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  1. Oct 2015
    1. that it made the soul like a field or garden of God, with all manner of pleasant flowers; all pleasant, delightful, and undisturbed: enjoying a sweet calm.

      Reminds me of the garden of Eden

    1. Statistically: At Google, women make up 30 percent of the company’s overall workforce, but hold only 17 percent of the company’s tech jobs. At Facebook, 15 percent of tech roles are staffed by women. At Twitter, 10 percent.

      This reminds me of back then when women were not allowed to work or they were frowned upon if they had a job. I do believe that women can do just as much as men, but this statistic is mind blowing. I would think women would hold a higher percentage!

    2. •Internet technology design increasingly facilitates rather than defeats censorship and control.

      This reminds me of when I was in elementary and high school certain websites would be blocked. However, this is on a much larger scale. There are increasing security measures now being taken on the internet to censor what we see and read about online. Many websites will try to protect users by asking them for their age or prompting them to create an account. But in the future will we have to worry about what's being censored and hidden from us?

    1. And when civic engagement was not enough, when government failed, when private banks could no longer hold the line, Chicago turned to an old tool in the American repertoire—racial violence. “The pattern of terrorism is easily discernible,” concluded a Chicago civic group in the 1940s. “It is at the seams of the black ghetto in all directions.” On July 1 and 2 of 1946, a mob of thousands assembled in Chicago’s Park Manor neighborhood, hoping to eject a black doctor who’d recently moved in. The mob pelted the house with rocks and set the garage on fire. The doctor moved away

      This reminds me of a scene from the movie Remember the Titans when someone threw a brick through Coach Boone's window as an act of racial violence. After looking through an interview with the real coach, I found that this event did actually occur but instead of a brick thrown through the window of his home it was a toilet.

    1. Breaks in the people’s observational routines may also have followed froma number of observation-related occurrences. A common interruption regardedan unusually good sighting of any given

      Reminds me of Nasir and the importance placed on relational resources. These relationships with others at the star parties helps to strengthen the sense of belonging. There is continued learning as they converse and point out new things to one another, which "increases connection to the practice," as Nasir would say.

    2. Still, she wanted to make sure that she had spotted the right formation,and thus she began consulting several books in search of a picture of M103 thatcould confirm or reject her inferences

      Access to these books is part of what establishes her identity as an astronomer and not just a stargazer -- without these, she is just a star gazer. Certainly reminds me of the individual pieces of track equipment which reinforced the hurdler's identities in Nasir & Cook

    1. emails, SMS messages, or blogs

      Sounds like the concept of episotolary novels adapted to our times. SMSs, IMs and emails have been included in books before.

      Also, this reminds me of the book, Twitterature written (Composed?) by 2 UChicago students. This basically retold well-known texts in the form of tweets. It was a hoot! I found that the retellng was more funny when I had read the text in question in its traditional form.

      But of course, I read Twitterature as a printed book.

    2. Hypertext fiction and poetry, on and off the Web Kinetic poetry presented in Flash and using other platforms Computer art installations which ask viewers to read them or otherwise have literary aspects Conversational characters, also known as chatterbots Interactive fiction Novels that take the form of emails, SMS messages, or blogs Poems and stories that are generated by computers, either interactively or based on parameters given at the beginning Collaborative writing projects that allow readers to contribute to the text of a work Literary performances online that develop new ways of writing

      I find this list a bit vague... It felt like a "to-do" list so vague that it reminds me more of "analog-lit" really... "Interactive fiction"? Can't a paper book be interactive...?

    1. IN the late 1980s, a small but influential group of criminologists predicted a coming wave of violent juvenile crime: “superpredators,” as young as 11, committing crimes in “wolf packs.”

      Describing children as superpredators and wolf packs? Reminds me of The Purge.

    1. commitment to using sources of knowledge about the game other than those immediately at hand in their own practices. One player summarized his learning about baseball outside of practice as follows: In baseball season, I look at the paper every day. I watch, like, the high-lights on the news, listen to the radio. and I hear different stuff, like what other players are doing and that lets me know, like, that's a new thing for me. I always keep learning new things about baseball, and it makes me do the same things on the field

      Motivation for learning outside the designated learning space (baseball practices or games). I think this relates to constructing Funds of Knowledge, these boys are creating a new specific fund of knowledge by engaging with existing sources of information. Which then that reminds me of LPP, these boys as newcomers reaching out to oldtimers for information and knowledge. However, it's complicated because they are not directly in contact but instead learning through artifacts and secondary sources created by the oldtimers.

    2. eachers need to move beyond the formal confines of the curriculum to parallel, build on, and expand the content and forms of everyday reasoning. H

      References possibilities for motivation by recognizing and engaging different literacies - reminds me of the Islands of Expertise. "Even when a child loses interest and an island of expertise begins to fade, the abstract and general themes that used the island's rich knowledge as a launching pad will remain connected to children's other knowledge" (pg. 334). That knowledges and practices are built and expanded upon, provides for complex means of motivation

    1. The line is immaterial.  Mr. Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me.  To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. 

      Lady Bracknell no longer approves. She started out loving him--he was the perfect fit for her daughter. As Jack tells her about his background, Lady Bracknell realizes that this is not the type of person they want in their family..

    1. Now,instead of routinely helping adults, children are often involved in specialized child-focused exercises to assemble skills for later entry in mature activities from whichthey are often excluded in childhood. These specialized child-focused situations—especially schooling, but also pre-school lessons and child-focused conversation infamilies—often employ instructional practices and a concept of learning that wereheavily influenced by the organization of factories, forming a cultural traditionthat contrasts with intent participation.

      This reminds me of Lave and Wenger's chapter 3 where they discuss the importance of apprenticeship. Rogoff instead suggests the importance of intent participation may not necessarily build the craftsmanship that an apprenticeship may, but that students can learn the social skills, and interactions that will happen in the work environment through these participations. This idea of assembling skills for late entry doesn't seem to work since students aren't being immersed in the scenario since they are only surround by adults. This is why "school is a lousy place to learn", sometimes.

    1. activitieshave high use value rather than exchange value, in the sense that young peoplelearn skills that they put to use to solve meaningful problems, rather than problems

      This reminds me of Resnick's article - that school knowledge is so disconnected and isolated from the rest of what we do, real life, issues that effect us. high use value challenges this isolation

    1. It's like looking at something under a microscope as opposed to giving it a casual passing glance. The closer you look, the more you see, and the more you see, the more fascinating it gets.

