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![]() Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger December 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN THIS ISSUE: * Quote of the Month * Special holiday message from Win Wenger * Announcements, Books, News Items * Events, Workshops * FEATURE ARTICLE: Aspects of Intelligence, by Ralph Cerchione * Comments, Feedback Susan Wenger reviews two books on Happiness Mastaky Salim on increasing intelligence * Organizational Notes * Links ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE OF THE MONTH When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always. - Mahatma Gandhi ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * * * * * * *
SPECIAL For this holiday season of 2007 going into 2008, I'll take my cue from the discussions below of NEAs (Near Earth Asteroids), full of both threat and limitless promise - and from the Laws of Abundance, contrasted to the Laws of Scarcity which seem more familiar to most of us, as per www.winwenger.com/invent.htm#scarcity There is plenty of room at the banquet table of life, if we but extend the table. And there are lots of ways in which we can do that. It's only if we stay stuck in the same old games that most of us have to live in abject poverty. We've known for some decades that the reason that a billion people go to bed hungry each night and so many starve to death or, nutritionally weakened, die needlessly of disease, is not a shortage of world food supply but an issue in distribution. Beyond that, oceanic fish-farming - www.winwenger.com/part59.htm - is but one of many ways to easily multiply, by a factor of ten or more, the present level of food supply. Some of the extensions of this table are already set. There is the Internet, which has already transformed, mostly to the good, the lives of us all. There is Wikipedia, and there is Google already well along toward its announced goal of making all known knowledge freely available to every human being wherever he or she is on the planet. Educationally, some of the best-taught lessons on any subject are widely available anywhere on the planet through various forms of distance learning, lacking only the one provision we've been offering - to launch the massive, world-wide, sudden surge of improvement in education which has been stuck in the wings for so long. We've been carrying self-taught, step by specific easy step methods in our website for effective problem-solving and for more powerfully effective methods of teaching and learning, available to anyone on the planet who can read instructions in English (and we are seeking translations into other languages!). Human beings all over the planet can now turn to one or another of these freely posted methods to solve the problems they find themselves facing, to rise to the opportunities they have before them, to learn challenging fields and high-level professions with deep and rich understanding. We are now seeking computer programmers and game-graphic designers to help us create interactive pages which will enable a wider range of human beings to take advantage of these resources, wherever they are on this planet. These and many other positive developments are presently or imminently transformative. You have a mix of positive and negative opportunities in your own life, as always some of them unexpected. Whatever the major problems, issues and developments in the world, you can "help save the world one little problem at a time" and improve your own life - and the lives of people around you whom you care about. Let's work our way to the far end of 2008 with lots of well-earned cause for celebration! - Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) * * * * * * * * * ....................................................................... ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ANNOUNCEMENTS, BOOKS, NEWS ~~~ WELCOME to all new members who have joined us recently. We hope to hear from you and to give you much food for thought. Back issues available upon request - just add the month to the subject line: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues Or see the online archives: http://www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm ~~~ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| PROJECT RENAISSANCE'S NEW COREBOOKS www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm A series of compact handbooks of Win Wenger's key techniques. The first four volumes are now in print and easy to order from the publisher: * SUPER SKILLS FOR STUDENTS by Isa McKechnie * WIN WENGER'S IMAGE-STREAMING by Charles Roman * END WRITER'S BLOCK FOREVER! by Mark Bossert, Win Wenger * DYNAMIC TEACHING by Harman Benda and Win Wenger Order from the CoreBook storefront: www.lulu.com/ProjRen - great gifts! |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ~~~ ASTEROID MINING - KEY TO THE SPACE ECONOMY http://www.