tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67596875253016401112024-02-22T14:32:33.994+07:00Ratna's Wonderful Lifehttps://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.comBlogger224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-72188690836033191122018-11-23T11:16:00.000+07:002018-11-23T11:21:38.606+07:00Homeschooling dari Kacamata PelakuSudah lama Donna ingin menuliskan tentang homeschoolingnya sendiri. Kenapa? Karena begitu banyak orang mempertanyakan, menggunjingkan, bertanya dari yang serius ingin tahu, sampai yang memojokkan dan tidak memberi kesempatan untuk menjawab sepatah kata pun. Jenis yang terakhir ini tidak ada yang berani bertanya sendiri kepada saya selaku orangtuanya. Hmmmm... maunya apa sih mereka ini, beraninya hanya pada anak kecil. Tapi itulah hidup, kita tidak selalu bertemu orang-orang yang "sehat mental spiritual"nya. Malah dengan demikian "sosialisasi" Donna malah lebih lengkap dari pada teman-teman sekolahnya yang relatif lebih "terproteksi" dan "seragam" lingkungan pergaulannya. Jadi bagi yang masih sinis mempertanyakan tentang sosialisasi dari anak saya ini, kayaknya saya boleh bilang, "Coba buka mata hati pikiran, tanyalah pada diri sendiri, sudah bergaul dengan berapa anak homeschooler sebelumnya sebelum membuat satu kesimpulan?"<br />
Bisa dibaca di <a href="https://mariadonnamiranda.blogspot.com/2018/11/homeschool.html?fbclid=IwAR3_gD8Ef6kZ1D6Z-wmsuohUO2EGGZ09vFhN0fz5G0ZqDS-aVCfZPFSRXas" target="_blank">sini</a> sharing Donna tentang homeschoolingnya.https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-56863286473657184652018-08-28T12:52:00.000+07:002018-08-28T12:52:05.196+07:00Donna's First Time InternshipLast May-June 2018 Donna had an internship in K9 kennel in Ciputat, Tangerang. The kennel own by Pak Tatung and Vet Siti Maisaroh. Although the kennel location is far from our house, we still choose that place because I'm sure Donna can learn many things there.<br />
Here are some photos when Donna was there:<br />
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The second was her piano competition, a piano classic open competition held by CDE Music School.<br />
And the third was her first rank in flute and piano from her music school, Gloriamus Music School.<br />
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Last August was a very busy month. Donna had two flute concerts and one piano seminar. The concert preparation itself took many practicing days because it's not a solo concert. The first one was with Gloriamus Youth Orchestra and the other one was a flute ensemble. The flute ensemble was a new experience for her, where almost all player were flutist.<br />
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The first concert was held on August 9, in TIM (Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta) in collaboration with Kementrian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture affairs):</div>
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The second one was held on August 17, on our independence commemoration day.<br />
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As homeschoolers, any cozy place could be our classroom ^^</div>
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Written by Indonesian Charlotte Masoner, Ellen Kristin, this article reminds me what my kids' paediatrician and psychologist said years ago. That kids should stay close to Nature. Animals and Plants are parts of Nature.https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-60674303615746310742017-06-09T19:21:00.000+07:002017-06-09T19:21:39.736+07:00Mother CultureMy HSer friend, Maria wrote this enlighten article about qualified Me Time, Mother Culture. It's not easy to provide Me Time among zillion to-do-list. From preparing balance diet meals for my family, supporting my kids activities (from training self help etc etc for my eldest, to piano - trigonometry - flute etc etc for my youngest), to my illustration job deadlines. Plus Jakarta's traffics that really sucks :(<br />
Mother Culture is now written in my to-do-list. Me Time is not a sin. Because unhappy mother could be a "monster".<br />
<a href="http://www.cmindonesia.com/refleksi/me-time-saja-tak-cukup-ibu-perlu-mother-culture" target="_blank">Here</a> what she wrote. Thanks a lot Maria.https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-15147237128340304982017-02-17T21:17:00.001+07:002017-02-17T21:17:24.995+07:00Living Books vs TwaddlesI'm not a Charlotte Masoner Homeschooler, but I agree with her for some of her ways, especially about Good Books for children (Living Books, for CMer) instead of twaddle ones. Although, honestly I can't make my home library sterile from those twaddles and try my best to provide as many living books as possible. But, at least Donna used to read living books that shapes her taste in choosing books to read.<br />
What is twaddle books? They are dumbed down and watered down literature.<br />