      This reminds me of an exhibition of Pablo Picasso's Las Meninas that I saw over the summer. Pablo Picasso drew about fifty paintings of his interpretation of the original las meninas painting and by doing this, he created a unified theme and I assume analyzed the painting thouroughly but for the viewer it was just mass obsession and repetition

    2. The idea of working in series or in distinct purposeful directions can actually be the opposite of condemning oneself to a life of sameness or repetition. The process is not about repetition at all, but rather about being able to explore, investigate, examine or address particular ideas, themes, issues, compositions, concepts or topics in progressively deeper and more meaningful ways, and from a richer variety of perspectives than is possible by making just one or two.

      This reminds me of poetry guidelines. While yes, they constrict they also allow us to consider more options. They allow us to work within a set boundary and when we fulfill our conditions we usually create something fantastic. When we work within boundaries and fill these walls to the brink we show that we have the ability to work within constraints and use them to our advantage.

    1. The boathouse is a place that reminds me of the countless hours of work my teammates and I have contributed to a sport that means so much to us. The physical environment is exactly what shapes our experience of rowing. Without that tangible setting, our experience would be much different and perhaps not exist at all. The Boston College Boathouse is the essential place that brings us together as a team. It is our place.

      In your conclusion it seems like you have drifted into talking about the importance of the boathouse to your team as a whole and it is no longer about your personal experience. I think that the team is a very important aspect of the significance of your place, but I think you should focus more on its importance to you personally especially as you are tying the paper together in your conclusion.

    2. The boathouse is a place that always reminds me of that and that I can always bring with me.

      This is what I interpret is your project, that whether you're actually there or not, the boathouse always stays with you. Try to incorporate this idea into your conclusion as well to make your essay come full circle.

    1. re-use culture and “reappropriate the space organised by techniques of sociocultural production”

      Reminds me of Whyte's ideas about the ways in which the interaction between the city and the people changes. How people use the city spaces and how they don't, and how urban planning must acknowledge and respond to that.

    1. How do you do I forgive you everything and there is nothing to forgive.

      This phrase reminds me of the paranoia and doubt someone can face when trying to forgive someone who has severely hurt them. The diction depicts doubt throughout, or even show forms of an abusive cycle. As I look at this sentence more and more, I think of how one can feel there is a lot of accumulated damage from one particular person, but by the time an apology is needed, all is forgiven so the cycle can continue.

    2. Left again left again. Exceptional considerations.

      Is this a potential play on words? Left is the opposite of right. And right also means the opposite of wrong. Is this left trying to say "wrong again, wrong again" and the many "considerations" of direction?

      The fact that left is a direction, it reminds me of a road and its "many considerations." There are many directions on where to go and there may be a struggling on which one to take.

      Or this left could mean "abandoned." Like "Abandoned again, abandoned again." This would mean that a narrator is talking about loneliness and the vast majority of considerations on how to handle feeling constantly abandoned.

    3. Who is a permit.

      A permit reminds me of a person who has a driver's permit. Someone who has a drivers permit is permitted to drive with the supervision of an experienced driver who is over a certain age.

      To personify a permit would be like that that piece of paper that is given to drivers who need assistance on the road while they drive.

      This person is limited because they are that key/access/piece of paper that allow them to do something, but they aren't allowed without supervision.

      This reminds me of the poem Lucinda Matlock. This personified permit potentially has an illness that needs tending to by a professional.

    4. Something about the repetition in the piece, and the sometimes seemingly aimless or roundabout lines remind me of all the truncated sentences or incomplete thoughts one might speak or think over the course of a day, especially a busy day. A lot of talk just kind of evaporates, leads nowhere. There's something frenzied and anxious about the snippy fragments, even though they all end flatly with periods. The repetition of names in particular reminds me of all the times we speak family members' and friends' names for one reason or another.

    5. Next to barber.

      I think the shape of the poem really sticks out in these 13 lines. This is where I first realized how much the shape of the poem kind of reminds me of breathing. Except for the few really long lines. The poem as a whole tends to have smaller lines that lead to bigger lines, then back to small.

    1. ro be hfted to the summit of the World Trade Cent . o t f h . ' er ts to be l'f . u o t e City s grasp

      "The city's grasp" reminds me of the personification of New York. We wouldn't usually say that a place has grasped a person, or that anyone is trapped or held by a space. That's something that's unique to New York.

    2. Must one finally fall back into the dark s h b k pace w ere crowds ac and forth, crowds that, though visible from on high are them m,ove ~nable to see down below? An Icarian fall

      All this talk about looking down on NYC like a god reminds me of the anonymity of the city that talked about in class. It seems that the only way to escape this persona is to be standing above it all, yet as soon as you step down and reach street level again, you're back to being a nobody

    3. extremes of ambition and degradation, brutal oppositions of races and styles, contrasts between yesterday's buildings, already trans-formed into trash cans, and today's urban irruptions that block out its space.

      This reminds me of how in Mistress America, there is talk of how the city is constantly under construction. The city is so fluid that it changes so much to the point where it is literally undefinable.

    1. Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.

      This reminds me of the scene in Romeo and Juliet when the two first meet and kiss. Romeo says,

      Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. Image Description

    1. Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell. And as miserable was the waste that was there made of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, calves, lambs, roasting pigs, and fowl (which they had plundered in the town), some roasting, some lying and burning, and some boiling to feed our merciless enemies

      Okay, the singing and dancing seems like something that would unify everyone together, yet the indians are being depicted as objects from hell? Why is hell being linked to the indians who enjoy singing and dancing? The whole scene just reminds me of a party so it confused me that Rowalndson represents the Indians are being from hell. What does everyone think about this? Is hell being linked to the Indians because of them being different?

    2. Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.

      This reminds me of some of the imagery in Heart of Darkness.

    1. I accept the idea that companies (and people) act in their own self-interest. That’s what Apple has done here.

      what's the main reason? large number of users? Or commercial monopoly? It reminds me one example in China, Tencent QQ, popularly known as QQ,As of January 2015, there are 829 million active QQ accounts, with a peak of 176.4 million simultaneous online QQ users. QQ also offers a variety of services, including online social games, music, bookstore, microblogging, movies, platform of games and group and voice chat.

  2. Sep 2015
    1. “When thou passeth through the waters I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee” (Isaiah 43.2).

      The subtle integration of scripture reminds me of a sermon.

    1. "funds of knowledge"to refer to the diverse social networks that in-terconnect households with their social environments and facilitatethe sharing or exchange of resources, including knowledge, skills, andlabor essential for the households' functioning, if not their well-being(for details, see Greenberg, 1989; Velez-lbanez, 1988, in press; Velez-lbanez & Greenberg, 1989).

      This reminds me a lot of the transmission of knowledge that happens with student club leaders that I work with at NYU. Previous board members will sit with new board members and download insider information to make their terms smoother right off the bat. This works nicely sometimes but other times, it backfires especially if changes need to be made. Students get stuck in "the way we've always done it" rather than thinking outside the box about how we might improve upon past successes.

