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Building Serverless Apps with Webtask.io(auth0.com)
24 points by edtechdev 10y ago|8 comments
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by edtechdev 10y ago
There are some more kid-friendly programmable robots/hardware and coding tools listed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r1b2CM1uTdST47IbWa7zlZYm... Project Bloks isn't out yet, but a similar one
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Coincidentally, the headphone jack on my Lenovo laptop just broke last week, and it's been a huge pain. I didn't realize how much I depended on it. I wear ear buds to listen to music during work. I have bluetooth earbuds, but the
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by edtechdev 10y ago
See also https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-security mentioned above
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Website has unemployed profs writing students' essays(news.nationalpost.com)
11 points by edtechdev 10y ago|1 comments
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The Next Generation of Scratch(medium.com)
2 points by edtechdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Here are some critiques of this technique: http://blog.sandglaz.com/demystifying-the-bullet-journal-why... http://joshmedeski.com/bullet-journal-didnt-work/ I personally just use Google Tasks for deadl
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by edtechdev 10y ago
He may be a bit of a curmudgeon - his blog is called Education Outrage, after all: http://educationoutrage.blogspot.com/ But he's done and continues to do a lot of good work. He helped found the Learning Sciences (an
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by edtechdev 10y ago
The colons are not necessary here, and not in python, either. It was blindly copied from the ABC language (designed in the 70s for complete novices), where it made a little more sense because all keywords were in all caps and thus harder to
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by edtechdev 10y ago
One argument of embodied cognition and enactivism is that all our concepts have an embodied basis - even abstract things like math, computation, language, philosophy, etc. The article mentioned radical enactivism from Anthony Chemero. Anot
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Should we be afraid of AI?(aeon.co)
2 points by edtechdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Try to teach your kids programming this way, and you are more than likely only going to turn them off programming for many years. There is actual research on teaching kids how to code. Personally, I would start with code.org or Scratch. I
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Part 2: https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/247
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Triangulation: Interview with Bill Atkinson, Part 1(twit.tv)
3 points by edtechdev 10y ago|1 comments
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PowerApps allows employees to build apps without knowing how to program(pcworld.com)
1 points by edtechdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Here's a video showing interval training on an exercise bike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeEHYdFhK4o&list=PL2Y4NA_zw1... The way I've been doing it (I'm no expert), is after pedaling normally for a mi
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Over on the education side of things, we have a lot of problems with Campbell's law. Once people focus on a quantitative indicator to evaluate things of any importance, it essentially gets corrupted. Like test scores, university ranki
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Statistical NLP in the Ten Hundred Most Common English Words(spacy.io)
7 points by edtechdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Part 2 is "Designing the Conversational UI" http://alistapart.com/article/designing-the-conversational-u...
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All Talk and No Buttons: The Conversational UI(alistapart.com)
5 points by edtechdev 10y ago|1 comments
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A Nobel Laureate's Education Plea: Revolutionize Teaching(npr.org)
1 points by edtechdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Why Teachers Need to Know the Wrong Answers(npr.org)
1 points by edtechdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Creativity Is Much More Than 10k Hours of Deliberate Practice(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
175 points by edtechdev 10y ago|55 comments
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Last I checked, dentists don't brush our teeth for us. And all dentists, at one point, were non-dentists.
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by edtechdev 10y ago
I think you missed the word "also" in my comment: "See also work on 'growth mindset' vs. 'fixed mindset'" That's all I said about growth mindset in my comment. For a good explanation of growth m
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by edtechdev 10y ago
He's probably hinting at a debate about whether or not we should force kids to memorize the times tables by a certain age, which Jo Boaler (math education researcher) argues against: https://www.youcubed.org/fluency-wit
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An Autobiography of a Blind Programmer(parhamdoustdar.com)
58 points by edtechdev 10y ago|29 comments
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by edtechdev 10y ago
Ericsson's work is classic, but you have to realize A) it is primarily from the 80s and involved studying things like games or sports or trivial pursuits where expertise is more likely to be measured, and B) the author of the book desc
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by edtechdev 11y ago
Between the port forwarding and security and other kinds of hassles of running a server in your own house, I just used digitalocean hosting for a minecraft server for my kid a few years ago, $5 a month. Here's a script to install the
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by edtechdev 11y ago
That could more easily be accomplished if they had chosen a proper bytecode, like LLVM, even JVM. It's still possible, but WebAssembly is just a Javascript AST.

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