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I agree.   LINK to Train your brain
Search "12 prescriptions for better brain health"
Dr. Daniel Amen has pointed out that there are things we do and things we think about and things that we eat that improve blood flow to the brain (positive thoughts, fish oil, exercise, enough sleep).
PART 2
Dr. Amen has also pointed out that there are things we do and things we think about and things that we eat that decrease blood flow to the brain (negative thoughts, certain drugs, alcohol, lack of exercise, not enough sleep, too much texting, multi-tasking... and overstimulation of the brain through looking at provocative images.)

Perhaps our country could learn from our grandparents.

Doug Weiss has pointed out that we were "clean" as a nation compared to now when children have access 24/7 to images and movies that their great, great, grandparents never saw.   We can go back by following the example of some countries that limit the use of sexuality in advertising (Norway), that restrict alcohol (some Middle East countries), that encourage people to exercise (many European countries), that remove worry by funding health care for all members of the society (Germany).

Go ahead, look at this page . https://fightthenewdrug.org/overview/

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Read about how to improve advertising.... 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4188813?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-trondheim-ban-adverts-semi-naked-models-negative-body-image-a7026421.html

A Norwegian city has annonced the advertisements cannot have scantily-clad models.  the move is aimed to promote healthy body images.

Advertisers will not be given the right to show men or women in bathing suits in Trondheim, Norway.

The new policy reads: “No advertising that puts up a false or enhanced images of people can be shown, since these altered photos encourage a negative self-perception in the viewers of the ads."

Caitlin Roper of Collective Shout, said: “It’s great to see Trondheim taking action about too much skin in ads.   Advertising that show women as objects should not appear."

This article was posted in 2016

THE PLEASURE TRAP

See the notes from the Tom Bilyeu video interview with Dr. Amen

SHOW NOTES How to make a good brain great [01:07] Why contact sports are worse than cocaine [03:59] How to stop automatic negative thoughts [05:54] 5 questions to ask yourself when you're feeling anxious [09:16] Techniques to calm anxiety [15:00] Simple places to start improving your brain heath [16:47] Everything you're probably doing that's destroying your brain [19:56] The foods you should and shouldn't be eating for your brain [20:50] The lifestyle factors you must change now [24:24] The ideal lifestyle and dietary factors that will improve your brain [31:09] Dr. Amen's thoughts on keto [34:02] How to approach an elimination diet [35:43] Why it's so difficult to get people to change [39:51] The importance of flooding all your senses with happiness [43:53]

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University of Utrecht demonstrated a drone ambulance.  The video went viral.   

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LEARN ABOUT Doug Weiss and his work
Free App: Daily marriage and sexual purity tips for men and spouses of men thatstruggle with sex addiction. On your app store download DrDougsTips.

Free Newsletter: Sign up at http://drdougweiss.com . https://www.drdougweiss.com/blog/
Vision by Dr. Weiss:   I see men who have allowed their lives to spiral out of control and now, as they hit rock bottom, they have become desperate for help. I also see broken-hearted wives, shocked at what they have just learned about the man they married. I have been free from sexual addiction for over 30 years and I want everyone to experience the freedom that I have.

See Dr. Weiss on Vimeo

From Dr. Weiss' YouTube channel:
(In green italics)
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We are called to be clean as men of God. You can be clean no matter what background, struggle or addiction you are coming from. This series of videos will teach you the principles which will allow you to create a clean lifestyle and break free from sexual addiction. There is a war going on in our generation. It is a sexual attack against our values, beliefs and morals. This war is being fought everywhere from the internet to media to mainstream TV and in other areas. Men, women and children are all being negatively affected by the sexual war. Almost half of all men in churches struggle with pornography. The porn industry is one of the biggest businesses in the world. In this session I want you to prayerfully consider your boundaries around: 1. Television - how much do you need to watch? What are your boundaries around movies? 2. Internet - do you have a porn blocker? 3. Social Media - are your social media accounts clean? 4. Texting Women - are you texting other women and what are you sending them? We are men, and we fight! Guard yourself against how you know the enemy will attack you. You are in this fight because the enemy has declared war on Christian men. He is attacking men all over the world. So fight well! No matter what you're going through, I want you to look at where you're going to. Check out the Clean book here: https://goo.gl/2iLnsy To get more information: See Dr. Weiss's website at: https://drdougweiss.com/

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I have benefited greatly from the first three pages of Dr. Weiss' book CLEAN. His description about "how the world used to be" in the days of my grandfather (before 1910) are how I want to return.

