten with atomic ideas and notes and a wiki structure with somewhat longer articles and ideas strung together.

From this definition, my personal website definitely isn't a "digital garden" but a blog with a variety of social media features built in. Looking at some smaller subsets of my website, one might consider it to be a digital garden.

An additional piece of digital gardening also has to do with actually tending the garden, which I generally don't do in my website the way I do in my Obsidian vault. My vault is more like a digital garden which has many streams of data coming into it and being regularly tended.

This is another example of the broader space of these ideas being mixed together in a hodgepodge without clear definitions of what each are.

A region of the somatosensory cortex that is identifiable in some rodents.

Indirect, slowly acting (metabotropic) excitatory (glutamate) receptors that have some sort of effect on LTP. Needs explanation.

CA1 sub-region of the hippocampus.

Needs explanation.

CA3 sub-region of the hippocampus.

LTP that occurs at the so-called "mossy fiber synapses" of the hippocampus, which is a specific group of synapses that is involved with encoding short-term memory.

Memory of past experiences interfering with an individual's ability to hold new information in working memory.

A change in the physiological or biochemical state of neurons such that the ability to generate synaptic plasticity is altered.

Electrical excitability of a particular neuron.

Receptors important for learning and memory.

Kakorrhaphiophobia: the fear of failure

By its own definition, insight cannot be forced, much less forced in a particular direction.

Project notes can be kept in folders either inside or outside of the zettelkasten itself, but they technically shouldn't be a permanent part of it. Perhaps it's better to think of them as a workbench or play space for ideas as they're forming into a finished piece of writing. Once the piece is done, the play space has served its purpose and can be cleaned up.

An archive is a trash can for the indecisive.

a family of presynaptic cell adhesion proteins that have roles in connecting neurons at the synapse.

Cross reference: https://hypothes.is/a/BuMcAnr4EeyxO-PwNBfPrg (Dan Allosso's analogy about the Kuiper Belt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis

I can't help but think about a quine here...

“Born 1930: The Unlost Generation” by Caroline Bird, Harper’s Bazaar, Feb. 1957

Definition of the "hipster"

: attentional pathogenic culture ; an environment in which sustained and deep focus is harder for all of us

I do like the more positive framing of "The Cooperative Gene."

https://eileenrtabios.com/haynaku/

Definition of a "liberal education"

To collect crop. Contraction of "reaped."

A small stream. Usually with this form, referring to the hills covered in chalk in southern England.

A storage barn for grain that has already been separated from the plant.

The edge of a roof covered in straw.

A small stream. Usually with this form, referring to the hills covered in chalk in southern England.

A storage barn for grain that has already been separated from the plant.

The edge of a roof covered in straw.

To collect crop. Contraction of "reaped."

A storage barn for grain that has already been separated from the plant.

The edge of a roof covered in straw.

A relatively simple definition of homology and what it is.

This is an important thing to say about critical race theory when the far conservative right is using it as a cudgel and boogeyman for all of society's problems.

A solid definition of cancel culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiphon

also: antiphonary as a book of such antiphons

First time I've seen s12y as abbreviation for sustainability.

Also makes me wonder if I should make sesquipedaliantly into s15y? It would be more fun if it were s18y so that the 18 could refer to 12+6 inches which is a foot and a half matching up with sesquipedalian's root definition.

Lynne Kelly is correct here that we need better delineations of the words we're using here.

To some of us, we're taking historical methods and expanding them into larger super sets based on our personal experiences. I've read enough of Kelly's work and her personal experiences on her website (and that of many others) that I better understand the shorthand she uses when she describes pieces.

Even in the literature throughout the middle ages and the Renaissance we see this same sort of picking and choosing of methods in descriptions of various texts. Some will choose to focus on one or two keys, which seemed to work for them, but they'd leave out the others which means that subsequent generations would miss out on the lost bits and pieces.

Having a larger superset of methods to choose from as well as encouraging further explorations is certainly desired.

the participants of "Just America"

A reasonable definition of "Real America".

It would definitely be better if there were also a proactive, positive definition of what the small web were for rather than against.

It's better to have definitions in both directions to better delineate what's included and what's excluded.

Definition of a labor-based grading system. It's pretty much what one might suspect.

The underlying supposition is that doing some work at improvement will help one learn and improve.

The missing assumptions may include which sorts of work are best? Do they work for some students and not others? What sorts of work for specific tasks might improve performance and output(s)?

principled critique of meritocracy

His definition of a Memex is simply a mechanized (or what we would now call digitized) commonplace book, which has a long history in the literature of knowledge management.

