Canadian Home Workshop - March 2010

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How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life

Scientists are in the business of trying to understand the world. Exploring commonplace phenomena, they have uncovered some of Nature's deepest laws. We can in turn apply these laws to our own lives, to better grasp and enhance our performance in daily activities as varied as cooking, home improvement sports-even dunking a doughnut! This book makes the science of the familiar a key to opening the door for those who want to know what scientists do, why they do it, and how they go about it.

Written at an adult basic skill level, the book's games, puzzles and exercises make learning vocabulary interesting and fun.

Individual schools and entire school districts must move away from the quick fix and take a systemic approach to school improvement if they want real, sustainable improvement for all students. Long-term improvement can only happen when all pieces of the process for school improvement are in place.
This book is about putting those pieces together and implementing a blueprint for school improvement.
This book also focuses on how administrators, both at the school and central offi ce level, can approach their work, change what they do, and create a commitment to real lifestyle changes.

The spectacular but unsettling reality of faster cycles of change, breakdown of traditional values and institutions, and many other symptoms of technological innovation-what makes these necessary is the subject of this thought-provoking book. All the good intentions of educators, scholars, politicians, and policymakers will fail if they do not recognize why literacy as a dominant framework of human activity is no longer adequate. The current dynamics of human activity is without precedent. It is not the result of technology, but of deeper forces of change. The answer to the failure of many seemingly eternal institutions-government, family, education-is not improvement in the traditional sense, but a fundamentally new perspective. The digital paradigm underlying the new civilization provides a basis for this perspective. But it will be misapplied unless understood within the broader framework of the driving forces behind human activity.