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Link Post: April 1st

By Mister V On April 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Nature in Numbers…a fantastic youtube video (note the block for those accessing at school) that creatively ties the math (mainly geometry) with nature. Good stuff for the science and math teacher.

Adapt or Decline…in which Anya Kamenetze puts forth the thesis that higher education only has these two options.

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Link Post: March 19

By Mister V On March 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Study on how college students use Wikipedia…like many of us, college students use wikipedia as a starting point for research (but not as their research).

Video games may hinder learning for boys…so the Legend of Zelda is the reason I can’t do long division?

The Future of Education…I realize [...]

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Link Post: March 12

By Mister V On March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment

A university dedicated to the future singularity…it does actually exist! And apparently it has quite the concentration of brains (for those curious as to what the singularity is, think of it as the technological rapture – either utopian or dystopian depending on your views of humanity)

Many Eyes and visualizing [...]

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Using Data

By Mister V On March 4, 2010 · 3 Comments

I already love using Cooliris for my presentations because it does such an excellent job with image/presentation manipulation.

Now I find out about Microsoft’s Pivot and begin wondering about it in terms of data and education.

So many interesting possibilities…

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Link Post: March 4

By Mister V On March 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Daniel Pink on Carrots and Sticks…a long article getting at the science of motivation and how school policy is going in the opposite direction of what the science says.

1 to 1 computing programs is only as effective their teachers…and this is a surprise?

Won a battle, still loosing the [...]

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Blackboard Wiki

By Mister V On February 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

A good chunk of my work…

http://bit.ly/ohblackboard

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what should be

By Mister V On February 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment

My conversations with colleagues and parents sometimes get into what computer skills schools should teach students. The conversations are almost always contain this bit of dialogue.

“We need to have Microsoft Office on student computers?”

“Why?”

“Because they’ll need it when they get into the real world.”

Setting aside the fact that we have no [...]

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