Bridging Times

There have been many articles in recent months and years about “time” some, more technical try to explain the physics of time, the origin, and the psychological implications of its understanding. A comprehensive review was published in a special edition of Scientific American (May 06) titled “A Matter of Time”. All agree in one thing: We really don’t know what time is or how we can change our perception of time. Based on this understanding or lack of it many have tried to make a practical use of the organization of activities base on calendars and managerial tips. Some books and articles have proposed ways in which time can be administered, such as Allen C. Bluedorn in his book “The Human Organization of Time: Temporal realities and experience.”

The work done in these two areas the psychological and the physical have been kept more or less separated. As we have little knowledge of how to connect them. Thus one objective for this study is to find a connection between the physical reality of time and the perception that humans have of it. Hoping that a deeper understanding based on these experiences may help to design new ways in which the learning process can be organized.

From the pedagogical point of view this knowledge will also allow us to design course material- content and experiential- that will provide college students with the tools necessary for their integration to society as they move forward. Is in this context that the role of the teacher is reframed as a facilitator more than a conveyor of information. The instructor’s role has to become flexible in the use of time and in his/her approach to time “management”.

Every Day There Is Something New

Every day we face something new in our lives. This constitutes a continuous learning process. Today I am using the new version of "blogger" and as I log into my account I find that the cookie feature of my web browser has to be changed, of course I have some hesitation as I don't want to change the security features in my browser so i try to go around way in which I can log on without having to change the browser's settings. Somehow I did it, but I am not sure how I did it ;-) I have to review the process and then analyze it to learn which of the steps I did are relevant to the purpose intended and which are not.
As I use this new version I find that it has advantages over the previous one giving me the satisfaction of knowing that I have some progress in my use of this software.

Chemistry Experiments

This blog is an example of how people are showing "timely" experiments as they show them to the whole world: thedisgruntled.blogspot.com/2006/04/diet-coke-and=mentos-experimental.html