PablumPoint: Creative Electronic Alternatives in the Classroom

Christopher D. Green

York University

• Classics in the History of Psychology

• History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive

• History & Theory of Psychology Question & Answer Forum

• An Academy in Crisis…

• Toward a School of Their Own…

• Classics in the History of Psychology

• History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive

• History & Theory of Psychology Question & Answer Forum

• An Academy in Crisis…

• Toward a School of Their Own…

Edward R. Tufte

Very Important Numbers

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Vision Statement

• Improve quality of produce• Sell more quality produce• Become national market

leader in quality produce• Conquer world• Master of the universe

The Sun is FAR AWAY!

• Speaking: 100-160 words/min.

• Reading: 300-1000 words/min.

• Mdn. PowerPoint slide: 40 words

• Mdn. PowerPoint textbook slide: 15 words

Vision Statement

• Improve quality of produce• Sell more quality produce• Become national market

leader in quality produce• Conquer world• Master of the universe

Vision Statement

• Improve quality of produce• Sell more quality produce• Become national market

leader in quality produce• Conquer world• Master of the universe

Vision StatementVision Statement

• Improve quality of produce

• Sell more quality produce

• Become national market leader in quality produce

• Conquer world

Vision StatementVision Statement

• Improve quality of produce

• Sell more quality produce

• Become national market leader in quality produce

Vision StatementVision Statement

• Improve quality of produce

• Sell more quality produce

Gettysburg Cemetery Gettysburg Cemetery DedicationDedication

Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln

Review of Key Objectives & Review of Key Objectives & Critical Success FactorsCritical Success Factors

What makes nation unique:What makes nation unique:Conceived in libertyConceived in libertyMen are equalMen are equal

Shared vision:Shared vision:New birth of freedomNew birth of freedomGov’t of/for/by peopleGov’t of/for/by people

SummarySummary

New nationNew nation Civil WarCivil War Dedicate fieldDedicate field Dedicated to unfinished workDedicated to unfinished work New birth of freedomNew birth of freedom Government not perishGovernment not perish

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Green's First Law of Classroom Technology

Other things being equal, a low-tech solution is always preferable to a high-tech solution because the high-tech solution has an indeterminately higher number of ways to fail.

Plato (427-347 B.C.E.): • Biographical background

– aristocratic family– political involvement– pupil of Socrates (Phaedo)– founded Academy (Akademia) 387 B.C.E. (closed in 529

by Justinian) • Ideas

– epistemology ideas, universal forms – reason > experience– nativism (anamnesis)

• ethics – reason > pleasure; soul > body– philosopher-king

• Influence: – Stoicism, Neoplatonism, Christianity, Continental Idealism

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