Catholic’s teach biblical ideals as fact because, to them, it is just that; the fact of how they came to exist. You say Christian/Catholic’s are uptight in belief actions? You realize that teachers throughout America are banned from even speaking of the Bible because, “They are just attacking children’s minds while they are weak” else while evolution, the dissproven theory, is taught as fact. Your ideals are sullied with your bias.
Thanks for the comments! Particularly for the review of Steam. I’ve been tempted to use it on several occasions but had heard mixed things about it. Really, it can’t be any worse than buying from some of these sources, can it? 
I feel more confident giving it a try, now.
I feel your pain with EA, Kareth. For a company that insists (as the image I chose to go with this article suggests) their download manager be used as a mandatory component to so many of their games, they sure have put out a shoddy product.
Just reading the comments here shows many of the reasons that a teacher will try to force a certain system onto a given class of students. Many classes are so far behind that they need to be taught how to organize their thoughts, because they don’t generally have organized thoughts. That may sound harsh to some, but unfortunately it’s true. I’m a teacher, and I teach the outline system, but that’s only because I know that the majority of my class it too lazy to use a more beneficial system. I personally use an outline system for myself, but that’s because I usually don’t need to take a lot of notes, so it’s pretty easy to look over all my notes.
The reason we’ve all come up with our own system, however, is because we’ve been given SOME sort of system at some time. We’ve altered it to fit our own mental processes. If you wouldn’t have been given any system, though, your note taking, if you had any, would be extremely difficult to follow and review. So these teachers forcing the Cornell system tells me that they feel the need to significantly increase the organization of their specific groups of students. They also probably want a way to unify the note taking throughout their school.
At the same time, I’ve never heard of a teacher that would be willing to modify their requirements if you give them good reason. This is on a person by person basis, so talk to them away from the other students, and you will likely be surprised as to what your teacher is willing to do. They’re not trying to be difficult….they’re trying to HELP YOU LEARN! If you’re still in school, then the person teaching you likely has done a hell of a lot more schooling than you.
If a 7 year old told you they know more than you about what they should do, you’d tell them that they didn’t..and you’d be right 95% of the time. A 16 year old telling a 35 year old that they know more than them about learning makes about the same amount of sense. Show them some proof that applies to YOU, however, and they are probably going to either agree, or explain why the other system needs to be followed.
I know it’s just a co-incidence, but my sister is an English Teacher in Japan, and my mother’s name is Noemi.
Interesting idea, but not the first time it has been done. I will bow to it’s elegance. It looks very impressive. Any specs on time of plasma burn, cost, safeguards, etc.?
I went to a very advanced high school in the sciences in the 1960′s. We had advanced everything. We were pioneers in what is now called AP classes. I personally remember in 1966 seeing a 17 year old junior ( what we called than an ” accelerated science student”) building a fusion plasma device. He did, of course, win the science fair. He also received many offers from many university physics dept.’s. I graduated that year and was less impressed than many of you, because it was something anyone in our advanced group could have done (given the money).
I personally thought I should have won. My project was too intellectual for most judges. I devised a scheme to detect every member of the chloride group quantitatively. Unfortunately, except for lead , silver, and mercury, the other metals in my group were very expensive and dangerous. And yes, I know these heavy metals can be dangerous when handled incorrectly, but check out Thallium. There is some money and danger. The only person that appreciated my project ( which had to be in poster form due to the danger), was my chem teacher.
I agree with many above posters that it’s not the creation of Cornell notes nor its supposed utility/futility that many students have a hard time with, it’s the fact that someone is dictating to them how their thoughts should be structured.
For those who approve of Cornell notes, it is fine to teach your students how to use the system and even HIGHLY suggest that they follow suit, but it is unreasonable to assume that every student structures their ideas and notes in the same way.
Personally, I use a more loose-outline form, and when I’m getting ready to study for a test, I’ll take a few hours to condense the outline into some handy index cards. The transferring of information to the index cards as well as the old tried-and-true ‘flash card’ method works wonders for me. I absolutely despise Cornell notes and find that I can get just as much out of a lecture using my own methods and probably in half the time it takes to structure everything so strictly.
So teacher, please stop ramming these down your students’ throats! Make suggestions, fine! But forcing your students to organize information in a way that you like and not in a way that they like is only going to breed resentment in your students.
I agree with many above posters that it’s not the creation of Cornell notes nor its supposed utility/futility that many students have a hard time with, it’s the fact that someone is dictating to them how their thoughts should be structured.
For those who approve of Cornell notes, it is fine to teach your students how to use the system and even HIGHLY suggest that they follow suit, but it is unreasonable to assume that every student structures their ideas and notes in the same way.
Personally, I use a more loose-outline form, and when I’m getting ready to study for a test, I’ll take a few hours to condense the outline into some handy index cards. The transferring of information to the index cards as well as the old tried-and-true ‘flash card’ method works wonders for me. I absolutely despise Cornell notes and find that I can get just as much out of a lecture using my own methods and probably in half the time it takes to structure everything so strictly.
So teacher, please stop ramming these down your students’ throats! Make suggestions, fine! But forcing your students to organize information in a way that you like and not in a way that they like is only going to breed resentment in your students.
As a high school teacher, I’ll try anything to get my kids to take notes and take them quickly. This is hard to do since they don’t even teach cursive any more. (I would’ve never survived college or work w/out it!) I tried one year to insist on cursive (I was providing copies of the notes until they could read their own handwriting), but I actually had some parents complain to the principal about this so I had to stop! Those that kept it up though were much faster and got more down than those that didn’t!!
do you have imagin teacher please reply tomorrow the 22-12-2009 ok see you
if we could play things online i’d like to play the following:
mario and sonic at the olympic games
mario kart
theme park
nintendogs
guitar hero
cooking mama 1 + 2
gardning mama
imagine teacher
imagine ballet dancer
imagine baby club
and lots lots more!
