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gjmueller: How Latino Families Use Educational Content and What That Means for Communities The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop released the results of a survey that takes a deeper dive into how Hispanic-Latino families use educational content and the platforms by which they experience it. The Cooney Center surveyed 682 Hispanic-Latino parents of…
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I am an incurable romantic I believe in hope, dreams and decency I believe in love, Tenderness and kindness. I believe in mankind. I believe in goodness, Mercy and charity I believe in a universal spirit I believe in casting bread Upon the waters. I am awed by the snow-capped mountains By the vastness of…
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You take what is happening in education. Right now, in recent years, there’s a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that you have to teach to tests. And the test determines what happens to the child and what happens to the teacher. That’s guaranteed to destroy any meaningful educational process. It…
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tacanderson: Designers Imagine Creative Ways That Boston Can Live When It’s Mostly Underwater As climate change raises sea levels, many cities face the near certainty of flooding in the future. Take Boston. By 2100, forecasts show water levels climbing by five to six feet in its Harbor area, meaning that 30% of the city could…
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FedEx won’t ship milling machine that makes untraceable guns
mostlysignssomeportents: Defense Distributed sells a $1500 digital mill called the Ghost Gunner. Among other things, it can carve an aluminum AR-15 rifle body without a serial number. FedEx refuses to ship it. Read the rest…
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Notes from “The Information” by James Gleick
February 25, 2015 Chapter 4. To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work The complexities she [Ada Lovelace] encountered for the first time became familiar to programmers of the next century: How multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are frequently several distinct sets of…
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Notes from “The Information” by James Gleick
February 25, 2015 Chapter 4. To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work Her exposition took the form of notes lettered A through G, extending to nearly three times the length of Menabrea’s essay. They offered a vision of the future more general and more prescient than any expressed by Babbage himself. How general? The…
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Notes from “The Information” by James Gleick
February 25, 2015 Chapter 4. To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work …ne winter she grew obsessed with a fashionable puzzle known as Solitaire, the Rubik’s Cube of its day. Thirty-two pegs were arranged on a board with thirty-three holes, and the rules were simple: Any peg may jump over another immediately adjacent, and…
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reckon: A Humument” (4th ed.) by Tom Phillips is downloadable (PDF): http://t.co/JxylwNuUpe