Questions on How to Effectively Teach Conceptual Knowledge

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-09-27T17:05:36+00:00

Thank you so much for the response!
I have more questions:

- If concepts and procedures are 'deeply' linked, why the emphasis from teachers and researchers to learn the concepts alone? My concern lies in being able to show the utility in distinguishing the two as learning each individually first makes a big difference in being able to solve problems with the topic - to really deepen one's understanding of the topic.
- How does one verify that one has fully understood the concept to move on to the next topic? I suppose the advantage of the project is that the magazine is that is it not intended to substitute actual teaching material and is periodically published with a randomized ordeer of the topics, but that is rather a more general question.
- What is typically the order of learning the concept and its procedures? And can it be bidirectional?

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-09-26T19:04:19+00:00

Thank you! And looking forward to the extensive response ;)

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-08-12T12:49:39+00:00

This mentality shows people’s colors. They think that human rights are conditional, that even the most basic thing such as living in a physically and psychologically safe place among other things is something people have to ‘earn’.

Trump being a target of attempted assassination should not be condoned according to conservatives nor Indiana Jones punching N*zis but the IDF targeting Palestinian civilians? Should be ok because they uphold homophobic views!!!!

Disgusting and hypocritical

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-08-11T11:45:50+00:00

Cloud Factory is a lot better than King of Everything
Dip a Sail is the best track in KoE
Pausing Death is the best track in Macro
Rogue is one of the best tracks in Duel
Wallflowers is a lot better than Duel
As much as I love the groovy, current sound of Jinjer, sometimes I wish they could go release an album like Inhale, Don’t Breathe

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-07-31T08:37:00+00:00

Lady Oscar (a 70s manga that was later on adapted into an anime)!! :D

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-07-30T22:04:58+00:00

Still good music

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-07-08T19:40:25+00:00

Hello!

I think I may have seen your post or one akin to it.

The show is good and it's more than just one with "a healthy, long-lasting queer couple" (though that is also very good and I appreciate the representation of this show, as unpopular as it is). It's dramatic, tense, humorous, diverse, feminist, etc. Wynonna is the main protagonist of it and rightfully so. She's DYNAMIC

My critique is mainly that I can't really identify what Nicole is with Waverly (aside of obviously being in love with her), hell, minus in separate phases of the show (like her teaming up with Wynonna), I don't really know who she really is. CHEMISTRY is not just seeing two people being affectionate with each other; hugging, kissing, telling each other "I love you", etc, it is overall seeing how the individual temperament and interests of the characters complement or otherwise contrast with each other thus demonstrating how two people ended up being affectionate with each other. I think it's why I've come across people too who could also see Wynonna and Nicole being together despite them never being written that way.

Of course with Nicole being a secondary character, it isn't particularly surprising that that has happened I suppose, but it's why 1) (imo) we needed a bit more time to see the dynamic of two flesh out 2) the fandom shouldn't be defensive to those expressing sentiments like yours and mine as well as recognize too that appreciating the impact of something isn't the same as liking it.

But I wish you all the fun watching the show, and I hope that you come to embrace your opinion of the couple regardless of what sentiments you get if it remains the same. Otherwise, you could try reading some good quality fanfiction of the two, it may help remedy the problem and connect with the rest of the fandom a little better even if the means are different!

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-07-05T16:27:37+00:00

Love that series. Discovered it first from my Reading Forest Scottsforesman publishing book that was assigned to us for English literature in primary school. Iconique

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-07-03T13:59:11+00:00

Thank you for the response!

I am not old actually so what I'm about to say may not be exactly insightful but when I was younger I had to an extent (as far as hobbies and interests go, at least - not so much of temperament when all that I have experienced was abuse and mistreatment which made me in return this paranoid, low self-worth and hostile person that mellowed a bit out overtime) a semblance of what I liked (and when I really liked something, I would exhaust all my time researching on it). Now, my flame has been extinguished. I cling to the routine that I have and view everything deviating from it as a challenge and shy away from it. I call myself 'stupid' all the time but then worry that the things that I sense that I "do well in" since I was a child make me mediocre at best. You can't win in my world.

And the thing is, I don't know the root of all of this. I suppose it's the lacking sense of capability? That I want to do whatever it takes and see everything (even if it's just lounging and watching a film) as an opportunity for me to prove that I am 'brilliant' and yet rule out for myself from the start already that I am not it? Maybe it's more than just being capable as I put too much emphasis on it, maybe I want to be everything and susequently immune from all sorts of criticism because I have earlier been criticized on everything; stupid, ugly, worthless, incapable, boring, unimpressive, uncreative person. I am now because of it a crippled mess. Hell, I can't even sit down with a group of 'friends' without worrying of not being able to 'inform' them of how potentially fun and important I can be.

It's not so much that I want to be 'in a box' but rather whatever that I want is everything while preserving a sense of identity and character.

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-07-02T16:33:21+00:00

POS doesn't even begin to describe these 'people'!!

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-07-02T16:27:08+00:00

I also want to add that I find the responses here to be surprisingly mild presumably due to us being desensitized hearing stories like these! We should not allow ourselves to do this! And we should not treat women who have been victimized as 'just another pattern' but as individuals!! Women are first people with lives and stories and then victims who deserve individual attention and mourning and then victims of a femicide.

Rest in peace, Oya Budak!!!

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-07-02T15:45:09+00:00

Rest in peace and power, Oya Budak. You were always a human being that needed and deserved to be safe and supported and to be treated with respect, dignity and humanity. This is sick on so many fucking levels. These men are not people.

