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May 14th to May 18th

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

-Salvador Dali

-Chinese Proverb

Michael Wesch, cultural anthropologist fron Kansas State University, worries that we're becoming an "eyes down" society of the smart phone-focused and that our technology might be sapping our capacity for empathy.

"We stand at a crossroads right now. One of the roads doesn't go to a very happy place. We're starting to realize that, while all of this technology seems to promise new possibility for freedom, we're also seeing new forms of control emerge. We see new possibility for community, new types of connections. And we also see people using these technologies to isolate themselves more and more. These tools can help to create a richer, more engaged democracy. But they can also become the ultimate tools of distraction."

"We can no longer blame the media," he added. "This world is no more or less than what we make of it. And we as educators have a double responsibility at this moment to, not only make of this what we want it to be, but to create students who can make something better of all this."

-Higher Education and the New Media Reality

By John K. Waters 

"We have heard it over and over again: Today's students have grown up with ubiquitous technology in their lives, including cell phones, social media, and the internet, and as a result they are far more comfortable and proficient with technology than older generations could ever hope to be. Some research, however, has concluded that, while the Net Generation may indeed be adept at cutting and pasting, texting, Googling, and Facebooking, their range of skills does not necessarily extend to more complex technological tasks, such as creating and publishing digital stories or websites. What's more, critics have cautioned educators about the possible dangers of assuming that students are natural-born technology users, including failing to instruct them in the digital age skills they will need to participate in a global, collaborative economy."

Andra Brichacek
Associate Editor
                     Learning & Leading with Technology Magazine (L&L)
                     International Society for Technology in Education 

The 10-year rule for exceptional performance

Exceptional performance doesn't happen without exceptional effort, and even allegedly inherited abilities - like IQ and other "smartness" measures - improve markedly and continuously when people work hard, have good coaching, and believe they will keep getting better. The nature versus nurture debate persists in academia and society. But natural gifts are useless without lots of practice. People, teams, and organizations that are novices at something almost always do it badly at first; brilliant or at least competent performance is achieved through raw persistence, coupled with the belief that improvement will happen. What people are able to do as beginners is far less important than whether they try hard and keep learning every day.

Research in dozens of domains reveals a similar story - exceptional performance doesn't happen without approximately 10 years of nearly daily, deliberate practice, for about four hours a day, by people who somehow (e.g. coaching, skilled peers or competitors, or books) have access to the best techniques. This 10-year rule holds in every domain - chess, medicine, auditing, programming, bridge, physics, juggling, dance, and music. And once achieved, exceptional performance can't be maintained without relentless effort.

-Hard Facts by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton

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"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." ~Eric Hoffer 

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." ~Confucius

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." ~Albert Camus 

"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." ~Robert Frostth

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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved."-Charles Darwin

 Darwin's magnum opus introduced the world to a systematic, scientific argument that explained the diversity of life. His prophetic words in the closing paragraph of The Origin of Species are symbolized by the butterfly on the dandelion.

The butterfly emerges from an egg in the larval form of a feeding machine (some say like a teenager), the caterpillar. Expertly building a cocoon, it differentiates and emerges yet again as a butterfly. A form most beautiful and wonderful. This process of metamorphosis describes the transition from one form into another.

Education can produce a similar kind of metamorphosis. From so simple a beginning a nebulous student can develop into a scholar and metaphorically soar to new heights. Becoming an "academic butterfly" takes work and dedication. A butterfly is the end product of an evolutionary process that has been experimenting with genotypes that have produced remarkable phenotypes for millions of years. The development of a student is a relatively rapid process, in comparison, that requires a conscious metamorphosis.

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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts..."~Sherlock Holmes

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The primary role of the student is to learn. Under the best of circumstances, this challenging task requires motivation, planning, and the ability to analyze and apply the information being taught.

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Personal equilibrium and development in our culture requires the ability to witness and digest jarring contradictions.

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The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it ~Chinese Proverb

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"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a  hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the  Pooh

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Courses Description 10 CCP Biology Babylon Classroom Protocols Listening Skills Listening Skills 2 Course Calendar 10 Assignments 10 Biology Resources 10 Biology Objectives Biology Tutorials Raven & Johnson Biology Mars Resources SQ4R Study Method   Online Biology Book BioCoach The Lab Bench Glossary of Biological Terms Clearinghouse for Biological Data "Hot" Biology Websites Biolink HSA Exams Goal 3-Concepts of Biology Assessment Limits The 10 Biology course is the Science Department's introductory offering for the CCP student. It is also a prep course for the Maryland High School Assessment Test.    BioZone     Human Anatomy and Physiology Course Calendar A & P Assignments Biology Tutorials Raven & Johnson Biology A & P Objectives A & P Resources SQ4R Study Method Online Biology Book BioCoach The Lab Bench Glossary of Biological Terms Clearinghouse for Biological Data "Hot" Biology Websites Biolink  A course open to 10th, 11th, and 12th graders interested in the health sciences. It is the equivalent of a first semester college Human Anatomy and Physiology course.    BioZone Science and Ethics Course Calendar S and E Assignments S and E Resources SQ4R Study Method Clearinghouse for Biological Data "Hot" Biology Websites Biolink  Straddling the Sciences and the Humanities this is the "course for all seasons." A program that uses a reading contract and seminar to examine the world as science portrays it. There is something here for everyone regardless of your interest.   AP Biology Babylon Science at NASA Space.com AP Assignments-Chapters 1- 33 AP Assignments-Chapters 34- 55 Course Calendar Rediscovering Biology Campbell Gateway AP Objectives Biology Tutorials Raven & Johnson Biology AP Resources Mars Resources SQ4R Study Method Online Biology Book BioCoach The Lab Bench Glossary of Biological Terms Clearinghouse for Biological Data "Hot" Biology Websites Biolink Using the text 6th Ed. Campbell Biology the course is the equivalent of a College Biology 101 and 102. A study of Mars is included in the coursework to give the students a chance to examine terrestrial biology in light of possible extraterrestrial biology.   BioZone The Nature of Things 10 Honors Biology Babylon Rediscovering Biology SQ4R Study Method Course Calendar 10 Honors Assignments 10 Honors Course Objectives 10 Biology Resources Biology Tutorials Mars Resources Online Biology Book   BioCoach The Lab Bench Glossary of Biological Terms Clearinghouse for Biological Data "Hot" Biology Websites Biolink HSA Preparation The 10 Honors Biology course is the Science Department's introductory offering for the college-bound student. It is also a prep course for the Maryland High School Assessment Test.     BioZone

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