Honestly, you go to a ballgame and never see the defense at work. It's all run-down-the-court and shoot-score!
Well, this past week, the professional players came together in one, big defensive move: they refused to play to protest another killing of an unarmed black man. And to my mind, they all scored big!
So online learning is just an extension what I did in those pioneer efforts of course instruction in independent learning situations. But in those days, college students were unused to "being on their own."
However, even then meeting with an instructor was always an option, if not periodically required as part of the instruction package. And there was always office hours for consultation one-on-one.
I even offered a course in the classroom where my lectures were presented via tape. That wouldn't necessarily be the case that I was not physically present for a lecture's presentation on tape--to answer questions, interact with students.
Motivating students to regularly and systematically study I found more difficult a challenge for learning to occur than when offering the regular teaching through the classroom. But I even took courses in college at the time via independent learning, so to indicate my dedication to the method. It just requires training to learn that way, i.e., the independent method of learning.
The point I'm getting to is that there are very great advantages to learning independently vs. learning through the typical classroom setting--I am convinced!
The occasion of the current pandemic has provided the opportunity for school children as well as adults to truly identify themselves as learners, its being just part of their nature.
Picture a school kid. He's got food in his home; he's got a bed. And what should be just as dear to his heart as these goodies? -- is a computer teaching him, inculcating his mind.
This pandemic has opened up the potential to introduce local internet stations--at a nearby church, a community center, even a restaurant. Remember those ma and pa Chinese restaurants where after school, the children would go to their parents' store and study and play there till off to their beds? A close-to-home restaurant setting for learning might be just the thing to sway the kid into thinking himself a learner.
The thing about schools, is that they're just too far away from what things an individual identifies with--the teddies of a grown person! Bring back the store where a person worked that also was his home- address as a craftsman in the Middle Ages!
We're close to re-introducing the idea in modern parlance. What we're at, in my opinion, is a nearby learning pod, where the kid has access to a computer. And now with 5G computer networks, the kid--learner in his own pad--is just about a reality.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson may be taking account of where Britain is now in the scheme of international affairs after his resounding success.
I have been arguing that GB should expand and intensify efforts on behalf of the consortium of nations it has founded. But this would only be a logical step in its maintenance of London's prominence as a financial epicenter of the world. Its world-wide respect is at the apex. Take advantage of your greatness.
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The issue is respecting equally those persons who are within the bounds of the country.
It's a matter of the law. Police conduct with the citizenry and those others in the country must be monitored that individual rights are not violated.
Kamala Harris has spent her career dedicated to matters legal and the principles governing the rule of law.
Recently, New York University studied the nation's police departments, I understand. They devised a model for contemporary engagement between those representing the law and the police; and the ordinary citizen. The model has been used to upgrade the police department in Camden, New Jersey.
From these beginnings, comes the need to effect change nationwide updating to bring police departments up to the requirements to modern life.
Kamala Harris could be the spark to lead to the transformation of police departments to the needs of the modern era. She knows the system and areas needed to improve it profoundly.