    2. Our example highlights how, within such a distributedsystem, children can draw on the resources of teachers, materials,and, most important, one another to shape and direct their academicactivities.

      Reminds me of Resnick's discussion of tool manipulation outside of school versus the emphasis of pure mentation in school. Also reminds me of the everyday activity observations, so often I saw people using eachother as tools or resources to learn how to effectively do their task. In this case, these students are using the tools available to direct their learning.

    3. teacher in these classrooms is that of a mediator, in the Vy-gotskian sense: to provide guidance, strategic support, and assistanceto help the children assume control of their own learning

      I really like this conception of Teacher as Mediator, reminds me of the discussions of oldtimer mentorship in AA in Lave and Wenger and Holland et al.

    4. "fluid reality" ofthe households, the changes in household composition, residence,jobs, and social relations; it is within this fluidity that the experiencesof families must be understood.

      This idea reminds me a lot of Holland et. al. when they first introduced Figured Worlds (FW) as cultural worlds. That so much of what a person is has to do with what goes on in their predominant FWs and further, what makes sense in one FW (language, action, interaction) may make no sense in another - so we can't copy and paste actions/interactions/language/etc. from one FW to the next and expect it to explain anything.

    5. They met as a group several times a week,sometimes with an adult and sometimes on their own, to read, dis-cuss, and interpret the books.

      LPP--students having natural conversations with their peers about important issues. Something that as adults is done often. Also reminds me a bit of a staff meeting.

    6. ndeed, help in finding jobs, housing, better deals on goods and ser-vices, and assistance in dealings with government agencies and otherinstitutions is of far greater significance to survival than are the ma-terial types of aid these households provide one another

      Funds of knowledge reminds me of Bourdieu's social and cultural capital. But in his work, working class minority families would be looked at as having "low" social capital, but here we can see that the Sanchez family has a huge network that benefits all members of the family. I guess Bourdieu was looking more at the disadvantages these families might face (such as not the best schools, lack of access to better jobs, etc). But funds of knowledge allows us to look at this concept under another light--one that shows that these social connections do have power and meaning, just a different kind than is discussed in Bourdieu's work.

    1. digital systems and displays oftenundermine mutual availability and visibility. Removing the visibility ofthe scene of action from the view of others not only undermines co-participation and collaboration at the exhibit itself, but removes thepossibility of others seeing and making relevant sense of what people aredoing elsewhere within the scene. The relevant ecology of action is largelydenied to those who happen to be within the same space. In contrast, it isworth adding that even those who design for fairgrounds and similar venueshave long recognized the importance of making their displays visible to a‘gathering’, allowing others to participate in various ways in the scene ofaction

      In our world of constant digitization, it is important to be aware of how technology creates individual and group experiences. If, in order to appreciate the work, you have to participate (i.e. run the controls), you are turning what could have been a group experience into an individual one.

      This also reminds me a lot of Marshal McLuhan's ideas on hot and cold media.

    2. Their bodily comportment, their orientation, exploration,investigation, manipulation and the like become sensible, by virtue of their‘connection’ to the installation.

      I think my comment a bit tangental, but it reminds me of a principle social justice education - just reading about injustices is not sufficient. People are more effectively engaged with social justice issues if they have encountered injustices themselves or can connect to those who have. Learning to read, comprehend, and understand experiences and your own and other people's actions

    3. Exhibits themselves are thought of as having ‘stoppingpower’ and the interest and pleasure that people gain arises through theirindividual engagement with the art work.

      Reminds me of the beginning of Allen's inquiry cycle - must start with a surprising phenomenon to engage the visitor throughout the exhibit. With hopes to provoke interest and pleasure

    4. important issues for ourunderstanding of visual communication. It directs our attention towards theidea of an ‘active spectator’ who constitutes the sense and significance ofobjects and artefacts

      This reminds me of something someone (I'm sorry I couldn't find the post) highlighted in the AA chapters. This idea that there are people outside the immediate Figured world (Last week it as AA and those who are family members/friend, here it is the art makers and those who look at/experience the art) that play a role in what goes on in the FW. So cool.

    5. The conduct of others within the same space can feature in how peopleorient, what people choose to look at and how they experience particularobjects, artefacts and events.

      this reminds me of the bookstore observation and the types of learning the students had there, as well as how people would react differently depending on what would happen.

    6. A feature of the world is progressively discovered by virtue of oneperson noticing someone else notice something. The objects, their character,interdependence and functionality are assembled then and there by virtue ofhow others selectively orient and respond to the world in which they arelocated

      This reminds me of elementary school science fair!

    1. suffering rather than indifferentism-for out of suffering may come the cure. Better to have pain than paralysis: A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers a new world.

      Back to reflection and action combined. This really reminds me of Marxism.

    1. he questions“what’s going on?”and“so what?”were usedas label headings to help raise visitors’curiosity at these intermediate steps, as wellas to scaffold them through the cycle.

      Reminds me of the "Project Approach" curriculum method

    2. The environment provides myriad personal choices, withoutany teachers forcing learners to do something unappealing, without curricular constraints

      Connecting to the idea of a "safe space" in Social Justice, museums are a safe space for learning - supportive and nonjudgemental

      Reminds me of Becker's discussion on low-risk testing and evaluations

    3. However, we have also discovered that“more is not necessarily better”when it comesto interactive features

      This reminds me of a comment made by Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel about the number of buttons on the steering wheel of the car, comparing it to driving and texting at the same time. Silly comment, but it came to mind

    4. alternative to a school science classroom: hands-on exhibits are novel, stimulating, evidence-rich, multisensory, and fun

      this passage reminds me of "It directs our attention towards the idea of an ‘active spectator’ who constitutes the sense and significance of objects and artifacts." from crafting participation piece. So is the use of a hands on approach the same as an active spectator in the Heath piece?

    1. The Panopticon immediately reminds me of the Fujian Tulou in southern China and the Tietgenkollegiet in Copenhagen. Fujian Tulou has the same concept as the Panopticon but it is used as residential housings for community living, and also protecting the families against the enemies in the olden days. While the Tietgenkollegiet's design referenced the concept of the Tulou, and it is one of the most popular dorms in KU, where students live in a community and share the common space in the center of the architecture.

    1. As a result, the film adaptation has generally been de cribed and evaluated on the basis of its adequacy to the literary text, whereby it tends to be judg d as an unfaithful or distorted communication of the author's expressive intention. Such a judge ent, however, routinely involves the unwitting application of a third term, a dominant or authori live interpretation of the text, which the critic applies as a standard on the assumption that the film should somehow inscribe that and only that interpretation (for examples, see Orr, 1984).

      this reminds me of our previous reading regarding film adaptations. I think this passage does a really good job of noting how film adaptations have so much pressure on them to follow the novel versions to the t, otherwise, even if it is a beautiful and well-executed film, it can be discredited by the audience.

