Educational experiences

Can you use mind control to create an addiction?

 

We have all heard it before – the most powerful human organ –the mind- is the least known to the scientist. Teams and teams have been working on its exploration, but it still remains a big mystery, some say that humanity barely knows 10 % of the actual mind structure functioning.

Having said this, it is good to know that with all the paranoia of mind control and how Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) can be (and is) used to “mess with people’s heads” it is high time to pull the cat out of the bag and let people know exactly what is possible and what is actually not possible to achieve.
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Online education success: test early and often

 

In the last couple of years the number of online educational offerings is increasing, but with their rapid rise a critical question has rised: “Can such “virtual” classes cut through the maze of distractions – such as email, the Internet, and television – that face students sitting at their computers?”

Harvard researchers on this topic have concluded that the solution to this issue is to test students early and often.
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What does it take to be human?

Occasionally a question comes out to my mind-Are we human just because of the unique traits and attributes not shared with animal or machine?

If I follow the definition of “human” , it is circular: we are human by virtue of the properties that make us human (i.e., distinct us from the animal and the machine). Clearly this is a definition by negation: that which separates us from animal and machine is our “human-ness”.

However, inevitably, we are human because we are not animal, nor machine.

Such thinking has been rendered progressively, less tenable by the advent of evolutionary and neo-evolutionary theories, which postulate a continuum in nature between animals and Man.

Our uniqueness is partly quantitative, partly qualitative.
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POWER: Everybody wants it, has it, but DOES NOT use it!

Let’s say that power begins in controlling something, but then the question rises- are we powerless prior to controlling it?

There are no true and false answers – it can be both Yes and No!

We have the potential, which is a power in itself, but if it is unused and undirected potential then it is NOTHING.
Out of this, the question rises – Are we powerless prior to controlling?
What I would say it that we are not powerless, but more of an ignorant. (Which of course is a version of powerlessness!!)
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Online ethics

The increasing usage of Internet imposes increased concern for the parents regarding their children’s behavior and usage of “the new entertainment and everything” for the younger generations.

Being concern is not sufficient, but some parents go a step further and see into the Internet history of the their dearest. There is no doubt that parent should have all necessary information on the children’s interest, and with this including Internet behavior, but the border between intruding the child’s privacy and the trust should not be crossed.

Young people need more than supervision. They need to be thought to develop critical thinking and gain solid understanding of the reality and ethics of online privacy. With the constant reshaping of the means of communication, everybody’s life changes, therefore this fact has to be considered when the parent is trying to impose opinion or a way of thinking over acting of the children.

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