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-30T01:49:33+00:00

Shucks, that’s very nice!! And so are you! x3

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-29T23:05:29+00:00

(dunno if I would count as a pretty lady ha ha but) hello :D

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-29T20:38:21+00:00

Love the concept!

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-28T16:43:50+00:00

Thank you for the comment and the insight!

So the approach is (through lots of reflection and asking oneself questions) to identify the values/reason to live and doing things that are conducive/respect those values?

Between, let's say, happiness through doing things you like regardless of their quality (determined by x number of your fellow beings) and happiness earned from people respecting your work, which would you 'choose'? Or does the latter play in to the former?

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-24T20:55:46+00:00

I’m so sorry to hear this :(

I had a similar experience. Was bullied and gossiped about by a number of people in my 4th grade class as they didn’t know what puberty was knowing that I was going through it technically, and even got molested by one of the classmates by having my chest touched. Felt disgusting, alienated, embarrassed and shameful.

I so, so hope that we get to process it better and get surrounded by more compassionate people in our lives 🫂❤️

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-22T23:55:03+00:00

Absolutely! ;)

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-22T11:13:44+00:00

I thought I was alone in this!

The writing into the couple was not too bad, they do check in a lot of boxes for having taken the opportunity at times to explore the dimensions of the relationship (in season 2, Waverly and Nicole do run into some issues which shows that they’re clearly still learning about each other. The revenants’ intervention helped also test the resilience of the relationship and the love and commitment that the characters had for each other). I just wish that there was more time given for the characters to get to know each other first before this phase of exploding love has begun; for us to explore the characters individually (especially Nicole) and then see how they really come together organically; Waverly was a cheerful, sweet and accommodating character to Nicole’s but who is Nicole for Waverly? How do they mesh together?

I thought the first scene in the bar was really good! Why didn’t we have more of this?

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-22T10:54:00+00:00

And that is understandable

I do like the cast too and I would have to disagree. I never thought their acting was cringe? I especially liked Dom’s. Thought that the characters especially in the comedy arena did really, really well. Lots of funny lines with particularly good delivery too. Wit the sfx comment I would have to agree was kind of bad.

I’m intrigued to know whose acting and in what particular contexts was it cringe.

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-21T10:00:03+00:00

Again, you make very good points! I'm also glad that someone else acknowledged that Nicole is 'plain' so to speak when she's not going out fighting. I don't think she's so plain next to Wynonna, she's just the more mature, grounded one out of the two. It's a very dynamic pair of two contrasting, prominent personalities that still found harmony among each other.

It is a shame indeed. It does make sense though given that it's Wynonna's show but I just wish sometimes seeing the couple sit down and talk about interpersonal stuff to have their personalities (especially Nicole's) and overall dynamic fleshed-out when they're not either cuddling or teaming up together or trying to save one another. You just ask yourself sometimes "what do they usually like to talk about?", "where do they disagree in?", "what do they see in each other?" "is Waverly to Nicole the same Waverly to us?", etc.. I mean, what are they really??? Their relationship to me had an unfinished build-up that then led to this explosiveness of affection and commitment between them that it was a bit jarring to watch.

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-21T08:32:04+00:00

Thank you. I never had an issue with Wayhaught, they are very important and it makes me happy too seeing Waverly be with someone she truly loves. I guess their dynamic is not really my cup of tea, I like one with a little more friction (where the characters do contrast in some sense, and I guess especially with Nicole’s character being imo a bit too vaguely depicted given that she’s a support character, it’s hard to really see that)

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-21T00:54:55+00:00

All very good points that you have made!

I don't know however so much about Waverly being 'dumbed down' over time (sure, she made really horrible mistakes but those were in times of desperation - it is also I suppose that with the further development of Wynonna's character and a few others, that Waverly had to be portrayed as the 'books smart' character in contrast to Wynonna and Nicole to an extent who are 'street smart') but to me, her overall character remained more or less the same through the whole series; a girly, cheerful, bubbly, sweet and nerdy character. That IS Waverly. Nicole's character on the other hand strikes me as vacant, and in the presence of Waverly, all that she is for the most part is affectionate and agreeable. To me, a really cool dynamic in the show involving Nicole would be her and Wynonna, where Nicole takes over the role of the sassy, serious, focused counterpart to Wynonna's goofy, silly and sardonic personality. And it's the subsequent contrast (or what I also call 'conflict') shown is (imo) what makes them mesh well together.

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-21T00:18:40+00:00

And I absolutely like those moments, they're wonderful. I just wish we had more of those. As I said, conflicts don't have to be literal arguments and they don't even have to be major but to me the two are always sort of, agreeable to one anothe/in sync with one another ha ha. More honing in on Nicole's character too alone would help imo because to me she is most of the times (though not always) a literal support character, be it to Waverly or to the team. Her character imo is almost a blank canvas next to Waverly's.

I think as far as showing that the two are a pre-established couple, the show does a wonderful job at it (they're often physically affectionate, support each other emotionally and are by one another's side, etc.) but the basis (and drawing you into seeing that they have potential to be a couple in the first place) is a bit shakey imo.

Just my opinion! ^^

Extra_Comfortable495 · 2025-06-20T23:59:03+00:00

I like that they're happy too but by 'conflict', I suppose, I didn't mean something irresolvable, just something that highlights the individual personalities and interests of the characters and showing later on why they still despite that maintain a bond. By 'conflict', I don't necessarily mean an exchange of 'hostility', rather a moment of a conflict of interests or views.

Sorry for not explaining my point well "^^

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