[tips] Yo! New Words Added to OxfordDictionaries.com! It's Amazeballs!
Tipsters are probably aware that language, especially English, grows by adding new words that gain common currency as well as going through word fads that allows one to identify a time period from which speech or writing had occurred (groovy, no?). Well, periodically the good folks at Oxford and their worldwide minions scour English language usage in print, speech, songs, other media in which language is captured, finding new words and phrases that have increased in usage (binge watch much?) and warrant being included in the OxfordDictionaries.com (ODC) list of words/phrase and their definitions. Afterall, some people don't feel comfortable always checking the urbandictionary.com NOTE: The online, web-based OxfordDictionaries (ODC) is different from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), best known as a paper product consisting of many volumes (I still have my old 2 volume concise version which requires one to use a magnifying glass to read even when my eyesight was young). Here is the difference from the FAQ on the OxfordDictionaries website: |What's the difference between OxfordDictionaries.com |and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)? | |The new entries mentioned above have been added to |OxfordDictionaries.com, not the OED. | |The English language dictionary content on OxfordDictionaries.com |focuses on current English and includes modern meanings |of words and associated usage examples. | |The OED, on the other hand, is a historical dictionary and |forms a record of all the core words and meanings in English |over more than 1,000 years, from Old English to the present |day, including many obsolete and historical terms. So, the ODC is the cool version while the OED is the nerd version of a comprehensive dictionary of English. There are a few popular media accounts of the new words, such as the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/14/smh-the-newest-additions-to-the-oxford-online-dictionary-include-cray-yolo-and-adorbs/ And the UK's Mirror: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/14/smh-the-newest-additions-to-the-oxford-online-dictionary-include-cray-yolo-and-adorbs/ NOTE: I include the Mirror website because they provide photos that one might consider appropriate for aiding in understanding the terms, such as one photo of Lindsay Lohan for hot mess and Lady Gaga for side boob. On the last term, I'm glad that they didn't use a picture of an old fat guy in a wifebeater (wifebeater is not a new term, see: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/wife-beater?q=wifebeater ) Here is a link to the blog entry on new terms on the ODC website: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/press-releases/new-words-added-oxforddictionaries-com-august-2014/ Here's a link to a popular media article on the new terms in ODC, written for people like readers of the New York Post: ;-) http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/08/oxford-dictionaries-update-august-2014/ Now, I'm sure that the guardians of the English language (not to be confused with the other group involving the Galaxy) will be outraged by the recognition of such words and phrases as legitimate elements of discourse. To these folks I say: Yo, stop the douchebaggery, give the new terms a bro hug, and try not to get your listicles tied up. Yolo, so cotch. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Yes, I know that the use of listicles above is inappropriate for the context but its rhyming similarity to testicles makes it irresistible to use. Don't make me mansplain it. P.P.S. Yes, I included some of the new terms above so that my spell checker will recognize them. Again, don't make me mansplain it. ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37929 or send a blank email to leave-37929-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Remembering Earl F. Cheit
There is an obituary for Earl F. Cheit in the NY Times that might be of interest to Tipsters; see: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/us/earl-cheit-prescient-educator-dies-at-87.html?emc=edit_th_20140814nl=todaysheadlinesnlid=389166_r=0 Cheit was an economist at UC-Berkeley and perhaps best known outside of his field for a 1971 report described in the obit in the following terms: |Dr. Cheit's 250-page report, titled The New Depression in Higher |Education and sponsored by the Carnegie Commission on Higher |Education, examined 41 private and public colleges and universities |in 21 states and the District of Columbia. Based on research Dr. Cheit |(pronounced chite) directed, it found that 70 percent of these were |either in financial difficulty or headed for trouble. And: |The reason for alarm, Dr. Cheit wrote, was that costs faced by |colleges were rising at a faster rate than income. He said that |if the institutions were to prosper, federal and state governments |would have to contribute substantially more funds. At the same time, |the report said, colleges and universities needed to cut costs and |raise tuition. The report was published in book format by McGraw-Hill and is available in about 285 libraries across 8 editions (use www.worldcat.org to locate a copy near you). There were follow-up studies and one can check scholar.google.com for research citing Cheit's work. His writings provides some context for the changes in higher education that we seen since the late 1960s. One might also want to check out the website for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (the funders of Cheit and related work) for additional and current material. A starting point is the description of Cheit's 1971 report; see: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/publications/new-depression-higher-education-study-financial-aid-conditions-41-colleges-and-universi or one can start in the eLibrary: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary One way that the federal and state governments chose to deal with the problems highlighted by Cheit was not to rely upon grants to universities but on loans to students which appears to have contributed to the present unpleasantness associated with student loans. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37930 or send a blank email to leave-37930-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Replication in education research
Hi Interesting article https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/14/almost-no-education-research-replicated-new-article-shows Jim Sent from my iPhone --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37931 or send a blank email to leave-37931-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] The Future Of College?
