泡沫

总是爱或在幻想中，明知是不能实现的，可就是爱沉静其中。。。。。
就像圆圆的泡沫，总是带给人们一种不切实际的“真”。。。。。
让人明知道是假的，可就是无法认清它的假。。。。
它就是有着这种魅力。。。让人措手不及。。。。。

Thinking Map 2

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Thinking Map

The Brave New Citizen                                         By : Jamie Mckenzie

 This article is based on a keynote delivered at the November 2007 annual conference of the National Council of the social studies.

In essence, social studies promotes knowledge of and involvement in civic affairs. And because civic issues - such as health care, crime, and foreign policy - are multidisciplinary in nature, understanding these issues and developing resolutions to them require multidisciplinary education. These characteristics are the key defining aspects of social studies. NCSS Standards

New technologies promise all kinds of great miracles like stronger thinking and better writing, but it turns out that many of those promises amount to Fool's Gold, unless good teachers and good schools combat much of the marketing and pressure to substitute templates, wizards and short-cuts for careful research, logic and questioning.

These technologies bring a mix of peril and promise as they may promote and nurture desirable citizenship behaviors or may do the very opposite, spawning a generation content with the glib, the superficial and the well-packaged.

We must be on guard against the onset of "mentalsoftness" characterized by a preference for platitudes, near truths, slogans, jingles, catch phrases and buzzwords as well as vulnerability to propaganda, demagoguery and mass movements based on appeals to emotions, fears and prejudice.

Smart uses of new technologies such as mind-mapping software combined with strong questioning and the pursuit of "difficult truths" can serve as antidotes to the disturbing cultural drift brought on by an uncritical embrace of all things new and digital.