    1. That seems like a clue to me that they aren’t worth a shit.

      Reminds me of the story of one of the grandfathers who own Jack Daniels telling his children and grandchildren, "we only sell the shit" as a caution against drinking alcohol.

    1. Unless it be that marriage perhaps with a dash of Indian blood will throw up a girl so desolate so hemmed round with disease or murder that she’ll be rescued by an agent—

      This reminds me of tainting "pure" white blood.

      At this time American Indians were forced into boarding schools to "civilize" them. I wonder if this could be a reference to these schools where a part Indian child might be "reared by the state", and "rescued by an agent" working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

    1. so full of humanity are these infidels before those Christians

      Wow. I think this is really important. The "infidels," the Indians, are full of more humanity than the Puritans. It reminds me of the quote earlier in the paragraph that said that the Puritans "had learned to work all to their own ends, and make a great show of Religion, but no humanity"

    2. and would bring bottles of strong liquor to him

      reminds me of the scene from the first pirates of the caribbean where jack and elizabeth get marooned on the island with all the rum lol

    1. This relationship [teacher-student] involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient,listening objects (the students).

      kinda reminds me of freshman year science with all of those equations.. one thing always has to belong to the other, going hand in hand in order for them to work

    2. like Freire the discussion is over because it is 'scientifically proven' that their theory of revolution is

      Reminds me a lot if Syria and what is going to happen after their war?

    1. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm

      this is not sexy--it's normal until you take a closer look. It's also not european. Its a little animalistic, and not British--more of an eastern look. Reminds me of nigel thornberry

    1. Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad expos'd to public view,

      Could this be a snub on plagiarism? Reminds me of The Smith's song "Cemetry Gates" off the Queen is dead

    1. Dost dream of things beyond the Moon And dost thou hope to dwell there soon?

      I like this line a lot....for some reason it reminds me of being an innocent kid, daydreaming about space!

    1. Even today, we are very connected to our machines–they are extensions of ourselves, even though we aren’t physically connected to them.

      This statement is so true, it's almost frightening. I bring my laptop or cell phone everywhere I go because it holds everything I need. If I didn't have those photos, my e-mails, my Google calendar, any of the apps on my phone, I would be lost. Like you, three years ago I would not have cared if I lost my phone. But now it's a part of me. It reminds me of Transhuman with the hand extension with tools. Our iPhones/Androids are extensions of our hands that come with tools. Where will we be in ten years or even five? Will our machines no longer be extensions of us but actually a part of us like in Blindsight?

    1. As they gave the younger students instructions anddrills, they used language and gave feedback in a way that mirrored what their coachdid with them. This instance was an extension of Octavia beginning to take moreresponsibility for herself and others in the track context.

      Reminds me of the apprenticeship example in LPP, and how it is important to learn from those around you. Octavia can show how much she's learned and how strong her identity is as a track member by replicating her coach's behavior as she teaches the elementary school students

    2. Coach J differentially distributed access to the specializedequipment, perhaps strengthening Gloria's track identity but not Harrell's

      Reminds me of the AA example. One cannot identity as a member of AA if the other members do not accept that person as a member. Similarly the track identity here is dependent on the coach.

    1. Yet the new par-ticipatory culture offers many opportunities for youths to engage in civic debates, participate in community life, and even become political leaders

      This reminds me of a photo I saw circulating my FB feed a few years back... (not that I am endorsing this particular political party... Just goes well with this passage...) Image Description

    1. Within a bottom-up framework, the focus is not so much on the highest levels of empathy, but rather on its simplest forms, and how these combine with increased cognition to produce more complex forms of empathy. How did this transformation take place? The evolution of empathy runs from shared emotions and intentions between individuals to a greater self/other distinction—that is, an “unblurring” of the lines between individuals. As a result, one’s own experience is distinguished from that of another person, even though at the same time we are vicariously affected by the other’s. This process culminates in a cognitive appraisal of the other’s behavior and situation: We adopt the other’s perspective.

      This reminds me of Dan Gilbert)'s (and others) notions of the mind being a simulator.

    1. to smite this yong man with a greeveous disease, of which he dyed in a desperate maner, and so was him selfe ye first yt was throwne overbord. Thus his curses light on his owne head; and it was an astonishmente to all his fellows, for they noted it to be ye just hand of God upon him.

      This kind of, only a little bit, reminds me of Billy Budd

    1. They sent notice of their decision to the nearest settlement of Indians and told them at the same time how to make propitiation when necessity forced them to kill one of the deer tribe.

      this reminds me of the indians as spaniards and the animals as the indians in another certain case..

    1. The movie "Happy" (http://www.thehappymovie.com) claims that there is something about movement that stimulates feelings of happiness in people in a very direct physiological way. Watching children and animals, it is not a stretch to see a natural connection between joy and movement for living beings. Many great thinkers have noted that the happiness that humans seek is the feeling of aliveness. It seems to me that movement is the very symbol and epitome of being alive - at a very basic physical level, it is the foundation for freedom, empowerment, and generative power. Thus, if one is not enjoying movement, then one is feeling the opposite of aliveness - burdened and enslaved by it. I think it's as simple as that - if you feel enslaved by any activity or anything, it cannot contribute to your sense of liberty and aliveness, can it? Until you can feel movement to be a liberating enlivening thing, it cannot increase your happiness and will actually do the opposite, drag you down.The good news, however, is that we all really enjoy movement, naturally, but have just forgotten - we have turned exercise into a job, an obligation, and forgotten the joy we once felt in it as children. I think everyone can recapture that joy, if they can find the right context and the right kind of movement to enjoy again, and if they can shift their perspective to movement as a source of potential pleasure rather than pain or boredom.

      This reminds me somewhat of the "Primal" notion of play.

    1. I share that bizarre thought with you because it underlines how difficult it is to decode imagery createdbya vanished culture.

      Reminds me of Gaiman's story about preserving the warnings about nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, in his How Stories Last LongNow talk. In the end, the recommendation was to invent a culture.

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    1. told the people that they had much more power than all their chiefs

      This is how they get them to convert they trick them into it, by deception.

      This reminds me of Things Fall Apart.

    1. Then truly, you did bring that Lady to me just now

      This exchange reminds me of the lines in Rochester's Satyr: "Nor can weak truth your reputation save: / The knaves will all agree to call you knave."

    1. on the road the certain notice of the deaths of the religious who were in that convent, and of the alcalde mayor, some other guards, and six more Spaniards whom they captured on that road

      This reminds me of the lack of preparation that the British experienced when they went to war with the American colonists. Europeans were used to a different types of warfare. Neat, organized, where people waited their turn to get killed. However, the land of south/ central/ north america allowed for guerrilla warfare. Hide and seek killing. Ok, rant over. It's no wonder the Spanish were so unprepared.