I'll note here that he's somehow still stuck on the mechanical engineering idea of mechanized. Despite the fact that he was the advisor to Claude Shannon, father of the digital revolution, he is still thinking in terms of mechanical pipes, levers, and fluids. He literally had Shannon building a computer out of pipes and fluid while he was a student at MIT.

re·cen·sion

/rəˈsen(t)SH(ə)n/

noun

noun: recension; plural noun: recensions

a revised edition of a text; an act of making a revised edition of a text.

Example "under the Carolingians new recensions of the code were made"

Origin mid 17th century (in the sense ‘survey, review’): from Latin recensio(n- ), from recensere ‘revise’, from re- ‘again’ + censere ‘to review’.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recension

What is a Lindy Library? This is the first reference to it as a "thing" that I've seen.

Perhaps these references may be useful?

• https://twitter.com/george__mack/status/1163546430264545285?lang=en
• https://www.thelindylibrary.org/
• https://dev.to/swyx/notes-on-growing-a-language-by-guy-steele-5501 which references the Lindy Effect.

After a brief look, it appears as if the last is the appropriate reference.

Something about the shortening of retrospectives is bothering me here. While perhaps a useful shorthand, it's bordering on becoming lingo here and really isn't necessary. It's more alienating rather than useful.

I've not run across data colonialism before.

A good definition of a love story.

This is a damning definition of Substack

An off-the-beaten-path definition.

scunnered A Scots word used to mean that you are world weary, down-trodden, and thoroughly bereft of any lust for life when these words and expressions are simply too inadequate to signify the magnitude of your slide into "shitdom". Example: "Having to pay 550 euros to the locksmith on an emergency call out really scunnered him."

This simple phrase can be an important framing for many.

A good description of openwashing. I've seen some examples of the practice in the wild, but should make a note to document some.

"Information" is another word that might fit into this group of over-saddled words.

This explanation also highlights an additional idea of open itself. I have heard many in the W3C space criticize the open standard of web annotation arrived at because of the ultimate monoculture of the space. Most of the participants of the process were all related to Hypothes.is in some way and the result was a single product that implemented the standard. To my knowledge no other companies, groups, or individual programmers have separately implemented the standard.

In this sense, while the "standard" is openly defined, it isn't as open as other standards which were mote slowly evolved and implemented gradually and more broadly by various programming languages and disparate groups.

I don't think I've ever seen a name for this practice before.

Too often as humans we're focused on what is immediately in front of us and not what is missing.

This same thing plagues our science in that we're only publishing positive results and not negative results.

From an information theoretic perspective, we're throwing away half (or more?) of the information we're generating. We might be able to go much farther much faster if we were keeping and publishing all of our results in better fashion.

Is there a better word for this negative information? #openquestions

Definition of social media: social life, but mediated by capitalistic ad sellers online.

To me, ID sounds more like falling in the art category than science. The art of creating a smooth flow of knowledge generating or skills enhancement throughout a course.

Association for Educational Communication I had no idea that such an organization does exist!

bezzle

related to embezzle?

the state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect

a period of paid leave granted to a university teacher or other worker for study or travel, traditionally one year for every seven years worked

sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.

the process of avoiding something, especially cleverly or illegally

poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for oneself

the state or fact of being about to happen

vomit

Muzzle (verb) - Prevent someone from expressing themselves freely. (43)

a sign of what will happen in the future; an omen

a tribal councillor or headman

a systematic search for someone or something, especially criminals or criminal activity

a foolish and weak person

expressing or causing contemptuous ridicule or scorn

amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion

an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government

with hands on the hips and elbows turned outwards

a sudden, violent, or forcible entry

an act or situation that provokes or justifies a war

public shame or disgrace

The dark arts of dark patterns and exploiting cognitive biases.

This is the first time I've seen a reference to limbic capitalism as a term. Not a bad word for the concept.

DOI: Creativity defined in two ways; 1st as generation of numerous original ideas, and 2nd as the selection from those ideas of appopriate ideas to move forward.

Really shows true creativity is found in the 2nd definition and is not just about idea generation but the ability to select the best idea of the list to move forward with, this is creativity.

This innovative learning is clearly important for designers. I think that modifying an existing situation to try and make it better would be far easier than a completely unfamiliar one. This lends itself to more creativity due to no clear previous path.

This model is a great way to ensure engagement with learners. Specifically part 2 and 3 stuck out to me as key. The second point was that we must demonstrate relevance of instruction. This is fixes that question that always seems to come up, "Why are we doing this if I'll never use it in real life?". Any time I preface a lesson with why we are learning something and how it is necessary in our lives my students always seem to receive it better. Part 3 noted that we must instill confidence to succeed. Giving students the confidence to try hard things is vital to success.

