Sunday, November 13, 2016

We watched BLUE PLANET on Netflix and learned about a lot of fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od1GE-dujUI&feature=youtu.be


This is the series 




There is an adult and a baby inside this jellyfish.

This creature inspired the ALIEN monster





This is a colony of hundreds of thousands of organisms
that work together


large eyes can capture the small amount of light


you can see a silhouette

light underneath can match
the light coming around the fish

this fish can see the difference between biolumniscence
and the light from above

you can see the fish from below

before the color matching

the colors match the light coming from above

before the colors are changed







Publix or McDonald's? Which has the better cost for coca cola?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MrNOWJ4VU&feature=youtu.be

The Analysis of the cost of a soft drink (with 9 teaspoons of sugar in a typical soda)

How Many Teaspoons of Sugar Are There in a Can of Coke ...

www.livestrong.com › Food and Drink
Apr 14, 2015 - As a man, you can have up to 9 teaspoons of sugar daily, or 38 grams of sugar, which is around 150 calories from sugar. No matter your gender, a single 12-ounce can of Coke goes over the maximum sugar allowance for the day.

Thursday, November 3, 2016

"Students should do things because the things seem important and worth doing. Knowledge and skill should be shared rather than hoarded." -- John Holt



Dear Leo

I just read an interesting paragraph from a book

Though Holt later wrote about peace and counseled draft resistance, he described the

submarine as “the best learning community I have ever seen or been part of.” In Instead

of Education he wrote, “We were not on [the submarine] to ‘learn,’ but to help fight the

war. Like millions of other people at the time, we did not talk or think about ‘learning’;

we learned from the demanding work we did together, and we shared our experience and

skill as widely as we could. The submarine experience exemplified two of his central

beliefs about education: that one should not do things in order to learn, but because they

seem important and worth doing, and that knowledge and skill should be shared rather

than hoarded.



I want to put two of those points in big letters


Students should do things because the things seem important and worth doing.   Knowledge and skill should be shared rather
than hoarded.
John Holt

THE LINK to the book
Go to 83 books and then go to "A LIFE WORTH LIVING by John Holt"





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