Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists Fault Universities as Favoring Research Over Teaching – Research – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Yup. Heard it before. The entire time I was at the University of Calgary I kept hearing about how important research was and based … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteFacebook, Friends, and Online Schooling | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice. I think he’s right. That does not mean that FB is a waste of time or the online learning doesn’t work, although both are true at … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesOn leisure and the academic lifestyle | Virtual Canuck. I often see posts from academics about how demanding and busy the lifestyle is. For some reason most of the posts I’ve seen like this come from faculty in Education. I … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis was mentioned on slashdot… They are claiming that progress on algorithms beats progress in hardware because a few algorithms have gotten a lot faster. Problem is, people are going to believe this is true of all algorithms, and then … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesFinally! A study that looks for the keys where they were lost rather than under the streetlight. Violent games not to blame for youth aggression. Ferguson found that depressive symptoms were a strong predictor for youth aggression and rule breaking, … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a short post from Clark Quinn about making communication work even when we don’t really share the same language: Pidgin Learning Very nicely put. I’ve been mired the writing of two chapters of my book that talk about definitions, … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThis question came up on one of the forums I follow. Discussions like this come up so frequently, that the only conclusion I can come to is that there is no general agreement on what many words mean. Unfortunately, we … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrank Gibeau from EA says: I volunteer you to speak to EA’s studio heads; they’ll tell you the same thing. They’re very comfortable moving the discussion towards how we make connected gameplay – be it co-operative or multiplayer or online … Continue reading