Telus Spark : If This is Science We are Doomed, Part 1

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesWe visited http://www.sparkscience.ca/ for the first time yesterday. Everyone in my family is into science – in a BIG way. We also love learning new stuff, and we love having fun. This should make a visit to the science center … Continue reading

Where I’ve Been Online (Weekly: July 22-28)

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~  FREE TrueType Fonts To Download – More than 50000 fonts to download free for windows and mac source of fonts more from fontzone.net Tags: fonts FREE How … Continue reading

A Call to Arms for Decent Men: A Re-Post of Ernest Adams’ column.

Approximate Reading Time: 9 minutesA Call to Arms for Decent Men. This is worth saying again, and again, so here it is, in its entirety: Gamasutra declined to run this column, but I still consider it to be part of the Designer’s Notebook series. … Continue reading

Who funded the Internet? I care that you don’t know what it is! « Computing Education Blog

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesEven in modern times it is possible for accounts of history to go awry. In this case it doesn’t even have the excuse of being ancient history.   Come to think of it, in some ways we are more at … Continue reading

CMEC Statement on Play-Based Learning

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesA great start…. play-based-learning_statement_EN.pdf (application/pdf Object). Of course, play lies at the core of innovation and creativity for adults too….. what do you think real scientists do all day? CMEC = Council of Ministers of Education CMEC StatementonPlay-BasedLearning     … Continue reading

What’s the opposite of anthropomorphism?

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesDog Ownership and Video Games – NYTimes.com. Dog ownership is like a videogame….. The characters are unremarkable. The setting is ordinary. The action is dull. But like all games, owning a dog is about the quiet magic of doing. The … Continue reading

Where I’ve Been Online (weekly: July 15-21)

Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~  20 Jul 12 HP Blogs – Knowing What Your Students Don’t Know – How InkSur… – The HP Blog Hub In the course of doing this she … Continue reading

Googlography 101: Searching on the Net

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the last decade or so I’ve been saying that searching and sorting are going to be key skills (and that these are things we really need to concentrate on in CS Education). For about as long, I’ve also thought … Continue reading