    2. plot for a general uprising of the Christian Indians

      This reminds me of some of the plot of Things Fall Apart. Even though that one took place in Africa, their are similar conflicts that follow colonization

    1. learning how to "do" school appropriately

      YES school is not just understanding how to math and how to write a paper but how to function inside an institution. How to be on time, how to talk to adults, how to work in groups, etc etc. Some kids come to school already understanding this concepts, and unfortunately, since these concepts aren't always explicitly taught, kids who come with out knowledge of them are left behind (reminds me of a book I read for another class, Unequal Childhoods) #inspired

    1. Think of all the everyday situ­ations in which people coparticipate to a limited extent, thereby gaining access to modes of behavior not otherwise available to them, eventually developing skill adequate to certain kinds of performance

      everydayactivities

      Reminds me of the people I saw using "team-work" to re-fill their metro cards (one person holding the money or wallet while other person pushed buttons)

    2. Learning is a pro­cess that takes place in a participation framework, not in an individual mind

      Another connection to #resnick and the individual/shared cognition contrast between in-school learning and out of school learning. Reminds me of how often I look at other people and observe before I do something. For example, the first time I bought a metro card I watched other people do it first before I attempted. I do this a lot, and I would even say it was one of my most important survival techniques when I lived in Japan, and attempted #everydayactivities

    3. Reminds me of Resnick's comment about on the job training: “although there is very little teaching, there is much learning” (p 17)--reminder that learning can occur all over, and outside of the traditional classroom #resnick

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    1. If technology becomes this prominent in our lives, we could face a future similar to the one displayed in Blindsight.

      Jackson’s point here reminds me specifically of a time over the summer this year I was traveling. I was in an airport in Minnesota at a restaurant where every single table had two iPads attached. The waiter simply came over to tell me how to order on it, swipe my own card, and left.

      I was upset because the app was confusing and I just wanted to order my food normally. The entire lunch i sat through at this restaurant while only communicating with the iPad made me realize how posthumanistic we already are. The fact that our world has already begun to lose the face-to-face interaction at a public restaurant is terrifying when looking to the future at how our world will be like in 2082.

    1. I never told my father that I needed money because then he would have sent it, and I would never know if I could do it by myself.

      Reminds me of The Coming Bachelor Girl because she suggested you stay independent and build your own success, instead of asking your family for money.

    1. attempted to adapt

      This reminds me of something I heard in one of my classes long ago "Guys! We're English Majors, we can just totally bs it until it fits!"

    1. He used a different style of speaking when he addressed white political leaders than when he addressed southern black congregations.

      Reminds me of Ebonics and how that was a big issue with education and schools with funding as another language.

    2. how little things change. I’m guessing a lot of the drama is still the same, it’s just the format is a little differ-ent. It’s just changing the font and changing the background color really.”

      this reminds me of life as well from when you were a teen to early-mid 20's; life still happens with drama but it's just the way things are perceived that's different

    1. More importantly, by placing emphasis on human activities mediated by information and technology, this articulation shifts the field's focus from agencies of collection such as libraries or archives, which more typically are invoked when describing subject coverage in schools of library and information science, to the contexts in which people, information and technology interact

      Reminds me of Bates' following the "red thread" of information.

    1. Thiscasting of the field into two divided camps is nothing new, but it is no longerclear that this division reflects the reality of many LIS programs."

      Reminds me of Saracevic's two camps: systems oriented, human oriented.

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    1. Like Square, people became aware of the product by seeing others use it as well. New users learn about Snapchat before ever having to download the app themselves—by seeing friends use it or even taking part in the experience by jumping in for group selfies

      this reminds me of when people use chubble and try to make faces to send a message.

      I think we should encourage that

    1. The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world.

      This reminds me a lot of cell phones and how they are just a complex metal and glass box with wires, they contain for most of us our entire life whether it be phone number of friends, or music we love, or pictures of people important to us. The room in the story contains nothing, yet she finds fulfillment in its ability to provide for her.

    1. n some sense, they are "trained" but they have no experience. (In fact, the two quartermaster chiefs with whom I worked most closely said they pre-ferred to get their trainees as able-bodied seamen with-out any prior training in the rate. They said this saved them the trouble of having to break the trainees of bad habits acquired in school.

      This reminds me a lot of Dewey's ideas of training vs. education:

      "Without such formal education, it is not possible to transmit all the resources and achievements of a complex society. It also opens a way to a kind of experience which would not be accessible to the young, if they were left to pick up their training in informal association with others, since books and the symbols of knowledge are mastered.

      But there are conspicuous dangers attendant upon the transition from indirect to formal education. Sharing in actual pursuit, whether directly or vicariously in play, is at least personal and vital. These qualities compensate, in some measure, for the narrowness of available opportunities. Formal instruction, on the contrary, easily becomes remote and dead—abstract and bookish, to use the ordinary words of depreciation. What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests." (Dewey, Democracy and Education, 1916, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/852/852-h/852-h.htm)

    1. There is a great deal of research showing that rewards and pressure can motivate people to "produce," but creative learning and thinking requires the "space" that play creates. Pressure and rewards can often diminish that space, and thus, squash creative thinking.

      Reminds me of Dan Pink's TedTalk: The Puzzle of Motivation

    1. The average person,whether Ph.D. scholar or high school graduate, never no-tices the structure that organizes their information, becausethey are so caught up in absorbing and relating to thecontent. And, in fairness to them, they are not interested inthe structure.Weare interested in the structure

      Reminds me of infrastructure studies - how certain features slip into the background.

    1. I love this quote from the Tao Te Chingof Lao Tzu that brings into focus the paradoxical nature of happiness and meaning and some counterintuitivenotions. In this quote Lao Tzu writes "When man is born he is tender and weak. At deathhe is stiff and hard. All things, as well as the grass and the trees, tender and subtlewhile alive, when dead, withered and dried. Therefore, the tender and the weak are thecompanions of life and the stiff and the hard are companions of death." It's a littlebit paradoxical: weakness and tenderness may be the pathway to life and the Tao and themysterious force of life. And again, challenging us to put aside preconceptions to find happiness.

      This really reminds me of the struggle of Rand Al'Thor in book 12-13 of The Wheel of Time; perhaps Robert Jordan was influenced by this, as he mentioned sampling many religions for his writings.