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/key.html The Near Earth Asteroids offer both threat and promise. They present the threat of planetary impact with regional or global disaster. And they also offer the promise of resources to support humanity's long- term prosperity on Earth, and our movement into space and the solar system. ___________ Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) comments: Professor John Lewis has pointed out (in Mining the Sky) that the resources of the solar system (the most accessible of which being those in the NEAs) can permanently support in first-world comfort some quadrillion people. In other words, the resources of the solar system are essentially infinite… And they are there for us to use, to invest consciousness into the universe, no less. It's time for humankind to come out of its shell, and begin to grow!! ~~~ THE SECRET TO RAISING SMART KIDS http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/29/0631258&from=rss Hugh Pickens writes, "Scientific American has an interesting article on the secret to raising smart kids that says that more than 30 years of scientific investigation suggests that an overemphasis on intellect or talent leaves people vulnerable to failure, fearful of challenges and unwilling to remedy their shortcomings. In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame. One theory of what separates the two general classes of learners, helpless versus mastery- oriented, is that they hold different "theories" of intelligence. The helpless ones believe that intelligence is a fixed trait: you have only a certain amount. Mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change. Mastery-oriented children think intelligence is malleable and can be developed through education and hard work. Challenges are energizing rather than intimidating offering opportunities to learn." www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids&print=true Scientific American's hint for raising smart kids: Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort--not on intelligence or ability--is key to success in school and in life. ____________ Kate Jones ( mailto:kate@gamepuzzles.com ) comments: Not telling your kids that they're smart may help to keep them from becoming arrogant, stuck-up, lazy and complacent. But without some feedback that they're doing well, their self-esteem will shrivel. Even plants need watering now and then. Build a love of learning and pride in achievement for its own sake. Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) adds: I owe my own intellectual life to a courageous art teacher in junior high school, on this very point that Kate is making here. That art teacher risked her career to show me my IQ scores, which even then were fairly decent, at a time when the school was on the point of convincing me that all the wrongness between it and me was me. That was an absolutely major rescue. ~~~ VISUAL DICTIONARY ONLINE http://visual.merriam-webster.com/index.php A quick glance at the index is all it takes to connect words with images. Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before. From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual Dictionary Online is an all-in-one interactive reference. Search the themes to quickly locate words, or find the meaning of a word by viewing the image it represents. Ideal for teachers, parents, translators and students of all skill levels, for home, school or work. ~~~ ARTICLE BRAIN NEWSLETTER INCLUDES "GENIUS" BY WIN WENGER http://www.articlebrain.com/Article/Genius/519 In their news archives, the Article Brain website lists an article by Win Wenger, on "Genius". This website is full of "smart articles for thinking people" - and you can subscribe for free: www.articlebrain.com ~~~ THE EINSTEIN FACTOR, by Win Wenger and Richard Poe Now also a recorded course on CDs published by Nightingale-Conant. Order now from Project Renaissance - a wonderful holiday gift for someone whom you care about - www.winwenger.com/einfact.htm From the book: "We are forced to dig past our usual shortcuts in thought and perception, past all the stock and trite responses we’ve accumulated around almost every event or situation, and to probe deeply into our own richer and subtler awarenesses, which is where the meaningful is to be found, found in every one of us!" - Win Wenger ~~~ GIFTED EDUCATION PRESS QUARTERLY www.giftededpress.com/ Gifted Education Press is offering a complimentary copy of their 20th Anniversary Winter 2008 Online Quarterly issue. To read and print the current and previous issues of Gifted Education Press Quarterly, please email your request directly to: Maurice Fisher, Ph.D., Publisher mailto:gifted@giftededpress.com ~~~ TRANSLATORS WANTED - in any language, to translate selected contents of the Project Renaissance website, the new CoreBooks series, and certain books by Win Wenger. Please contact Win at mailto:wwenger101@aol.com if you are able and interested in collaborating on these projects. ~~~ ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| EVENTS ~~~ Monthly High Thinktank of Project Renaissance - Thursday, January 24, 2008 ~~~ February 1-3, 2008 - Invention-on-Demand Training Workshop with Win Wenger and Chuck Roman, in www.winwenger.com/iodtrain08.htm ~~~ May 23-29, 2008 - Annual Double Festival - Mark your calendar now! 16th Annual Conference on Creative Problem-Solving Methods and Enhanced/Accelerated Learning Techniques and Spring Workshops of Project Renaissance www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm#DF ~~~ ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Feature Article:
ASPECTS OF INTELLIGENCE by Ralph Cerchione mailto:figment@boone.net (This article is based on some exchanges at the popular listserve group, imagestream@yahoogroups.com) >> "What is it about intelligence that is biological?"
