5 Angles On a Pin.ppt

I. Why is the parable寓言 entitled “Angels on a Pin”? Medieval scholastics 老学究were fond of debating such meaningless questions as “How many angels can dance on the point of a pin,” “Did Adam have a navel,肚脐” and “Do angels defecate.澄清” The emerging sciences replaced such scholarly debates with experimentation and appeals to observable 引人注目的fact. Callandra seems to be suggesting that exploring the deep inner logic of a subject in a pedantic 书生其气的way is similar to the empty arguments of scholasticism墨守成规. He compares this to the ‘new math’, so much in the news in the 60s, which attempted to replace rote memorization 死记硬背instead of creativity, and he seems to be deriding 嘲笑that effort, too. II. What Is Meant By Academic Creativity? It is a way of thinking about, learning, and producing information in school subjects such as science, mathematics, and history. Creative thinking and learning involve such abilities as evaluation (especially the ability to sense problems, inconsistencies矛盾 etc）; divergent发散性的 production (e.g.,fluency, flexibility, originality); and redefinition. What do you see? What do you see? What do you see? What do you see? What do you see? 三维图片欣赏，是两颗心哦（听人说，看不出三维图的是小脑有问题。哈哈。^_^） 三维立体画的看图技巧： 首先要让你的眼睛休息三分种，在三维立体画上方中间位置用视线确定两个点，然后用稍微模糊的视线越过三维立体画眺望远方；这时就会看到从两个点各自分离出另外两个点，成为四个点，这时侯图象就会模糊起来，不要急，调整你的视线，试图将里面的两个点合成一个点，当四个点变成三个点时，你就会看到立体图象了。(建议使用IE5.0及800*600分辨率来取得最佳浏览效果) 你看出了图中的小鸟吗? ^_^ III. How Adults Kill Creativity? Insisting that children do things the right way. Teaching a child to think that there is just one right way to do things . Pressuring children to be realistic, to stop imagining. Making comparisons with other children. Discouraging childrens curiosity. We often brush questions aside漠视 because we are too busy for silly questions. 　 IV. What Can Parents Do? It is natural for young children to learn creatively by dancing, singing, storytelling, playing make-believe, and so forth. One of the first challenges to creativity may be formal scho