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Archive for 29 April 2009

"Predator" - you probably remember. Arnold S. his character today and in real life acting governor of the State of California, and his buddy from the special unit will actually deliver in Central America, a minister from rebel hands meet, but in such a nasty, lousy monster "from outer space", which opens up a slaughter. So far, so familiar, the movie is 22 years old, is a genre classic and is really not the worst of what Hollywood has thrown on the market. For this film we are to take life lessons?

Have one of these finds, which aroused my attention from the title alone: ​​8 Life Lessons We Can All Learn from "Predator" .

My highlights:

Payback Is A Bitch: ... this scene should make you think twice about the consequences before you do something to piss off someone else.
(Revenge is a bitch ... that scene you should be thinking twice about the consequences before you do something that makes someone else angry.)

A certain amount of truth is not to deny, but we need for this in-depth knowledge "Predator"?

Just because you're the boss does not mean you get a free pass to suck.
(Just because you are the boss, does not mean they have carte blanche to be shit.)

Right. Shit is not tied to rank and name, yet it depends on hierarchies. And yet it is true that very often the executive suite to the fact his shit, more than savored to the fullest - and usually it also comes through.

Upon storming the guerrilla camp, Blain takes a bullet. When he's asked about it, he replies simply, "I is not got time to bleed." [...]
Somehow, we find time to update our Twitter and Facebook pages 30 times a day, while this guy does not even have time to bleed. A lot more would get done if we shared his sense of urgency.
. (During the storming of the guerrilla camp hits a ball Blain When asked, he replied only: "I have no time to bleed." [...]
Somehow we find time to our Twitter and Facebook pages to update 30 times a day, while this guy does not even have time to bleed. Much more could be done, we would share his sense of urgency.)

Fits. I sometimes do not even have the time, no time to have. I know this only too well. Recently, I used to just maintain an outpatient basis, the state of bladder filling was downright annoying, but I just had no time to give in to. Eventually, after only holding back the external sphincter of the bladder and the urine content in the brain have developed toxic effects, there was no other way, and I had to drive into the station and ... well, you know already. When customers do not you go to the toilet, take time outpatient, then you understand this
If you pinched long, it happens sometimes that one - caused by a spasm - a drop at a time and ever ... well, the halt. I was angry, mad at my urine, the bladder, the sphincter muscle. I clarify: I would under normal circumstances, become furious, but I did not have time for it.

When In Doubt, Fire Wildly Into The Woods [...] It's not the most efficient model for getting things done, but it's a lot better than sitting back and doing nothing.
(If in doubt, shoot wildly into the forest [...] It is not the most effective way to get something done, but it is much better than sit back and do nothing.)

Aha. Soso. Fires in the forest. As an allegory for the tackle still likes activism, but as we saw in the current global economic crisis may see activism is not always the solution to all problems. Sit back and do nothing but also not. For me it fails in the forest fires by the fact that I am lacking in firearms. But maybe it does in an emergency, a water pistol? Optionally, I could also try using cotton swabs throws. In any case: in the forest. I can see me.

Never Rely On The Help of Others [...] Self-reliance is a valuable trait to have, whether you're in the jungle or trying to get something on a really high shelf at Home Depot.
(Never trust [...] reliance on others is a valuable trait, whether you're in the jungle or try something on a really high board to grab the "Home Depot".)

Yeah, right, preferably makes everything alone. Outside help may come - but does not. Then roll up your sleeves and prefer to try their own hand. But this is no exclusive "Predator" is wisdom.

All this talk about killing is simply a metaphor for getting things done. With strategy, cooperation and lots of hard work, there really is not anything that can not be accomplished. It also helps if you bring a bunch of of machine guns.
(All this talk about the killing is simply a metaphor for creating something. With strategy, cooperation and a lot of hard work, there's really nothing that can not be overcome. It also helps if you bring a bunch of machine guns.)

D'accord. Strategy, cooperation, hard work - so it fits on almost everything we had "Predator" yet taught. Make themselves, rather than rely on outside help when in doubt shoot in the woods.

Where: What fires in the forest has to do with strategy? And revenge is a bitch, remember? If that's what you do want to create not by machine guns, it is probably true mightily pissed. Quite apart from the fact that Otto-Normal-bloggers like I have a very limited arsenal of weapons - cotton swabs and water pistols, you know.

Since laughs as a "predator" dead but also a variation to get at him ...

