Good news. Solve the practical stuff. First good, encouraging sign from the UK on Brexit.
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There’s a lot to be said for this possible solution to grades-vs-actual-learning:
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Mastery is another viable approach that really should have been adopted by universities long ago. Who cares how long it takes you to master some discipline if you fucking master it!?!
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I read an article along those lines recently in the history magazine I get… basically focusing on mastery of specific skills (primarily for history undergrads) as the metric instead of grades. Makes sense to me…
And for me, I care much less if the students can recite names and dates and care far more about them being able to understand what causes change over time and to think historically (long term, connected, contingently, etc).
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Not sure where that’s coming from, but in a lot of fields, if someone comes back to get a PhD they started 30 years earlier, the field has changed so much that they basically need to start over and reorient themselves, if they can.
But yes, I agree that they certainly should be allowed to try, and to finish under the new paradigms, if they can.
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Sorry. In the context of Mastery education, yes, mastery needs to be accomplished during the class, but you essentially get as many shots at an assignment as you need to reach A level work, and you can turn assignments in up to the last day of class.
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or maybe some fluorine
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As a human who sneaks in the occasional power nap, I feel this is good news. Unfortunately I tend to sleep in bigger chunks than this article says is “the sweet spot” for problem-solving. Hmmm.
Am not the biggest fan of Edison himself but his work was important and in his way, he was a Happy Mutant.
Oh ffs Onebox…
Edison was right: Waking up right after drifting off to sleep can boost creativity
The state between wakefulness and sleep is a sweet spot for problem-solving
When Thomas Edison hit a wall with his inventions, he would nap in an armchair while holding a steel ball. As he started to fall asleep and his muscles relaxed, the ball would strike the floor, waking him with insights into his problems. Or so the story goes.
Now, more than 100 years later, scientists have repeated the trick in a lab, revealing that the famous inventor was on to something. People following his recipe tripled their chances of solving a math problem. The trick was to wake up in the transition between sleep and wakefulness, just before deep sleep…
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I mean, was he? Edison ran a research lab in Menlo Park where researchers worked very hard under his direction. I’ve never been entirely clear exactly how much he contributed to the inventions beyond that, which I guess might be some kind of ‘creative problem-solving’ but not what you normally think of from inventors.
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I think this can be a good thing, if you filter out the kids asking for Nintendo Switches, American Girl dolls, or a “new” whatever that is quite expensive and clearly they must have broken already so they want another.
It’s a program by the USPS to make available to the public children’s and family’s gift requests to Santa:
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Anyone who can’t see the good stuff my fellow Georgians are trying to do here are blind…
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If he actually wins, then that will be “Fuck Today,” but having him off TV is definitely “Good (Encouraging) Stuff.”
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Edison was not a 100% admirable Happy Mutant…
I don’t want to be like Edison. Didn’t he compulsively hijack the ideas of others? Well, in his defence, he was probably very tired.
… but I still think he managed to bring some tech to the world, maybe in a way that is less-connected, poorly-funded, less-rapacious rivals did not or could not. I have mixed feelings about the guy.
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