poniedziałek, 19 listopada 2012

What we're learning from online education.
http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html



Vocabulary:


scarcity n.- Insufficiency of amount or supply; shortage: a scarcity of food that was caused by drought.
“The types of anxiety that I associate with this level are what I refer to as scarcity and avoidance.”
Scarcity of water in the Mid Realm means that much of it must be harvested from plant life
apartheid- n. An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
“He said that the United Nations should not be afraid to use the term apartheid to describe what is happening in occupied Palestine.”
Lock all the anti-apartheid types up?
 to sribble- v. To write hurriedly without heed to legibility or style.
The pages had dates scribbled on them.
She scribbled something on a message pad.
reproducible  Susceptible or capable of reproduction.
“But the rigorous process of peer review, a process that requires any new findings to be reproducible, is meant to weed out, as much as possible, political bias.”
“I have noticed it is somewhat difficult to obtain reproducible results.”
incetive n. Something, such as the fear of punishment or the expectation of reward, that induces action or motivates effort.
What incentive do I have to do the right thing?
I have real incentive now to get to Oregon.
trajectory n. The path of a projectile or other moving body through space.
They were coming into their landing trajectory.
But trajectory analysis does not bear that out.
tremendous adj. Extremely large in amount, extent, or degree; enormous: a tremendous task. See Synonyms at enormous.
Louis Wu was alone before these tremendous faces.
Her recuperative powers are tremendous.


2 komentarze:

  1. Apart from fluency and interesting choice of topics (the one about paintings was very intriguing too) you have also a really nice voice, so I enjoyed listening to you. In the background, is that a kitchen in a students' flat that is clean? So they do exist;)

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  2. Kamila, thank you so much:P Believe me or not but its really rare sight in our kitchen , so I decided to immortalize it by recording my video there. :)

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