Week 8 (1213)

All of this means in that the K-12 education system will have to change as well. With the options for college and work undergoing dramatic shifts, we can no longer prepare students for traditional expectations more than a century old. More and more, our children will have the chance—and, increasingly, be expected—to forge their own paths to an education and into the workplace. That’s a challenge and an opportunity. It means, as Canadian education researcher Stephen Downes says, that we have to stop thinking of an education as something that’s delivered to us and instead see it as something we create for ourselves.
— Will Richardson / Why School? 

Hey, weren’t we just talking about that last Friday? And haven’t we been discussing the importance of self-reliance, self-motivation, and self-assessment all year long?

Gee wiz, I wonder if all that self-hyphonated stuff is really all that important. I mean, after all, it’s just your life.

No big deal, right?

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Note: I started Will’s book on Saturday and was so struck by the synchronicity of the context of that passage (and how the book came to be in my hands at that point in time) that I had to share it with you. Synchronicity is an utterly amazing experience. (But very difficult to describe.)

The best attempt to lay this ghost in the machinery of things, is perhaps the collaboration in 1952 of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and a great psychologist. Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Gustav Jung attributed coincidence to an acausal connecting principle which operates independently of the known laws of classical physics… And when such exceptions operate independently of time and space, linking events in strange and unexpected ways, meaningful coincidences take place. They called this Synchronicity.
— Lyall Watson / Beyond Supernature 

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Guild Recruiting: No more spamming. All players will use this page to recruit for their Guilds. (Bookmark it, Danno)

Required: Watch the videos associated with the Quests (below) before doing anything else today.

Hint: Finding Hidden Treasure is not required but you’re a bonehead if you intentionally skip it.

Quests

• Vector & Raster (100+25)
• Rule of Thirds (80+25)
• ZoonooZ
• Make Your Mark (75+25)
• Hidden Treasure I (105+50) ↑ (it’s up there)
• Hidden Treasure II (150+75) ↑ (it’s up there too)

Kudos: Thanks to Semar and Emily for the peek into the future when a Mac Lab alum will sit at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. (From an AP Government project. Why they’re feeding two birds with one seed!)

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1023: You’ve got a sub today (the Boss is co-presenting a MyThology webinar today.) Be good.

Groundhog Day Warning: Some of the players skipped the Quest requirements yesterday. Not wise (because the Boss has the page counts). If players continue to choose to cheat and prospect for Fool’s Gold today, Groundhog Day will happen tomorrow. (Ask a veteran what that means.)*

*Players in the 1/2 block, ask Alpha (computer 20) when he comes in second period.

Robotics Team: Meeting in room 509 Wednesday at lunch. Interested in joining?

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1024: Very cool webinar yesterday but would you believe six students in period 6 were playing games when I walked in? They’ll each be joining us this weekend for…

MLSS: Mac Lab Saturday School this weekend from 6:00 to 12:00.

Quest

• The Final 10% (80+25)

Robotics Team: Meeting in room 509 today at lunch. Interested in joining?

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1025 + 26: Visitor, the day is yours. Quest on, brave digital warrior!

MLSS: Mac Lab Saturday School tomorrow from 6:00 to 12:00.

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MLSS: You may work on your projects or play WoW* (for up to 20 hours of extra time this semester). No other games or activities are allowed during MLSS.

*If you don’t have an account, play for free. If you do have an account, you must create (and play) an Alliance character on Khaz Modan, ask for a Guild invite, and work together to level TAG. Read the Guild update when you join to take advantage of Guild perks.

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