Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteAre we finally starting to move away from standardized, high stakes testing? “Standardized test scores add remarkably little to our ability to predict a student’s success beyond what their high school GPA and course schedule already tell us,” Maguire claims. … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~ The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. tags: illustrated guide phd Surviving a traffic surge: Three techniques to scale your site fast tags: surviving traffic surge techniques … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minutevia Global Edmonton | Student gets a zero: Teacher gets suspended. Formal education takes another giant leap towards irrelevancy: EDMONTON – A teacher with more than three decades of experience is speaking out after he says he was suspended for … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minutevia What do non-programming designers have to know? | Janet H. Murray’s Blog on Inventing the Medium. Exactly!!! What should she know instead? Key concepts of computational architecture like these: Information abstraction: Is data separate from proprietary code and stored … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is interesting, and may explain why teachers have trouble with science and math (and why kids who are inclined towards science and math have trouble with teachers). This is from a longitudinal study, testing students’ visual ability, then tracking … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~ iOS, Android, HTML5? How to pick a tablet platform for your app | VentureBeat You’re building a tablet app, and you need to make decisions on … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThe comment about competency vs literacy is a really good one. So I’ll end with a caution about relying on the word literacy. It’s a word I’m deeply troubled by, loaded with historical and social baggage and it’s often misused … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Elements: A Visual Exploration. Looks great. Basically a picture book. You’d think that for the price ($13.99) it would be more interactive and that it would include everything one would normally need from a table of elements – like … Continue reading