    1. And often you asked me “What is the use of knowing the evil in the world?”

      People tend to ask this question a lot when dealing with any form of negativity. This reminds me of how a lot of people would prefer to remain ignorant in order to feel content with their own personal agenda. As long as it is not occurring in front of their eyes or they do not have to experience the situation themselves, it is not relevant to what they continue to deal with personally. There is this fear floating within the air that forces people to stay within their comfort zone and not even bother questioning what may linger on the other side.

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    1. ‘Tis this exalted power, whose business lies In nonsense and impossibilities,

      This reminds me of the Academy of Lagado in Gulliver's Travels (Gulliver's given a tour where people are seriously studying things that are blatantly ridiculous and pointless).

    1. But John says if I feel so, I shall neglect proper self-control; so I take pains to control myself—before him, at least, and that makes me very tired.

      this reminds me of a term called "angel in the house" when i studied british literature and how in this time period women were supposed to have been this angelic example to the husbands as a sign of comfort as he exits the business world back into the domestic sphere.

    2. don’t know why I should write this. I don’t want to. I don’t feel able.

      The entire piece but this part especially reminds me of Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's tale," where the protagonist, Offred, is dictating her life in a dystopian-male dominated society where she is forbidden to read or write but does it anyway to record her life under an oppressive regime.

    3. So I will let it alone and talk about the house

      everything that has led to this line subtly reminds me of "the awakening" by Kate Chopin it is the same tale in a sense, a women clearly suffering from some form of mental anguish but also being forced into a compulsion like "talk about the house" because they aren't allowed to express any of their real concerns. It is quite a sad read up to this point, and it reminds me of Chopin because i had a similar feeling when i read that.

    4. creeping

      The narrator repeats the word creeping continually throughout the narrative. This reminds me of Feuds theory of the uncanny. In this case, the uncanny relates to feelings which seem familiar because they have been repressed, therefore the uncanny reflects something which is familiar in our unconscious, but as this feeling is repressed, it produces feelings of uneasiness because we do not understand it. Even in the narrators personal writing, she cannot truly reflect her unconscious desires to be free from the restrictions of being a woman during this time. The only way she can discuss her anxiety is by reflecting it onto the wallpaper, which allows her to delve deep into her unconscious, repressed desires. She feels familiarity in her being a woman and societies expectations which go along with this, such as getting married and having children. But she feels unsure about this as she is not content and happy with the life he has, even though by societies standards she should be happy. Therefore she is constantly feeling 'creepy'.

    1. “If I take this road I am likely to meet some people, but if I take the other road, I am not likely to meet anyone.”

      reminds me of the paths of life some have potential while others have less

    1. For the Spirit of the Mountain had taken her to himself

      This reminds me of Greek mythology, especially Leda and the Swan, which led to Helen, and then the Trojan War.

    1. It is not uncommon to infer that some sort of evidence, of which we are not aware, ought to or might exist and, if found, would be of particular impor- tance as evidence, as when detectives search, more or less systematically, for clues

      Reminds me of Peirce's idea of Abductive Reasoning.

    2. Further, the term “evidence” implies passiveness. Evidence, like information-as-thing, does not do any- thing actively. Human beings do things with it or to it.

      Is evidence truly not doing anything? Reminds me of non-human actors in Latour.

    1. I may be a proficient user of mathematics and a skilled driver and unable to teach a child either one

      This reminds me of Lee Shulman's (1986) "Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching" (worth a read)

    1. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American,

      this also reminds me of the popular tendency for people to say "i don't see color" because even as far back as Du Bois it is clear that color is present and one must be able to be seen and felt and still be fully validated in order for people to truly co exist. The idea that some people are colorblind is bogus and really rather racist in its own annoying way.

    1. these diverse and complex cultures and literatures can be made to appear cute, childish, one-dimensional, and boring

      reminds me of peter pan...native american stereotypes galore

    1. a small black dog will leap to lick your hand.

      This also reminds me of the bible, to some degree. It reminds me of the garden of eden, and the serpent. The dog being the serpent.

    2. little fellow came to him he seemed so famished and he shed such tears that this one also gave him leave to eat.

      This reminds me of the little boy who cried wolf and the three bears stories.

    1. But in the increasingly important village the library must broaden its scope and become a true cultural center

      Reminds me of the recent push for GLAM thinking.

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  4. Aug 2015
    1. respect of power–while it would not wake the baby lying close against its frame. Before the end, one began to pray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force. Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy the dynamo was not so human as some

      Also reminiscent of God's power coupled with His gentleness, and the praying.

      This section also reminds me of Jesus. First of all the baby against the frame, reminds me of a baby Jesus being held against the Virgin Mary maybe? Then further the dynamo being a symbol of ultimate energy but was "not so human as some." In Christianity, Jesus is the symbol of God's ultimate energy in human form.

    1. may be only a vaguesort of dissatisfaction and may, in fact, be disregarded asthe investigation develops. I

      Reminds me of Khulthau's uncertainty principle.

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    1. Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, Out of black bean and wet slate bread, Out of the acids of rage, the candor of tar, Out of creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies, They Lion grow.

      The text has heavy words with powerful objectives that create an image of an industrial environment. An industrial place creates an image of weariness where people are working hard and doing their jobs - whether to provide for their families or make a living. And an industrial environment can be dark and smog-like due to chemicals in the area or the vehicles, etc. This environment is a sense of negativity and loss of hope. And for whatever reason, this "Lion" grows off this negativity and loss of hope.

      "Lion" is capitalized. When something is capitalized it is either a name or pertaining to a god. In a biblical perspective, this reminds me of the "Lion of Judah," who in the Holy Bible in Revelation 5:5, is described as Jesus Christ.

    1. learning to decode was not “decontextualized.” It was not, in fact, separated from meaningful and value-laden action

      This is reminds me of a previous reading in which the author claimed that students had greater comprehension with real world texts (news papers, brochures, signs). If students understand the purpose for reading, it can help them comprehend and act as a motivator.

    2. Learners observe masters at work. Masters model behavior (e.g. cooking a particular type of meal) accompanied by talk that helps learners know what to pay attention to. Learners collaborate in their initial efforts with the masters, who do most of the work and scaffold the learners’ efforts. Texts or other artifacts (e.g. recipes, cookbooks) that carry useful information, though usually of the sort supplied “on demand” or “just in time” when needed, are often made available.

      This reminds me of guided reading and anchor charts

    3. The process involves “masters” (adults, more masterful peers) creating an environment rich in support for learners.

      Reminds me of Vygotsky: scaffolding, ZPD, social-learning

    1. Emergent technologies provide different models and structures to support learning. They disrupt the notion that learning should be controlled by educators and educational institutions as information and “knowledgeable others” are readily available on online networks through the press of a button for anyone interested in expanding his or her horizon.

      This reminds me of The New London Group's Multiliteracies manifesto in which they argue that changing technology and visible diverse communities requires a new approach to literacy education. We have to train students to be adapters to diverse social and learning contexts. Seems that MOOCS is one way to make this possible.