That's an interesting question, especially given the modern scientific community's allergy to discussing what might smack of anything spiritual, ephemeral or even of alternative medicine (though that last category is becoming more acceptable). Witness how no one took up the question of The Amazing Randi's reward for proof of "psychic effects" when I pointed out that pretty much anyone could learn bio-energy detection/manipulation technique in a minute or so and put on a demonstration with it thereafter. And that's a technique you could handwave away as "some kind of" Electrical or magnetic field (no matter how difficult it proved to actually detect such energies). But the moment you acknowledge even such a conditional existence, you have to revisit all those self- proclaimed psychics who insisted they could levitate or push paper giblets at a distance of a foot or less. After all, you are clearly affecting something at a distance of a few inches, so why couldn't those be using some aspect of the same effect? Or another one? What's so interesting is not merely whether Win Wenger's method for detecting and influencing bio-energies should have revolutionized our opinions on "psychic phenomena," but conventional science's apparent inability to handle even the most trivial challenge to its doctrine of "What Must Be." Galileo would appreciate the irony. >> "Does intelligence arise deterministically?"
Some interesting progress on this front has been shown by brain scans that seem to correlate basic intelligence with the degree to which many different areas of the brain light up when posed with a difficult problem, and the degree to which each area does so. But as someone, Gibson perhaps, has pointed out, someone who finds a quick and ready answer to a problem may have very little activity before the solution pops up. Still, if this technique works, it seems like perhaps the best method we have for testing key aspects of intelligence, especially in the higher levels of ability where, as Win points out, it becomes so difficult to measure gifts accurately (especially given most tests).
>> "Every nervous system has unique structure...is 'intelligence' a socio-cultural thing?"
Okay, here's one of the trickiest aspects of intelligence as it relates to the kinds of problem-solving techniques promulgated by Project Renaissance and others in this field. What happens if you have access to a technique that can easily solve a very thorny problem, if you're extremely well-versed and talented in it, and you choose not to use it? Look at Over-the-Wall, Image-Streaming, High Thinktank, BAP, Windtunnel and even Freenoting. We've all got access to these tools, and most of the regular posters seem to have used at least one or two of them with some frequency (I've mainly used High Thinktank and Freenoting). But we don't use them - not to solve our own problems (or problems adopted from others) with any regularity.
Does that make us stupid? Or just performing well below what our (if-objectively-measured) intelligence SHOULD be? And as I've asked before, why aren't we Image-Streaming, Velvety-Smooth Breathing, paying attention to multiple streams of awareness, Flick Gazing, Noise-Removal Breathing, High Thinktanking, imagining the top halves of our heads an inch larger in all dimensions and an inch farther from the center of our bodies, Improvitaping, Beachheading, Tool- buildering, etc., etc., etc. ... All the time? Again, does that make us stupid? Or merely performing far, far below our potential - not the potential we'd have if we studied in the Secret City of the Eternal Kung Fu Masters for 50 years, but the potential we'd be operating at if we merely stretched out our hands?
You don't have to rip your life apart to dedicate yourself to such a transformation. Why not just pick one or two really easy techniques and use them to make parts of your life easier?
>> "...In designing a test, we may as well acknowledge its cultural basis. We should accordingly relabel it something like 'American work-force general aptitude skill-set test' and design the test accordingly."
That's an interesting notion, and we should probably rethink the whole set of standardized tests that are out there. Unfortunately, such meddling could upset a few apple carts (like the SAT, GRE, GMAT, etc).
>> Perhaps this test-mania is part of the integral alienation which many observers have noted in the industrialized West?"
Well, again, one of the major aspects of intelligence we could test for is the ability to solve novel, complex problems with exceptional speed. Or to outright invent new things. Or learn new skills. I'm actually not all that dismissive of certain parts of these tests - testing basic mathematical ability does in fact give you an idea of someone's basic mathematical ability, which is about the most you can ask for from standardized testing. Most human abilities, unfortunately, are not so cut and dried. Still, the mathematical portion could probably be kept and even improved upon over time (made more challenging by including more complex math, especially at the GRE level or in some kind of far- ranging "intelligence test").
