Creativity Exercises

For my left brain activity I finished a Sudoku puzzle and a probability problem that asked how many sock will I need to pull out of bureau drawer, with out looking, that has 10 of one color and 20 of another. I answered 3 which was right. This made me think about how many different socks were in the drawer and how many I needed. For my right brain I solved the line puzzle that was given on Wednesday that was on the site that was given to us. This puzzle I found to be challenging but I really got me to think about the steps I needed to take in order to complete the puzzle. "When primitive man screamed and beat the ground with sticks, they called it "witchcraft." When modern man does the same thing, they call it "golf." - Ann Landers. I liked the relationship that Ann created between witchcraft, the primitive era and modern golf. Me loving to play golf I got a chuckle. My inspiration is a quote that i got from the first Spiderman movie. The quote is from the Green Goblin and he said "We are who we choose to be, so choose." I like this quote because it reminds me that I and only I am in control of my life.

Focus the Nation

I took a look at the 2% solution video on the Focus the Nation website. The movie was a well put together documentary of the very real future of our nation with our continued fossil fuel consumption and solution to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The main solution that they talked about was reducing major industrial gas emissions by 2% each year until 2050 to reduce the grand total of pollution released to 80%. Dupont has already reduce there gas emissions by 67% from the late 1990's which is a great start.

A different possibility that we could reduce emissions is by selling oil permits to our major industries. This would restrict big industries to only a limited supply of oil forcing them to create clean and more effective means of production. Also the money gained by the government, on the better side of 100 billion dollars, could and hopefully would go into research and development of more and cleaner method of production and cleaner merchandise. Like say hydrogen cars.

If i were to ask my classroom to use this information I would ask them to budget the 100 billion dollars into different organizations that keep or create a more green environment.

Web 2.0 Educator

I took a look at Wesley Fryer's Blog and listened to a couple of his podcasts and he is a great motivational speaker and he has very well developed insights on education. It seem pretty clear from listening to his podcasts that Wes is an educator. He teaches and talks to others about a new age of learning. He describes that students respond more effectively when they instant feedback, like say a student is writing a poem and he or she writes and records it. When she listens to the recording she will know instantly if he or she would want to edit anything. Also he feels that sometimes when having a student do a project with the audience being the teacher, the student may not perform as well but put a little technology into the mix say instead of the audience be the teacher make the audience the world wide web, then you'll get a more positive outcome from students.