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by edtechdev 5y ago
For me, an issue is that the most popular frameworks are created by huge companies who primarily rely on ads and tracking data, so everything requires massive/complex server-side resources, which are too expensive for someone like me w
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What can the Internet learn from trees?(newpublic.substack.com)
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Laziness does not exist (2018)(humanparts.medium.com)
183 points by edtechdev 5y ago|164 comments
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Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College?(theatlantic.com)
84 points by edtechdev 5y ago|247 comments
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by edtechdev 5y ago
Has anyone made a note-taking tool (like notion/obsidian/logseq) that builds off of a computational notebook tool (like jupyter/observable/starboard)? Mainly just needs wiki style links and backlinks and a search functio
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We have more than five senses. A neuroscientist explains our hidden abilities(sciencefocus.com)
2 points by edtechdev 5y ago|0 comments
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How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (2015)(fastcompany.com)
233 points by edtechdev 5y ago|118 comments
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The Organizational Bullshit Perception Scale(psypost.org)
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by edtechdev 5y ago
This is how Western Governors University works - they have separate instructors and evaluators. Not sure how well it works in practice, however. I have read a few complaints.
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Professor Elizabeth Anderson on Workplace Democracy and Feminist Philosophy(currentaffairs.org)
4 points by edtechdev 5y ago|2 comments
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by edtechdev 5y ago
Been looking into terminusdb, an open source graph database implemented in prolog and rust. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867767
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by edtechdev 5y ago
One example today relates to teaching (in college). Most instructors (~75%) predominantly lecture, even though hundreds of studies have shown that increases the failure rate of students by 55% on average compared to teaching with some activ
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by edtechdev 5y ago
Drupal has become more targeted to enterprise. For sites you're developing yourself, wordpress can do the same stuff as drupal now, especially with advanced custom fields (ACF). Another alternative is Statamic.
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by edtechdev 5y ago
Yeah, Wikipedia also has a more in-depth list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
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Grok TiddlyWiki(groktiddlywiki.com)
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by edtechdev 5y ago
Yeah the lack of open source prevented me from committing to observable, too, so I look forward to trying dataflow out. Just in case this is of interest to others, some other open source browser-based computational notebook tools include: *
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by edtechdev 5y ago
This is a junk article written by a right winger who writes for the "American Council on Science and Health" which you can read more about here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-
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by edtechdev 5y ago
There's actually decades of research on how to more effectively teach math, including the effectiveness of inquiry based learning approaches, which are more effective. See the MAA's Instructional Practices Guide: https:/&#x2
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by edtechdev 5y ago
Doing some more digging, apparently AdGuard just created a URL tracking filter a couple of weeks ago that we should be able to enable in either the AdGuard or Ublock Origin (or perhaps other ad-blocking) Firefox mobile addons eventually: h
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by edtechdev 5y ago
Does anyone know of something like this that works on mobile? Couldn't find a Firefox mobile add-on that does this.
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Hedy is a gradual programming language that helps kids to learn Python(hedycode.com)
144 points by edtechdev 5y ago|48 comments
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Covid on Campus: The Pandemic's Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights(thefire.org)
1 points by edtechdev 6y ago|0 comments
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Autism Theory 25 Years in the Making(neurosciencenews.com)
5 points by edtechdev 6y ago|1 comments
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Waldemar Haffkine: The vaccine pioneer the world forgot(bbc.co.uk)
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by edtechdev 6y ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger based programming language https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC
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Students should not return to campuses this fall(insidehighered.com)
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by edtechdev 7y ago
This site had more intuitive explanations for things like this, including imaginary numbers, calculus, etc https://betterexplained.com/articles/rethinking-arithmetic-a...
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by edtechdev 7y ago
Maybe it depends on what's the next platform. C/C++ was sort of a base programming language for desktop apps, javascript for the browser, and Objective C & Java for mobile. Server apps have been a mix of PHP/python/
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Open Is Cancelled(medium.com)
1 points by edtechdev 7y ago|0 comments
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by edtechdev 7y ago
The main challenge is students who can't read yet vs. those who can. In an after-school elementary school coding club I did a while back, I mainly used https://code.org/ If Scratch is too advanced for the youngest of

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