Gaokao: The Toppest Exam
Gaokao, in Chinese, means “The Toppest Exam” or “The Biggest Exam” in Taiwan area. In asian countries, this kind of exam seems still the only method to evaluate a student’s performance on learning and determines one’s future fortune. The traditional factory model is still dominant in education system, especially to China. Thus Gaokao is very important to almost all familiies with kids.
6/6-8, it’s the standard Gaokao day in China mainland……(leaving for a meeting)
How social techniques long lives
Corente[SocialSoftware]: “Amazing mid-last-century document explaining how to use the telephone. Some of it is technical ?? transferring calls, holding the receiver, but a lot of it is, well, tele-quette, like why the receiving party should answer first, and why the calling party should end the call. Very TCP-ish, in a social way”
For Homo Sapien, the social factors are generated from the smartness of brain( also seems to some other animal, no reference here). Just since the complexity of our brain, almost all of us meets learning disbilities(LD) with social skills. Thus training and mentoring are so important to one’s life. The handbook is really great and helpful.
Something for Nothing
Suw, “The response to AKMA’s question was immediate and overwhelmingly positive – soon the comments section was filled with bloggers offering to read chapters. “—[Chocolate and Vodka]
[via Tian's Langtonclose]
I should have blogged this on my Chinese blog, however, maybe I won’t be able to do it in days(depends on). The power of free culture can generate many such brilliant results, thus not mere an audio book, a collaborative tranlation work, but also tons of “Disney Creation” in the future. Suw’s model illustrations is cool, I think more diversified models will emerge too.
Tian gave the title, “Something for Nothing”, a perfect Chinese translation. I will definitely comment it on my Chinese blog, later on.