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It all STEMs from Latin:
Demonstrating the practicality of Latin in a culture of educational vo-tech.
Patrick McFadden
St. Mary’s Episcopal School
Slides available at: http://alterisaeculo.wikispaces.com/ACL+Institute+2015
It all STEMs from Latin:
Demonstrating the practicality of Latin in a culture of educational vo-tech.
Patrick McFaddenSt. Mary’s Episcopal School
68th Annual ACL Institute
The University of Connecticut
June 25-28, 2015
What We Know
Improves vocabulary
SAT/ACT
Critical thinking skills
Analytical/mathematical reasoning
Historical context
Facility in language acquisition
Articulate communication
The Problem: “The Last Biparitisan Cause” - Zakaria
“We don’t need a lot more anthropologists in the state. It’s a great degree if people want to get it, but we don’t need them here.”
“I was making a point about the jobs market, not the value of art history. . . . [A]rt history was one of my favorite subjects . . . and it has helped me take in a great deal of joy in my life that I might otherwise have missed.
Excerpted from Youtube.com. Excerpted from Youtube.com.
Is it Hopeless?
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49.3 (1985) : 577-585.
“Laurence Barrett's pre-election piece on Candidate RonaldReagan [Oct. 20] was a slick hatchet job, and you knowit. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves for printing itdisguised as an objective look at the man.”
“Your story on "The real Ronald Reagan" did it. Why didn'tyou just editorially endorse him? Barrett glosses over Reagan'sfatal flaws so handily that the "real" Ronald Reagancame across as the answer to all our problems.”
“Hatchet Job?” Time 24 November 1980 : 11.
Is it Hopeless?
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49.3 (1985) : 577-585.
• Viewers perceive identical news stories/articles biased against their candidate or position.
• Disconfirmation bias: Positive comments go unmarked; Negative comments are stimuli.
• Best informed perceived most bias.
Is it Hopeless?
“Creating the right climate,” LAS News: College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Illinois, Winter 2015, 4-5.
Katharine Hayhoe and/vs. Andrew Farley
“[M]any scientists and educators believe the ‘knowledge deficit model’ will convince skeptics. . . . [M]ore information will not work if the issue runs counter to a person’s value system.”
Image: Amazon.comHayhoe, K. and A. Farley. A Climate for Change. New York: Hatchette Book Group, 2011.
Connect to Values
Latin is about INNOVATION
-allows Growing Markets
-fosters Design Thinking
-teaches STEM Skills
“Charles M. ‘Chuck’ Geschke.” GreatLakesGeek.com. 28 October 2011
Tim O’Reilly, “OSCON 2014 Keynote: Technical and Cultural Revolutions.” Youtube.com 23 July 2014
INNOVATION is our Contribution
Richard Ogle, Smart World (2007)
Fareed Zakaria, In Defence of a Liberal Education (2015)
Design Thinking: d.school, Institute of Design at Stanford
Image: Amazon.com
Iimage: Amazon.com
http://dschool.stanford.edu
Transformative Ideas
Richard Ogle
Triple Breakdown
-Culture of Compliance (Standardized tests/right answer)
-Focus on Analytical Reasoning (No liberal arts/arts)
-Don’t Cultivate Imaginative Thinking (Few resources)
Image: richardogle.typepad.com
Transformative Ideas - Ogle
Innovation vs. Transformation
. . . . . . .
Four Principles
#1 Not outside the box -> Find new box
#2 Find a new space: Hot Spot
#3 Look for a Cold Spot -> Nothing happening
#4 Trust the 4 I’s: Intelligence, Imagination, Intuition, Insight
Image:wikimedia commons.
American Education Works
Fareed Zakaria, “Why America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous” The Washington Post Web. 26 March 2015.
Steve Jobs explained that “it’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — that it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.” (Quoting Wired Magazine Web. 29 August 2011.)
US, Israel, and Sweden 27th, 28th, and 29th in math and science scores.
What do you say to that?
27th in Math/Science = 1st, 2nd and 6th in Venture Capital
“Winning Team / Losing Team – New Chant.” Youtube.com. 15 January 2012.
Bloomberg Innovation Index
Year US Sweden Israel China
2015 6 7 5 22
2014 3 2 30* 25
2013 1 5 32* 29
2012 7 5 29* 32
http://www.bloomberg.com
*Israel is often #1 in R&D, but 60th in manufacturing capacity.