Here is a good article about it written by Ellen Kristin, a CMer from Indonesia:<br />
<a href="http://www.cmindonesia.com/manca/sastra-disney-vs-versi-aslinya" target="_blank">"Sastra Disney vs Versi Aslinya"</a>https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-78940763400146281582016-12-15T20:56:00.002+07:002016-12-15T20:56:33.451+07:00"Persembahan dan Doa untuk Indonesia" Concert<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last Saturday, Donna had an annual concert provided by her music school for the best three students in each level and department. This concert was a bit different than the preceding years and contributed for the unity of Indonesia. The concert itself was divided into two sessions, Piano department and Vocal, Instrument Strings, Woodwind & Brasswind departments.<br />
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They are Math 2 (New Syllabus Mathematics 7th edition) from Shinglee, Cambridge Global English 8 and Geog.2 from Oxford.<br />
Oh... and Science Check Point 8. I forgot to photo it. In the last academic year she used Science Check Point 9, and she said that the chemistry part was too hard for her, but the biology part was too easy and she had no problem with the physics part. So we decided to go back to her level, book 8.<br />
For other activities, she has Flute class and Piano class (with 2 different teachers), German language class and Gymnastics.<br />
I think those books are enough for her basic, so that she has more time to do other things and deepen her interests.<br />
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And in this semester, Donna joins a homeschooler community's scout, Pramuka Oase. They are planning to have a big trip called Eksplorasi (Exploration) on this November or December, to make a research about a local food. They are divided into two groups, Kunyit/Turmeric for a longer and farther trip, and Jahe/Ginger for a shorter and closer area trip. No parents are allowed to company their kids in both trips. They meet every two weeks on Wednesday. It is a very good activity for her, though the meeting location is far enough from our house.<br />
Here are some members of Eksplorasi:<br />
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Every week they have a different challenge to solve and some task for it. Some must be done individually and some are in group task. Here's Donna's report about them under the <a href="http://mariadonnamiranda.blogspot.co.id/search/label/Eksplorasi" target="_blank">"Eksplorasi"</a> tag.</div>
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This is what my friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/aar.sumardiono?fref=nf" target="_blank">Aar Sumardiono</a> wrote about Donna and her online course learning:<br />
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Hopefully this article will inspire more parents, especially Homeschoolers, about how internet change the way our kids learn and the unlimited possibilities we have for learning process. I love homeschooling because it is customised to every single child.</div>
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Here are Donna's 9th - 12th statement of accomplishment, all from <a href="https://www.coursera.org/" target="_blank">Coursera</a>:<br />
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August 2016 “The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution” Tel Aviv University & Yad Vashem</div>
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For the last course, about the early vertebrate evolution, she worked hard for her knowledge level in Biology subject was not high enough to understand the course. She asked me some from the course that she didn't understand, doing Google search and read an IGCSE Cambridge book of Biology. And finally she can finish it very well!<br />
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https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-64626127970822761162016-05-29T11:00:00.002+07:002016-05-29T11:00:27.162+07:00Donna's Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Statement of Accomplishment from Online CoursesThe sixth was "Introduction into Classical Music" by Yale University through <a href="http://www.coursera.org/" target="_blank">Coursera</a> on March 16, 2015. I forgot to capture the statement :( because that time Coursera change their regulation of student's accomplishment. So I only can capture it from Donna's accomplishment like this:<br />
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The seventh was " Christmas Carol" (Charles Dickens) by Berkeley BookX Club through <a href="https://www.edx.org/" target="_blank">edX</a> on Dec 29, 2015 :<br />