See these pages from the book CLEAN:

(I will insert the pages here)




Pages 1-4
See a review of the book

A reflection about a course about microbiology: Why getting a B in some classes feels better than getting an A in other classes.

This is a post about expectations about grades. "Why is a grade of B a relief?

In some classes I have earned a B... but I felt better about that B in microbiology than any course where I ended up with an A...

Why is that....?  Why did I feel better about a B than an A in a class?

Here's what I have concluded.....

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In some classes you could get a B... but that B could feel better than some classes where you get an A...

Why is that....? Why would someone feel better about a B than an A in a class?

REPLY

Without a doubt, an A is more preferred among students. However, when I compare a B in microbiology to how I felt when I got an A in any other course, I have to say that the B was the highlight so far from my experience as a college student. The B made me very happy in microbiology due to the fact that the class was extremely hard. In order for me to absorb the depth of the material, I had no choice, but I had to wake up at 5:30 am to study. Every day, six days a week. I took one day off so my brain could defrost and recover. I had to become an expert in microbiology overnight, in 30 days at Keiser University. I was bombarded with new material that I had to become familiar with. At the end of the semester, my final grade was a B and I was ecstatic: all my hard work paid off. In contrast, a few of my friends did not have the same result. I remember talking to this girl specifically. She said she failed. To go over that same hill twice does not sound like something that I wanted to do. I feel that I don’t care that an A exists because “I got a B!” I survived. I did not have to repeat that class. Of course I would have been a lot happier if I had received an A. The fact that I got a B tells me that I made it. 

My conclusion is that a B in microbiology was better than an A in anatomy, psychology or ethics, because microbiology was by far the hardest course that I have ever taken. I know that by choosing to become a nurse, I have seen the uphill structure that I have to walk. It is like climbing Mount Everest. As high as the mountain is, I have to put the same size of effort when I’m studying for any class because, in my opinion, nothing good in life is easy. In that course, I had to learn about organisms that I didn’t even know existed on my skin. Microbiology is like marking a cow with a hot iron on its hide. It makes a permanent imprint on my brain. It is like a good trauma. A lot like what happened to my brain in this class. I have been reading things that I didn’t know existed. It was hard, tearful, but I’m glad that I went through this course and survived. It certainly helped to read when I had enough time to read. 

Remedios and Lieberman (2008) point out that  evaluations of a course often are affected by “how much students enjoyed or felt stimulated by the course content, which in turn depended on the perceived quality of teaching.”  That might also be a factor in why a B in microbiology was more satisfying to me than an A in some other courses.   

In my search for a scholarly article, I came across this paragraph:

When I was in high school, I took AP Chemistry II, a class I had no business taking because I was deeply unqualified and too immature to do so. I didn’t care about learning high-level chemistry, and I was not the kind of student who was ever motivated by grades….I failed the class, but I learned a valuable lesson. I stopped pushing myself to do things that I didn’t believe in, and I focused my energy instead on things I did. To this day, it is the only class I have ever failed, but I wear the grade as a badge of honor. That sense of authentic self-identity guided me through college, graduate school, student teaching, writing resumes, landing jobs I loved, and, yes, eventually achievements of which I am proud (Lamb-Sinclair, 2017, emphasis added).

In other words, that writer could have written that “an F felt better than an A” because the F reminded her that she changed as a student. For her, the lower grade showed that she had devoted herself to being authentic. I agree. The B that I got in microbiology showed me that I was indeed ready for the challenges ahead of me. The B in microbiology is like the F for Ashley. These grades are our badges.