Hamburg is facing a massive restructuring. The schools should be reorganized. One of the - in my opinion - good ideas. Why is an attempt to do it differently than before, quite sensibly, is tells Christa Goetsch, Hamburg's senator for education and vocational training .

I have been studying ... oh, let's drop, minor delays are justified, after all, I work as a teacher at a vocational school and have children ... where was I? Oh yes, exactly, I study for upper secondary school teachers at vocational schools, specialized in health, and I have over the years of theorizing and practicing so made my thoughts on this topic.

Recently I found in my files a note on which I have written about three years ago my thoughts. One should move things from time to time in the heart, reflect and reassess. I've done, but it does not change much in my opinion. At most, it's more like three minutes to midnight, when it comes to implementation. Time is running out - we give away potential squandered.

So here are the thoughts that I wrote years ago. (I also remember exactly where: A seminar room in possibly ugliest building in the University of Hamburg, in which the professional educators are housed - an unadorned Funktionalbau, inadequately equipped, and yet to this day the most vivid, most inspiring place on the planet - because Wolfgang citizens the "fire" orators among educators, led the seminar.)

1st Idea: education should not depend on the social and / or ethnic origin!
Because there should be no doubt. In Germany, the transfer from the "bottom" to "above" is still a problem. language barriers stand in the way of true integration . Only those who are certainly moving in the terrain of language, has the chance to learn a second language (in this case, our German language as a common basis). The immigrant must not be hidden as a stigma, but should be integrated, preferably already in early childhood education. Especially this time window in which children are especially curious and receptive, offers an incredible amount of potential. A mandatory pre-school kindergarten year, ideally free of charge, with the inclusion of different cultures, but also a traditional language, in my opinion is indispensable.
German as a second language requires a fundamentally different approach but also by the school. There must be places where German can be practiced, lived spoken. For that reason I am for the introduction of all-day schools, which offer the chance to absorb deficits may be present in the family - and I include both German and immigrant families.

And one thing is essential: We are a country of immigrants with different ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds. The so admit, is important for integrative processes.

2nd Idea: Repeal of the different types of school, instead of common lessons to Year 10 Class!

My son is on a model primary school. There are preschoolers, first and second graders and third-and fourth-graders are taught together. Social skills, mutual assistance for the construction of knowledge and acceptance of responsibility towards others as are part of the learning culture. It works great. The graduate with a mother tongue other than German cut off well above average when it comes to mastering the German second language. Children learn together with and from each other. The primary school, which will be introduced from 2010 in Hamburg, allowing at least learning together up to 6th Class. IMHO a step in the right direction.

3rd Thought: teaching must be based on the acquisition of skills!

Professional, personal, social and methodical competence - as we learn in the study. There are a number of others dealing with learning technologies, media, design etc. . deal The teaching of these skills must be the focus of school learning. Today's children are adults of tomorrow. Many companies bemoan the lack of skills of school leavers. We can not and must no longer afford this army of partially insufficient armed men!
I know that this word can also have a negative connotation, but: Human capital is the most important thing we have.

4th Idea: Individualized instruction, which fetches each there where he stands!

Education, which measures all students with a degree, undifferentiated and without consideration of individual learning goals, anyone can get into the boat. In this way some of always driving alongside, at best, or from drifting out of reach and are, at worst. The high number of early school leavers without qualifications is a consequence. You can lie down a school biography, which satisfies the compulsory school attendance, her purely on the number of schooling years without significant success would be reported. In principle this is antisocial. We must look, discover and promote strengths, work on weaknesses, and awaken the joy of learning. This is not unwound curriculum, which has only the curricular requirements in mind. Schools must teach students that they are perceived taken seriously. (Eg My students have my home number, my ICQ and Email Address To put it bluntly:. No, they do not abuse it, though many friends had these concerns, but just in case they have a contact person.)
Nothing no one can! No one is useless. You just have to shake up the creativity. It is also sometimes unusual methods necessary.
However, we have too many who have hatred for school, find the learning to puke and teachers regard as enemies. Even at the elementary school my son is already sprayed it: "This school is shit."

5th Idea: more use of their senses!

We are mad, if we do not pack the learning conducive Potetial senses of both hands. "I did not understand now!" Be-attacked in the truest sense of the word. Feel, smell, see, experience, taste - how it works well with the learning!