Still, my point is that the greatest abilities that Project Renaissance is trying to enhance are very difficult to quantify, but if realized would clearly be of far greater advantage to most people than nifty test scores. Assuming you had the will to put those talents to work.
>> "To directly confront your questions: no, not anyone can win the Boston Marathon."
Or as Win says, "Wel-l-l-l-l-l, only one at a time." That seems to be the inherent weakness in such a question - you have a standard which prevents more than one person from winning regardless of the relative abilities of any of the participants. On the other hand, the four-minute mile used to be the ultimate, unattainable speed for human long-distance runners. Once one person broke that record, however, everyone seemed to be breaking it, and nowadays it's no great thing at all to have achieved a four-minute mile.
>> "The way our bodies have been put together does preclude some from winning the Boston Marathon. ... In this case biology does seem to dictate a sort of upper range of ability."
Well, even if the effective limits to human performance prove a bit hazy (due to physical conditioning, the cultivation of Chi, etc.), the idea of a Perfect Human Body has always been deceptive. Whom would you call perfect (or close to it)? Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime? Hey, he did a great job in building up his physique. But how does he compare to Venus Williams? Or Lance Armstrong, who got "over the hill" for his sport, got cancer, nearly died, saw muscle and body mass just melt away under chemo and ended up with a body that was essentially perfect for winning the Tour de France?
Clearly, the "ideal body" to some degree depends on what you want to use it for, though I personally have no doubt that virtually anyone could conceivably be enhanced to an extraordinary degree while still remaining fundamentally, biologically human. Some of the extraordinary feats of human conditioning and performance that have occurred in the past suggest this, not to mention the potential for science (genetic, medical, alternative medical, bio-energetic, etc.) to help us transcend our present physical limitations.
>> "The extent to which it does so with intelligence is eminently less clear." An aspect of "genetic advantages" and "genetic limitations" that I find interesting is the question of how much these can be influenced by particular habits, disciplines or simply accidents of fate. What happens if a kid with frequent sniffles gets a lot of decongestants growing up, and thus loosens up certain "natural" restrictions on his eye movement, thus making it easier to access certain of his mental resources? Or for the girl who doesn't have very good circulation to her brain, who does an incredible amount of underwater held-breath swimming growing up?
Or who rides for endless hours on a school bus, frequently lying down with her legs propped up on the back of the seat in front of her? Or the kid who is so wrapped up in the books he reads, which are so much more interesting than any other entertainment available to him, that he starts creating characters and storylines in his head and stepping into various characters all the time, experiencing their worlds from their point of view, and developing such facility with these abilities that he can do this work while doing other things? Or the girl who creates those things in her head, but who turns her troupe of interchangeable actors into all-knowing, all-powerful robots/supercomputers to whom she occasionally describes her subtlest impressions and from whom she occasionally demands answers - and gets responses of incredible subtlety and intelligence? Or the boy who has that inner life but who sometimes (frequently) describes his impressions aloud, or the plots and dialogue of his own entire movies/TV shows, or sings each layered track of original Pop or Rock songs aloud, even when no one "should really" be paying attention?
I did everything in the preceding paragraph, by the way, as well as a few other Project Renaissance-style things while growing up, which has led me to wonder in recent years to what extent these actions shaped the gifts I had as a boy and a teenager. Or to put it another way, if it is possible to expand the carotids with just three weeks of simple practice... If overall circulatory health can be increased through exercise... If changing the position your body normally rests at (and/or other actions) can create a permanent effective boost in circulation to your brain... If the spatial relations areas in the brains of London cab drivers actually grow larger in response to the practice of using a mental map of the city... If a pregnant mother can imagine her womb being an inch larger in all dimensions and an inch further from the center of her body and thus cause her child to be much smarter and healthier as a result... If regular usage of a flotation tank alters your body's levels of tensions, and the chemistry and typical states of both body and brain... If Image-Streaming (or bio-feedback, or CES, or other techniques and technologies) can actually increase neural interconnectivity in your brain... If all these things are possible, if the brain can easily be physically altered on the gross structural level, in the structures supporting it and in its internal bio-chemistry, then doesn't that suggest that many "fixed, inherited traits" can also be altered? (Obviously including those listed above.)
