What Makes Code Readable: Not What You Think | Computing Education Blog

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat Makes Code Readable: Not What You Think | Computing Education Blog. Be explicit. Not that I’m at all surprised, but …. cool. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike … Continue reading

Are We Teaching Our Kids to NOT learn?

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m currently teaching an online graduate course in Digital Game Based Learning. It has included some great discussions about all kinds of things. Erin Lerouge (one of the class members) wrote a few comments on Seymore Paperts classic article, “Papert, … Continue reading

Anyone want to do the follow-up research?

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnyone want to do the follow-up research? Bras not necessary, potentially harmful: study | Health | Life | National Post “Medically, physiologically, anatomically — breasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity,” Professor Jean-Denis Rouillon said This was posted on … Continue reading

Go figure…

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteGo figure… Bing Delivers Five Times as Many Malicious Websites as Google Searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches, according to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test. Though search engines … Continue reading

$40-million donation fuels learning excellence University of Calgary – What are the chances it will actually make a difference?

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute$40-million donation fuels learning excellence | News & Events | University of Calgary. Do you suppose this can help pull the UofC off the bottom of the list when it comes to student satisfaction? Not unless they get rid of … Continue reading

Code Spells: Learn to Program by Crafting Your Own Magic Spells: BETA Release!

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteCool. Code Spells: Learn to Program by Crafting Your Own Magic Spells: BETA Release!. Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading

Where I’ve been online (to end March 2013)

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is a record of places I have bookmarked. (I also post them to Diigo, but since I don’t like to leave stuff only in the cloud, I am also keeping a copy here. This View of Life: Primatologist Frans … Continue reading

Boredom is necessary in order for creativity to flourish.

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteCool. I’ve been saying this for years!! Edward de Bono, business consultant and self-described “father of lateral thinking” has authored numerous works on creative thinking. de Bono calls moments of boredom “creative pauses,” which allows the mind to drift, and … Continue reading