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Technologyâbased Learning Environments: Psychological and Educational Foundations edited by S. Vosniadou, E. De Corte and H. Mandl, volume 137 in NATO ASI Series F (Computer and Systems Sciences), Berlin, SpringerâVerlag, ISBN: 0â387â58253â3, 1994
The Faculty Notebook, September 2005
The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost
The Faculty Notebook, December 1998
The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost
Fostering Studentsâ Writing Achievement Through Weblog
To support studentsâ academic success, it is essential to equip them with good ability in writing. However, most of students encounter some problems in writing since writing involves essential, constructive, and complicated process. There are several ways to facilitate students to develop their writing. Due to many students inherent interest in technological things, thus implementing an online tool can be an alternative way to foster studentsâ writing achievement. One of the choices is using weblog. As many studies revealed that weblog could enhance studentsâ writing skills. Therefore, this study integrated weblog into students learning activities. Furthermore, it involved forty eleventh grade students that divided into two groups; experimental and control groups. At the end of the study, the students in experimental group gained better writing achievement than those who were in control group. It points out that learning through weblog could help students to enhance their writing achievement
Some resonances between Eastern thought and Integral Biomathics in the framework of the WLIMES formalism for modelling living systems
Forty-two years ago, Capra published âThe Tao of Physicsâ (Capra, 1975). In this book (page 17) he writes: âThe exploration of the atomic and subatomic world in the twentieth century has âŠ. necessitated a radical revision of many of our basic conceptsâ and that, unlike âclassicalâ physics, the sub-atomic and quantum âmodern physicsâ shows resonances with Eastern thoughts and âleads us to a view of the world which is very similar to the views held by mystics of all ages and traditions.â This article stresses an analogous situation in biology with respect to a new theoretical approach for studying living systems, Integral Biomathics (IB), which also exhibits some resonances with Eastern thought. Stepping on earlier research in cybernetics1 and theoretical biology,2 IB has been developed since 2011 by over 100 scientists from a number of disciplines who have been exploring a substantial set of theoretical frameworks. From that effort, the need for a robust core model utilizing advanced mathematics and computation adequate for understanding the behavior of organisms as dynamic wholes was identified. At this end, the authors of this article have proposed WLIMES (Ehresmann and Simeonov, 2012), a formal theory for modeling living systems integrating both the Memory Evolutive Systems (Ehresmann and Vanbremeersch, 2007) and the Wandering Logic Intelligence (Simeonov, 2002b). Its principles will be recalled here with respect to their
resonances to Eastern thought
Julian Schwinger: Source Theory and the UCLA Years--- From Magnetic Charge to the Casimir Effect
Julian Schwinger began the construction of Source Theory in 1966 in response
to the then apparent failure of quantum field theory to describe strong
interactions, the physical remoteness of renormalization, and the utility of
effective actions in describing chiral dynamics. I will argue that the source
theory development was not really so abrupt a break with the past as Julian may
have implied, for the ideas and techniques in large measure were present in his
work at least as early as 1951. Those techniques and ideas are still of
fundamental importance to theoretical physics, so much so that the designation
``source theory'' has become superfluous. Julian did a great deal of innovative
physics during the last 30 years of his life, and I will touch on some of the
major themes. The impact of much of this work is not yet apparent. (Invited
talk at Washington APS/AAPT meeting)Comment: 15 pages, plain TeX, no figures, available through anonymous ftp from
ftp://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/papers/ or on WWW at
http://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/Papers
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