flipped classroom - often described as flipping the purpose of homework and class time, where basic learning takes place at home or outside of the classroom while activities inside class are designed to apply, explore and extend the basic learning
tension level - maybe the same as arousal level, when I am tense, elevated, excited, I am ready to fight, flee or freeze but I may not be ready to learn or to sense how I am feeling. I was impressed by this table from Pennebaker's "Opening Up":
| from "Opening Up" by J. Pennebaker p. 8 | | |
Topic | Heart Rate | Warren's comments |
Girlfriend | 77 | Some disagreements about sex |
College courses | 71 | Most are interesting |
Failing exams | 76 | It's been hard on my ego |
Parents | 84 | We were close until the divorce |
Parents' divorce | 103 | It was no big deal |
The future | 79 | I'm scared of failing again |
best of all possible worlds, it is all for the best and bullshit - I didn't realize the other day when I wrote about optimism vs. accuracy that I was dealing with a theme that has preoccupied people for a long time, including minds of the level of Leibnitz and Voltaire. There is good evidence that having a positive outlook is associated with being healthy and happy but nobody believes that smiling complacently in the face of a tornado and believing all will be well is a good strategy.
secure in the past as opposed to varying and slippery interpretations of the past - in America today, we have occupations and teams devoted for various financial, political and occupational reasons to more or less continuous examination and re-examination of the past. Many people are uncomfortable or take insult from revised interpretation of the past. If I learn that President X or CEO Y was a hero, I may be hurt and upset to learn that evidence now indicates that she or he wasn't such a hero, after all.
distractions of words - Frans de Waal says that people in a ward for a certain sort of brain damage which prevents understanding of spoken language found a given televised political speech hilarious. They detected big discrepancy between the speaker's tone, timing, facial expression and gestures and his words. People who could understand spoken words found the speech perfectly normal but not at all funny.
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Bill
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