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It’s a Disservice to Urge Young People to Become Entrepreneurs?(aier.org)
99 points by edtechdev 7y ago|51 comments
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by edtechdev 7y ago
Yeah, why would something well-written be on Wikipedia? It's definitely not more notable than a list of butterflies on stamps of Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_butterflies_on_stamps_...
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by edtechdev 7y ago
I ran across blockstack recently and was wondering if it fit the bill. It seems like Solid minus the linked data stuff. The user keeps control of their own data just like with Solid. They have some initial apps listed here: https:/&
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by edtechdev 7y ago
At the bottom of the comments, a member of the Hypercard team said it was killed in 92, before Jobs returned. There still is no free development tool out there that matches what Hypercard did in terms of power and ease of use. We're s
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by edtechdev 7y ago
That's due to encoding specificity. You aren't just learning the 'thing' but the context in which you learned the thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding_specificity_principle It's better
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by edtechdev 7y ago
Yes, if they were disguised as ordinary links.
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by edtechdev 7y ago
Dart was originally meant to be a superior alternative to JavaScript. They originally wanted native Dart support in the browser (dartium) just like there is native JavaScript support. Kotlin was/is meant to be a superior alternative to
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by edtechdev 7y ago
Classic Google Sites will be discontinued in 2021: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/google-sites-im...
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by edtechdev 8y ago
Use Firefox Focus browser on mobile. It is more privacy focused than Firefox and other browsers, and blocks ads instead of replacing them with its own like the Brave browser does.
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by edtechdev 8y ago
That's not what this study is about. There are already plenty of studies showing weight loss or reduced weight gain when consuming low calorie sweeteners vs sugar. And there are no ill health effects such as causing cancer, which a l
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by edtechdev 8y ago
There have been numerous refutations of this opinion piece: https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/problem-based-lea... As well as criticisms of their central underlying theory, cognitive load theory, whi
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by edtechdev 8y ago
Cognitive load theory is unfalsifiable and has numerous conceptual and methodological problems: https://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/cognitive-load-th...
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by edtechdev 8y ago
Get off https://my.lawn/ !
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by edtechdev 8y ago
It's better than forcing students to pay for proprietary statistical analysis tools like SPSS, etc.
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by edtechdev 8y ago
Calculus in 20 minutes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5GmSYipz6A More seriously though, I like the intuitive explanations and analogies used at BetterExplained: https://betterexplained.com/calculus&
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by edtechdev 8y ago
There is actually a whole field of research on mathematics education. I'm sure this 28 year old essay is nice, but probably the most up to date and comprehensive guide to evidence-based teaching of college math is this free Instructio
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by edtechdev 8y ago
It's techcrunch
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by edtechdev 9y ago
This is blogspam. Bookwormhub is a service where you pay people to write papers for you
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Editor Recommendations: A set of recommendations for modern editing solutions(ckeditor.github.io)
6 points by edtechdev 9y ago|0 comments
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by edtechdev 9y ago
Here's the code https://github.com/harc/seymour https://github.com/harc/seymour-live2017
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by edtechdev 9y ago
It's always interesting how many commentors' intuitions about education are completely opposite of what research shows. Active learning has been shown in hundreds of studies to be superior to traditional lecture-based instruction.
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by edtechdev 9y ago
I wonder about accessibility of flutter widgets though, since they aren't just wrappers for native widgets. Looks like it's still not accessible https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/10562 The i
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Raspberry Pi simulator lets you start tinkering without even owning a Pi(techrepublic.com)
1 points by edtechdev 9y ago|0 comments
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by edtechdev 9y ago
There's been some work on english language versions of mathematical expressions, which at the very least can help with accessibility. Handbook for Spoken Mathematics (1983) http://web.efzg.hr/dok/MAT/vkojic&#x
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by edtechdev 9y ago
Pea & Kurland's basic idea is still correct. They were arguing against the notion that learning Logo programming would exercise some generic intelligence 'muscle' that would benefit students in other areas. Instead, what
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by edtechdev 9y ago
She proposed natural language programming over 50 years ago. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=365274 There still hasn't been a whole lot of progress, although there have been some research projects and some closed sou
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Raspberry Pi Workshop for Beginners(core-electronics.com.au)
1 points by edtechdev 9y ago|0 comments
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Naturalizing a Programming Language via Interactive Learning(arxiv.org)
52 points by edtechdev 9y ago|2 comments
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Introducing RealWorld – it’s like TodoMVC, but for fullstack apps(medium.com)
2 points by edtechdev 9y ago|0 comments
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The Post JavaScript Apocalypse – Douglas Crockford(youtube.com)
2 points by edtechdev 9y ago|0 comments

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