    1. Such an analysis would presumably result in pedagogical techniquesbased on an understanding of the physiological and environmental underpinningsof human behavior (Glaser, 1978)

      Reminds me of Maslow

  5. Jul 2015
    1. In this these six previous tools work together to develop a synthesis greater than the sum of its parts.

      Extend: Synthesis is referred to as being "greater than the sum of its part", which reminds me of the TPACK framework and the sweet spot (the point where all three parts are synthesized). All the other tools described (perceiving, patterning, abstracting, embodied thinking, modeling, and deep play can be directly linked to one or more parts of the TPACK framework and can be used as teaching strategies to help educators better understand how to use TPACK in their own areas.

    2. When innovative people play with things, or concepts, or processes, they may open doors to new ways of thinking via unexpected breakthroughs.

      Connection: This reminds me of the Maker Movement which allows the creation of new concepts and ideas by "thinking out of the box".

    1. they are shocked by the rages of logic and the natural world in a way that those of us who were born and bred to understand cause and effect can never be.

      Reminds me of the person in an affluent neighborhood who tells the newsperson reporting on a murder or robbery, "This doesn't happen here...it's a good neighborhood!" I'm always appalled at the implication - that violent crime is somehow okay in other, "bad" neighborhoods. I think, though, one of the underlying messages of Coates's piece is that this comment is white privilege distilled: the belief that tragedy and suffering is intended for other people. I think, perhaps - while I am right to deplore and call attention to the harmful implications of the person on the news - I need to remember the advice of Matthew 7:3, that is, not to ignore the log in my own eye while focusing on the speck in another's.

    2. Would it not be better, then, if our bodies were civilized, improved, and put to some legitimate Christian use?

      Reminds me of the destruction of the indigenous people of the Americas. Pope Francis recently apologize for the church's crimes but also promotes the canonization of Junipero Serra, who was the architect of the enslavement of indigenous people in California.

    3. My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that is exactly what was happening all around us.

      This reminds me of the incident during the Baltimore Uprising in April where Toya Graham beats her son. Stacey Patton wrote about this:

      The kind of violent discipline Graham unleashed on her son did not originate with her, or with my adoptive mother who publicly beat me when I was a child, or with the legions of black parents who equate pain with protection and love. The beatings originated with white supremacy, a history of cultural and physical violence that devalues black life at every turn. From slavery through Jim Crow, from the school-to-prison pipeline, the innocence and protection of black children has always been a dream deferred. http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/29/why-is-america-celebrating-the-beating-of-a-black-child/

    1. As inherent in several trends in this report, including the shift to students as creators, learners are being given more autonomy over how they approach projects and subject matter.

      This reminds me of the UDL class I had taken as part of the special education program at MSU. It focused on giving students choice in learning and giving them multiple ways to access the information.

  6. Jun 2015
    1. Three of the best people I’ve ever worked with…

      Thanks again for this Doug and for giving me the excuse to use hypothes.is in anger for the first time.

      I've never been bitten by the blogging bug but can imagine myself sprinkling notes/snipperts/snarks all over the web.

      Reminds me of that Steven Wright gag:

      "I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it..."

    1. The basic need is to be charmed by something with other people and take part in something jointly, yet feeling like an independent individual. Research is not the right way to do

      The basic human need of belonging appears to be met without commitment? Reminds me of Sherri Turkle:

      We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. We turn to technology to help us feel connected in ways we can comfortably control.

      If this is the intent of coming together online then research and theory has little place in such frames of reference. What matters is that the group validates me and tells me I belong to something special and durable?

    1. To look at the way we look at disability, this essay proposes a taxonomy of four primary visual rhetorics of disability: the wondrous, the sentimental, the exotic, and the realistic

      Reminds me of the medieval texts like "wonders of the east" where "otherness" is mystified and monstrous.

    1. giant synaesthetic experience mobilizing sight, sounds, smells and touch in order to gain a full and complete appreciation of the spectacle

      Reminds me of an article by J.G. Harris The Smell of Macbeth where he writes about use of stage direction and specific odors that complemented different scenes--sulfury smells of burnt rosin powder to suggest hell. Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2007, pp. 465-486 (Article)

    1. warns us against equating changes in scientific understanding of a sense such as smell, what is called “osmology,” with experiential transformations. Attending to the history of smell, he tells us, is also valuable in undermining simple binary oppositions between boundaried individuals and their englobing environ- ment, the basis of Cartesian subject/object dualisms. Instead, it helps situate us in a more fluid, immersive context, where such stark oppositions are understood as themselves contingent rather than necessary

      This reminds me of our Monday discussion of Spinoza re: how expanded "scientific understanding" changes (or doesn't change) sensory experiences.

    1. here is then a way in which things are affected by their like and a way in which they are affected by their unlike, as we said. 5 3

      This might be something to think through further. Reminds me a bit of Spinoza, but I can't quite articulate it.

  7. May 2015
    1. the portfolio can be a structure to help an individual express meaning. But its quality depends up what the individual does with it.

      This would suggest that a portfolio is a means of self-expression. Students should be encouraged to show who they truly are through a portfolio.

      So I was just looking at a folder of work that a seventh grader wants to use in her portfolio. She came to me asking me to "approve" of the work. "Is this good enough for my portfolio in Independent Reading?"

      It wasn't easy to get her to understand that I wasn't going to give approval or disapproval, and instead I asked her in as many was as I could think of to show me how the work show us something important about her ability to "have conversations online" (as our competency states) about her reading. Or more generally, I said, "Okay, so here are three responses to short stories that you have first drafts of. You do need to finish them, and as you do, think about what you want these to show about your unique, thoughtful ways of responding to literature."

      We have work to do. But Mary Diez's metaphor here reminds me of how important it is to return the power of the portfolio to the student. It's not my approval of the work that matters, it's the student's ability to recognize and articulate her own sense of why this work matters, how it shows something important about herself.

    1. have overborne their continents

      I love the juxtapositions of words here. I love the notion that a river could forcefully move a continent. And that this "movement" could have both emotional and physical registers. Reminds me of the Carole King lyrics:

      I feel the earth move under my feet<br> I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down<br> I feel my heart start to trembling<br> Whenever you're around

    1. Hirschorn and the rest of the show’s staff are gathered in the artificial twilight of a VH1 editing room,

      Reminds me of the opening of William Gibson's Neuromancer:

      The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

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  8. Apr 2015
    1. CP

      in the CI context, the abbreviation CP reminds me strongly of a Capture Probability (or Capture Percentage) of a single CI (see Cumming & Maillardet, 2006). Perhaps better not to abbreviate?

