Welcome to the Land of the Ideas: The Goethe Institute Fellowship Tour of Germany.
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Abstract
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain was inspired to write these words after a visit to Germany in the 1860's. Almost a century and a half later, I visited many of the same sites he described so eloquently in Innocents Abroad. The Goethe Institute's 2006 Fellowship Tour gave me a much deeper appreciation of the significance of his words. The Land of Ideas There are many valid reasons for participating in an educators' tour of Germany. It is a nation that has a legacy of literary and political thought that has had a profound impact on the evolution of Western civilization. Germany has offered the world artistic and scientific genius and been the source of devastating war and unprecedented genocide. The historic opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the unification of Germany in 1990 underscore the importance of understanding the geopolitical role of modern Germany in the world community. Today, Germany is one of the world's leading export countries, a major contributor to the European Union and an internationally respected member of the United Nations. Model of post-war reconstruction and the use of renewable energy resources, Germany has shared many of the problems evident in Canadian and American societies. Many teachers across North America consider a study of contemporary Germany essential to developing global understanding from an international perspective. The Transatlantic Outreach Program The Transatlantic Outreach Program (TOP) supports these teachers by disseminating teaching materials about modern Germany to K-12 Canadian and American teachers, program coordinators and university methods professors, promoting in-service teacher training, and offering all-expense-paid study/travel tours to Germany for social studies educators. The participants of the study tours are expected to contribute lesson plans to the Program and to offer in-service training about Teaching Modern Germany. TOP is a public-private partnership between the Goethe-Institut, the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Deutsche Bank and the Robert Bosch Foundation. The initiative is based on the idea that the best lessons in life come from experience. Since 2001, the TOP program has sought to find the best and most qualified K-12 social studies educators and give them the opportunity to experience modern Germany in the most dramatic way possible: in person. From Munich to Nurnberg, from Lake Constance to the Black Forest, from Dresden to Weimar, and from Frankfurt to Berlin, each corner of Germany is sampled through sight, sound, touch, and taste! Highlights of past summer study/travel seminars include Question and Answer sessions with diplomats from the Federal Foreign Office, experts on German immigration, officials from the European Central Bank and German curriculum developers, authors, teachers and students. Participants are given a private guided tour of the Reichstag and visit modern German industries such as the Glass Volkswagen factory in Dresden and a brewery in Weimar. Last year one group met and exchanged gifts and photos with Chancellor Schroeder; this past summer another group met Chancellor Merkel and President Bush during his official state visit. These all-expense-paid travel seminars are two weeks in length. Four groups of about 15-20 educators visit different regions of Germany during July and August, and all Fellows spend a few days in Berlin and Frankfurt. This past summer Harry Lewis from Victoria and I became the first Canadian participants. Our itinerary focused on Berlin, Schwerin, Hamburg and Frankfurt with many excursions to smaller towns and villages along the way. Orientation to the Program Our tour group included thirteen teachers, professors and program coordinators from across North America and three Goethe Institute staff members. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.143 | 0.061 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".