Reference

Lamb-Sinclair, A. (2017, June 17). Why Grades Are Not Paramount to Achievement. The Atlantic Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/06/why-grades-are-not-the-key-to-achievement/530124/

Richard Remedios & David A. Lieberman (2008) I liked your course because you taught me well: the influence of grades, workload, expectations and goals on students' evaluations of teaching, British Educational Research Journal, 34:1, 91-115, DOI: 10.1080/01411920701492043

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I have looked for research about expectations and letter grades in education.

https://qz.com/1038258/one-schools-strategy-to-raise-empathetic-and-self-motivated-citizens-ditch-grades/ .
By Jenny AndersonAugust 17, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/letter-grades-deserve-an-f/284372/

Letter Grades Deserve an 'F'

The adoption of the Common Core could usher in a new era of standards-based grading.

JESSICA LAHEY

MAR 12, 2014


Why Grades Are Not Paramount to Achievement

The intrinsic love of learning supplants the drive for high marks in the long run.

ASHLEY LAMB-SINCLAIR

JUN 16, 2017


https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/06/why-grades-are-not-the-key-to-achievement/530124/


















https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/letter-grades-deserve-an-f/284372/

When I was in high school, I took AP Chemistry II, a class I had no business taking because I was deeply unqualified and too immature to do so. I didn’t care about learning high-level chemistry, and I was not the kind of student who was ever motivated by grades. So pretty early into the school year, I knew I was going to fail. The teacher was challenging, but caring and compassionate. I showed up to his class every day, tried to distract my friends—who did care about chemistry and grades—and when that didn’t work, proceeded to put my head down and sleep. I failed the class, but I learned a valuable lesson. I stopped pushing myself to do things that I didn’t believe in, and I focused my energy instead on things I did. To this day, it is the only class I have ever failed, but I wear the grade as a badge of honor. That sense of authentic self-identity guided me through college, graduate school, student teaching, writing resumes, landing jobs I loved, and, yes, eventually achievements of which I am proud. LINK

Video for the Week of March 14 -- Drink water and a visit to a rainforest

Once each week we sent suggestions to parents and students about "what to watch on YouTube"

Today's suggestion is a visit to a rainforest

Click HERE

We also suggest a video about a "drink water" campaign started by a video made by one of our students.

i really like SALT (the book) and SALT SUGAR FAT (PDF) about addiction of Doritos and the engineering of food

SALT SUGAR FAT tells how food is engineered to become addicting.

SALT is just good research

http://scalar.usc.edu/works/uiuc-food-networks/media/MichaelMoss_SaltSugarFat2013_2.1.pdf

spread it

share it with friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eATmXufOvIk

Create a T-Shirt and spread a quote or an idea

Our school uses services to create t-shirts to support ideas that we discover in our readings.


VISTAPRINT
Account:  StevemFlorida@gmail.com


Some of the companies allow us to post our designs on their site and invite other people to buy t-shirts with your design on the shirt.

CafePress

You create designs 

Our school has an account at SteveMFlorida@gmail.com.


READ THIS ARTICLE

https://realwaystoearnmoneyonline.com/design-t-shirts-to-sell/

SellMyTees

This website gives you space for an online shop so you can sell your designs on T-shirts. They offer a free plan for sellers which lets you open up a small basic shop with fewer than 20 designs. 

Spreadshirt

You create your T-shirt designs, upload them, and sell them

SpreadShop

You put your designs on a space on their website.  It is your "shop."  You earn by being a designer and setting your own prices , or by owning a shop... then you earn a percentage on each sale of your products.

TeePublic

Create your own design for a T-shirt, upload it, and the shirt goes up for sale.

Threadless

Threadless has a design contest and they invite you to submit your designs.

Members of the Threadless group give scores to the designs that are posted...If your design gets a lot of points, it will be manufactured and sold. You can also set up your own artist shop on Threadless.

Zazzle

You can put your artwork on items then sell the items on you online store (based on Zazzle).

teaching grammar doesn't improve writing THE KEY POINT by Dennis Barrone, or Baron... Professor of English in Illinois

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Grammar-Doesnt-Lead/27874

Teaching Grammar Doesn't Lead to Better Writing

By DENNIS BARON MAY 16, 2003  PREMIUM CONTENT FOR SUBSCRIBERS. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks that this gulf between high college expectations and...

