Notices tagged with eduposse, page 3
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("supercriticality" being a term I've stolen from nuclear physics; i.e.: #bad-teachers are like unfixed stray cats—they *multiply*...)
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Walter #Lewin explains the supercriticality of #bad-teachers: http://www.youtube.com/embed/sF-m3XZKvLI?start=174&end=195
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At the Star Trek convention in Boston—just met Cheryl McFadden and got to say `thank you' for `The Labyrinth'.
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Raising funds to give 10,000 WikiReaders to kids who can use them: http://igg.me/at/wikireaders4kids #OER
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Is there really already a generation who has difficulty imagining that a possible use of books is... reading them?
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Apparently the `if it looks like a book it must be an iPhone-charger' meme is due to this guy and his peculiar `love of books'...: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/booksi-book-iphone-charger_n_1459312.html
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17-year-old intern saw this #book on my desk, yesterday..., and asked me if it was an iPhone-charger: http://eduposse.org/url/123
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#q "This can't be the future of education -- outsourcing it to volunteers in the upper middle class." http://www.asheesh.org/scribble/education/outsourcing.html (I guess that's what #homeschooling is too, isn't it?)
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cf.: `Harold and the Purple Crayon' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_the_Purple_Crayon
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Maybe I actually am just becoming a huge geonerd, but #geoblankies seem like one of the coolest things in the world right now—and I'm eager for my child to get to the point where he could appreciate one.
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I remember doing tombstone-rubbings on field trip, when I was a kid; I wonder if the more modern (and better, really) version of that is `catalog the graves in #OpenStreetMap': http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dtomb
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After mapping out a section of the city where I live, trying to map out the office-park where I work, and spending a few hours wandering through the #OpenStreetMap wiki, I suddenly realised that #geography is actually *fascinating*.
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I've been getting more involved with #OpenStreetMap recently; and I can't help thinking that, if someone had introduced me to something like this when I was in school, it would have helped me care a LOT more about #geography: http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/tools/guide
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Self-actualised at 14, self-terminated at 26: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html
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Petitioning for the federal #govt to support Free Software in schools--23k signatures left to go: http://wh.gov/Rz6C #foss
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Whoah--the WikiReader is selling for under $20; because every kid should have their own real-life Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: http://amzn.com/B002N5521W http://thewikireader.com/
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#q "Not Atreyu the *boy*—we wanted Atreyu the *warrior*!" → "I am the only `Atreyu' of the Plains People."
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With all the attention that `physics for poets' #science education courses get, I wonder if anyone's considered `art for engineers'....
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#Tesla #museum project has raised almost $2million in funds, and still has a month of fundraising left: http://www.indiegogo.com/teslamuseum
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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." #q Frederick Douglass; seen on a #bumper-sticker on my way home, tonight.
Joshua Judson Rosen
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