Archive for September, 2009
Capital City River Run, Half Marathon
Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Fun, Housekeeping, Personal, Photography, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
This weekend I completed my sixth Capital City River Run. I participated in the half-marathon and completed it at a 10:10 pace, a total time of 2 hours 13 minutes ... Read more..San Diego Unified School District embraces TPACK
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Uncategorized, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
I had written recently about TPACK being the top story on eSchoolNews (see TPACK is top story on eSchoolNews or go directly to the article: TPACK explores effective ed-tech integration). ... Read more..The end of the university II
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 Posted in Economics, Evolution, Learning, Online Learning, Teaching, Technology | No Comments »
From my end of the university as we know it series, here is another article, this time from The Washington Monthly, titled College for $99 a Month: The next generation ... Read more..I can resist everything except temptation (or marshmallows)
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 Posted in Evolution, Identity, Personal, Psychology, Research, Science, Video, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Have you heard of the marshmallow experiment? It is a pretty famous experiment conducted at Stanford back in the 60's. Walter Mischel a psychologist conducted this experiment on four-year olds ... Read more..Seeing differently (veja du with video)
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, Philosophy, Photography, Representation, Teaching, Video, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
I am always looking for examples of looking at the world differently - of making the familiar strange and the strange familiar. This is of course connected with the veja ... Read more..Unpacking TPACK, the book
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in Books, Learning, Publications, Teaching, Technology, TPACK | No Comments »
Candace Figg & Jenny Burson have just released a book titled: Designs for Unpacking Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), making this the second textbook that utilizes the TPACK framework. You ... Read more..Lego based Sudoku & Rubik Cube solving robots
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Fun, Puzzles, Representation, Science, Technology, Video, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
Two robots made entirely using Lego Mindstorms NXT Retail-kit that can solve Sudoku problems and the Rubik's Cube! How totally cool is that. LEGO Mindstorms is a line of Lego ... Read more..21st Century Skills? What do they mean?
Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Evolution, Learning, News, Politics, Research, Teaching, Technology | 1 Comment »
A decade into the 21st century, how are we doing with the movement to "position 21st century skills at the center of US K-12 education." The National Journal Online has ... Read more..Jugaad, educational toys from Junk (TPACK at work)
Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Fun, Games, Good | Bad Design, India, Learning, Philosophy, Puzzles, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
I had written earlier about the idea of Jugaad, the quintessential Indian idea of situational creativity. One of the masters at this is Arvind Gupta. Check out his website for ... Read more..Darwin film can’t find distributor
Saturday, September 12th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Crime, Evolution, Film, Politics, Religion, Science | No Comments »
Telegraph article titled: Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America' How sad is that! Read more..The death of the university?
Friday, September 11th, 2009 Posted in Economics, Evolution, Learning, Online Learning, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
Zephyr Teachout (supposedly an associate law professor at Fordham University, a writer, and an online entrepreneur) has a great article on bigmoney.com, titled Welcome to Yahoo! U: The Web will ... Read more..Technology & Literacy, bemoaning the youth of today :-)
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Posted in Art, Fiction, Learning, News, Philosophy, Representation, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading, Writing | 11 Comments »
One often hears the criticism that students today don't know how to write... the part of the blame is placed on technology, on the limitations of texting and twittering! For ... Read more..Speed of travel of information
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 Posted in Engineering, Evolution, Technology, Worth Reading | 5 Comments »
I had written earlier about how the rate of change of technology is speeding up, i.e. technologies are changing at an ever faster rate. Related to this is something I ... Read more..TPACK (and friends) in T.H.E. Journal.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 Posted in Learning, Teaching, Technology, TPACK | No Comments »
Matt Townsley sent me an email this morning informing me about a TPACK sighting in THE journal. Well... actually it's a journal whose title is THE journal! Does that make ... Read more..Tech Trends, Special Issue on TPACK
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Housekeeping, Learning, News, Publications, Research, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading, Writing | 3 Comments »
TechTrends is a leading journal for professionals in the educational communication and technology field and is the official publication of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). The current ... Read more..Keeping tabs on the experts
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Economics, Engineering, Good | Bad Design, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology | No Comments »
In an age where experts are a dime a dozen, willing to pontificate at the drop of a pin, it is hard to tell whom to believe, and whom NOT ... Read more..Color me Creative
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Fun, Games, Good | Bad Design, Philosophy, Photography, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I just ran across this blog (Color Me Katie) that just blew me away. Katie Sokoler is a freelance photographer and street artist living in Brooklyn - and her blog ... Read more..Mind power: Brain Machine Interfaces
Sunday, September 6th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Identity, Learning, News, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Imagine controlling machines, typing text or juggling balls using nothing but the power of thought. What sounds like far-fetched science fiction is gradually becoming possible, providing hope for disabled patients ... Read more..Learning for free? What does that mean?
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Economics, Learning, Online Learning, Teaching, Technology | No Comments »
Josh Dean writes about his experience with learning from freely available curricula on the Web. What does that mean, How Much Can You Really Learn With a Free Online Education?. ... Read more..Of certainty & doubt
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Posted in Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Stories, Worth Reading | No Comments »
The NYTimes has a op-ed piece today by Max Blumenthal about an obscure letter Eisenhower wrote to "Robert Biggs, a terminally ill World War II veteran." Biggs was worried by ... Read more..Happy Birthday
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Design, Engineering, Evolution, Technology | No Comments »
Happy Birthday, Internet 40 years old today! It all started 40 years ago today, when a couple of computers were connected by a long gray cable ... Read more (and watch a ... Read more..