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Grammar-Doesnt-Lead/27874

It is a shame that more teachers do not have access to this article.  I am fortunate to have a mentor who subscribed to this journal and who pointed out this article to me.  I am a better teacher of English and overall better teacher because of the advice given in the article, which is locked behind the pay wall of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

I hope someday that the words of Dennis Baron can be shared more widely.

His prime points are:

1. teachers focus on spelling and grammar because those are EASY to focus on.   Grammar is more "objective" -- you either have parallel construction or one doesn't.  (get it?  "you" and "one" are not parallel).

2.  Real teaching happens when the students write a lot and find their voice, which is a hard quality or skill to create in students.  If I have 30 students, I can usually get 90 percent of them using "its" and "it's" correctly by the end of two weeks, but it's hard to have students confident in their voice in less than six months.   

3.  Real learning happens when we REWRITE.  That means taking the same assignment and allowing students to make changes and resubmit.  

If you are a student, send this link to your teachers.  Encourage them to figure out how to get behind the Chronicle's wall.  .... and at least make an effort to share these methods with other teachers. 

RESUBMIT.  see the argument in favor of allowing students more time to complete a course by 

Fonts for art / a trip to NEPTUNE / a voyage around the EARTH above the Red Sea / 3 hours underwater near a coral REEF

https://picfont.com/editor


If you want to use new and interesting fonts in your art work, try PICFONT.com.  It's free.



Let's go to Neptune
ASTRUM has remarkable videos

We can travel above the world in ORBIT

This version takes us over Saudi Arabia and we can see the RED SEA

and the Persian Gulf

Near a coral reef

Reading for Feb. 28, 2019 Videos to watch together Orbit / Aurora

Here is a remarkable place --- it is in the north.   During the winter, radiation from the sun affects particles in the atmosphere.  You can learn more by visiting "aurora wikipedia"

Here are some videos that you can choose to watch with your child.

ORBIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjs6fnpPWy4&t=2140s

TINYURL.COM/ABorbit
LOOK FOR:  the views of cities and the shapes of coastlines.  Can you find the locations on a map? 

TINYURL.com/ABaurora
LOOK FOR:  the colors that move.
QUESTION:  How can we explain this?   Search "explain the aurora borealis"

You can make the text curved...

Try this --


https://troygram.com/curve-text/


Make the text curved.

Reading for Feb. 21, 2019 for students and parents: Big Museum in Senegal

Answer these questions

What do you remember about the Space Shuttle that burned up in 2003?

What do you rem ember about the start of the FIRST Iraq war in January 1991?

Help these events come alive in the minds of your child by talking about these events.

See the FREE ebook TINYURL.com/PersonalHistoryEbook

WEBSITE to visit together    TINYURL.com/abFeb21site

VIDEO to watch together   TINYURL.com/abFeb21Video

"Reading at home" -- an essential part of our school's procedures -- and an important way for students to build their "background knowledge"

Our school occasionally posts our weekly letter in this blog.   We encourage other schools to adopt this procedure.

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Letter to Parents

Reading at home

An essential part of preparing for life after high school

SUMMARY

1. Reading Daily is essential.   
2. Preparing for tests
3. The Personal History Project
4. The Weekly Letter
5. The bedside library (like Oprah Winfrey)

Our school asks students and parents to look at academics as a 24-hour job.

- Make sure students get 8 hours of sleep

- Make sure students read at least 45 minutes per day.

- Make sure students look at sample test problems at least 30 minutes per day.

HOW TO COMPLETE 3.5 Hours of test prep per week

Our school’s weekly schedule makes this easy:  Friday can be when students catch up. Look at test questions for 15 minutes each day (6 days x 15 minutes = 1.5 hours) and on Friday the student can do 2 hours of test questions (it will help if 30 minutes is spent on writing an essay).

The 3.5 hours each week for test questions should be divided between math questions, grammar and reading questions and writing an essay.   At least one essay per week is helpful.  

To prepare for tests, students generally need to invest at least 15 minutes per day  LOOKING AT SAMPLE PROBLEMS.   This means

1. reading the problem for 1 to 2 minutes,
2. spending at least 2 minutes finding the incorrect answers, and
3. One minute for finding the answer (showing work in math questions, drawing arrows to the text to show how you found the correct answer in reading questions).  
4. Each incorrect answer needs to be explained “why is this answer wrong?”

