The Set Up
My district frequently purchases digital content for online classes. The content is good – chunked information, videos (albeit usually in flash – hello future headache), and useful interactive games. The content is built for the web – essentially the content provider gives us an extremely vast website that (sorta) works like an [...]
File for future thoughts (especially where you’d fit theology in this) – from Slate:
In your new book, you suggest that many components of human nature are just too complicated to be really researchable.
That’s a pretty normal phenomenon. Take, say, physics, which restricts itself to extremely simple questions. If a molecule becomes too [...]
Context: The Issue
An unexpected problem with BYOD (really!) is access to software tools. It’s all great if you have students bringing their own devices to the class, but you now need them to do something with those devices. You get a mishmash of tools spitting out different products (or, sometimes, no product because there are no [...]
The Context & The Problem
We’re a “bring your own device” district. What this means is that we’ve the wild west of screen sizes. Smartphones, at their best, are 800 by 600 pixels (ignore Samsung’s odd experiment). Netbooks (which we have at the middle schools) are 1024 in width with some goofy height. [...]
Generally speaking, my online presence (that presence that produces, not necessarily consumes) falls into three categories.
Professional/Academic
These are posts, retweets, reflections that center around education and technology. In short, the realm of misterv.net.
Family
My wife and I maintain an active family blog. The blog started as a way to document our journey as [...]
The NYTimes is running a great piece called “How the US lost out on iPhone jobs.” It’s essentially a piece on capitalism, globalization and comparative advantage (sort of…that actually might be the most debatable part of the article…as comparative advantage usually is).
A section that stood out:
At the same time, [...]
As both a technology guy and a (former) social studies teacher, watching the SOPA/PIPA debate and struggle is fascinates me. These are bad bills. And they deserve to die – for obvious reasons.
Yet it’s the way in which Wikipedia, Google and the like are fighting this bill that intrigues me. I once [...]
Slate is running a great future-tense piece on how society reacts to new technology. Briefly, Brian Johnson qualifies this reaction into four steps:
It will kill us all! It will steal my daughter! I’ll never use it! What are you going on about?
I’m usually on step 4…although I am very suspicious that my [...]
I do work anywhere in the district. It can get busy sometimes. Here’s my virtual world (screenshot) while having 2 teachers visit at the same time.
I love it.
The quote under the RSS feed reads:
The bunch of disadvantaged kids I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them on to crime instead.
Numbers tell stories*. The difficulty is in getting them to do so in a way that humans understand.
A side project (feasible?) I’m currently working on for work is a functional, real time data dashboard. In my mind I can picture the end result of a dashboard that serves up relevant and understandable data that [...]
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