An article by Graeme Wood that is appearing in The Atlantic (both paper and online) is titled The Future of College? and it focuses on the for-profit online Minerva project which is attempting to become an alternative to traditional lecture format courses in college (it uses a seminar format). Here is where you can access the online version of the article: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-future-of-college/375071/ Cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn is playing a significant role in the Minerva Project and I guess this will serve as guide to what to do when a college professor no longer wants to lecture. By the way, Ludy Benjamin is quoted but identified as an educational psychologist. By that logic, I guess I'm a clinical psychologist. But let's not forget the fundamental driving factor for this project: Mo money, (b-word)s! -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37934 or send a blank email to leave-37934-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Yo! New Words Added to OxfordDictionaries.com! It's Amazeballs!
Mansplain is my new favorite word: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mansplain Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Professor l Department of Psychology Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html -Original Message- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: [tips] Yo! New Words Added to OxfordDictionaries.com! It's Amazeballs! Tipsters are probably aware that language, especially English, grows by adding new words that gain common currency as well as going through word fads that allows one to identify a time period from which speech or writing had occurred (groovy, no?). Well, periodically the good folks at Oxford and their worldwide minions scour English language usage in print, speech, songs, other media in which language is captured, finding new words and phrases that have increased in usage (binge watch much?) and warrant being included in the OxfordDictionaries.com (ODC) list of words/phrase and their definitions. Afterall, some people don't feel comfortable always checking the urbandictionary.com NOTE: The online, web-based OxfordDictionaries (ODC) is different from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), best known as a paper product consisting of many volumes (I still have my old 2 volume concise version which requires one to use a magnifying glass to read even when my eyesight was young). Here is the difference from the FAQ on the OxfordDictionaries website: |What's the difference between OxfordDictionaries.com and the Oxford |English Dictionary (OED)? | |The new entries mentioned above have been added to |OxfordDictionaries.com, not the OED. | |The English language dictionary content on OxfordDictionaries.com |focuses on current English and includes modern meanings of words and |associated usage examples. | |The OED, on the other hand, is a historical dictionary and forms a |record of all the core words and meanings in English over more than |1,000 years, from Old English to the present day, including many |obsolete and historical terms. So, the ODC is the cool version while the OED is the nerd version of a comprehensive dictionary of English. There are a few popular media accounts of the new words, such as the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/14/smh-the-newest-additions-to-the-oxford-online-dictionary-include-cray-yolo-and-adorbs/ And the UK's Mirror: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/14/smh-the-newest-additions-to-the-oxford-online-dictionary-include-cray-yolo-and-adorbs/ NOTE: I include the Mirror website because they provide photos that one might consider appropriate for aiding in understanding the terms, such as one photo of Lindsay Lohan for hot mess and Lady Gaga for side boob. On the last term, I'm glad that they didn't use a picture of an old fat guy in a wifebeater (wifebeater is not a new term, see: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/wife-beater?q=wifebeater ) Here is a link to the blog entry on new terms on the ODC website: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/press-releases/new-words-added-oxforddictionaries-com-august-2014/ Here's a link to a popular media article on the new terms in ODC, written for people like readers of the New York Post: ;-) http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/08/oxford-dictionaries-update-august-2014/ Now, I'm sure that the guardians of the English language (not to be confused with the other group involving the Galaxy) will be outraged by the recognition of such words and phrases as legitimate elements of discourse. To these folks I say: Yo, stop the douchebaggery, give the new terms a bro hug, and try not to get your listicles tied up. Yolo, so cotch. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Yes, I know that the use of listicles above is inappropriate for the context but its rhyming similarity to testicles makes it irresistible to use. Don't make me mansplain it. P.P.S. Yes, I included some of the new terms above so that my spell checker will recognize them. Again, don't make me mansplain it. ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: helw...@dickinson.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797fn=Tl=tipso=37929 or send a blank email to leave-37929-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37936 or send a blank email to leave-37936-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Future Of College?
