[From Chris Cherpas (951114.1846 PT)]
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[re: Erling Jorgensen (951111.1230CST)]
[re: re: Chris Cherpas (951110.0921 PT)]
Just a quick thanks to Erling for your comments on the issue
of whether "the environment controls behavior."
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[re: Rick Marken (951113.1100)]
This report caused me to be very angry and aggressive when I read it but I
had a big bowl Grape Nuts laced with serotonin for breakfast and I'm much
better now;-)
Since I married a psychiatrist, I've learned that Specific
Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) are more effective,
and tastier, than straight serotonin on cereal. Serotonin
is "the" neurotransmitter of the nineties; there's even
a radio talk show host in SF who invites all his listeners to
join him in taking their [prozac, zoloft, paxel, etc] SSRIs
at a given hour. I suspect dendrite burnout from too much
ecstacy is a factor...=8^0)
Finally, a general question: Are there any specific perscriptions
for educational practice based on PCT? I read the section in
Gary's _Without Miracles_, as well as the articles in _Educational
Researcher_, but has any PCT-er written something that 1) uses
PCT crucially (PC learning theory is _required_ for a given
way of designing curricula), and 2) gives details on how to design curricula
which would improve our ability to get students to be as skillful
as possible as quickly as possible (some proposals, like Papert's
would seem to require somebody spent about 30 years of "discovering"
before they get through high school).
Best regards,
cc