61 Original Macbook Stickers That Make Your Laptop Even More Awesome I wish I had the creativity to come up with some of these! Read more →
Author: ryan
Stack Exchange has an English Language Site!
Do you have a question about the usage of English, such as Should I put a comma before the last item in a list?,What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym?, or “My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends” look no further than the Stack Exchange site English Language & Usage. Stack… Read more →
Great Fibonacci Numbers video
If You Don’t Know What Fibonacci Numbers are, You Should Watch This NOW! Read more →
Bruce Baker wants to analyze educational reforms correctly
Meet The @FiveThirtyEight Of Education. Bruce Baker Will Bring Sanity To Reform Hype Stop Cheerleading Education Miracles, i.e. Education Effects Are Small “We really have failed in the teaching of mathematics and probability,” decries Baker, who regularly debunks myths about unicorn policy changes that radically improve student outcomes. At scale, experiments rarely move the needle more than a few percentage… Read more →
Giving technical presentations
Presentation Zen: No excuse for boring an audience: Advice on giving technical presentations: Long before “death-by-powerpoint” or vertigo-by-prezi, there were bad presentations. Really bad presentations. So don’t blame the software. The genesis of painfully dull or muddled presentations predates the computer. No one knows this better than scientists, researchers, and academics, who have long been required to attend numerous conferences… Read more →
Seventy WPM typists can’t tell you where keys are on the QWERTY keyboard
Typists who clear 70 wpm can’t even say where the keys are The majority of typists couldn’t tell you how they type if they tried, according to a study published in October in the scientific journal Attention, Perception, and Pschyophysics. The finding comes from a body of typists who averaged 72 words per minute but could not map more than… Read more →
If anyone needs an idea on what to get me for Christmas
Harrison Ford “Han Solo” DL-44 Blaster from Star Wars Particularly noteworthy scenes requiring this lighter version are when Darth Vader uses the Force to lasso the blaster out of Han’s hand in Empire, and in Jedi when Han wrestles with a Stormtrooper to regain possession of his blaster during the Rebels’ encounter with Imperial forces on Endor. This would be… Read more →
View near realtime satellite imagery of Earth
Near Real-Time Satellite Images of Earth On November 25th UrtheCast launched two cameras aboard a Soyuz rocket. The rocket delivered the cameras to the International Space Station where they are now being installed. Once the cameras are up and running UrtheCast will begin streaming near-realtime satellite imagery of the Earth. Neat! Read more →
Math tricks
Nix the Tricks We are committed teachers who want to take the magic out of mathematics and focus on the beauty of sense-making. We wish for teachers everywhere to seek coherence and connection rather than offer students memorized procedures and short-cutting tricks. Students are capable of rich conceptual understanding; don’t rob them of the opportunity to experience the discovery of… Read more →
Top five edtech buzzwords
Top 5 buzzwords in higher education technology circles Educators, technologists, and campus decision makers who reside in the educational technology bubble speak the ed-tech vernacular like a second language, frequently using words and phrases wholly foreign to many in higher education. Agree? Disagree? Read more →