2 days ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't: Judy Jones, William Wilson: Books - I'm interested in attempts to summarise everything one needs to know and this sounds vaguely promising.
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8 days ago
philgyford : Times Higher Education - All the privileged must have prizes - About teaching at Harvard and the sense of entitlement the kids there have. (via Kottke)
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8 days ago
philgyford : Cool Tool: Best home chemistry lab book - Sounds like fun! In theory. In reality I never used the chemistry set I had as a kid much, so maybe not.
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9 days ago
gleuschk : Confessions of a Community College Dean: Thoughts on Service - I'm firmly in response category #1. should print this out and send it to the new dean
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gleuschk : Digital Domain - First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. - NYTimes.com - Hm: "Whether students will view online subscriptions as a helpful adjunct to the printed textbook or as a self-aggrandizing ploy by publishers remains to be seen." Really? Care to make a small wager?
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16 days ago
gleuschk : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - he's talking to people like me (I hope -- he certainly isn't talking in a way that the plumber in his kitchen can understand him)
philgyford : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - Great measured rant about what Ivy League educated kids are missing out on. (via Kottke)
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1 month ago
Linkorama : 'Socializing' the CMS - Looking for ways to bring some of the power of social networking into Ye Olde Course Management System? Start here.
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2 month ago
gleuschk : The Atlantic Online | June 2008 | In the Basement of the Ivory Tower | Professor X - English adjunct tiptoes near the idea that not everyone should go to college. Duh.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : FreeRice - For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
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3 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: "physics for beginners, and the maths that goes with it" - Problem: How do I find time to learn stuff like this when I need to know stuff like this before I can expand time enough so I have time to learn it?
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3 month ago
adamrg : Best entry-level salaries for new grads - I like this article... it says that not only do I make more than the average for people with my degree, I make more than my ex-girlfriends :)
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3 month ago
adamrg : On Being Neutral - Mr. Moses suggests that neutrality in the classroom is a fallacy because neutrality is a fallacy and pretending not to have an opinion is just going to inspire a lack of opinion if your students.
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4 month ago
Rod Begbie : Computer Science Unplugged - Simple worksheets to explain CompSci concepts like text compression or sorting algorithms. Pretty nifty. [via] #
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4 month ago
gleuschk : Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills : NPR - the necessity of "free play" for building self-regulation
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philgyford : BSA Actor Training - Part-time courses in London from somewhere I haven't heard of. (I keep meaning to collate such places in a post. One day.)
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philgyford : CanonicalTomes - Web Archive version of a site I've been trying to remember for years. It tried to create a database of "books ... which define their respective domains". Didn't get very far.
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4 month ago
philgyford : Kevin Kelly -- Help Wanted -- The world's best how-to? - "What are the best how-to books, videos, software, websites that you've ever seen?" From 2004.
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4 month ago
philgyford : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium -- The Forever Book - Not just a library of all essential knowledge about human civilisation, but it would contain instructions for how to recreate a version of itself. From 2006.
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4 month ago
adamrg : 'Cheese' Heroin Hooking Young Users in Dallas - "We didn't know what to do with a 9-year-old in opiate withdrawal..."
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5 month ago
adamrg : It’s 3AM In The Edublogosphere - This is where my problems with tech for tech's sake breaks down. I drew the ire of a "A List" edublogger because I scoffed at his ivory towerism.
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5 month ago
factoryjoe : I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS - The Human Side of Moore's Law Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: technology, education
adamrg : I, Cringely: War of the Worlds - They really are ready to jettison institutions. Like Clay Shirkey said: here comes everyone. The model for our schools is stuck in the 19th century, with new technology grafted on. What's a teacher to do?
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5 month ago
philgyford : How to Learn Math and Physics - Recommendations of books to take you through the main topics of physics and maths. Oh for much, much more time.
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5 month ago
philgyford : The Lost Tools of Learning - Dorothy L. Sayers suggested reviving the Trivium -- grammar, rhetoric and dialectic -- as children's education. Learning how to learn, rather than learning subjects.
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5 month ago
adamrg : An Education President - Like him or not, what Barack Obama did yesterday, in my opinion at least, epitomizes what we need our next president to be, namely a teacher.
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5 month ago
adamrg : I Tremble For Our Children - What about your boss, think he could do it?
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