Thank you Lenore for asking and Stephen for responding. This is great! I love it and will use it! I almost went with the surprise test. heck, I might combine them! Hah! never too much fool in April fool.
Annette Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On 26 Mar 2004 at 16:29, Lenore Frigo wrote: > > > April Fools day is coming soon and I'd like to liven up an 8:00 a.m. > > introductory level course with a bit of a trick. Any suggestions for > > an appropriate April Fools trick that could be turned into a bit of a > > psychology lesson? Something along the lines of critical thinking > > would be good. > > This may be of limited value because you'll need to have web access > in the classroom. But last year I used Google's inspired April Fool's > claim to have made use of Skinnerian techniques to train pigeons to > select the best websites. Their real technology uses something they > call "pagerank". They turned this into "pigeonrank". The Google > creators clearly must have had a psychology course or two in the > their background. When I showed it, the class bought it big time ( at > least for a while, anyway). it could certainly be used to deliver an > apt lesson about not believing everything you find on the web, and > about the need for critical thinking. > > I just checked, and it's still up, although there's no guarantee they > won't replace it with a new one this April 1. It's at: > http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html > > Stephen > > ___________________________________________________ > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 > Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 > Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 > Canada > > Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips > _______________________________________________ > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
