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Regenbogen:
Hey, weird!
How are you all. I have been absent for a time. And I am terribly sorry. I remember wanting to write an answer in July, but then I forgot my password. As I was on the run, I thought ok do it later, then I forgot. Must be the age, lol. A lot going on in summer here. Almost every second day another event someone of the family has to go to or participate.
But now we are on vacation in England. More about that later. Have to see if the kids are finally ready for breakfast.
See you.
Dina:
Yay! You are back! I missed you.
Have a lot of fun in England!
Dina:
Hello Weird! I am on a weird mood myself, so I want to share some fun facts with you, hopefully you will find them interesting.
Here is the first. Currently some of the scientists of my country are doing a deep sea exploration n one of our main coast cities. They have a submarine that records awesome images and they collect samples. It is wonderful. It has been going for several days and it is going to end by Sunday I think. They are streaming every dive and it has becoming a huge hit. In a moment where the government is basically attacking all science, especially basic one, this is huge. The excitement of the scientist aboard is contagious too and I think many children are considering a career in biology thanks to this. This is done thanks to the Schmidt Ocean Institute, who does this sort of things around the world. Apparently not everywhere it is such a hit. Here everyone is talking about it. If you want to take a look you can find the already recorded videos and often there is still the live streaming. Right now, for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViB0Vm4wxqU
2) Historical thing. In 1806 here in Buenos Aires, there was a priest called Saturnino Segurola, He had studied medicine, he was also a librarian and he was in charge of a foster service. He also had a brother who had a big state, I am not sure if the orphanage was in his place. Well, thing is Saturnino was informed about the advances of medicine, and in that year he began vaccinating the orphan children (first, and then other children too) against chickenpox. He was so successful that even after the change of government (in 1810 we began having an autonomous government, first big step towards independence) he was charged with the vaccination program in the city and sourroundings. Well, the first vaccinations in 1806 were applied under a big tree (a "pacará", Enterolobium contortisiliquum). Well, that tree became an historical monument. I think it was the first time a living organism was declared a monument in Argentina. Well, the original tree is gone now, for old age, but there is one "child" that grew from its seeds and it is now in the same location. It is a big tree and it's in a small, preserved square, now sourrounded by buildings. it happens to be in the corner of my dentist office :) I like that story and I wonder what Segurola would think if he knew that in 2025 there would be antivaxxers and that, for example, in USA the measles vaccination is fast-dropping :(
This concludes my weird post. Hope you enjoyed it.
Regenbogen:
Hi, weird!
Fcrate, I love your hedgehog story and of course one would name a hedgehog Sonic, lol.
And I am sure you are a great teacher. In my opinion neither just memorisation nor understanding works on its own. The best method of teaching lies in the middle. A mixture of memorisation and understanding.This is so that all the children can learn it. Those who don't understand yet still get the knowledge through memorisation and those who understand get the knowledge programmed into their brains for later use.
There is a difference in how the kids learn these days in Germany than how my generation learned. Nowadays they are more about understanding. But they don't do memorisation any more. So you have the result that some kids memorise for themselves and some don't, because they were not told to do this. Then you have those who understand but can't remember what it was they understood. And you have those who still don't understand and don't memorise either. Those are left behind.
Neither is best on its own, but do it both and there will be less children left behind.
For example, in elementary school, they never learned their multiplication tables. The teachers told them that they should learn it but it was never tested. The teachers just assumed that's just knowledge now.
It is great that they understand how the numbers work, but Mini still doesn't know what 6 multiplied with 7 is if I asked her. Or Micro doesn't understand that if she can't remember what 7 multiplied with 9 is, she can just multiply with 10 and go from there. And that the same rules apply to higher numbers. Even though they were told why it works. I am glad that at least Micro has a good memory, so she did the memorisation technique. So she can at least multiply using the table in her brain.
Yesterday we visited the ruins of Tintagel Castle and Merlin's Cave. Very beautiful, great day. I drove the rented car. I have driven on the wrong side before ;D, but this was almost two decades ago. So far, the car is still alive and undamaged. We only got honked at in London, but who in their right mind would drive in a city like London? Or Paris. Or any big city. We just had to because the rental agency was there.
We will return home the day after tomorrow.
Dina:
--- Quote from: Regenbogen on August 10, 2025, 06:38:22 AM ---Yesterday we visited the ruins of Tintagel Castle and Merlin's Cave. Very beautiful, great day. I drove the rented car. I have driven on the wrong side before ;D, but this was almost two decades ago. So far, the car is still alive and undamaged. We only got honked at in London, but who in their right mind would drive in a city like London? Or Paris. Or any big city. We just had to because the rental agency was there.
We will return home the day after tomorrow.
--- End quote ---
I just checked those places and they are awesome! I am glad your family and the car are well :D Keep enjoying!
The expedition I talked you about ended a few minutes ago, and it was super fun and awesome. The ship and sub will be on Uruguay in a few weeks.
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