Saturday, June 22, 2013

Ken Robinson on how to effectively run an education system - Command and Control isn't the right choice.

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Ken Robinson surely must earn a lot of air miles giving talks at TED conferences. Here's another one, from fairly recently. May 2013...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Told You So - MOOC forum participation is important

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If you have been a regular reader of this blog and have a long memory, you may recall that back in December of 2012, in my article " I...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

A Chem teacher cautions against "Pseudoteaching"

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Several times now I've come across mentions of "Pseudoteaching" in my reading, and I confess to not quite grokking what that ...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

A Frequently Asked Question on the Udacity CS101 Forum

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On the Udacity CS101 Forum, I've been surprised at the number of questions that were posted for quiz 2-18 . For example there's t...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Cheap, but not free. Modular code has a price...

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Introduction and Spoiler Alert Recently, Nico Ekkart asked on the Google+ Python Community for suggestions on how to speed up his Python i...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Education Automation - R. Buckminster Fuller

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A few months ago, in response to one of my "education" tagged blog posts, an old friend from high school contacted me via Faceboo...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

How does Python identify the type?

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In the CS101 forum, a student noticed that types significantly influence the computations in python, but that we generally don't declare...