Category: Education & Pedogogy
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PLAYBACK: Potential of Ebooks, Social Media and YouTube for Learning, Remixing and Play | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
Mobiles (cell phones) are …effectively specialized computers for the palm of your hand, with a huge and growing collection of software tools that make use of their accelerometers, compasses, cameras, microphones, GPS, and other sensors. via PLAYBACK: Potential of Ebooks, Social Media and YouTube for Learning, Remixing and Play | Spotlight on Digital Media and…
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Cyberinfrastructure…
Cyberinfrastructure is the organized aggregate of technologies enabling access and coordination of information technology resources to facilitate science, engineering, and societal goals. Wow, I just discovered that NSF has been thinking about the big picture of how you would use some of the cool commercial apps and the way sites work in many fields. I…
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A Parent’s Struggle With a Child’s iPad Addiction – NYTimes.com
My kids are now 20 somethings, but I recall the years we had no TV in the house, and how we agonized over whether Mario was going to rot our son’s brain (it seems that it did *not* harm him.) Pogue’s dilemma seems more difficult, as the electronic apps he describes are not passive, and…
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This is what I have been saying for years, but he’s doing it big-time
“decouple credentialing from learning.” Instead of handing out degrees, standardized assessments would be the measure of employee competence. Anyone could learn at their own pace in their own way: in an internship, as an entrepreneur, or at home on the Internet. Then, everyone, no matter how they were educated, would be equal before the evaluation.…
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PLATO Got me interested in computers
PLATO – Program Logic for Automatic Teaching Operation was installed in the Basement of the G Lecture Hall at UIC, then known as “Circle” when I was attending. I was taking a Microeconomics course, and I was freakedout because I had never taken an econ test, and the teacher did not tell us whether it…
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Want to remember? Write it down, take a quiz
This is enlightening. The method of reading, testing, reading, testing is pretty obvious. The fact that the students who learned MORE believed they had learned LESS is quite fascinating. If I had to create a quiz like this for every reading, it would take too much time. So, can a clever programmer devise an auto-quizzer…
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Read this and think about Truth and Science
If replication is what separates the rigor of science from the squishiness of pseudoscience, where do we put all these rigorously validated findings that can no longer be proved? Which results should we believe? Francis Bacon, the early-modern philosopher and pioneer of the scientific method, once declared that experiments were essential, because they allowed us…
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Hans Rosling Makes Stats Visual
This is an amazing visualization. It is an inspiration to me. This is my new goal for spring semester – to develop a totally rocking visualization. via YouTube – Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four.
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Researching the Past with Counts
Mr. Cohen and Mr. Gibbs’s “Reframing the Victorians” study is one of 12 university projects to win a new digital humanities award created by Google that provides money along with access to the company’s powerful computers and databases. Some scholars are wary of the control an enterprise like Google can exert over digital information. Google’s…
Barbara K Iverson 