Edlightenment » education technology

Some quick thoughts on SOPA/PIPA

Mister V — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:49:47 +0000

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 [...]

Visual Data

Mister V — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:16:38 +0000

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 [...]

what should be

Mister V — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:17:46 +0000

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 [...]