[tips] Next Year's Textbook?
The NY Times has an article on new devices are coming on market next year which may have the capabilities necessary for traditional textbook (i.e., being able to show text and color figures/animation in seperate screens). See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/business/06novel.html?_r=1themc=th One device is being tested by a professor in the law school of the Catholic University of America and replaces 13 textbooks. I wonder which psychology text will make the transition first. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] When Metaphors Fail
The NY Times has an opinion piece by a high school student who is doing the college tour thing and comments on the heavy handed usage of the colleges he has visited to compare themselves to things in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter's Hogwarts. Now, from an adult perspective, this may seem like a brilliant PR move since it can be assumed that a large number of potential students will be familiar with the world of Harry Potter and they would enjoy going to college that is in some way similar to Hogwarts. Of course, the adults have it wrong. Read Lauren Edelson's article to see why: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06edelson.html -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] A TIP is needed
I was looking through the archives but could not find a post. Someone (sorry!) had submitted a link for the newest pictures of neurons? Anyone recall teh link? Thanks, Jim Jim Matiya Florida Gulf Coast University jmat...@fgcu.edu Contributor, for Karen Huffman's Psychology in Action, Video Guest Lecturettes John Wiley and Sons. Using David Myers' texts for AP Psychology? Go to http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/cppsych/ High School Psychology and Advanced Psychology Graphic Organizers, Pacing Guides, and Daily Lesson Plans archived at www.Teaching-Point.net Subject: RE: [tips] H.M. online Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:36:56 -0800 From: sfra...@highline.edu To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu You can get a little more information about what they're doing and why here: http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hmblog/?cat=17 Note particularly in the Not-So-White-Matter post the use of gelatin (although it doesn't penetrate the tissue). Sue -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, CoordinatorDes Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 sfra...@highline.edu Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director Project Syllabus APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology APA's p...@cc Committee --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] change in email address
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Re: [tips] When Metaphors Fail
This might be a Jayson Blair type description of college search that the NY Times fell for. I know of no Harry Potter admiission efforts, and I doubt that any college touring high school student would encounter multiple allusions. Bunk. Bill Scott Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu 12/06/09 9:57 AM The NY Times has an opinion piece by a high school student who is doing the college tour thing and comments on the heavy handed usage of the colleges he has visited to compare themselves to things in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter's Hogwarts. Now, from an adult perspective, this may seem like a brilliant PR move since it can be assumed that a large number of potential students will be familiar with the world of Harry Potter and they would enjoy going to college that is in some way similar to Hogwarts. Of course, the adults have it wrong. Read Lauren Edelson's article to see why: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06edelson.html -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] When Metaphors Fail
Bil Scott doubted that any college-touring high school student would encounter multiple allusions to Harry Potter. I am much more credulous for the following reasons: You can confirm the Middlebury allusion easily by searching their website for Quidditch. What is really sad is that there is an Intercollegiate Quidditch Association: http://www.collegequidditch.com/ Doing the Harvard search: hogwarts site:harvard.edu brings up 98 hits including the fact that JK Rowling spoke at their commencement. Doesn't seem like a stretch that Hogwarts might come up in an Admissions pitch. In a search to find evidence of a liberal arts college changing building names inspired by Harry Potter, I found that Oxford University, of all places, had done just such a thing: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6645309/Oxford-University-changes-common-room-name-to-Harry-Potters-Gryffindor.html It is not difficult to believe any other college following Oxford's lead. I can easily imagine an Admissions counselor mentioning that a famous person such as Emma Watson was considering attending. The Cornell reference in the Quarterly magazine is confirmed here: http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Essentials.html and the college website that listed Cornell as being similar to Hogwarts at Applywise.com. Unlike what the author said, it wasn't only because of its location that it was named one of the top 5 most similar to Hogwarts. In addition to its location, it was also due to physical appearance, residential community, academic rigor, extracurricular opportunities and unique traditions. Also listed was the architecture and long winters. My conclusion is that I have no reason to douhbt this story. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] When Metaphors Fail
Well, we have an older section of our library--not that any building on our campus is nearly as old as any on the east coast or in England--but they do tell the students that this older section that is all wood and laden with shelves of books to the high ceilings is called the Harry Potter room. I didn't even know this until about 2 years ago when students told me that's what they were told on campus tours. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu Original message Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:37:14 -0500 From: William Scott wsc...@wooster.edu Subject: Re: [tips] When Metaphors Fail To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu This might be a Jayson Blair type description of college search that the NY Times fell for. I know of no Harry Potter admiission efforts, and I doubt that any college touring high school student would encounter multiple allusions. Bunk. Bill Scott Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu 12/06/09 9:57 AM The NY Times has an opinion piece by a high school student who is doing the college tour thing and comments on the heavy handed usage of the colleges he has visited to compare themselves to things in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter's Hogwarts. Now, from an adult perspective, this may seem like a brilliant PR move since it can be assumed that a large number of potential students will be familiar with the world of Harry Potter and they would enjoy going to college that is in some way similar to Hogwarts. Of course, the adults have it wrong. Read Lauren Edelson's article to see why: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06edelson.html -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] Harlem Children's Zone project
