Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo More Swikis: End of the Constructionist Web at Georgia Tech « Computing Education Blog. I’m seeing similar edicts coming from other universities too. I moved all of my university-related stuff to my own private domain several years before I … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute#UnschoolingRules: Places to Learn. Well said Clark Aldrich. The activity of farming teaches ethics as well as business and science. Many corporations today seem to be run by near-sociopathic MBA’s who think in terms of cramming, gaming the system, extraction, … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteProblem-solving Paralysis | Action-Reaction. I know my students … dive right in and tinker. So why, when faced with a physics problem, do many students suddenly freeze-up if they can’t see the whole solution right from the outset? How do … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are plenty of reasons to support things like the Space Program….. The truth about NASA’s space tech spinoffs – Technology & science – Innovation – msnbc.com. “NASA has recorded about 1,600 new technologies or inventions each year for the … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesYes, Virginia, There Is Knowledge Transfer « iterating toward openness. From David Wiley‘s iterating toward openness blog. The fact that academics are incapable of recognizing that 99-some-percent of all the learning that happens in the world is pure and simple … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been following a discussion on one of the education forums that is discussing the utility of Bloom’s Taxonomy, and others. There are complaints that Bloom’s is out of date, that we know so much more now than we did … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes… but, sadly, it appears it still is. Playing with Reality at the Learning and Entertainment Evolution Forum – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The opening keynote by Nathan Verrill, co-founder of Natron Baxter, set the tone for … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat Tenure Gets You: A Reply to Naomi Schaefer Riley – Brainstorm – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Well said. True, tenure also protects some faculty who have not contributed in any significant way for years, but I would much … Continue reading