I wanted to document that after writing and editing a new webpage on my google sites, I realized that google never saved my final version of the edits. Past 4 hours I spend on typing up an informative discourse on the infiband technology and google gave me lemon by not saving my blog. I went to recent changes/edits button to recover my page but it was waste of time, was not able to recover the page that I had created after careful thinking.
I am not BSing, here is the firefox cache that I managed to convert to a pdf file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-OJVGa5Y2lQdFZXUHRHQ2hWUG8/view?usp=sharing
do not read it its about 116 pages.
Didn't know what else to do and wanted to have this told to the world. Nobody is perfect, that is what I want to tell at this point, even Google and its employees, all are humans.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Why do we get bored?
This has been a question that I have thought about for a while. I have explored ways in which one can be not bored and recognized that being interested in something or having a hobby can help a person in avoiding being bored. Any one with continued interest in an activity like video games, art, music, dance, etc can be considered to have avenues for not getting bored. With time, I have realized that even though a person has such interesting time occupying avenues, but still there are times when boredom cannot be avoided.
There is another take on avoiding boredom, or intellectual staleness. It can be thought that people get bored when they are not able to engage in new thought processes. In other words, to avoid boredom, one may learn how to engage their intellect by deliberate efforts. Parents who try to keep their child from getting bored by keeping children occupied with various activities might also consider training their children to engage their intellectual thinking processes. Other wise children would become dependent on other activities like videos, etc. Children whose education also includes avenues of creating, gathering, analyzing knowledge have venues to keep themselves engaged and not get bored. Gaining education it self can be another avenue that prevents boredom this can be done by introducing reading, creative writing, writing notes from interesting sources, blogging, etc.
There is another take on avoiding boredom, or intellectual staleness. It can be thought that people get bored when they are not able to engage in new thought processes. In other words, to avoid boredom, one may learn how to engage their intellect by deliberate efforts. Parents who try to keep their child from getting bored by keeping children occupied with various activities might also consider training their children to engage their intellectual thinking processes. Other wise children would become dependent on other activities like videos, etc. Children whose education also includes avenues of creating, gathering, analyzing knowledge have venues to keep themselves engaged and not get bored. Gaining education it self can be another avenue that prevents boredom this can be done by introducing reading, creative writing, writing notes from interesting sources, blogging, etc.
On being labelled as "gifted"
I have come to realize that many of my students seem to use few terms like "not a math person", "not a visual learner", "hands-on person" to compartmentalize their ways of learning in a classroom settings. I thought that it may be a good realization that a person is aware of what works for themselves and it might be helpful. I was reading this book "Beyond Intelligence" and read a contrary point of view and I document some instances that might be a result of using such labels.
1) Fear of confirming others beliefs : some children are afraid that they are not really as smart as others attribute them to be and spend time thinking that one day other will find out about it.
2) Doubting oneself: when "labelled as gifted" people as placed in another gifted group then they encounter a peer group with more competition and may loose self confidence.
3) May get less support: children with "gifted" as labels might not get sufficient learning support in an environment which considers them to be already capable of catching new things quickly.
4) may experience unrealistic expectations as they are labelled as "gifted"
5) It may lead to complacency and prevent a student from doing their best as they might over estimate their abilities and not put in sufficient effort.
6) People who are labeled as gifted may develop a feeling of superiority complex which reduces their patience and adjustment levels in a group. Such prejudices may lead to an arrogant behavior in future
7) Children, students who are labelled as gifted may experience ostracism from peers and might not get opportunities to develop strong friendships which are essential in an emotionally balanced growth.
8) It may create situations where a student is labeled as gifted in one area which might result in negligence on part of parents, teachers to recognize a person's abilities in other fields.
9) Abilities always change and depend on time and the surrounding environment. Having labeled as gifted need not be an absolute characteristic which is present through out the life time of a person.
10) Non uniformity of such labels need to be understood as "gifted" may mean differently to people in different geographical, difficult background people.
1) Fear of confirming others beliefs : some children are afraid that they are not really as smart as others attribute them to be and spend time thinking that one day other will find out about it.
2) Doubting oneself: when "labelled as gifted" people as placed in another gifted group then they encounter a peer group with more competition and may loose self confidence.
3) May get less support: children with "gifted" as labels might not get sufficient learning support in an environment which considers them to be already capable of catching new things quickly.
4) may experience unrealistic expectations as they are labelled as "gifted"
5) It may lead to complacency and prevent a student from doing their best as they might over estimate their abilities and not put in sufficient effort.
6) People who are labeled as gifted may develop a feeling of superiority complex which reduces their patience and adjustment levels in a group. Such prejudices may lead to an arrogant behavior in future
7) Children, students who are labelled as gifted may experience ostracism from peers and might not get opportunities to develop strong friendships which are essential in an emotionally balanced growth.
8) It may create situations where a student is labeled as gifted in one area which might result in negligence on part of parents, teachers to recognize a person's abilities in other fields.
9) Abilities always change and depend on time and the surrounding environment. Having labeled as gifted need not be an absolute characteristic which is present through out the life time of a person.
10) Non uniformity of such labels need to be understood as "gifted" may mean differently to people in different geographical, difficult background people.
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