The American TV news programme 60 Minutes had an interesting segment tonight on the Harlem's Children's Zone (see video at http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml ) It concerns an attempt to close the racial achievement gap between Black and White by a massive application of free social, medical, and educational services to 10,000 children living in one area of Harlem. The results are said to be stunning. But there is reason for caution. Not all well-intentioned programmes have the effects anticipated for them. The cardinal example is the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study of the 1930's which had similar aims. Because of the care with which that early study had been constructed, including a randomized control group, it was possible to go back many years later to assess its outcomes. Surprisingly and disturbingly, they were negative: the only demonstrated effects of the programme were detrimental to its participants (see, for example http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/mccord11 07.htm or http://tinyurl.com/ycavz4m ). So one can ask how well the evaluation of the new Children's Zone project was carried out and how well-supported its claim of stunning success is. One detail intrigued me. For some of their cohorts, more parents wanted their children to enrol than the project could handle, so admission was by lottery. This converts this project into a randomized experiment, comparing lottery winners (project participants) with lottery losers (wait-list participants). With a bit of searching I found a document reporting outcomes dated April 2009 but otherwise unidentified and probably therefore unpublished. It's: Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Bold Social Experiment in Harlem Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr. Harvard University http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/files/hcz%204.1 5.2009.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/qh8npt Unfortunately, the document is a massive tome and not readily accessible to a casual read. But one critical set of figures, which appears to support the claim of stunning success, puzzles me. The figures are on p. 32 and 33 (Figures 3A and 3B). They show math and ELA (presumably English Language Arts) test results as a function of grade and lottery status. They appear to show that the achievement gap between White and Black students has been erased for math, although not for ELA. But a footnote warns that the lottery winners are not what they seem. They are defined as students who receive a winning lottery number or who are in the top ten of the waitlist. The text on p. 14 provides further information: Lottery winners are comprised of students who either won the lottery, were in the top ten of individuals on the wait list, or who had a sibling that is already enrolled in the Promise Academy. Lottery losers are individuals who lost the lottery and were eleven or below on the waiting list. I don't understand what they mean by top ten of individuals on the wait list, and I hope it's not a ranking by academic qualification to enter the programme. More likely, these are the students who just happen to be first on the list to be called if a vacancy opens up. That would mean that the lottery winner group consists of lottery winners (and siblings already in the programme?), together with an (unspecified?) number of students who either never entered the programme, or who entered it for a shorter period of time. If so, the results would likely be stronger if these cases were not included, because the experimental group would be diluted by cases which did not receive the full treatment. Why would they conduct their analysis in this way? Why not restrict the lottery winners group to those who just won the lottery, full stop? Can anyone help me out here? Stephen - Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada --- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE:[tips] When Metaphors Fail
On 6 December 2009 Rick Froman wrote: In a search to find evidence of a liberal arts college changing building names inspired by Harry Potter, I found that Oxford University, of all places, had done just such a thing: http://tinyurl.com/yg25x46 Well, not quite. Students at one of the Oxford Colleges have voted to rename their Junior Common Room Gryffindor in honour of the Harry Potter house. Not exactly a University decision, more like student hi-jinks. After all, how many students were going to be so stuffy as to oppose such a motion? Anyway, it won't happen: However, it is unlikely that the 550-year-old college will make the change as the fellows must approve it. A student also said they did not expect to get permission to use the name. Laurence Mills, outgoing president of the JCR, said: 'They did technically vote for the name, but legally I don't think we can do it as I believe the name's owned by Warner Brothers. The change would also have to be ratified by the fellows of Magdalen College and I can't imagine them ever agreeing to it.' Matthew Shribman, who voted for the change, said: 'It is a joke, but at the same time, the Magdalen College JCR is currently called Gryffindor, since the motion ran and passed fully legitimately'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8378458.st Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org - -- From: Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu Subject:RE: When Metaphors Fail Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:46:28 -0600 Bil Scott doubted that any college-touring high school student would encounter multiple allusions to Harry Potter. I am much more credulous for the following reasons: You can confirm the Middlebury allusion easily by searching their website for Quidditch. What is really sad is that there is an Intercollegiate Quidditch Association: http://www.collegequidditch.com/ Doing the Harvard search: hogwarts site:harvard.edu brings up 98 hits including the fact that JK Rowling spoke at their commencement. Doesn't seem like a stretch that Hogwarts might come up in an Admissions pitch. In a search to find evidence of a liberal arts college changing building names inspired by Harry Potter, I found that Oxford University, of all places, had done just such a thing: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6645309/Oxford-University-changes-common-room-name-to-Harry-Potters-Gryffindor.html It is not difficult to believe any other college following Oxford's lead. I can easily imagine an Admissions counselor mentioning that a famous person such as Emma Watson was considering attending. The Cornell reference in the Quarterly magazine is confirmed here: http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Essentials.html and the college website that listed Cornell as being similar to Hogwarts at Applywise.com. Unlike what the author said, it wasn't only because of its location that it was named one of the top 5 most similar to Hogwarts. In addition to its location, it was also due to physical appearance, residential community, academic rigor, extracurricular opportunities and unique traditions. Also listed was the architecture and long winters. My conclusion is that I have no reason to douhbt this story. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu Don't let your email address define you - Define yourself at http://www.tunome.com today! --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
