My frequency of posting has dropped somewhat, ditto Youtubes, but then for years I didn't do any Youtubes. After a spike in productivity, lasting over a year in that genre, I'm not insisting a uniform distribution here on out.
Carol turns 91 tomorrow and is here in Portland riding out the Covid Storm. Whatever that means. You had to be there, right?
By "test piloting" in the title I mean with respect to various curriculum segments, which I try out. My privilege has been continued access to a range of age levels, from say middle school, occasionally younger, up to adult.
The curriculum segments I test are disproportionately weighted towards communicating a brand of American Transcendentalism I favor, a kind of culturally literate philosophy that takes in fascination with phi and pi, and a lot more besides.
I'm speaking of the "Bucky stuff" of course, which could be used as a broad umbrella, getting out there to circus tent dimensions. In other words, I'm not trying to limit myself unnecessarily. I'm still getting my feet wet in a lot of swimming holes where others have swimmed (swum?) for years.
More recently, I've been revisiting the ubiquitous-on-Twitter (and elsewhere) World of Data Science. What Bayesian World have we accessed, wherein all this kind of stuff is the case? What is the likelihood of the world I inhabit. Be that as it may, it appears that I do, but perhaps my problem is overly fixed beliefs? Am I insensitive to continuing revelations? These are the questions a data science is always posing, to both self and others.
What is the likelihood that the Concentric Hierarchy as I call it, should be dismissed as irrelevant, as noise? I'm not saying that happened. On the contrary, the great thinking of great thinkers has continued to make an impression in our shared civilizational template. I'm in pass the torch mode, working to save (salvage) what I'm able to save.
Given that I have a kind of platform, and take that seriously, I continue doing homework a lot, piecing it together. I'm always looking to other faculty and students for feedback in this cybernetic, global university I sometimes nickname the Global U. Before that, I envisioned myself working for the Global Data Corporation. I wanted some kind of tribal jurisdiction for it.
My Heuristics for Teachers on Wikieducator shows how I'd partitioned a generalist curriculum using the compass directions of future versus past, logistics versus risk assessment, given each of them quirky names: Martian, Neolithic, Supermarket and Casino respectively, with the suffix Math for each one. Casino Math was the math of probability, confidence, assurity and so on, per this particular partitioning of course. I embedded it in the Silicon Forest somewhere, with geocaching (treasure maps).
All of which is to say, I've made something of a career out of testing curricula, and I'm fine sharing that with my latest testees, as we know this is the common process, whereby we all update one another.
Carol turns 91 tomorrow and is here in Portland riding out the Covid Storm. Whatever that means. You had to be there, right?
By "test piloting" in the title I mean with respect to various curriculum segments, which I try out. My privilege has been continued access to a range of age levels, from say middle school, occasionally younger, up to adult.
The curriculum segments I test are disproportionately weighted towards communicating a brand of American Transcendentalism I favor, a kind of culturally literate philosophy that takes in fascination with phi and pi, and a lot more besides.
I'm speaking of the "Bucky stuff" of course, which could be used as a broad umbrella, getting out there to circus tent dimensions. In other words, I'm not trying to limit myself unnecessarily. I'm still getting my feet wet in a lot of swimming holes where others have swimmed (swum?) for years.
More recently, I've been revisiting the ubiquitous-on-Twitter (and elsewhere) World of Data Science. What Bayesian World have we accessed, wherein all this kind of stuff is the case? What is the likelihood of the world I inhabit. Be that as it may, it appears that I do, but perhaps my problem is overly fixed beliefs? Am I insensitive to continuing revelations? These are the questions a data science is always posing, to both self and others.
What is the likelihood that the Concentric Hierarchy as I call it, should be dismissed as irrelevant, as noise? I'm not saying that happened. On the contrary, the great thinking of great thinkers has continued to make an impression in our shared civilizational template. I'm in pass the torch mode, working to save (salvage) what I'm able to save.
Given that I have a kind of platform, and take that seriously, I continue doing homework a lot, piecing it together. I'm always looking to other faculty and students for feedback in this cybernetic, global university I sometimes nickname the Global U. Before that, I envisioned myself working for the Global Data Corporation. I wanted some kind of tribal jurisdiction for it.
My Heuristics for Teachers on Wikieducator shows how I'd partitioned a generalist curriculum using the compass directions of future versus past, logistics versus risk assessment, given each of them quirky names: Martian, Neolithic, Supermarket and Casino respectively, with the suffix Math for each one. Casino Math was the math of probability, confidence, assurity and so on, per this particular partitioning of course. I embedded it in the Silicon Forest somewhere, with geocaching (treasure maps).
All of which is to say, I've made something of a career out of testing curricula, and I'm fine sharing that with my latest testees, as we know this is the common process, whereby we all update one another.