  9. Mar 2015
    1. While many have written on this topic (and I wrote a book on it), few have shown the implications of overpersonalization as well as Gilad Lotan did in this recent analysis of media consumption in Israel and Palestine, where he describes the view participants in the current Gaza war have of the conflict as “personalized propaganda.”

      Not original, but it bears repeating. It reminds me of Walter Lippmann's argument of yore that the 20thC world has gotten too complex and interconnected for a given citizen to comprehend it. So he wants there to be a technocratic elite that digests the world for the rest of us. Zuckerman points out how the 21stC is doubling down on the fragmentation, instead, creating strange individualized filters to create a (false) sense of order that is idiosyncratic to each consumer of media.

    1. The most effective way people can change a story is to view it through any of three new lenses, which are all alternatives to seeing the world from the victim perspective. With the reverse lens, for example, people ask themselves, “What would the other person in this conflict say and in what ways might that be true?” With the long lens they ask, “How will I most likely view this situation in six months?” With the wide lens they ask themselves, “Regardless of the outcome of this issue, how can I grow and learn from it?” Each of these lenses can help people intentionally cultivate more positive emotions.

      beautiful way to look at things. reminds me of the 10-10-10 strategy.

  10. Feb 2015
    1. big, instantaneous shift in the institutional structure would be difficult and risky, at least in the near term

      Reminds me of how controversial the shift to the Common Core is, and that doesn't come close to the kinds of structural change involved in switching to a mixed model.

  11. Jan 2015
    1. I can still remember to this day, some twenty years later, that feeling of helpless suspension on the monkey bars. It’s the same feeling I get whenever I take on a new endeavor that I am unsure of.

      I think we all get this feeling from time to time, and yet we learn more about ourselves and the world by pushing up against limits and fears. I think. I may have blanked on that. Your story reminds me a similar story, but mine involved a waterfall in upper Maine, where I finally climbed to the top and froze ... and remained frozen in place (I couldn't even find the mindset to climb down the way I climbed up). Finally, after close to 30 minutes (with friends yelling at me), I jumped. Once. I jumped once. But I jumped.

      a comment from this blog

  12. Dec 2014
    1. Steven Pinker thinks about writing. As a linguist, he thinks about writing.

      Interesting use of emphasis by the writer here, writing about someone writing about writing. This simple observation reminds me of the complexity of translating our written text, as we hear it in our heads, to someone else reading, outside of the context of what we write. I wonder if Pinker ever thinks about this ... probably

  13. May 2014
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    1. The modern increased facilities of transportation have brought distant markets within reach of the professional hunter, and thereby given a new impulse to his destructive propensities. Not only do all Great Britain and Ireland contribute to the supply of game for the British capital, but the canvas-back duck of the Potomac, and even the prairie hen from the basin of the Mississippi, may be found at the stalls of the London poulterer.

      Nice! Collapsing the notion of the local, tying species to the tastes of distant consumers. Ex. Parisian fashion trends and the beaver pelt cap. Reminds me of William Cronon's Chicago hinterlands in Nature's Metropolis (1991).

  15. Nov 2013
    1. Thus a f

      This tension reminds me of Friedman's consideration of "will." Part of the sign of the credible threat was the clear willingness to use it when pressed, which led to the "rationally irrational" stances that occurred within deterrence exchanges. So the tension between sign and peaceful intentions is further complicated by the tension between credibility and will.

    1. and then suspect that man is sustained in the indifference of his ignorance by that which is pitiless, greedy, insatiable, and murderous-as if hanging in dreams on the back of a tiger.

      Small, fragile, and tenuously suspended and preserved, encased in ignorance, by the same substance, ego, source of good and ill. It reminds me of the fable of a woman hanging from a cliff by a thin reed, tigers above and tigers below, and spying a ripe strawberry plucks and savors its sweetness, as a parable for life.

  16. Oct 2013
    1. not natural ability, but care, that was wanting

      Here he differs from our earlier readings. Suggests genius is not a part of us but a product. It reminds me of Gladwell's book Outliers.

    1. In 2006, out of avoiding work he should have been doing for his philosophy degree, Foddy began teaching himself how to program and design, which led to his first game, Too Many Ninjas.

      BFoddy is human too! Reminds me a lot of my undergrad years.

    1. The metrical form destroys the hearer's trust by its artificial appearance, and at the same time it diverts his attention

      Interesting. This reminds me of a previous comment I had made on Gorgias' style in Econium of Helen. I made mention that his word choice had aroused suspicion. I wonder also if it was 'metrical', lending to its artificial appearance.

    1. For all advice to do things or not to do them is concerned with happiness and with the things that make for or against it; whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.

      This reminds me of Socrates in Plato's "Gorgias." Except that he advised people to only partake in things that make them happy because they are good or beneficial and not to partake in things good/beneficial because they make the person happy (or something along those lines).

  17. Sep 2013
    1. Moreover, (2) before some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct. Here, then, we must use, as our modes of persuasion and argument, notions possessed by everybody, as we observed in the Topics when dealing with the way to handle a popular audience.

      Reminds of me Isocrates in a strange way. He spoke against the Sophists in that they didn't have a complete knowledge of things teachable. Yet even with a complete knowledge there still isn't a way to reach everyone in your audience. Persuasion without disclosure of complete knowledge seems to win out.

    1. that while those who are thought to be adept in court procedure are tolerated only for the day when they are engaged in the trial, the devotees of philosophy are honored and held in high esteem in every society and at all times; that, furthermore, while the former come to be despised and decried as soon as they are seen two or three times in court, the latter are admired more and more as they become better and more widely known; and, finally, that while clever pleaders are sadly unequal to the higher eloquence, the exponents of the latter could, if they so desired, easily master also the oratory of the court

      This reminds me of "MC versus rapper". "An MC is a representative of Hip-Hop culture. A Rapper is a representative of corporate interests. An MC can be a rapper, but a rapper will never be an MC." -KRS ONE

    2. Most men see in such studies nothing but empty talk and hair-splitting; for none of these disciplines has any useful application either to private or to public affairs; nay, they are not even remembered for any length of time after they are learned because they do not attend us through life nor do they lend aid in what we do, but are wholly divorced from our necessities.

      This reminds me of how underpaid and under-appreciated teachers are. I realize they are completely different situations (and I believe teaching is one of the most important professions!), but the language is similar to the debate about teachers. Everyone agrees they are important, but it's difficult to get good teachers because of the terrible pay. The difference here of course is that many people decry the Sophists as not important. But what the people say about Sophists feels like how teachers are actually treated in our educational system.

    1. But these professors have gone so far in their lack of scruple that they attempt to persuade our young men that if they will only study under them they will know what to do in life and through this knowledge will become happy and prosperous.

      Reminds me of the American Dream....