Latin Can’t Help That! Says Who?
• Mt. Sinai Medical School Dean, Dr. David Mueller does: "people who look at the same problems through different lenses will make us better in the long run."
• 50% of Medical School admissions reserved for
“HuMeds”
• No Pre-Med; No Organic Chem; No MCAT
• By end of second year indistinguishable
Julie Rovner, “A Top Medical School Revamps Requirements to Lure English Majors” www.npr.org, 27 May 2015
http://dschool.stanford.edu
The IBM – A Better Computer?
http://superuser.com/questions/78634/installing-ms-dos
The Apple Better for Humans?
Image: toastytech.com
How can methodology foster STEM skills?
Critical Thinking
Logical Organization
Reasoning and Extrapolation
Coding
Rethinking Organization
TOC of Allen and Greenough
Even Syntax is organized by Morphology
How WE think, not the way all students think.
Oriented toward Comparative Grammar and writing instruction.
Morphological Organization
AP Latin Course and Exam Description Effective Fall 2012. apcentral.collegeboard.com
Critical Thinking and Reorganization
TCDR
Topic ClassDescriptionRelevance
A hammer is a tool
which has a handle and a weighted head.
It is used to pound things.
Image courtesy of amazon.com
Walter, T., G. Knudsvig, and E. P. Smith. Critical Thinking: Building the Basics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002.
Critical ThinkingTCDR
A hammer is a tool
which has a handle and a weighted head.
It is used to pound things
Bicycle
Taiwan
Critical ThinkingTCDR
A bicycle is a mode of transportation
which has two wheels and is powered by human energy by pushing pedals with the feet.
It allows travel easily in crowded cities, OR
it allows travel with zero carbon emission, OR
it allows recreational travel even to minors.
Critical ThinkingTCDR
Taiwan is an island OR
nation
province
renegade province
Implications for grammar exposition?
Critical ThinkingTCDR
A hammer is a tool
which has a handle and a weighted head.
It is used to pound things
locative
indirect statement
circumstantial clause
Critical ThinkingTCDR
The locative is a case
which occurs only in words expressing place and has forms identical to the genitive (1st/2nd decl.) or to the dative (3rd decl./plural).
It expresses where an action happens with just a place word.
“What do I see?”“What do I have?”“So what do I expect?”
Critical ThinkingTCDR
The indirect statement is a noun equivalent
which consists of a clause having an accusative subject and an infinitive verb
It embeds reported speech as the object or infrequently as the subject of a verb of speaking, vel sim.
N.B. NOT a use of the infinitive or a use of the accusative.
Critical ThinkingTCDR
The circumstantial clause is an adverbial modifier
which consists of a clause introduced by the conjunction cum and a verb in the subjunctive mood.
It shows the time of (“when”), the cause of (“since”), or a concession regarding (“although”) the main clause.
N.B. NOT a use of the subjunctive.
Critical ThinkingTCDR
Why TCDR?
Pronoun or Accusative vs. Direct Object
Prep. Phrase vs. Ablative of Means
Infinitive vs.Verb in Indirect Statement
The Latin Sentence
The University of Michigan Elementary Latin Program.
Syntax: Sentence Bases
Syntax: Adjectival Modifiers
Syntax: Adverbial Modifiers
Semantics: Ablative Without Prep
Metaphrasing
English Sentence:
S V +/- O (or PN/PA)
The Strategy
What do I see? – Morphology
What do I have? – Syntax
So what do I expect? – Syntax/Semantics
Metaphrasing
English Sentence:
S V +/- O
him
S V him
sees
S sees +/- O
id
S V it OR it V O
Metaphrasing
puellam
S V the girl
milites
S V the soldiers OR the soliders V +/- O
Caesar dixit milites
Caesar said that the soldiers V +/- O
Didone
with Dido verbing, S V +/- O
Major metaphrasing
Catilina ubi eos quos
Catiline V +/- O when S V those whom S V
STEM Skills: Coding
STEM Skills: Coding
Coding
Coding
Why is Latin Practical?
Latin fosters Innovation – Geshke, O’Reilly
Latin brings in the humanistic insights for Design Thinking –d.school, Steve Jobs
Latin helps articulate STEM findings.
Latin teaches STEM skills of critical thinking, analysis, problem solving, and coding
Where now?
Let’s present this at STEM conferences!