Sometimes I check the weather at my "other" home, Minneapolis. Currently:
That being the case, the local weather isn't so cold at all.
Day: December 6, 2013
Caveat: Los Crazy Boys
My lowest-level elementary class is a group of 4 boys, who have earned the nickname "los crazy boys." I think I started using this nickname because one day I started talking to them in Spanish out of frustration – I do this occasionally just to bewilder my students – and they began imitating me in a kind of "lalalala" way.
Los crazy boys are very low-level. They're not my youngest – they're 3rd and 4th graders – but they have lower ability than my little ones. But I try to have fun with them anyway, and I try to put the pressure on to learn something – the video camera is useful for putting on the pressure, so I use it pretty regularly. Here they are giving speeches about what they and their peers want to be when they grow up.
The best: James wants to be a doctor, because "knife is fun." …Not sure this is the surgeon I want.
Caveat: On Will
"Will is merely the drive to reduce dissonance between each of our active neural circuits." – An internet philosopher who goes by "Athene."
I'm really not sure what to make of this. At one level, it's pretty serious philosophy with strong grounding in the sciences. On the other hand, it seems gimicky in presentation, and I have some scepticism because of that. And what's with that voice? Something computer-generated, I think.
[daily log: walking, 7.5 km; running, 3 km]