NetLogo Simulation Software

Singapore School of Science and Technology is using NetLogo to teach maths. Students can generate their own graphs and create their own simulations.

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Pablo Picasso

Messages from Today's Students

Taken from the Michael Wesch video ‘A Vision of Students Today’. 

·      My average class size is 115 people

·      18% of my teachers know my name

·      I complete 49% of readings assigned to me

·      Only 26% are relevant to my life

·      I buy hundred dollar textbooks that I never open

·      I will read 8 textbooks this year, 2,300 web pages, 1,231 FaceBook profiles

·      I will write 42 pages for class this semester, and over 500 pages of e-mail

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     Today:-

·      I will have 7 hours’ of sleep

·      I will watch TV for 1.5 hours

·      I will spend 3.5 hours online

·      I will spend 2.5 hours listening to music

·      I will spend 2 hours on my cellphone

·      I will spend 3 hours in class

·      I will spend 2 hours eating

·      I will work for 2 hours

·      I will study for 3 hours

     Total hours per day - 26.5! So multi-tasking is essential.

Tony Judt: Ill Fares The Land (2010)

“If we have learned nothing else from the Twentieth Century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying the consequences.”

Inspiration from Walter Pater

"Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us - for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but the experience itself, is the end.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."

Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)

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