Sunday, April 8, 2018

Polianthes: What do teaching in Scottish Country Dancing & The College of Piping (eg Green Tutor) have in common as cultures of instruction? What's particularly Scottish about these learning methods - in terms of theories of learning?, A theory of Scottish learning & then built upon leading to further change & development & teachings?, What further gets to Scottish beauty, freedom, skill, excellence, virtuosity, delight+ - as a theory of learning - eg re strathspeys & Piobaireachd?, Playing with MuseScore composing software with Scottish Country Dance sheet music, Made about my 14th robot out of Lego WeDo 2.0 Education kit, Studying the biology of "dreaming" - re Reed College's Psychology Prof. Les Squier's thinking - and with brain wave headsets, a realistic virtual earth with species and individual organisms including their brains and at the cellular and atomic levels? From brain wave headsets into "visualizing" into a realistic virtual earth (think SL / OpenSim)? How best to approach the study of dreams scientifically, now with new information- and technology-informed scientific methods, in these regards?


What do teaching in Scottish Country Dancing & The College of Piping (eg Green Tutor) have in common as cultures of instruction? What's particularly Scottish about these learning methods-in terms of theories of learning? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing … & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials …? Content




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/982781082838810624

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If it's particularly Scots' art, dance & music forms re https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/982781082838810624 … -
with long cultural histories that inform method, what further gets to Scottish beauty, freedom, skill, excellence, virtuosity, delight+ - as a theory of learning - eg re strathspeys & Piobaireachd?




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/982782983126958080


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And what are the actual practices of teaching Scottish Country Dance & Bagpiping extrapolated from these traditions' books of instruction & leading to a theory of Scottish learning https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/982781082838810624 … - & then built upon leading to further change & development & teachings?




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/982784460071493633


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With regard to Scots' principles of learning & teaching Scottish Country Dancing and Bagpiping re (eg The College of Piping's Green Tutor Vol 1 & Yellow Tutor Vol 2 for Piobaireachd) in what ways could one best develop these even toward creating Scottish teaching robots - with regard to Scots' culture and learning?




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/982788293623398402

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/982789842693062658

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It's SCOTS' LANGUAGE (here too as culture, and so immersive) of teaching in SCD (eg "The Manual" https://www.rscds.org/document/1167) & The College of Piping (eg Green Tutor) which is far-reaching informing these cultures of instruction re https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/982781082838810624 How to extrapolate for creativity CRAIC & SKIRL generation? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing ~




https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/983035073799774208

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https://twitter.com/SpirosMargaris/status/982126664980152320


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https://twitter.com/whiskyandtartan/status/982649222125314048



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Hi M, 

What are you up to today, and how are you? Didn't go Scottish country dancing yesterday in Mountain View - too far to go just for Scottish Country Dancing ... will wait for a Stanford event to coincide with travel there - possibly next Wednesday. 


On with taxes here ... 

My blog is generative of ideas ... and kind of flourishing in an ongoing way ... am beginning to play with the MuseScore composing software with Scottish Country Dance sheet music, thanks to Martha P. who plays whistles in SCD fairly regularly. New kinds of building blocks to play with ... 

L, Scott

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Hi M,

Made about my 14th robot out of Lego WeDo 2.0 Education kit and this one is a bee pollinator flying around a flower - all out of Lego - quite fantastic, and it moves. I'll post a video, but here's the idea - https://youtu.be/zqVCB92OGiQ with the little drag and drop programming bricks ... This Lego WeDo 2.0 set is very well conceived with much creative potential in the little Lego blocks, the programming bricks, the motor, two sensors, and a smart hub and building potentials. 

You might enjoy these Telemann trumpet concertos ... https://youtu.be/zwucraB-8ew ... https://youtu.be/Jyv7n6jKWtE ... very cheery and somehow brilliant! 

This was one of my favorite professors at Reed, Les Squier - http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/june2011/articles/features/squier.html (from the Reed Magazine in 2011, here too - https://issuu.com/reedcollege/docs/issuu_2011_06) - and I think that's a picture of the back of me from around 1980 or 1981 (since I wore suspenders occasionally, had longish hair and a beard) .

What are you up to today? And how are you? Hope you have a great day. 

L, Scott

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Hi M, 

How are you? How was your day?

While I enjoyed Reed College Professor of Psychology (from 1955-1988) Leslie Squier's intelligence, and his sympathetic academic understandings - and his wide ranging knowledge and thinking about psychology - here below is an example of a paper he wrote that focuses on one of his areas of inquiry in psychology - dreaming - and about which you'll read a critical thinking approach to the way its taught in the 42 college psychology text books they looked at at the time. (Les had gotten his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and had also adopted two African American kids).

And while I have an interest in the brain and modeling this in an interactive realistic world, and re brain wave headsets, it would also be very interesting to explore dreaming in new ways with this. 
(Here's Reed Professor of Psychology Del Rhodes's CV - https://www.reed.edu/psychology/faculty/rhodes.html - who was a colleague of Les Squier, and a prof when I was there. Professors can be forgotten about fairly quickly, and she would remember Les - AND though there's even a Squier Psychology retreat - https://www.reed.edu/psychology/squier-retreat.html - but it takes focus).

Dad thought about some of these questions, and wrote this https://web.archive.org/web/20100728104149/http://www.pitt.edu/~gmacleod/ and I wrote this which has references too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_K._MacLeod.

