Why History Isn’t Learned, and How Story Helps Change That | Beyond School
Clay Burell talks about what kids really know at the end of the usual suspect social studies classes, and how to cure that. You'll find such words buried in this site, yet Burell puts them together wonderfully and explains that web media isn't at all essential to the task.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Underground Railroad--History of Slavery, Pictures, Information
This seems familiar and yet not so. Anyway, with Hillary's citation the other night, its an even more appropriate find!
(And I still want to make it to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. This year. Went by once, but too late!)
This seems familiar and yet not so. Anyway, with Hillary's citation the other night, its an even more appropriate find!
(And I still want to make it to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. This year. Went by once, but too late!)
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
To Happy Grounds, Prof. Michalski
I just discovered that the professor who most amazed me, Ryszard Michalski, died of cancer last fall. If you look on my profile for favorite books, Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, is at the top. As a technologist who is better than average with words and long fascinated with logic and the future, no other class quite caught my interest as much as his Machine Learning lectures. I was supposed to be on campus to study business--yet here was this genius teaching the very incarnation of science fiction itself! Artificial machines which could not just deduce, but invent!! How remarkable!
And the underlying math and mechanics! Who knew that there were so many types of logics? That logic might preserve truth--or might not!? That learning itself could be classified and taxonomified?
Alas, I didn't have the CS background to excel in this class, everyone else was in the dept., and I a lone transplant. A certain vocabulary and programming sophistication were assumed. Yet Ryszard was kind enough to respect the desire to learn--his lectures were far more human than most--and still honor the necessities of grading. Most members of the class produced a working ML program of some sort; he left open the option of a final, which probably I alone took. I doubt he needed the extra work of writing and grading it.
Via con Dios, Ryschard Michalski. I wager many, many past students celebrate your excellence.
University Mourns Death of Prof. Michalski - The Mason Gazette - George Mason University
I just discovered that the professor who most amazed me, Ryszard Michalski, died of cancer last fall. If you look on my profile for favorite books, Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, is at the top. As a technologist who is better than average with words and long fascinated with logic and the future, no other class quite caught my interest as much as his Machine Learning lectures. I was supposed to be on campus to study business--yet here was this genius teaching the very incarnation of science fiction itself! Artificial machines which could not just deduce, but invent!! How remarkable!
And the underlying math and mechanics! Who knew that there were so many types of logics? That logic might preserve truth--or might not!? That learning itself could be classified and taxonomified?
Alas, I didn't have the CS background to excel in this class, everyone else was in the dept., and I a lone transplant. A certain vocabulary and programming sophistication were assumed. Yet Ryszard was kind enough to respect the desire to learn--his lectures were far more human than most--and still honor the necessities of grading. Most members of the class produced a working ML program of some sort; he left open the option of a final, which probably I alone took. I doubt he needed the extra work of writing and grading it.
Via con Dios, Ryschard Michalski. I wager many, many past students celebrate your excellence.
University Mourns Death of Prof. Michalski - The Mason Gazette - George Mason University
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