I don’t know much about Aaron Schwartz or hacking or any of that. At the Chalk Face is a mild Reddit user, that’s all. But I follow the blog Boing Boing, a sort of digital culture and technology digest. Great stuff. They’ve got a few successive posts up about Aaron Schwartz, who took his own […]
The cold-hearted scam of academic publishing RIP Aaron Schwartz #highered
January 13, 2013 By 7 Comments
Astounding collection of WWII British propaganda films, via @boingboing
May 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
While we’re on teaching primary documents, there’s a great collection of free and downloadable films posted by the British Council meant to aid the war effort in Britain during WWII. I’ve always had an odd interest in WWII, and I don’t know where it came from. Little bits like this really make me happy. I […]
The connections between physicians and #educators are writing themselves these days, esp. with the potential to #optout
March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I postulated over a year ago about the implications for physicians if they were evaluated and scrutinized like teachers. Given that health care reform is a political football right now, with a lot of focus on cost containment, I think physicians are looking at very similar attempts to control their work. Well, especially dealing with […]
Entire documentary of Langley School Music Project on YouTube
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I can think of better ways to spend $$$
November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I found this little project via BoingBoing on Kickstarter. It’s about a grad school dropout who wants to write a book about independent learning and NOT going back to school. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1528125592/dont-go-back-to-school-a-handbook-for-learning-any/widget/video.html This bothers me, but why? I don’t know. She’s talking about graduate school and I feel her sentiment. Many do end up going to […]
This is what #science #teaching should be like…
November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
3D printing technology in #classrooms
October 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
#Facebook and #education #reform
June 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I can’t quite remember the inspiration for this, maybe it was the whole Onion and Facebook thing recently, not sure. But I decided to enter in some basic search terms into Facebook, like teachers unions, education reform, and so forth. It doesn’t really prove anything, just a curiosity that seems to fall within a particular theme. […]
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September 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Good example of why #optout is a great strategy
And this from a Johns Hopkins computer science course, from BoingBoing: Johns Hopkins computer science prof Peter Fröhlich grades his students’ tests on a curve — the top-scoring student gets an A, and the rest of the students are graded relative to that brainiac. But last term, his students came up with an ingenious, cooperative […]