A very long time ago as a preteen, I used to watch educational tv, which consisted of taped lectures from courses at the local state university. I liked the history courses that explained the development of the red menance and the rise of nazism. I liked the math courses on algebra and geometry. It was like sitting in a college classroom, to which I aspired in my 1000-person East TN town. But I discovered quickly that most kids of my age never watched such shows and would not watch them. They did not involve the central issues of football, baseball, dodge ball, and the eternal battle of dreamsicle vs fudgsicle. Most of them did not aspire to going to college; it was maybe an expectation. What I have seen is that students attend my university for a combination of social and educational reasons. Getting jacked in for efficent content injection is about as pleasant as a colon exam. Minvera (and Stevie K) has missed out on one of the major reasons why students attend an university, which is to figure out possible life trajectories. Ken (PS - Stevie. Yo Bro. Craik and Lockhart [1972]! That is as close to classroom magic as one can get!) --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --- On 8/14/2014 3:00 PM, Mike Palij wrote: An article by Graeme Wood that is appearing in The Atlantic (both paper and online) is titled The Future of College? and it focuses on the for-profit online Minerva project which is attempting to become an alternative to traditional lecture format courses in college (it uses a seminar format). Here is where you can access the online version of the article: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-future-of-college/375071/ Cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn is playing a significant role in the Minerva Project and I guess this will serve as guide to what to do when a college professor no longer wants to lecture. By the way, Ludy Benjamin is quoted but identified as an educational psychologist. By that logic, I guess I'm a clinical psychologist. But let's not forget the fundamental driving factor for this project: Mo money, (b-word)s! -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37938 or send a blank email to leave-37938-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] A Humorous Take on the Freudian Defense Mechanisms
Thanks Miguel. Yea, that's my Freud/German voice. The animation of Freud was done using a program called Crazy Talk: http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/ Fun program, but a touch learning curve. Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt On Aug 14, 2014, at 8:44 PM, Miguel Roig ro...@stjohns.edu wrote: Ha!! Very good, Michael!!! Is that you also doing Freud's voice? If so, great job; loved the accent. Miguel From: Michael Britt [mich...@thepsychfiles.com] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:35 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] A Humorous Take on the Freudian Defense Mechanisms Well, hopefully a humorous way for students to identify the defense mechanisms... http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2014/08/ep-224-video-if-freud-worked-tech-support/ Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.commailto:mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: ro...@stjohns.edumailto:ro...@stjohns.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c12dn=Tl=tipso=37939 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-37939-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-37939-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69n=Tl=tipso=37940 or send a blank email to leave-37940-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37941 or send a blank email to leave-37941-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] A Humorous Take on the Freudian Defense Mechanisms
Michael, THat's one of the best ever. Hilarious! Beth Benoit Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com wrote: Well, hopefully a humorous way for students to identify the defense mechanisms... http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2014/08/ep-224-video-if-freud-worked-tech-support/ Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: beth.ben...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72n=Tl=tipso=37939 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-37939-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37942 or send a blank email to leave-37942-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] A Humorous Take on the Freudian Defense Mechanisms
