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by edtechdev 9y ago
For me, accessibility is important, too, which rules out immediate mode or canvas-based GUIs. And there are not just desktop, but web and mobile platforms. Like Nim, it would be nicer if there were a better language and framework designed
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Using Go to Communicate More Effectively(parhamdoustdar.com)
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Installing and Running a GNU/Linux Environment on Any Android Device(xda-developers.com)
74 points by edtechdev 10y ago|20 comments
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by edtechdev 10y ago
I remember using OS X in the early years of its existence, and it was non-stop spinning beach ball of death. I switched to Windows for a while and then Ubuntu in 2006 which I still use. Everytime over the past 10 years that I try out a ne
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College is Over(medium.com)
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by edtechdev 10y ago
If you think there's a chance your blood sugar might be high, you can get an A1C test kit at the pharmacy or grocery store or Amazon (or visit your doctor, of course). That tests your average blood sugar level over the past 3 months o
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Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote for Trump(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by edtechdev 10y ago
In Florida, amendments require 60% of the vote to pass, so I'm hoping this one won't. But the electric companies have spent over $18 million in support of this amendment, ten times the opposition. There are constant ads on TV now
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by edtechdev 10y ago
If any of those items were true (and I highly doubt that), his colleagues should have simply mentioned it rather than stay quiet, passive aggressive, and butthurt.
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Start by playing with the physics simulations at http://phet.colorado.edu
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by edtechdev 10y ago
You can no longer embed their widgets on platforms that allow iframes but not script tags, like most learning management systems.
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by edtechdev 10y ago
For the impatient, the author of the course has a nice handout with 10 tips for good and bad studying: http://www.barbaraoakley.com/pdf/10rulesofstudying.pdf
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by edtechdev 10y ago
The title is completely false and not even the title of the essay. But see the author's Learning How to Learn MOOC.
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by edtechdev 10y ago
If you want to teach computational thinking to kids, here are some much better (and researched) resources: http://csunplugged.org/ https://code.org/ https://scratch.mit.edu/ and many others
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Depends on what effect size or power you are looking for and/or other factors like variance in the data (standard deviation), etc. There are some different ways to calculate sample sizes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns(gq.com)
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Very nice. Would love to see versions in other programming languages. I'm very interested in examples that extrapolate this idea to other areas of programming and even math. And also work in the reverse direction. Most of the example
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by edtechdev 10y ago
React Native supports * iOS * Android * OS X https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos * Windows https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows * Ubuntu https://developer.ubuntu.
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Nice article, but I think you'd do many a favor by increasing the text color contrast to make it more readable: http://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://dannas.github.io/2016...
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by edtechdev 10y ago
They do a lot of coding, too: http://code4lib.org/ Drupal's popular with some libraries, too: https://groups.drupal.org/libraries/resources
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by edtechdev 10y ago
I got Dell XPS 13 a year and a half ago that had similar problems. Also a problem with the audio jack - buzzing noise whenever you plugged in headphones. I mainly use Ubuntu, but the problems were on Windows, too. I returned it and got a
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by edtechdev 10y ago
It's called "growth mindset" (vs. fixed mindset). There are books and hundreds of articles on it. I've found this TED talk the best explanation of growth vs. fixed mindset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Teaching strategies and teachers/tutors have an effect on student confidence, motivation, self-efficacy, attitudes, and performance. The first link (teaching math in the context of engineering) increases the confidence of female studen
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by edtechdev 10y ago
The sad thing is there are already many well-researched strategies for improving the success of all students in calculus and significantly reducing any gaps between student groups. Things like: * Teaching the math in context instead of abst
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by edtechdev 10y ago
You can find some of his work at: http://www.papert.org/ and more background info on him on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Seems like a good scenario for a Chromebook. You can buy two or more for the price of one iPad. And install Linux on it if you want.
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by edtechdev 10y ago
I understood math better once I used it for coding. Linear algebra and matrices, for example, by creating a simple 3D simulation and later studying a circuit simulation. Same with physics and other sciences, which are typically taught more
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Depends a lot on their interests and experience. If she has little to no experience with coding, check out this as a start: http://code.org/ See the 'advanced' section of this handout for more coding resources for
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Anders Ericsson's deliberate practice theory, from which the 10,000 hours idea came, has also been critiqued in other ways. See this special issue of Intelligence for some articles, and below is a sort of summary: http://ww
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by edtechdev 10y ago
This has a lot of potential - I've been waiting on mine since January. Will see if Retropie can be installed on it. The only thing missing is a speaker, but you can add one for about $5-10 or so: http://blog.nextthing.co&#x

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