If I ever become financially settled with WUaS, I think I would bequeath some of my estate to World University and School, and have my family hold the rest of the monies (The Walmart family owns about %50 of Walmart which is one of the largest companies in the world). I write this because of reading some of the Reed College articles about Les and other retired and past professors, and that some of them bequeath their monies to Reed. I'd like to have a family, and to give anything I have to them, charity and WUaS. 

Probably heading to Scottish Country Dancing tonight in Berkeley. What are you up to ? Are you heading to music - symphony or other?



The presentation of dreaming and dreams in introductory psychology textbooks: A critical examination with suggestions for textbook authors and course instructors.




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Journal Article
Database: PsycARTICLES

Squier, Leslie H. Domhoff, G. William

Citation
Squier, L. H., & Domhoff, G. W. (1998). The presentation of dreaming and dreams in introductory psychology textbooks: A critical examination with suggestions for textbook authors and course instructors. Dreaming, 8(3), 149-168.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0094486


Abstract

The treatment of dreaming and dreams in 42 introductory psychology textbooks is examined in terms of (1) the context within which the discussion appears; (2) the frequency with which various topics are addressed; and (3) the adequacy of the treatment given to each topic, with "adequacy" indexed by (a) the accuracy with which sources are used; (b) the range of the literature included; and (c) the degree to which critiques within the literature are acknowledged. It is concluded that most textbooks have inadequate presentations of dreaming and dreams because they either (1) equate REM sleep and dreaming; (2) are uncritical of the activation-synthesis and problem-solving theories of dreaming; (3) exaggerate the possibilities of "lucidity" and "control" in dreams; (4) do not give a full and accurate account of systematic work on dream content; or (5) ignore work showing that dreaming is a cognitive process that develops gradually during childhood. Suggestions are made to improve future discussions of dreaming by course instructors and textbook authors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)




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Hi M,

What are you up to this weekend? 

There's a picture of old Reed friends of mine Nancy Larson and Mike O'Sullivan which is really emblematic of a great marriage in my thinking ... they look very happy/content together - and Nancy is very sympathetic in general (as is Mike) ... I went to their wedding in the Quaker Meeting in Portland, Oregon. We we were all students at Reed together. Am curious about heading in this direction of the photo in my marriage ... and with whom? (Mike and Nancy have lived in the San Diego area for decades, but I don't think they're active with a Quaker Meeting there anymore ... but have never learned why).

Did some inverted yoga - Adho Mukha Svanasana (downward facing dog pose - for arms, and the whole body), Sirsasana (head stand), Sarvangasana (shoulder stand) yesterday ... good repertory to have for invigorating/engaging many parts of the bodymind exercise-wise over time ... until we're 112 or 220? :) There's also a kind of attuning, inner ecology well-being and health-generation that these asanas benefit ... Yoga is interesting process ... and sometimes I compare the poses to both musical pieces, as well as inner neurophysiology ecosystem engagers - with a consciousness/ thinking aspect in the "whole" of this Yoga process - the bodymind has so many cells and atoms, and biological processes! 

Went Scottish Country Dancing was fun as well - getting strong / fit has merit ... but is an interesting inner dialogue through time ... about when and whether to go out for a walk ... or to a dance.

I head into Berkeley and to Stanford quite regularly ... The roads I travel along from Canyon are very wooded ... and the freeways when I take them are wide and sometimes with 5 lanes in each direction ... The SF Bay Area / California are interesting ... more about the roads and ways around here soon ... 

Have a great day ...

L,
Scott
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Hi M,

Studying the biology of "dreaming" - re Reed College's Psychology Psychology Prof. Les Squier's thinking - and with brain wave headsets, a realistic virtual earth with species and individual organisms including their brains and at the cellular and atomic levels? From brain wave headsets into "visualizing" into a realistic virtual earth (think SL / OpenSim)? How best to approach the study of dreams scientifically, now with new information and technology informed scientific methods, in these regards?

 ... where not only at Harbin but also in Canyon, there may be legacies of "a culture of scarcity" (something I write about in my Naked Harbin Ethnography). Have definitely navigated into this Canyon house-let ...

Hoping to apply for WUaS funding through grant writing via Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, having attended a meeting about this in her office in SF last week ... and explore becoming a professor at, as well as a WUaS collaboration with, UC Berkeley ... would seek to buy a house and have a family if I was able to begin to earn a living. The dreaming and IT ideas above could be a further aspect of what I would bring idea-wise to UC Berkeley as a professor.

Have done Yoga headstand and shoulder stand two days in a row ... there's something about exercise, even engaging/stressing the bodymind that's beneficial, even with my scepticism of some of these aspects of (Iyengar-related) yoga ... and re a kind of ecology questions too ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html (in which I seek to explore questions of Yoga re ecology / evolutionary biology, with a focus on the latter). 

What are you up to today? And how was your day yesterday? Did you go to symphony or book group yesterday evening?

L,
Scott

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Studying the biology of "dreaming" - re Reed College's Psychology Psychology Prof. Les Squier's thinking ... http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-12333-002 ... (Les again had a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley from the early 1950s I think, since he seems to have started teaching at Reed in 1955) - and with brain wave headsets, a realistic virtual earth with species and individual organisms including their brains and at the cellular and atomic levels? From brain wave headsets into "visualizing" into a realistic virtual earth (think SL / OpenSim)? How best to approach the study of dreams scientifically, now with new information- and technology-informed scientific methods, in these regards?






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