------------------------------------ To send feedback privately to Ralph Cerchione, email to: mailto:figment@boone.net?subject=Intelligence To send your comments about this article to The Stream, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Intelligence |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ........................................................................ COMMENTS and FEEDBACK ~~~ Susan Wenger ( mailto:susanwenger@yahoo.com ) writes: The only way a self-help book can change a person’s life is if the person accepts the message of the book and acts on it: not just for a day, but as a new habit, as a new way of life. You have to work hard for a life change. A new movement in the field of psychology is devoted to the theory of happiness. “Positive psychology” is concerned with things people can do to improve their own level of happiness. Here are two books I highly recommend. Singly or together, they can really change one’s degree of personal happiness, IF one works hard enough for the change that one wants - if one is willing to work for one's happiness. * HAPPINESS, by Richard Layard (Penguin, 2005, ISBN 1-59420-039-4), is an economist’s view of how to be happy. His premise is that most people are not as happy as they could be, simply because they are chasing the wrong goals. Is it heretical for an economist to say that money isn’t the highest goal? If you figure out what you really want, and what really makes you happy, it is much easier to attain lasting happiness, and to get more enjoyment out of life. This is the more academic of the two books, in terms of research and studies of the subject, and this book should appeal to the intellectually oriented reader. * HAPPIER, by Tal Ben-Shahar (McGraw-Hill, 2007, ISBN 10-0071492399), is more hands-on, do-it-yourself happiness. It is full of “time-in” exercises: questions you need to stop and ask yourself and ponder before you move on with the book. This is definitely not a book for speed-reading, photo-reading, or any kind of reading - it is a book for doing, for thinking through, for meditating on. This is a book to help you find and set your own personal goals in life, and to increase your own quantity and quality of personal happiness. This book is the backbone of Dr. Ben-Shahar's course on happiness at Harvard Uiversity. - Susan Wenger ( mailto:susanwenger@yahoo.com ) ~~~ Mastaky Salim ( mailto:smastaky@hotmail.com ) writes from Belgium: Hi, my friends, To prove a reaction from Win Wenger is for me a major responsibility. The people on my list may not know him very well, and I need to introduce you to this personality who is ranked with Socrates and Einstein by his peers! Je sais que certains d'entre vous ne sont pas très souples en anglais, mais je vous prie de prendre tout votre temps afin de comprendre ce qui suit: "What do you want to do that you can do with higher intelligence, that you can't do now..." I'm thinking particularly of my African brothers and sisters: WE WANT PEACE!!! What do we want to do that we can do with higher intelligence, that we can't do now? PEACE!! With peace we can stay in good health and our children can go peacefully to school to learn to read. THE MAJORITY OF AFRICAN CHILDREN DO NOT KNOW WHAT A SCHOOLBOARD IS AND WILL PROBABLY NEVER KNOW IT, UNLESS WE WHO HAD THE CHANCE TO SEE THAT BOARD, ARE AT LEAST ABLE TO CONSOLIDATE OUR HITHERTO GAINED KNOWLEDGE TO MAKE SURE THAT IN THE FUTURE YOUR CHILDREN GET THE SAME CHANCE AS OURS! AND IF WE DON'T USE OUR POTENTIAL INTELLIGENCE, IT WILL BE TOO LATE! Win Wenger is a pioneer in accelerative learning and education, and he's one of the first to structure and harmonize methods to increase human intelligence. To give you an idea who he is: Try to send email to your favorite author. I bet you will get an automatic answer or his or her secretary will respond instead...or you just won't get any reply. Now try to write to Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) and explain to him your particular problems (well, don't ask him for money, as most of his work can be obtained freely through his Project Renaissance web site - www.winwenger.com - so he mustn't have a lot of it) ...I'm sure he will personally respond. [Editor's note: URGENT - PLEASE SEE WIN'S RESPONSE BELOW.] Just some quotations from Win Wenger's book (temporarily out of print), "How To Increase Your Intelligence": "When the general notion of progress is discussed, we most often refer to the technical innovations man has devised." "But has man really progressed, or has he just benefited from the observation of his own experiences on earth?" "If man does not learn to live in peace, he can, by a dint of his technology, terminate his existence on earth completely." "To raise your intelligence is to enrich your ability to taste more fully and richly the bitter-sweet, tragi-comic, ugly-beautiful, enthralling, disappointing, exalting and always fascinating experience of being a human." "So long as intelligence is thought to be inborn and