Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t usually talk about political stuff online, but I am starting to get really tired of the American “Health Care Debate”. Much of the rhetoric is, to be honest, ridiculous, and does little more than show the rest of … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesSaw this on the New York Times (Opinion) today: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/education-degrees-and-teachers-pay/?8ty&emc=ty Do Teachers Need Education Degrees? By The Editors Robert Stolarik for The New York Times In a Room for Debate forum in June on the value of liberal arts master’s … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is an older post I’ve been hanging on to, and since I have forgotten why I was hanging on to it, I no longer see any reason to keep it private. This stems from a post Mark Guzdial did … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesJust heard on Mark Guzdial’s blog that “Georgia Tech’s College of Computing is now considering a proposal to remove Smalltalk from the required curriculum in favor of C++.” This is another nail in the coffin of CS. There is great … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesSHEESH! I get a lot of papers to review in Game Studies; Serious Games; Educational Games., etc. I used to learn a lot from reading these papers. Not anymore. Not only is much of what I read “old news” (i.e. … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesIntellagirl posted a note about this article today and I was curious, so I read it too… She suggested that the article had entirely missed the point, and she is absolutely right! The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 16, 2009 … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesOR: Growing Pains: How to Evolve from a College into a University And, in particular, how to become a university of which everyone can be proud. I’ve been pondering this question as I am now at an institution (which I … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesWarning: what follows is another rant. So here I am working at a new job. I really like the institution (for the most part). I really like the faculty (for the most part). I really like the job (for the … Continue reading