Category: words

  • Education. Kahn Academy precursor. Available at any office supply store near you. At a price point that is considered “remainder” for traditional book publishers.

  • Design Thinking workshop for K-12 educators in Colorado. Sponsored by Donnell-Kay Foundation.

    Design Thinking workshop for K-12 educators in Colorado. Sponsored by Donnell-Kay Foundation. Design Thinking workshop for K-12 educators in Colorado. Sponsored by Donnell-Kay Foundation, who seek scalable education reform. I cannot see who is delivering the workshop, but it points to IDEO resources and a book about “lean startups” that pursue “constant innovation. "constant innovation”…

  • Design Thinking for Educators

    Design Thinking for Educators tool kit by IDEO. Outlines design as a five step process. Contrast with Schon, who identified it as a two stage cycle of Reflection and Action.

  • kateoplis: “Welcome to my latest experiment. I am the Coquette, and I’ve carved out this little corner in the hallowed halls of Playboy to spread around a thick layer of brutal truth on the current state of modern masculinity in the hopes that some of it sticks to the back of your eyeballs. This column…

  • megazord: Seems like a good price

  • The term “illegal immigrant” was first used in 1939 as a slur by the British toward Jews who were fleeing the Nazis and entering Palestine without authorization. Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel aptly said that “no human being is illegal.” Why ‘illegal immigrant’ is a slur – CNN.com (via subalterity)

  • My older son starts his college career tomorrow in interactive media at the School for Cinematic Arts at USC, also known as game design. I found this as I was cleaning out a drawer. I have no idea how old it is. It fills me with all sorts of complex emotions.

  • richardrushfield: There have been two great epic-scale adventures of the post War era:  The fall of the Soviet empire and the Apollo program.  Neither of them has gotten a great movie yet. The Apollo program was the only truly uncharted adventure of our time. Where anything at all could have happened. Since then all we’ve…

  • While Drill Instructors inherently and naturally instill fear in recruits, the reliance on yelling and screaming no longer is seen as being an effective means to developing the critical thinking, collaboration and self-confidence the Army seeks to imbue in every single soldier. Dressing down a recruit is seen as the last resort of effective leadership.…

  • Art History and the Criticism of Computer-Generated Images (1994) Download the essay. This was published (with color illustrations) in Leonardo 27 no. 4 (1994): 335–42 and color plate. This unillustrated version is of limited use; ideally, it should be read with the illustrations. It is also dated: computer graphics has come a long way since…