This is a mindful approach.  Each question can take 5 to 8 minutes to deeply investigate.  It is better to spend 15 minutes on two questions than to rush through 10 questions. This step-by-step method reveals deeper understanding.

Some of this “looking at test questions” takes place at school.   The typical environment in the school does not match the test-taking situation.

Test situations	Classroom
Test areas are quiet	Our classes encourage working together, so we are learning through talking and listening.
Test taking is usually about “asking students to produce”	Learning is about “asking students to take in information.”
The students are isolated	The students are together

WHERE TO FIND TESTS:  http://www.crackssat.com/ssat-isee-downloads/  

The school also sends home worksheets and samples from previous tests.

MORE:  https://www.test-guide.com/free-ssat-practice-tests.html  

https://blog.prepscholar.com/ssat-practice-tests  free links

https://www.varsitytutors.com/ssat-practice-tests  free questions from Varsity Tutors

CLICK HERE to see all of these links:  TINYURL.com/ABCDESSAT

You can create the ideal learning space at home.   

Students often say, “I study better with music.”  Fine. The music should be without lyrics.  No singing.   There are plenty of songs and “music to study by” on Youtube.   Parents have a role to make sure that time is well spent during the study session.

School is a time to “practice being a young adult.”

The practice continues when the student is not on the school campus.

Some of the responsibility for following these instructions rests with the teenager.  When a teenager sets up a quiet space and listens to music without lyrics, we can give points (if the parent confirms that the student is using time wisely).

POINTS

Students who earn points will be rewarded with special privileges at school.   

PARENTS

We encourage you to recommend to us any special tips about “what motivates your child” and your hopes for your child.

PROJECTS

For example, studies have shown that a student who writes about her family’s history is more likely to understand recent events than a student who studied the history of Ancient Egypt, China and South America.   We recommend the free ebook PERSONAL HISTORY WORKBOOK and you can download it at TINYURL.com/PersonalHistoryEbook.   If you don’t have access to a computer, we can make the ebook available at the school.   

The Personal History is a fun project for many students.   They learn about “events that my relatives remember when they were teenagers.”  You are encouraged to help your teen build a family biography.

Students who complete this project often learn more geography because their relatives might have lived in or visited other states or countries.   

You can see examples of what students wrote in their biographies in the ebook that is called Personal History Workbook. LINK TINYURL.com/PersonalHistoryEbook

The importance of reading
Daniel Willingham, a scientist who studies the brain, points out that much of our understanding of the world depends on "background information."  Reading is an important way for students to build their "background knowledge" ...

To build positive reading attitudes, students need to have positive reading experiences. They need to see themselves as readers. And they need to have books that they enjoy readily available.  -- Daniel Willingham

You can read more here

THE WEEKLY LETTER

Each week the school sends home with the student a letter that includes recommended websites and videos to visit.  Please make sure the student sees the materials. As adults in the house, you are encouraged to demonstrate “life long learning” by looking at the links, too.

THE HOME LIBRARY

Our school has a goal for each student:

Build a bedside library.

Oprah Winfrey has led the way with this idea.   She keeps ten books next to her bed to read from. One of the books is a quote book.

We have supplied each student with a quote book (such as H Jackson Browne’s books).  If you have a book in your library that you can recommend to your child, please let us know so we can adjust our curriculum to include the books that your family has.

Read until you find

at least one gold nugget.

Put the quote on a poster and

put the poster on a wall.    

Mark the page.  

Circle the quote.

Write the page number inside

the front cover of the book   

Help the next reader of the book.  

Tell that reader where to find gold.

“Reading gives

you the ability

to reach

higher ground.

And keep climbing.”

Oprah Winfrey

Be the best version

of you.

I tell myself to build

on my strengths.

I look for gold nuggets

when I read.

Tai Lopez

The most annoying man

on YouTube

 

“Books allowed me to see

a world beyond the front porch

of my grandmother’s house…

They gave me

the power to see possibilities

beyond what was allowed

at the time.”

Oprah Winfrey

Courage is what it

takes to stand up

and speak.  

Courage is also

needed to sit down

and listen.

Winston Churchill

(yes, look him up on Wikipedia)