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Teaching Cartoon: Discernment
h/t The New Yorker
from Funny Times Presents the Best American Humor (pbk)
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Teaching Cartoon: Too Much Success
Bonus: attempt now to revise your prior knowledge. . .
now that it has been found to have been always erroneous.
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2 Teaching Cartoons On Questioning
In short, questions in biology of a ‘How?’ nature need more than genetics and frequently more than a reductionist approach. If nature is at all economical (and we have good reason to believe that this is usually so), we can expect that she will choose to create at least some complex forms not by laborious piece-by-piece construction but by utilizing some of the organizational and pattern-forming phenomena we see in the non-living world. If that is so, we can expect to see similarities in the forms and patterns of living and purely inorganic or physical systems, and we can expect too that the same ideas can be used to account for them both. Philip Ball, The Self-Made Tapestry, Pattern Formation in Nature
Subtle relationships between seemingly disparate materials–such as the two cartoons and the book excerpt–bring ‘upward’ potentials for learning not otherwise accessible in more straight forward treatments of the same discrete material. Comment.
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Social Reflex
Here’s a decent very short treatment: Constructivism and Constructionism
My own sense for my own purposes starts with this premise: individuals differentially embrace unique, or social, or normative, or pragmatic, or heuristically derived, (etc.,) constructs in accordance with the situation at hand. By differentially I mean, at different times and places and for various particular reasons.
Teaching Cartoon – The Extra Answer
Besides the obvious cleverness, this cartoon supposes that sometimes a solution is easier than assumed, or, right in front of your face.
You can test its formula by trying it out on more difficult material.
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Teaching Cartoon: What You Ask For
Scott Adams’s Dilbert here replicates one of the classic learning forms given in Sufi teaching stories. There even is a common saying that covers this form: ‘Be careful what you wish for.’ The hidden aspect at the first level–in formal terms–concerns ‘features’ that come along for the ride, so-to-speak. In this instance, you get the head’s up about the downside of working hard, and the grim prospect comes along for the ride.
Dig deeper and this is also about one-sidedness and obsession. But, you didn’t ask about these!
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Sometimes, the Bad Wallpaper. . .
The internet comes through sometimes; make your own.
Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist) /ambiguation/ Idou ho Anthropos
I am not a
man, I am dynamite. And with it all there is
nought of the founder of a religion in me.
No, man, you’ve been socked into a random script ideally matching your very thoughts with a comic family circus.
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Teaching Cartoons – at the chalkboard
magical thinking
instrumental thinking
This pair features two different approaches and their juxtaposition earns them a possible place in the curriculum of the teaching cartoon. Is the first cartoon’s stance unintentionally ironic, given that it states the math class is grounded in reality, whereas biology is loosened so as to include intelligent design?
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Teaching Cartoon: Treasure
“We saw with certainty that it is love (which is) hidden,
So we became bared because of such as this (which is) hidden.”
Rumi, Q.1612, tr. Gamard & Farhadi
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Teaching Cartoon: I Got ’em, You Got ’em
h/t my wife Susan, who compiled cartoons for a class she taught. I am redeploying some of them.
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Yay! Reality
“Our behavior is purposeful; we live in a psychological reality or life space that includes not only those parts of our physical and social environment to us but also imagined states that do not currently exist.” Kurt Lewin
“For the dialectical method the central problem is to change reality.… reality with its ‘obedience to laws.'” György Lukács
h/t Chris @ Subverting Subverting the Genre
Teaching Cartoon: What Everyone Has In Common
My wife discovered a folder with syllabi for a course she taught on social work with couples. The alternative syllabus includes cartoons and this comprised a gold mine of material in the teaching cartoon vein.
This cartoon has long been one of my favorites and yet I had never made a copy for my collection until she produced her find.
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Teaching Cartoon: It Works!
Today’s teaching cartoon captures a mini-drama and a pattern of “presumption and response.” We understand this in modern terms when this pattern is gives the sense of: be careful what you wish for.
This same pattern is found in old teaching stories. Such a pattern describes a timeless kind of conjunction of presumption and necessary response; or, perhaps better would be to say, inescapable response. Without giving the near layers of learning away–remember in the classic form there are seven layers of learning–it is enough to suggest how the result is wed to the initial assumption.
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Teaching Cartoon: Name In Time
As I’ve mentioned before, only Charles Schultz is in Dik Browne‘s league as a creator of crystalline teaching cartoons. This example is subtle and squares a handy comeback with a didactic undercurrent.
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Teaching Cartoon: Holding Back
This fine one leads to the epic Gary Larsen take:
…in my pantheon of teaching cartoons, for sure.
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