Michael does community theater and so, not surprisingly, he is a very good actor. If you haven't seen his bit on the various ways that correlations can be interpreted, it's a must see. Michael has the 'perplexed/confused' expression down--and he's very amusing. Joan Ha!! Very good, Michael!!! Is that you also doing Freud's voice? If so, great job; loved the accent. Miguel From: Michael Britt [mich...@thepsychfiles.com] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:35 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] A Humorous Take on the Freudian Defense Mechanisms Well, hopefully a humorous way for students to identify the defense mechanisms... http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2014/08/ep-224-video-if-freud-worked-tech-support/ Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.commailto:mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: ro...@stjohns.edumailto:ro...@stjohns.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c12dn=Tl=tipso=37939 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-37939-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-37939-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: jwarm...@oakton.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=49240.d374d0c18780e492c3d2e63f91752d0dn=Tl=tipso=37940 or send a blank email to leave-37940-49240.d374d0c18780e492c3d2e63f91752...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37943 or send a blank email to leave-37943-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Piaget's Stages? #2
Some subscribers to TIPS might be interested in a discussion list post Piaget's Stages? #2 [Hake (2014)]. The abstract reads: * ABSTRACT: Eric Nelson's (2014a) post Piaget's Stages? of 7 August 2014 on the CLOSED! PhysLrnR archives at http://bit.ly/1orXcKo initiated a thread which on 12 August 07:36-0700 had grown to 23 posts on the PhysLrnR archives at http://bit.ly/nG318r. [NOTE: To access the archives of PhysLnR one needs to subscribe :-(, but that takes only a few minutes by clicking on http://bit.ly/nG318r and then clicking on Subscribe or Unsubscribe. If you're busy, then subscribe using the NOMAIL option under Miscellaneous. Then, as a subscriber, you may access the archives and/or post messages at any time, while receiving NO MAIL from the list!] In one of the 23 posts, now updated and placed online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/Y8ZumO, I point to generally laudatory opinions on Piaget's work by experts Philip Adey, John Anderson, Howard Gardner, Alan Kay, Anton Lawson, Robert Sternberg, Ernst von Glasersfeld, and David Klahr. In addition, aside from his initializing post, Nelson (2014b,c) made two other contributions at http://bit.ly/1ouGsSQ and http://bit.ly/1uP1Zp7 in which he pointed to the work of Kirschner, Sweller, Clark (KSC) as the definitive word from cognitive science on pedagogical methods. However, not everyone would agree with Nelson's tribute to KSC, as I indicated in Vague Labels for Pedagogical Methods Should Be Supplemented with Operational Definitions and Detailed Descriptions [Hake (2014b)] at http://bit.ly/1jPnKxo. * To access the complete 61 kB post please click on http://bit.ly/Ya4c3G. Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University. LINKS TO: Academia http://bit.ly/a8ixxm; Articles http://bit.ly/a6M5y0; Blog http://bit.ly/9yGsXh; Facebook http://on.fb.me/XI7EKm; GooglePlus http://bit.ly/KwZ6mE; Google Scholar http://bit.ly/Wz2FP3; Linked In http://linkd.in/14uycpW; Research Gate http://bit.ly/1fJiSwB; Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs http://bit.ly/9nGd3M; Twitter http://bit.ly/juvd52. When we say force is the cause of motion we talk metaphysics, and this definition, if we were content with it, would be absolutely sterile. For a definition to be of any use, it must teach us to measure force; moreover, that suffices; it is not at all necessary that it teach us what force is in itself, nor whether it is the cause or the effect of motion. - Henri Poincaré (1905) REFERENCES [URLs shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 14 Aug 2014.] Hake, R.R. 2014. Piaget's Stages? #2, online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/Ya4c3G. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists and are also on my blog Hake'sEdStuff at/http://bit.ly/1l7zhQ3. Poincaré, H. 1905. Science and Hypothesis, Walter Scott Publishing; online at http://bit.ly/9hVfA8 thanks to the Mead Project. A Wikipedia entry on Poincaré is at http://bit.ly/b4jGVS. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37944 or send a blank email to leave-37944-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