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Most of the course she did them well by herself, except the last one. It's an uneasy course for her and her father helped her a lot in explaining and assisting her. https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-34778870908683879382016-04-24T20:22:00.000+07:002016-05-29T11:02:08.216+07:00Third Term Review for Donna : Reducing the BooksWe feel that the books Donna chose to use in this academic year were a bit too many. The books themselves are good. However, she needs more time to read other good books and deepen her interest (philosophy, flute, piano etc). So she decided to remove two of them from her list. They are:<br />
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And several days ago she joined one of the Coursera's course : <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy/" target="_blank">"Introduction to Philosophy"</a><br />
A friend of mine asked her, why does she like Philosophy.<br />
And this is what my 12 years old girl says:<br />
They "asks" us to observe and give attention to the things that are usually aren't observed well by other people, confusing, ignored, and usually unpaid attention by the people now. It teaches us to understand our world in a new view, other than the one that usually other people don't.https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-65145151676049674272016-04-16T20:40:00.000+07:002016-04-16T20:40:41.084+07:00Discipline and Self Control<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is one of 20 Charlotte Mason's principles in education. I'm not a Charlotte Masoner, but somehow, I agree with this principle. Well, not only this one, but many of them.</div>
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"We train a child to have a good habits and self-control." </div>
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For Donna, this means that she has to control herself in using her cellphone. So, we have an agreement. If she couldn't control her time in using her gadget, she could use her cellphone only once a week (on Saturdays). The better self-control, the more days she could use her cellphone (2 days in a week, then 3 days a week and so on). If her habit back to uncontrolled, she will back to once a week again.</div>
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So far this way help her much. However, without her cellphone, she still can use her desk computer to learn , connect to the world and have fun. The special thing about this desk computer compare to her cellphone is, that this tool stay in a specific place, so it won't be anytime anywhere stay besides her. </div>
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<br />https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-22184583406294714432016-02-09T23:46:00.000+07:002016-02-09T23:46:14.142+07:00Plastic Micro Beads in Our Personal Care<font-family: amp="" arial="" beads="" body="" contain="" facial="" gt="" helvetica="" instead="" knowing="" micro="" most="" natural="" nbsp="" of="" ones.="" our="" plastic="" sans-serif="" scrub="" shocked="" span="" style="font-size: 16px;" that="" the="" was=""> I was shocked knowing that most of our face & body scrub contain plastic micro beads instead of natural ones. They are washed directly down the drain and into our water systems, where they harm our waterways and the animals that live there. </font-family:>It is one of the most dangerous sources of plastic pollution, because they could be consumed by the animals.<br />
We can choose natural scrub instead, like the inside part of lemon or lime skin, coffee grounds, sugar & salt, etc. You can find many natural recipes from Google.<br />
<font-family: arial="" br="" gt="" helvetica="" sans-serif=""><font-family: a="" about="" arial="" article="" beads="" ere="" gt="" helvetica="" href="http://www.5gyres.org/microbeads/" i="" is="" micro="" nbsp="" read="" sans-serif="" the="">Here is the article I read about the plastic micro beads <a href="http://www.5gyres.org/microbeads/">http://www.5gyres.org/microbeads/</a></font-family:></font-family:>https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-8482303874876499932016-01-21T15:22:00.003+07:002016-01-21T15:22:49.677+07:00Personal Thought di Awal Tahun*Dalam Bahasa Indonesia, karena ini masalah yang ada di dalam kepala & hatiku, gerundelanku.<br />
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Sudah lama aku bertanya-tanya, mengapa teman-temanku yang kukenal, juga saudara-saudaraku ada banyak sekali yang bisa punya waktu luang.<br />
Mereka bisa pergi main, berkali-kali "reuni", ketemuan (you name it) dengan teman-teman lama. Dari tingkat SD, SMP, SMA, bangku kuliah, teman bekas satu kost, sekota dst. Aku baru sekali ikutan, dan tidak bisa hadir untuk belasan lainnya. Ada yang sinis menuduh aku sombong, tidak mau meluangkan waktu untuk teman-teman lama dst. Well...<br />
Kalau misalnya pada waktu ada acara ketemuan dengan teman-teman lama, pada saat itu anak kalian pas jamnya audisi di suatu tempat, mana yang akan kalian pilih? Kalau aku dan suami jelas pilihannya: anak kami.<br />
