Notices by zak storer 🎡 (zacts@mastodon.social), page 7

@lrhodes So, I'm just rambling my thinking a bit. Please feel free to correct me. I'm really just getting into this. I was just thinking of this while walking after class today. I really love the interaction between Frege and Russell, for example. There was more interplay with publications it seemed. Now it's so alienated from this human element I feel. (Sorry, this is only somewhat related to the original article).

@lrhodes Note: I really honestly don't fully know if this is the case. I'm a sketched out guy who is just getting into the community college. I'm just now learning about all of this stuff, but this was my initial impression. Many publications merely end up in database searches, alienated from the culture that supposedly cultivated that thought. It kind of reminds me of concept albums. We used to have albums with which the songs were all related somehow, but now the songs are often alienated?

@lrhodes I don't really know what to think of modern academic journals in general. Correct me if I'm wrong, please, but it seems to me that we've lost quite a human element to what publishing should be all about. I'm thinking of how Marx, Engels, and others, like Gottlob Frege and Russell, might have published. Publishing used to be for people, I mean real people, to read. If you were truly interested in a field of study, you might read it with coffee. Anyway, correct me if I'm off here.

@fribbledom You do know that you never step into the same river twice. 😄

Today is definitely a new day.

I'm ready for a new start tomorrow.

@lnxw48a1 Or maybe something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Air-Balloon-Smithsonian-Adventures/dp/B00000IS6Z

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But, perhaps this is a terrible idea. There is a lot to explore I guess... 😄

Ugh... I'm rambling a bit right now. I just ate lunch and it's digesting.

Also, degree programs should apply the knowledge to the local community in some way as part of the program requirements.

I also have been tinkering with the idea of a curriculum that eventually evolves with the student, like a portfolio based approach, with mentors to guide them through the way. The mentors guide, but they don't force. There is still much rigour and all of that, but it's for a unique goal of the individual student, which then hopefully combines with other students and the community.

I also have been tinkering with the idea of a curriculum that eventually evolves with the student, like a portfolio based approach, with mentors to guide them through the way. The mentors guide, but they don't force. There is still much rigour and all of that, but it's for a unique goal for the individual student, which then hopefully combines with other students and the community.

I'm not against drills or rigour. I think my main point last night was that mathematics could be approached from a very different angle.

Also, what is the obligation of the teacher to make the content interesting to the students? How should this be done? Is it the curriculum that is the issue, or is it the individual classroom and professor, or both? Stuff to ponder...

To me, I love my Greek textbook. Should Greek be taught like music? I don't know, perhaps. But I also do well with the paradigm + lexicon approach, and I have gained much value from it. Perhaps this is an analogy to compare with the discussion last night. I do, however, combine much tinkering and natural language with the Greek textbook, but yeah, there are tons of grammar paradigms in there, and it is presented as such.

I don't know. I have to be careful to not let my own personal biases form my opinions on things like mathematics curriculum. Like I don't totally agree with my discussion last evening on this.

So I don't know. Lot's of ideas to explore.

Sometimes you do need to just bite the bullet and get through rigour though too.

@lnxw48a1 Yeah, I don't like the idea of _pushing_ anything on anyone. I like the idea of letting a curriculum grow around people versus exclusively conforming people inside of the curriculum. So I would _introduce_ the idea of proofs in such a way to where people could explore the topic in a way. I would at least introduce some of this. I wouldn't push it though, or drill proofs! No drilling of proofs; it's not right.