Month: May 2012

  • If you want to assess, allowing people to keep trying wasn’t going to get you a good signal of their ability. But then if you think about it for two seconds you have to wonder why we want a good signal of these students’ ability. This is not assessment for accreditation so who cares about…

  • This is when I started to learn more about this medium. The issue is one of design. University lectures are designed to bring everyone along. They have to because you need to build up knowledge and it can’t be easily chunked. This is tolerated when people are in a lecture hall but online for even…

  • Game jams are part of an overall social context that supports stagnation. Jonathan Blow (via notgames) Intriguing. A student just requested a Depth Jam as a follow on, in response to perceived weaknesses in rapid creation. Slow down, you move too fast….

  • smarterplanet: What My 11 Year Old’s Stanford Course Taught Me About Online Education – Forbes My 11 year old son just took a course at Stanford. That has a nice ring to it but it is actually meaningless because these days anyone can take a course at Stanford. You don’t even have to pay. All…

  • wilwheaton: laughterkey: danielleosaurus-rex: Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends. The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with…

  • hautepop: Brute Force Architecture by Bryan Boyer14 May 2012 How Rem Koolhaas’s OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture) rewired their office in the late 1990s into a brute force creative machine. One method stands out: blue foam New and faster ways to evaluate architectural proposals were needed, namely new means of drawing and model making that…

  • http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 notational: (via Cathy N. Davidson Says it is Time to Relearn Learning | Duke University | Big Think) (Source: http://c.brightcove.com/)

  • In short, people often wait for social cues before acting because they heuristically understand that without reassurance that they are acting in concert with others, attempts at moral action may be counter-productive. Evan Selinger, Thomas Seager, and Jathan Sadowski in 3Quarks Daily. ARE MILLENNIALS LESS GREEN THAN THEIR PARENTS? (via protoslacker)

  • Please… no more “Don’t Go to Grad School” Articles « Ph.D. Octopus

    Please… no more “Don’t Go to Grad School” Articles « Ph.D. Octopus rematerializationchamber: The problem with the “no one should go to grad school” articles are that they, unconsciously or not, shift the blame for the endemic joblessness onto the most vulnerable, those who are, or will soon be, unemployed. This is especially pernicious when…

  • Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time. Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is, more important. John Dewey (via brokage)