I just finished reading Todd's last blog posting about exercise of the brain as it related to the OMET program.
What a (tiresome) and great time I am having... but not necessarily out of my busy schedule, but out of the amount I am learning within a day's time. I've been expressing to my co-workers that this program has not necessarily been what is teaching me, but a catalyst to learn from others. I would have never read those books in their entirety...and some I still haven't... but many I have... if I would not have the fantastic minds to compare with as I finish.
Great experience. To echo Todd, great mental workout.
Showing posts with label distributed learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label distributed learning. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Distributed Learning with Spiders
Interesting news article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/30/spider.web.ap/index.html
I am hoping the link doesn't break... but if it does...
The story is about a massive spider web (all of my close friends know how fascinated I am about spiders. They are truly the most amazing engineers on the planet! -- aside from their creepiness). I cut and pasted part of the story here and colored the lettering of the area in which I believe hints at distributed learning/cognition.
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WILLS POINT, Texas (AP) -- Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.
Lake Tawokoni State Park rangers Mike McCord, left, and Freddie Gowin check out a giant spider web at the park.
Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park say the massive mosquito trap is a big attraction for some visitors, while others won't go anywhere near it.
"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."
Spider experts say the web may have been constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or could be the result of a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another.
Cool beans!
I am hoping the link doesn't break... but if it does...
The story is about a massive spider web (all of my close friends know how fascinated I am about spiders. They are truly the most amazing engineers on the planet! -- aside from their creepiness). I cut and pasted part of the story here and colored the lettering of the area in which I believe hints at distributed learning/cognition.
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WILLS POINT, Texas (AP) -- Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.
Lake Tawokoni State Park rangers Mike McCord, left, and Freddie Gowin check out a giant spider web at the park.
Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park say the massive mosquito trap is a big attraction for some visitors, while others won't go anywhere near it.
"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."
Spider experts say the web may have been constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or could be the result of a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another.
Cool beans!
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