Ada pula banyak pertemuan model lain, pertemuan dengan orangtua bekas teman-teman sekelas Donna. Dengan judul "anak-anak ingin ketemu, kangen". Iyakah? Itupun kami tidak bisa ikut.<br />
Juga ketemuan dan acara-acara untuk Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus. Sudah belasan tahun kami absen.<br />
Ada pula beberapa family gathering, atau kondangan, baik ulang tahun maupun kawinan. Banyak sekali yang kami tidak bisa datang.<br />
Media sosial? Tidak terlalu aktif. Makanya aku berusaha menolak kalau diajak masuk grup-grup di MedSos, apalagi yang tujuannya tidak jelas. Tanpa bermaksud menyerang siapapun, pernah aku dimasukkan grup yang isinya OMG, banyak sampahnya daripada isinya. Dalam hal ini aku sangat selektif.<br />
Jujur, aku tidak tahu lagi bagaimana memadatkan jadwal yang sudah padat ini. Bahkan seringkali kesehatanku sampai terganggu karena kekurangan waktu istirahat (baca: tidur) saking banyaknya hal dan urusan yang harus kukerjakan. Mulai dari urusan rumah tangga tanpa asisten totally. Homeschool Liza, supporting Homeschool Donna, dan kerjaan sebagai freelance illustrator. Senin sampai Minggu. Nonstop. Dan walau begitupun aku masih berusaha selalu untuk belajar, berusaha meng-up grade diri, sekecil apapun.<br />
Pernah juga saking lelahnya aku tertidur ketika sedang nyetir di tengah kemacetan, dengan hasil nubruk mobil di depanku :( Serem sekali karena aku bawa anak-anak.<br />
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Untungnya hubunganku, suami dan anak-anak sangat dekat. Setiap ada waktu, yang aku inginkan hanya menikmati dan berkegiatan bersama mereka. Bukan dengan lainnya. Nyaris ke mana aku pergi, mereka ada bersamaku.<br />
Jadi kesimpulanku, semua orang memiliki waktu yang sama, 24 jam sehari. Pemakaian dan pembagian waktu tergantung pilihan individu. Berjejaring dan berkawan tanpa pandang bulu memang penting. Tapi di atas itu semua, tetap First Thing First. Dan bagiku itu berarti keluargaku, dengan satu anak berkebutuhan khusus dan satu anak lagi yang as busy as a bumble bee.<br />
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<br />https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-33656136627715085962015-12-18T19:03:00.000+07:002015-12-22T10:30:12.573+07:00First Semester Review for DonnaWe almost finish our first semester for the end of the year is nigh. From all of things we've done in our 'school year' I try to make a simple summary:<br />
- Donna's schedule is as full as when she was a student in a school, but the quality of her life rises higher. She is healthier and happier.<br />
- Some of her subjects were a bit left behind, not on schedule (especially Math). But for me that's ok as long as the reason was the time taken for learning (almost all by herself) compare to the 'spoon-fed' version that she got from her old school. And I know that her understanding becomes much much better now. But for the other reason, distraction, she still has to learn how to manage her time better.<br />
- Donna is an independent learner. She starts with the text book by herself, no one stands in front of her teaching the subject. For Math subject, she examine her understanding by doing some exercise from the work book. The work book comes with key-answer and she can check her answers by herself. And if she found some differences from the answer key she'd come to me or her father to ask. Some caused by her careless counting, some caused by her lack of understanding (and weak math foundation during her old school), and some from the answer key itself (human error).<br />
For other work books that come without any key-answer, she used the internet sources and her parents as 'key-answer'.<br />
- German language class that starts at the last week of last October so far so good, supported by <a href="https://www.duolingo.com/" target="_blank">Duolingo</a> as a daily practice apps.<br />
- For Music: her piano achievement is the same as last year (ABRSM certificate, Gloriamus Music School 1st winner for midyear internal competition, 1st rank for Gloriamus Music School grade 4 practical exam), and her Flute is just start so there's no special achievement.<br />
- Online Course: She's taking 3 online courses right now, 2 new ones ( <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/thinkagain" target="_blank">"Think Again: How to Reason and Argue"</a> from Coursera and <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/christmas-carol-dickens-berkeleyx-book-uc-berkeleyx-colwri3-1x-0" target="_blank">"A Christmas Carol by Dickens BerkeleyX Book Club"</a> from edX) and the other one is the old one <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/dino101" target="_blank">Dino 101 Dinosaur Paleobiology</a> from Coursera. She's been taking this course three times or four maybe for she like it :D<br />
- Time management:<br />
