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by edtechdev 12y ago
It's working exactly the way he has argued for in earlier writings: as a way to weed out students and have them memorize meaningless procedures. Two years ago he was arguing that "it's survival of the fittest; the process has
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Colleges Reinvent Classes to Keep More Students in Science(nytimes.com)
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Related to this, there was that recent article about a classical interpretation of the famous double-slit experiment (pilot wave theory) that helps bring quantum physics back closer to more intuitive descriptions http://www.wired
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It's a trade-off between features/usability and price. I'm sure this one has its niche. It's much cheaper than a Lego Mindstorms kit, and probably easier for kids to use since they have the android and ipad interfaces.
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So I guess the real underlying message they are trying to say is, if a student can't pass an algebra test, they probably can't learn to program, so don't even bother trying to teach it to them. A more generalized form of the
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Cool, and it looks like another alternative is Pi-Bot in case someone wants something that can be ordered now (more expensive though): http://pi-bot.org/ Both bots work with Arduino and the Minibloq visual programming envir
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Here are some more interactive and effective ways to learn stats online. The Open Learning Initiative's open Probability & Statistics Course out of Carnegie Mellon might just be the most researched and carefully designed course out
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Right, a college degree unfortunately at times is basically a proxy for an intelligence test, a way to filter out job applicants. It is a signifier - this person did well enough in school to get into and through college. I'm not judgi
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It's still VB http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... For 'rapid prototyping' of a website, I guess that would be Wordpress.
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This animated circuit simulation can help students conceptually understand what is happening in the circuits they learn about in the first 2-3 college circuit courses: http://falstad.com/circuit/ (it's a java appl
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By chance is there a detachable/convertible tablet that anyone would recommend that runs Ubuntu well? There's a detachable Ekoore Python S3 tablet which triple boots to Ubuntu, Windows, and Android, but it doesn't appear to b
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And yet the way math is traditionally taught in schools and colleges, there is almost always is a unique right answer. There are alternative approaches to teaching math such as problem-based learning, active learning, and inquiry-based lear
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I'd read up on the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA). It addresses the concerns you raised, and it's not aiming to measure some of the things you assert it is measuring. It's not the same thing as the SAT or the GRE. For
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For what it's worth, .NET had those same issues 10 years ago when I left it (for java, then in 2008/9 for javascript/html5). From an educational software perspective, the lack of an equivalent to java applets (I know, they s
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The Last One (1981)(tebbo.com)
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Fixing Calculus Courses(edtechdev.wordpress.com)
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Horace’s Compromise and the Faculty-Student Non-Aggression Pact(edtechdev.wordpress.com)
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In Defense of Hand Washing: Lessons from Healthcare for College Teaching(edtechdev.wordpress.com)
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"I'd consider dropping out if my science teacher couldn't distinguish correlation and causation in their paper." Are you arguing that higher grades might be causing femaleness? Interesting theory.
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Wow, a lot of experts on education here. There are a lot of myths out there about (U.S. K12) education, such as all these "bad teachers" that we can't ever fire because of tenure, and how awful U.S. education is compared to o
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Except it's not random who applies for the lottery. And also charter schools are notorious for rejecting students for various reasons that public schools are not allowed to use, including rejecting special ed students, all in the name
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Looks nice, I added it to this list of languages that compile to JavaScript (in the "C#, F#, .NET related languages" section): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
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I've been looking for an excuse to finally copy over my stuff from dropbox to google drive, thanks, I was too lazy to bother with it before :)
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It means pigs will fly before Firefox supports alternative languages like Dart or Typescript, since JavaScript is his baby. I'd be surprised if asm.js even continues to be supported, he's argued so strenuously against the idea of
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I'm a fan of post-publication review. Let people post, and then if it really is something bad, unhelpful, or spam, just let it be down voted and hidden after it receives a certain number of down votes (such as 5, like on reddit). And
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"taken most seriously by those JavaScript programmers who have absolutely no experience whatsoever" You mean like those at Google (dart), Microsoft (typescript), Mozilla (asm.js) and the developers of dozens of other languages tha
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"If you’re going to get anywhere in learning mathematics, you need to learn to be comfortable not understanding something." That's true of everything. It's fear and anxiety that prevents a lot of people from learning an
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Yeah, case-sensitivity in programming languages is a sad artifact of the past, I believe (just my opinion). There were research studies showing that folks made less errors with case-insensitivity, and it's something that would help nov
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I know the argument about Fitt's law and having the menu up on the top (as was the custom since the first Macintosh). That was in the 1980s, with tiny monitors and usually only running one single window application at a time. When you
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Because the engineers are in charge. Coursera was founded by programmers and is dominated by programmers. I'm not saying that's always a bad thing - Google is dominated by engineers and it is an engineering company. But I have bee

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