Archimedes was the first Moodler

Archimedes was the first Moodler

by Ger Tielemans -
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..and Martin introduced the first Collaboartive Moodle:
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Socrates as the first Moodler :-)

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Nice, Ger, but don't you think we really have to credit Socrates as the original?

(I notice the duck is marginalised in this picture!)
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Re: Socrates as the first Moodler :-)

by Ger Tielemans -
Depends of what you call the core of Moodle: if it is the dialogue as it was for Moodle inthe beginning, then you credit Socrates, if it is the acceptance of the free will of the learner then it is the less famous Plotinos, but if it is Moodling, sitting in a warm comfortable (educational?) bath, with free floating thoughts, puzzling unconsciously with a problem then all the credits goes to Archimedes end his one liner EUREKA.
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Re: Socrates as the first Moodler :-)

by Herbert Keijers -
Could it be the java duck ... ?
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Re: Socrates as the first Moodler :-)

by Steven Day -
Although not the first moodler, I would nominate another great Axial age philosopher Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu) as another early eminent moodler. If indeed Moodling is "also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity," then Zhuangzi qualifies. See the "Rambling without a destination" chapter of his eponymous work, rendered splendidly by A.C. Graham.

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Re: Socrates as the first Moodler :-)

by Tom Murdock -
It seems to me that Gary Snyder's poem is very Moodle-like:

AXE HANDLES

One afternoon the last week in April
Showing Kai how to throw a hatchet
One-half turn and it sticks in a stump.
He recalls the hatchet-head
Without a handle, in the shop
And go gets it, and wants it for his own.
A broken-off axe handle behind the door
Is long enough for a hatchet,
We cut it to length and take it
With the hatchet head
And working hatchet, to the wood block.
There I begin to shape the old handle
With the hatchet, and the phrase
First learned from Ezra Pound
Rings in my ears!
"When making an axe handle

the pattem is not far off."
And I say this to Kai
"Look: We'll shape the handle
By checking the handle
Of the axe we cut with-"
And he sees. And I hear it again:
It's in Lu Ji's Wen Fu, fourth century
A.D. "Essay on Literature"-in the
Preface: "In making the handle Of an axe
By cutting wood with an axe
The model is indeed near at hand.-
My teacher Shih-hsiang Chen
Translated that and taught it years ago
And I see: Pound was an axe,
Chen was an axe, I am an axe
And my son a handle, soon
To be shaping again, model
And tool, craft of culture,
How we go on.
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Re: Socrates as the first Moodler :-)

by Don Hinkelman -
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I think it is important that we establish exactly *who* was the first Moodler. As you know, with the new EU patenting initiative, we may need to send small royalties to the descendents of that person. Let's say those who use a Socratic questioning method in their classes should consider sending in a few dollars each time. I wonder if the rate will be calculated on a per question basis, or per class session?
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Re: Socrates as the first Moodler :-)

by Paul Nijbakker -

I postulate that moodling is a characteristic inherent to the human species as a whole. Humankind has moodled about for ages all the way up to the North Pole and South to Antarctica and roughly everywhere in between

So, I nominate Eve as the first Moodler (The black Eve for the evolutionists and the biblical one for the creationists).

It follows that, since we are all her descendants, it is right and proper that Moodle is available freely to anyone of us and no one needs to send royalties to anyone big grin

Hurray for all of us!

Paul.

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Re: Socrates as the first Moodler :-)

by Andy Diament -
So, you're not going to nominate the snake for actually starting the first discussion thread?

Cheers, Andy D?
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Re: Ray Charles, Master Moodler, dead at 73

by Tom Murdock -
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So listen to this link if you want to hear someone who knew how to listen; who left a place and came back to it later (moodling); who ignored what wasn't important and who was his own great original.

. Wait for the scat part.

Ray will be missed.

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Re: Ray Charles, Master Moodler, dead at 73

by W Page -
Thanks for the clip Tom.

It is about 12:30 am in eastern United States right now.  Sure sounded good.

Yes, Ray Charles will truly be missed.

WP1
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Re: Ray Charles, Master Moodler, dead at 73

by Paul Nijbakker -

In my philosophy class, when discussing arguments, I am wont to give my students the following to chew on:

  • God is Love thoughtful
  • Love is Blind wide eyes
  • Ray Charles is Blind cool

Therefore

  • Ray Charles is God big grin

(Minus points for those who don't know who Ray Charles is/was (and who don't care to find out). Naturally, this is an example of a flawed argument, but I don't need to tell you that, do I?)

Rgrds, Paul.

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