Do you have a iOS device that doesn’t have Siri? Are you feeling lonely and would like to talk to your device? Maybe Google Search is what you need. Once you install it, you can ask Google questions, like “Is it going to rain tonight?” or “What time do the buckeyes play today?”. It’s not all the automation that Siri… Read more →
More on libraries and their future
Surprise! It’s the Golden Age of Libraries Zachary Loeb (who writes as the Luddbrarian on the blog librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com) notes that “although college students have a huge amount of information available to them, this does not automatically mean that they have acquired all of the information literacy necessary to really make sense of this mass amount of information. As a result… Read more →
#tlah Managing your class list in a spreadsheet, part 2
When we last visited our spread sheet, we used formulas to cut apart a list of names in our class that resulted in the following spreadsheet: Today, we will learn some more programming techniques in our quest to create another column in our spreadsheet which would have the students full name in the format Firstname Lastname. To create this full… Read more →
❂ Libraries are the future
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming I was once in New York, and I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a huge growth industry in America. The prison industry needs to plan its future growth – how many cells are they going to need? How many prisoners are there going… Read more →
The first woman programmer, Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, an Indirect and Reciprocal Influence When I heard that Ada Lovelace Day was coming, I questioned myself, “What do I actually know about Ada Lovelace?” The sum total of my knowledge: Ada was the first woman programmer and the Department of Defense honored her contributions to computation in 1979 by naming its common programming language Ada. A few… Read more →
Replacing the library
The End Of The Library | TechCrunch I know this sucks. Libraries have been an invaluable part of human history, propagating our culture and knowledge over centuries. But recognizing the changing times and pointing out the obvious shouldn’t be considered blasphemy. It is what it is. The internet has replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge. And… Read more →
Jumping the curve in education
Education 3.0: Embracing Technology to ‘Jump the Curve’ …the education sector is focusing far too much about what existed yesterday, some about what exists today, and very little about what will exist tomorrow. He challenged the “Choice Architects” of today to stop creating employees for the jobs of yesterday and start focusing on careers of tomorrow. When the available quantity… Read more →
And you think you know someone who hates Microsoft Word
Why Microsoft Word must Die I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, not dissimilar … Microsoft Word is a tyrant of the imagination, a petty, unimaginative, inconsistent dictator that is ill-suited to any… Read more →
See what happens when a father decides to do his daughter’s eight grade homework
My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me I have found, at both schools, that whenever I bring up the homework issue with teachers or administrators, their response is that they are required by the state to cover a certain amount of material. There are standardized tests, and everyone—students, teachers, schools—is being evaluated on those tests. I’m not interested in the debates… Read more →
The little computer that could
Raspberry Pi: one million units made in Britain landmark passed The Raspberry Pi started life as an idea to bring computing in schools back to the era of the BBC Micro in the early 1980s, which inspired children to learn how a computer worked and allowed them to discover what was possible through learning to code. “What was needed was… Read more →