6th Thought: We go too early before too selective!

In many children, has until the end of the 4th School year is not a sufficient tendency to one of the types of schools trained. You then have to sort into boxes is often (granted, not always) makes little sense. Shortly after my own elementary school was the introduction of the orientation stage - apparently it was recognized that the change in the 5th Class often no statement about the suitability can be made. But why must you destroy it functioning learning groups? Then let them learn to prefer six years together. Or even better: 10 (See second thought.)

7th Idea: Get rid of the lessons that separates strictly according to subjects. Dear interdisciplinary and teach with real problems!

Explained largely by themselves, right? Case studies from real life to solve require different content from different subjects. We had called earlier in math word problems. ("When three construction workers working on a construction site 6 days, how long then 17 construction workers working on the same site?") However, the responses required in my view too little cross-disciplinary content. Be honest: you buy one and rely solely on your computer skills? Even on such a real-life example can be made much more firmly: Healthy eating, reading, planning processes, writing, calculation ...

8th Idea: abolition of grades based solely on evidence, instead of introducing learning development reports!

I've written a term paper, added some kätzerisch, notes were issued in a few minutes. That was held against me at the time, and from experience in several professional schools, I know that it's not even true. And yet: A grade does not tell much. Whenever I assign grades, it was the end of the probationary period, before a conference or on the exam, most students ask to speak to know the reasons. They want to know their strengths and their weaknesses. Where they need to start to change things? What they can promote individual strengths? A report may make a little more work, but it is more meaningful.

9th Idea: promote your own thoughts and opinions!

School does not mean something to learn by heart and save pure facts. Learning does not save it all for a good score in the short-term memory, retrieve it to the point - and then forget again. Learning must be sustained, meaningful and focused. The message must be conveyed Why - why do I need it? When I think back to my history classes, for example ... oh my ... no one has asked initially why the preoccupation with the past in the here and now and the future is important. There were queried dates, and even if the exact date was minimal wrong, it was considered wrong. Here, a look back to open their eyes to current problems, when it is filled with thought, reflection and evaluation. Not nachkauen, is superior to related foreign exchange, but and positions. That's the way my son's school is already quite excellent - and he's only in the first Class!
Linking learning with views far outside the box, the promotion of cognitive skills and the claiming of opinions, even if they are perhaps inconvenient times - all this brings people forward.

10th Idea: learning can and should be fun!

What is the trend? And lifelong learning. For various reasons it is important not to rest at some point on their laurels, put your hands in your lap and wait for the pension (which is otherwise safe!). rewiring of the brain is possible at any age , and it is necessary. Who learns with abdominal pain and rejection, not to make much headway. Curiosity, creativity, desire is to promote learning at the task par excellence in the education system. If you ever have a training course or seminar attended, or the like so that on-stimulating and was like a waste paper collection, then you probably know what I mean. Or was the learning accordingly?

Sometimes you can even put a bag on his head, to reach people - after the laughter followed one of the most successful, most beautiful lessons of last time. What one does not do anything to keep the learning group in a good mood ...

In this sense ...

Many people take drugs. Somehow, everyone has their own personal drugs - some are completely legal (coffee, cigarettes, blogging), others are legal, but make thick (products of American fast food chains, chocolate!). Life is far too bleak without endorphins. - Interesting, what Americans consume as a made-up fancy graphics displays are thrown into what parts of the country which drugs smoked, or otherwise supplied to the body. In the broadest sense, it's about illegal drugs (drugs, marijuana, heroin, cocaine). Alcohol is missing - as so often happens in such statements. As a source, the U.S. Justice Department stated.

The mere implementation of the graphic is worth a visit.

Interesting in this context is the fact that drug use can be detected in the effluent. Here are some links:

Traces in wastewater: U.S. citizens snorting mostly on weekends

Drugs: The Coke strongholds in Europe and the U.S.

Science Scores: Revealing wastewater

Well, the movie that I've dug swallows, 23 minutes survival time. However, neuroscientist Michael Merzenich of the research results presented by incredible powers of the brain that are definitely worth 23 minutes of life time.

The brain has amazing capabilities that you can use both for injured brains, as well as the promotion of brain power. The brain can be actively re-wire itself is adaptable and responsive to changing situations and requirements. This plasticity can be used to restore lost functions and expand existing skills.

The speech of February 2009 is indeed in English, but IMHO well understood.

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