She's just got her cellular phone a few months ago. We made an oral agreement, inspired by this <a href="http://rumahinspirasi.com/perjanjian-penggunaan-smartphone/#comment-16699" target="_blank">post </a>by Rumah Inspirasi. At first she was addicted to an online game and then unstoppable chat with some friends. Those activities really time consuming. I don't want to take her cellphone away as our final agreement for the consequence. I prefer if she then manage her time and catch up all of her left behind subjects. This ability in time management and self control is really important in her future life, she has to master it. It's not proven yet. It's just a start.<br />
Not only by her cellphone, sometimes distraction also comes from her "extended break time" (reading a page or two only for a couple of minutes became all of the pages of the book), or internet searching that "carried her away".<br />
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Time management is the biggest issue for her now. We all have to work hard to solve it without changing our homeschool style into "school at home". It's not what we want. https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-22950872363153815222015-11-01T23:52:00.000+07:002015-11-01T23:52:11.555+07:00Assignment for Coursera's LHTL: Learn By Teaching Others How To Learn These are 3 concepts/ideas from the course Learning How to Learn that impressed me, and that's why I want to share with others:<br />
A. Sleep<br />
B. Procrastination<br />
C. How to be a better learner<br />
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<b><u><span style="color: red;">Sleep</span></u></b><br />
It seems like such a waste of time, but actually these are the facts behind it:<br />
- it's your brain's way keeping itself clean and healthy<br />
- tidies up ideas & concepts<br />
- erases less important parts of memories and strengthen areas you need/want to remember<br />
- deactivates pre-frontal cortex helps other areas of your brain to communicate more easily<br />
- helps your brain form new synapses (neural connections)<br />
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Usually happens by diverting your attention to something less painful. How to minimise this procrastination?<br />
- keep a planner journal<br />
- commit yourself to certain routines and tasks each day<br />
- delay rewards until you finish the task<br />
- watch for procrastination cues<br />
- gain trust in your new system<br />
- have a back up plan for when you still procrastinate<br />
- eat your frog first (do the hardest thing first)<br />
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- doing physical exercise (this activity also helps neurone survive) increases oxygen supply to your brain and increases brain neurotransmitters<br />
- practice the matter you want to master, as well as train the brain<br />
- learn new things because new neurones are born everyday<br />
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<br />https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-38842765473985902612015-10-20T18:16:00.001+07:002015-10-20T18:16:24.788+07:00Coursera's Learning How to LearnThis what impressed me from week 2 of this MOOC's course "Learning How to Learn":<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Addictive drugs artificially increase dopamine activity and fool your brain into thinking that something wonderful just happened. I fact, just the opposite has just happened. This leads to craving and dependence, which can hijack your free will and can motivate action that are harmful to you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dr Terrence Sejnowski</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Who is Dr Sejnowski?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He is pioneer researcher in neural networks and computational neural science.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He is a living legend, in the elite group of only ten living scientists to have been elected to all three of the national academies, in engineering, science, and medicine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">He is a leading father figure for the modern field of neuroscience.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">And because I have to be realistic with my work loads, I have to un-enroll my third course (</span><span style="color: black;"> Fantasy & Science Fiction) </span><span style="color: black;">and put it in my watch list for later.</span></span></div>
https://drawingofmind.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601690527472939447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759687525301640111.post-37936741650294025922015-10-11T18:49:00.000+07:002015-10-11T18:49:12.843+07:00My online Course in OctoberThis month I take 3 courses from Coursera: Grammar and Punctuation, Learning How to Learn, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. A bit too ambitious among zillion things to do :/<br />
Luckily, I passed the first one before the deadline, Grammar and Punctuation.<br />
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