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Alternatives in the Classroom
Christopher D. Green
York University
• Classics in the History of
Psychology
• History & Theory of Psychology
Eprint Archive
• History & Theory of Psychology
Question & Answer Forum
• An Academy in Crisis…
• Toward a School of Their Own…
• Classics in the History of
Psychology
• History & Theory of Psychology
Eprint Archive
• History & Theory of Psychology
Question & Answer Forum
• An Academy in Crisis…
• Toward a School of Their Own…
Edward R. Tufte
Very Important Numbers
12
90
12
44
66
22
90
38
09
83
89
25
67
07
48
16
25
93
77
73
59
03
99
72
36
56
03
16
53
98
09
36
45
28
72
32
36
94
83
33
70
73
87
85
92
81
73
83
97
15
83
59
34
77
12
23
59
32
28
06
38
45
09
36
84
98
45
99
22
11
Vision Statement
• Improve quality of produce
• Sell more quality produce
• Become national market
leader in quality produce
• Conquer world
• Master of the universe
The Sun is FAR AWAY!
• Speaking: 100-160 words/min.
• Reading: 300-1000 words/min.
• Mdn. PowerPoint slide:
40 words
• Mdn. PowerPoint textbook slide:
15 words
Vision Statement
• Improve quality of produce
• Sell more quality produce
• Become national market
leader in quality produce
• Conquer world
• Master of the universe
Vision Statement
• Improve quality of produce
• Sell more quality produce
• Become national market
leader in quality produce
• Conquer world
• Master of the universe
Vision Statement
• Improve quality of produce
• Sell more quality produce
• Become national market
leader in quality produce
• Conquer world
Vision Statement
• Improve quality of produce
• Sell more quality produce
• Become national market
leader in quality produce
Vision Statement
• Improve quality of produce
• Sell more quality produce
Gettysburg Cemetery
Dedication
Abraham Lincoln
Review of Key Objectives &
Critical Success Factors

What makes nation unique:
Conceived in liberty
Men are equal

Shared vision:
New birth of freedom
Gov’t of/for/by people
Summary
New nation
 Civil War
 Dedicate field
 Dedicated to unfinished work
 New birth of freedom
 Government not perish

enough
Green's First Law of
Classroom Technology
Other things being equal, a low-tech
solution is always preferable to a
high-tech solution because the hightech solution has an indeterminately
higher number of ways to fail.
Plato (427-347 B.C.E.):
• Biographical background
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aristocratic family
political involvement
pupil of Socrates (Phaedo)
founded Academy (Akademia) 387 B.C.E. (closed in 529
by Justinian)
• Ideas
– epistemology ideas, universal forms
– reason > experience
– nativism (anamnesis)
• ethics
– reason > pleasure; soul > body
– philosopher-king
• Influence:
– Stoicism, Neoplatonism, Christianity, Continental Idealism
fin
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