This is a good definition of "user domestication". Such an apt metaphor.

Culture as a site of contestation!

Worth taking a look at the so-called product centric-mindset, the mainstream approach in pretty much every technology startup: people are designing/building/launching/growing the product, in roles such as product manager, product designer, product engineer, product lead, product marketing specialist, etc. Funny paradoxical thing is that many of these businesses can be characterised to have a SaaS business model, as in Software-as-a-Service.

When we take a closer look at the Service Design community, we will often hear that "Everything is a service" as these days every product is bundled into a service.

I came across quite a few times about the Rolls Royce case study presenting the aero-engine business model: aircraft engine business model - Google Search

person who takes part in conversation

relational artifact = for user relationship

unique

Ophir, Yaakov, and Yaffa Shir Raz. ‘Manipulations and Spins in Attention Disorders Research: The Case of ADHD and COVID-19’. Preprint. PsyArXiv, 20 August 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dmu4j.

I love these definitions and want to remember them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda,_New_Mexico

Cette caractérisation de la deuxième vague nécessite une définition plus approndit. Suivant cette description, les technologies sexuelles regroupent une large gamme de technologie, tel que la pornographie. Hors la pornographie existait bien avant le début de la deuxième vague, et n'est pas une réelle "sexualité informatique". Pour être plus clair, l'auteur pourrait définir la deuxième vague de technologie sexuelle, les digisexuels comme étant les personnes qui favorisent le lien et les rapports artificiels / virtuels aux connections humaines.

Understanding and contextualizing social media

multilingual writer definition

I assume this stands for "Standard Operating Procedures", but it was not defined as such.

thanks citizens united

"A chamber or hall immediately between the entrance-door and the interior of a building or house, to which it gives admittance; an ante-chamber, entrance-hall, or lobby" (OED).

https://www-oed-com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/view/Entry/222903?rskey=RAUZwy&result=1#eid

"A plantation of shrubs; a plot planted with shrubs" (OED).

https://www-oed-com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/view/Entry/178960?redirectedFrom=shrubbery#eid

"A thicket of small trees or underwood periodically cut for economic purposes" (OED).

https://www-oed-com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/view/Entry/41274?result=2&rskey=pfse77&

County directly North of London

For each year (used in financial contexts)

Oxford Dictionary: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/per_annum

"The rank or position of an ensign in the army" (OED).

"Law. The action of entailing; the state of being entailed. The settlement of the succession of a landed estate, so that it cannot be bequeathed at pleasure by anyone possessor; the rule of descent settled for any estate; the fixed or prescribed line of devolution" (OED).

"A gold coin issued in England from 1663 to 1813 and worth one pound and one shilling" (OED).

"Of or pertaining to marriage, or the married state; nuptial, matrimonial" (OED).

"A four-wheeled coach for hire, typically drawn by two horses and with seating for six passengers" (OED).

"In relation to the senses or emotions: keenly, delicately; sharply, intensely, poignantly. Now frequently with aware, conscious" (OED).

"To set free, relinquish, or leave" (OED).

"A barrier placed across a road to stop passage till the toll is paid; a toll-gate" (OED).

"An inspection of military or naval forces; esp. a ceremonial display and formal inspection of troops or the fleet by a monarch, commander-in-chief, or high-ranking visitor" (OED).

Unlike a carriage, which is four-wheeled; a curricle is two-wheeled. Both are drawn by horses and this picture showcases how lavish a curricle can be.

This picture showcases that a livery is very fine and elegant. An emphasis is focused on the fancy standard that is within the uniform's conception.

"Amazed" may hold a different meaning and provide a different perspective, as the Oxford English Dictionary defines the word as: "To put out of one's wits; to stun or stupefy, as by a blow on the head; to infatuate, craze".

Excessive, glaringly showy or tastelessly fine (OED).

The quality of being improper; unsuitable, inappropriate, or unfit (OED).

To be easy to converse with, good-natured; approachable, courteous when dealing with people of equal or lower status (OED).

“ To widen, render more comprehensive (a person's thoughts, sympathies, affections); to expand, increase the capacity of (the mind)” (OED).

“Narrow-minded,without liberal culture, unscholarly; [...] unrefined" (OED).

"To assume or have a certain demeanour or attitude; to comport oneself" (OED).

"Delusive imagination; hallucination = fantasy" (OED).

"Lack of confidence or faith in someone or something; distrust; mistrust, misgiving, doubt" (OED).

"The fact or condition of being mentally perturbed; mental or spiritual agitation or disturbance" (OED).

"An elevation on the earth's surface; a hill" (OED).

