October 2011
24 posts
Stop Pretending to See What You Fear.: Currently... →
ommetophobia:
Viktor E. Frankel’s memoir of living as a psychiatrist in a Nazi camp, “Man’s Search For Meaning”. It’s a riveting recollection of his travels and his personal diagnosis of himself as he endures the hardships of toiling in work camps, idly dreaming of his former life, and a fully developed,…
Standford Prison Experiment Thoughts
schmmooodle:
What is identity?
Is there a core to your self-identity independent of how others define you?
How difficult would it be to remake any given person into someone with a new identity?
Moving beyond physical prisons built of steel and concrete, what psychological prisons do we create for ourselves and others?
If prisons are seen as forms of control which limit individual freedom,...
Using Twitter in High School Classrooms →
world-shaker:
There are some excellent examples in here, and I strongly recommend a click-through. Here was one of my favorite sections:
In Tracee Orman’s high school English class, imagining in Twitter means pretending to be characters from the novels that they are studying in class.
“After reading a chapter in a novel,” writes Orman, “I tell them to pretend they are one of the characters...
Senate apologizes for Chinese Exclusion Act →
