[audio-pals] Re: Big Assignment Next Week
- From: "Josh" <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:19:42 -0400
Thank you for the encouragement as the anxiety is starting to set in. I
figured someone would sign up with me, but they are all afraid of the first
presentation I suppose. I probably will pull from personal experience a lot
and my previous studies in psych since I have stepped out of the comfort
zone this semester and took classes outside of the psychology department.
However, a week from tomorrow night I can breathe a sigh of relief and know
that it is behind me.
We, Amanda and myself, stress to Little Man all the time how important
and how great imagination is. I tell him with an imagination he can go
anywhere and he can do anything he wants right now. I think I have pointed
out to him how his bed can be a speed boat if he so chooses in his
imagination. I have been in the middle of wars with him too at times in his
imagination. I hate this time of year though as school takes a lot of time
away from that. He sat down tonight with some crayons and paper and said
Amanda told him the other day that artist start out by just drawing circles
and shapes so from that I gather that he probably was drawing circles and
various shapes on his paper who knows in his mind he may have been
Michaelangelo painting the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
You bring up a good point with toys basically doing it all and then you
think about electronics. Why not instead of giving them a game to play, have
them build their own electronic game? I don't mean with the degree that game
developers develop games, but they started somewhere. At least if the kids
are building their own electronic game then they can make it into what their
imagination thinks of rather than what the game developers imagination
thought of. I am sure there is a way to give the kids that ability. I
imagine the reason they don't is it would take their job. I am sure there is
a way to basically give them a blank screen and let the kids go to work with
their imagination using the remote control. Some games are restrictive as to
what you can do with them, but if they make it so that the mind is the limit
when developing the game then I believe it would take steps to bring
creativity back.
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And you should get all the credit too grade wise.
There are some other things involved with kids too. How many toys for
example nowadays practically play themselves? Yet at Christmas how often do
the kids put down the actual toys after a bit and start playing with the
boxes still? Yes it's also the encouragement of creativity at home too. It
is more likely to survive at home, but imagination not being used also
dampens creativity too.
Get Little Man some hot wheels or matchbox cars one day, and a few odds and
ends, boxes, a rug as an area, see what other odds and ends he can find and
see what his mind will come up with for play. Of course it helps to have
others to play too, my brothers and I played with stuff like that for hours.
Batteries make great tanks, which leads to stories, which means the
deployment of firetrucks etc. That's just one thing, half the fun is
setting up the story to be played out, yet in the long run it probably
wasn't really all that expensive. But that was what we would do with any
spending money was to add to our car collection. Of course they also liked
to put modle cars together too. I didn't do that though, but would play
with them once put together.
The fortunate thing for you is that you already live in your lab for this
one class, family stress, and any other dynamic of class that involves the
family. So you can come at it from a practical viewpoint to back pup what
you say. Not all academic as the average 18 year old would be working from.
I think in the long run you are probably going to do okay in this class.
L M also now has an advantage in that he has family around who are involved
with his actual life and care enough to both set up a framework around him
to protect him but yet I think to also encourage him to both learn and be
creative within that framework, so that later in life he will be able to
both problem solve well, but also be able to come up with ideas of his own.
There's no telling what he will wind up doing, but isn't that in itself
quite interesting?
Btw, we didn't actually set things on fire either. Well not inside and not
with our matchbox cars *lol*. There was a modle battleship that got plopped
into a good sized puddle set on fire and then shot at with a bee bee gun
though.
On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:54 AM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I think you are on the right track that is for sure. I listened
> to a Ted Talk the other day about schools destroying creativity. If
> you can't think for yourself and be creative then what are you going
> to do? Well, the answer is you are going to do whatever society pushes
> you into. This is what the government wants though, pons for their
> game. Makes you question what is really behind "Common Core" or at
> least it leaves me questioning what the purpose is in it, it is a big
> school movement not only here , but I believe other countries as well.
> Are they systematically breaking down our youth to fall into place on
> the board for perhaps the one world government? Are they using the guise
of Common Core for something bigger?
> Well, on to the school project. It appears that I will be doing this
> class lecture alone. I have to think positively though if this happens
> to be the case. If I am working alone, then that means I get to make
> all the decisions *LOL*.
>
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>
> Have ideas, but a lot is political in nature. Education though is a
> big part of it, but some other things too.
>
> Music now is as much put together using a computer of some sort as
> apposed to skill. For any given project in the 40s and 50s you had
> more hands and heads involved directly contributing to a given peace.
> There of course is the obvious too, the standard has fallen off too,
> but that includes the standard of what people will go purchase too, so
> the consumer is equally to blame too.
>
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 5:00 AM, Daniel Crone <averagegrabbag@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>> I cannot understand how r and b of the 1940's, 50's, and 60's could
>> be so
> full of art and diversity, and how so much music has gone so far down
hill.
> Rap, not all, but much of it, is nothing but anger and disrespect.
>> On Aug 25, 2014, at 8:02 PM, "Josh" <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, one of the big assignments is coming up next week. I signed up
>>> for
> a group presentation that is to be given on Sept. 3. There is supposed
> to be
> 3 other members in my group, but being that it is the first group no
> one is signing up *LOL*. My thoughts are do it and get it over with,
> then the rest of the semester I can listen to the presentations. The
> presentation is 20 minutes long, the longest presentation that I have
> given since being at the university. well the longest presentation I
> have given period since starting college. The good thing is the video
> can be up to 5 minutes long and I found one that was 46 seconds long
> and then I found another one that was 200 seconds long so 4 minutes
> and 6 seconds. The videos are funny, but I had to ask Amanda about
> both of them to make sure what the content was and one to make sure
> that they were appropriate. Given the audience I believe they will be
> just fine. The presentation is on parental stress and family stress
> theory or something to that nature. One video is of penguins, a hand
> full of baby penguins and then the momma penguin, the penguins are
> going off and then all of a sudden the momma penguin kicks one of them
> off into the water *LOL*. After that they all shut up for a second and
> then started right back into it. The next one is a rap song about
> parental stress and at one point she says I have all my "bitches and
> hoes" with me, but when Amanda watched it, it was concluded that she
> was being politically correct as in the video there were two dogs and
> then when she said "hoes" it showed her with her garden hoes. So, that
> was the extent of the videos. I just about kicked the song due to the
> language, but then when Amanda watched it I decided to keep it. It is
> now in my professor's inbox waiting for approval. Anyways if you all
> will, keep me in your prayers regarding this presentation. One of the
videos that I am going to paste at the bottom is very much so visual, but
Bethann and the other sighted members can enjoy that one and we can all if
> we choose to enjoy the song.
>>>
>>> 46 seconds: Lead into the presentation
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43dZMf2tEY
>>>
>>> 200 Seconds: Finish out the lecture
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbBsDbkmYtM
>>>
>>>
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