"Without reference to locality: a particular but unspecified area, person, or part of a community, esp. regarded as a source of something" (OED).

"Feathers are used as a symbol of honor" (OED). Mrs. Gardiner relief to be able to tell the truth for her husband, and take away the false mark of honor.

"A light two-wheeled carriage, usually drawn by two horses abreast" (OED).

"A discourse, usually delivered from a pulpit and based upon a text of Scripture, for the purpose of giving religious instruction or exhortation" (OED).

"A brood or hatch of partridges; a family of partridges keeping together during the first season" (OED). Also spelled as covey.

"Work done with a needle; spec. the art or practice of sewing or embroidery. Also: sewn or embroidered items collectively" (OED).

A lady can continue her light needlework during morning calls, but all other activities must be stopped at the entrance of guests.<br> http://www.mrsbeeton.com/01-chapter1.html

" Wonderfully, amazingly; (also) to a great extent or degree; extremely, immensely; prolifically, copiously" (OED).

"A four-wheeled open carriage, usually drawn by a pair of horses" (OED).

"Of persons (or their attributes): Uncivilized, savage; uncultured, rude; also, not accepting, or resisting, the constituted government; rebellious. Sometimes with implication of sense" (OED).

"A chamber or hall immediately between the entrance-door and the interior of a building or house, to which it gives admittance; an ante-chamber, entrance-hall, or lobby" (OED).

"A soldier belonging to the permanent professional armed forces of a country; a member of the regular army" (OED). Wickham has moved from his position in the militia, to a permanent position in the military after his marriage to Lydia.

"That wherein one has fallen behind. A duty or liability overdue and still remaining undischarged, esp. a debt remaining unpaid." (OED).

"A thicket of small trees or underwood periodically cut for economic purposes" (OED)

"A room to withdraw to, a private chamber attached to a more public room now a room reserved for the reception of company, and to which the ladies withdraw from the dining-room after dinner" (OED).

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" A female servant, or personal attendant "(OED).

“If there was a dining room, it was most often used for formal dinners; the family usually had their meals in a ‘breakfast parlour’ or ‘morning room.” (http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number12/sutherland2.htm )

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"To take chaise: to use a chaise as a means of conveyance. A chaise and pair, four, six. A chaise drawn by a pair, four, or six horses" (OED).

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"A man of birth; a man of extraction, though not noble; between the gentlemen and the peasants" (Johnson)

“Allowed by Authority” Marriages must be recognized by both law and God to be proper (OED).

"A survey or review of past acts or events, esp. with reference to a particular subject or sphere" (OED).

"detestation, hatred, repugnance. Also: a feeling of repugnance or loathing" (OED).

"An earnest or humble request. Also: the action of making such a request; supplication"(OED).

Jane Austen uses the archaic form of entreaty.

"In extended use: a set of opinions or ideas held by an individual or group; a theory or attitude which acts as a guiding principle for behaviour; an outlook or world view" (OED).

"A thought or circumstance that troubles the mind or conscience; a doubt, uncertainty or hesitation in regard to right and wrong, duty, propriety, etc.; esp. one which is regarded as over-refined or over-nice, or which causes a person to hesitate where others would be bolder to act. Often, scruple of conscience" (OED).

"The action of obeying, such as bowing or curtsying, to show respect" (OED).

"The action of diminishing or making less; the process of diminishing or becoming less" (OED).

"An abundance or large quantity of something" (OED).

"Reading through or over something" (OED).

"Approval or praise" (OED).

"Licentious or dissolute behavior, debauchery; sexual promiscuity" (OED).

"Feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong" (OED).

French. Used in the 1800s as a variant form of rencounter. "To encounter or meet, usually under negative circumstances" (OED).

"A place in which one is frequently found; habit of being in a certain place" (Johnson).

• A Dictionary of the English Language, Volume 1 By Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson

"Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance" (OED).

"Bad or inferior breeding or bringing up; hence, Bad manners, rudeness" (OED).

"To acquire knowledge" (OED).

"A room to withdraw to, a private chamber attached to a more public room (see withdrawing-room n.); now, a room reserved for the reception of company, and to which the ladies withdraw from the dining-room after dinner" (OED).

"Also, 'hither,' to go to and fro; to move about in various directions" (OED).

"The state or condition of being a lady; the rank, status, or authority of a lady" (OED).

"Voluntary blindness; pretended ignorance; forbearance" (Johnson).

"Advancement to a higher station" (Johnson). In this case, the clergy living of Pemberly.

"A particular thing given by last will or testament" (Johnson).

"Reluctance; unwillingness, struggle of opposite passion" (Johnson).

"Not wearing disguise; clear; artless; sincere" (Johnson).