unchangeable, however, the feeling of RACIAL SLUR is there every time the subject of intelligence comes up. If, though, intelligence is changeable, and markedly affected by things other than heredity, the question of race is replaced by that of living conditions, and that matter has a wholly different feeling to it." "The only apparent limit on how successfully you can raise your intelligence, given presently available techniques, is YOUR WILL TO DO SO!" Best wishes! - Mastaky Salim ( mailto:smastaky@hotmail.com ) ______ Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) responds: Please: It has been possible for me to give useful answers to everyone seeking them when I've had fewer than about 120 inquiries per day to handle, and even that load has kept me from some of the books I need to write. I want to help everyone I can, but if you followed Mastaky's well-intentioned suggestion on this point, my efforts would founder. May I make, instead, the following suggestions? 1) If you need to write me, please do so, but only as a last resort so I have a chance to provide well-considered replies to everyone who needs them. 2) For most general questions, please take a look through the Project Renaissance website, www.winwenger.com where you will find answer to most questions that most people ask. And/or: subscribe to ImageStream@yahoogroups.com - you will find many good people there who are well qualified to answer most of your possible questions. You can subscribe through our website, home page, or through http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imagestream, and it is free. 3) For most problems, you can also get mostly good guidance from some in ImageStream@yahoogroups.com, and/or you can discover your own great answer by applying one or more of these problem-solving techniques: * DEAM (Double-Entry Aha Method) at www.winwenger.com/deam.htm * Evoked Sidebands, at www.winwenger.com/evoked.htm * Freenoting, at www.winwenger.com/freenote.htm * Windtunnel, at www.winwenger.com/part72.htm * Over-the-Wall, at www.winwenger.com/overwall.htm * Image-Streaming, instructions for which begin at www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm and lead on through a number of linked click-through articles, among them High Thinktank method, which is posted starting at www.winwenger.com/htt.htm . See also the concise CoreBook on Image-Streaming by Charles Roman, sold here: www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm#IS * CrabApple and Problem-Solving Woodswalk methods, which are posted at www.winwenger.com/part56.htm 4) For basic questions regarding learning, try one or several of these basic methods for more effective learning: * Suggestions at www.winwenger.com/ebooks/btal1.htm#FrameOne ("Frame One" from the first chapter of Beyond Teaching And Learning) * "Borrowed Genius" starting at www.winwenger.com/borrow1.htm * "Predictive Imagery" at www.winwenger.com/predict.htm Just Freenoting at the end of each chapter, or lecture, or other content-related reading or key concept, will enable you to derive more understanding from each such unit of learning than its author put into it. By itself, this one little practice can totally transform anyone's learning for the better. It was cited above as also a problem-solving method, www.winwenger.com/freenote.htm . Also, any of the above problem-solving methods can be turned into an improved learning-with-understanding method by making the problem to be solved that of determining the key to understanding that unit or subject. Teachers: modern Socratic Method is the easiest thing in the world for you to do, and will make your classroom outcomes so very much better. Before January 15, 2008, send for your free electronic copy of our 42-page executive summary of modern Socratic Method, with "Socratic" in your email's subject line - mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=Socratic . - And when you DO have a question or problem not readily addressed by one of the above means, do write me and I'll be happy to try to help. Use me sparingly and I will be around to help. Thank you. - Win Wenger ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To send your comments to The Stream for possible publication here, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Comments ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES ~~~ IMAGE-STREAMING PARTNERS Project Renaissance is organizing a partners' bureau or real-time chat resource online via Skype, msn or yahoo messenger for people looking for partners with whom to do live Image-Streaming. If you're interested in joining this resource, please send your contact information and preferences, such as time of day, language, type of Image-Streaming, and we will add you to a cross-reference index of partners to talk online. Contact: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=PartnersOnline If you have already signed up, we will let you know as soon as the program goes live. ~~~
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