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by edtechdev 11y ago
I'd recommend starting at code.org to learn the basics of programming (loops, etc.) and learn how to make basic games like flappy bird: http://studio.code.org/ Then depending on his interests and abilities, there are v
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by edtechdev 11y ago
[0; 'a'; fun x -> x + 1];; The common type is object, or perhaps more specifically, non-nil object (object!), if 0 is not treated as nil (value type). If you try to interact with an object (add it to a number, call a method, et
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by edtechdev 11y ago
Yeah once you learn about the "lone genius" myth, you see it all over the place, especially in movies and textbooks. There were several articles about it this past year: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox&#x2
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by edtechdev 11y ago
Yeah, Murray Sperber called it the “faculty-student non-aggression pact" - “Professors don’t ask much of their students and students don’t ask much of their professors". And a newer book called "Academically Adrift" foun
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CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap Takes on the Tech Industry’s Treatment of Women(themarysue.com)
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How one college went from 10% female computer-science majors to 40%(qz.com)
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by edtechdev 11y ago
There are some interactive books/courses/sites that are nice. They don't necessarily use 'layman terms' like that 100 year old calculus book: http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/free-open/statistic
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by edtechdev 11y ago
Hope to see more p2p application platforms in the future, including ones that might potentially run in a browser (via WebRTC) - if you know of others, please comment here. There's one based on IPFS and blockchain that's a distrib
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Upcycling Textbooks(upcyclingtextbooks.org)
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California’s multi-million dollar online education flop – another blow for MOOCs(hechingerreport.org)
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Making vs. Coding(technoboy10.tk)
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by edtechdev 11y ago
Exactly. Even the author of this post has argued for "filtering out" the weaker students in a Darwinian fashion with MOOCs: "MOOC education is survival of the fittest. Every student is just one insignificant datapoint while
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by edtechdev 12y ago
Even better are classroom response systems which let all students answer at the same time using their phones or computers. Examples include Socrative or Poll Everywhere.
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by edtechdev 12y ago
Right, I stopped short because I reached the point at which I'd have to Google to double check anything. Yeah, you've invented the 'mean absolute deviation' (or 'average absolute deviation'), which might be bet
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by edtechdev 12y ago
This is a horrible explanation of variance. And it's missing WHY we need variance, or, what is the usefulness of variance vs. other measures like mean and range. Say you want to buy a car and want to choose a brand and model based on
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CS Education Must Go Beyond Intuition:The Need for Evidence-Based Practice(cacm.acm.org)
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by edtechdev 12y ago
I've seen this thing quite often. There's a famous video clip of MIT graduates, in cap and gown, who can't make a bulb light when given a battery and wire. I disagree with the blog author's interpretation that this is
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Don't Stay in School [video](youtube.com)
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Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital(econtalk.org)
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Google hopes Disney's 'Miles from Tomorrowland' inspires future coders(latimes.com)
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Teaching Literature with Raspberry Pi(raspberrypi.org)
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by edtechdev 12y ago
The same thing seems to happen in many mailing lists or newsgroups once they reach a certain size, as well as on discussion boards, stackoverflow, and other sites like wikipedia. One person called them 'RTFM jerks': http:/&
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9 Signals of Apple’s Coming Higher Ed Problems(insidehighered.com)
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by edtechdev 12y ago
There's contract work - like creating little websites or web apps for people. So, learn things like Wordpress, CSS, Javascript, image editing, to start. If I were him, I would first ask around - family, local businesses, organizations
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by edtechdev 12y ago
There was already PeerCDN, but they got bought out by Yahoo and now it is shut down: https://peercdn.com/
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Think Retro: How HyperCard inspired a generation of future developers(macworld.com)
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Or a wiki page at github is even better
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by edtechdev 12y ago
> Everybody is an asshole from the point of view of someone else. Agreed. One man's asshole is another man's best friend. Also, and perhaps more commonly, people behave differently to different people and in different circumst
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by edtechdev 12y ago
I would look at actual math education research and research-based materials and lessons and tools, such as at sites like NCTM and MAA. Most educational research is not consistent with Lockhart's views. As an example, here's a sum
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MIT unifies Web development in a single, speedy new language(itworld.com)
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