October 2008
1 post
“musician Judah Dadone, sound engineer Jeremy Sklarsky and graphic designer...”
–
TOUR NEW YORK - Time Out New York
Judah notes that the reporter got it wrong, i had the torta, i think he had the tacos and jeremy got the enchiladas… :)
September 2008
11 posts
“The API grew out of Casey and [my] work, and our like/dislike of various...”
– writing | ben fry » Is Processing a Language?
it really bums me out when people overcorrect i for me.
“Someone once described Processing syntax as a dialect of Java, which sounds...”
– writing | ben fry » Is Processing a Language?
i still don’t buy that java syntax is all that friendly, but hey, mileage varies, right?
“me: j0!
kate: j0?
me: it’s the oldschool hacker yo
me: the 1337 yo
me:...”
– chatting over aim
“Kermit and coterie were primarily created to entertain adults, and they live in...”
– Film - Disney Prepares to Use Its Marketing Magic to Bring Back the Muppets - NYTimes.com
“High school really needs to be reinvented in many ways,” he said. “For the most...”
– Two Neighbors Create a New High School for Greenwich Village - NYTimes.com
I do not personally believe that lecture dissuades learning and inquiry, but most lecture does not make place for it. A lecture can be structured in a way that encourages those moments of skepticism, but it’s not as...
“Educators, school administrators, and school boards have made “integrating...”
– Knowing and Doing: August 2008 Archives
““They’ll ask, how many piano tuners are there in Chicago, or what contribution...”
– Basics - Gut Instinct’s Surprising Role in Math - NYTimes.com
procedure vs object
While talking to clement a few days back, i was surprised to hear him rail against procedural programming. Where what he really meant was:
event driven programming on objects is often more closely related to how the world actually operates.
This is true to a certain extent: the world is full of events that happen somewhat chaotically and are not mediated by a decision tree. Or at least not...
“if my curriculum had been some stranger’s standardized script, these girls may...”
– Teaching Without a Script - Lesson Plans Blog - NYTimes.com
“My late work policy conflates mastery of content with professional work habits....”
– Knowing and Doing: August 2008 Archives
August 2008
7 posts
“So, if you think you can learn a tool’s mindset — the kind of hammer it is and...”
– Martin C. Martin » Reading The Fine Manual
“you should only spend two hours on something boring (like reading manuals) if it...”
– Martin C. Martin » Reading The Fine Manual
“The casual request ‘give us a smile’ makes the act sound effortless...”
– Smile
“the “middle” you talk about is, in my experience, the most difficult material to...”
– comment on kiwitobes.com » Blog Archive » The “excluded middle” of technical books
“It struck me that there was a massive chunk of the book missing, which was...”
– kiwitobes.com » Blog Archive » The “excluded middle” of technical books
June 2008
1 post
“science is so much more than its technical details. And with careful attention...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Put a Little Science in Your Life - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
May 2008
1 post
“so-called Literary Darwinism, the application of evolutionary psychology ideas...”
– Basics - New Curriculum Designed to Unite Art and Science - NYTimes.com
March 2008
1 post
What makes Mathematics hard to learn? →
Marvin has some interesting points here that i’ll paste here until i have a few seconds to summarize them.
on cognitive maps:
a more serious problem was that this child had no good image or “cognitive map” of what might result from learning this subject. What function might Math serve in later years? What goals and ambitions might it help to achieve?
and also
More generally, we...
December 2007
8 posts
Designing for Learning: The Pursuit of... →
Course content—the material to be learned or studied—is one of the four core components of the learning experience. The other three are the teaching, the learner, and the environmental components.
…
Content must be semantically well-structured for instruction; this corresponds to the teaching component of the learning experience
Content must be a good fit or well-structured for a...
CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology →
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing curricula that enable all individuals to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning. UDL provides rich supports for learning and reduces barriers to the curriculum while maintaining high achievement standards for all.
tips for authors and illustrators →
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers a framework to meet the needs of diverse readers by applying research in neuroscience that shows how everyone’s brain processes information differently according to three primary brain networks:
Recognition networks, the “what” of learning. Recognition networks govern how we identify and categorize what we are reading. To support...
Constructivist Learning Design →
Four epistemological assumptions are at the heart of what we refer to as “constructivist learning.”
Knowledge is physically constructed by learners who are involved in active learning.
Knowledge is symbolically constructed by learners who are making their own representations of action;
Knowledge is socially constructed by learners who convey their meaning making to others;
...
Developing Textbooks That Teach: A Problem-Solving... →
1997-06-18
What are textbooks that teach?
How can they help solve pedagogical problems?
How can their pedagogical design be improved?
These questions were used to develop a problem-solving model of textbook design. Textbooks that teach evoke learner activities designed to achieve contemporary cognitive goals. Suggestions for using textbooks to help solve contemporary pedagogical problems...
http://www.textbookevaluator.com/ →
This person evaluates textbooks like this:
Most of the assessments in this program are supplemental to the textbook and were not thoroughly reviewed. The text itself contains at least two pages of assessment activities for each chapter. These activities require recall of factual information. The teacher’s edition references the existence of performance assessments among the supplemental...
“Textbook design these days tends toward over-produced, self-conscious,...”
– Edward Tufte: Ask E.T. - Book Design
“Assessing learning and improving learning methods requires careful task analysis...”
– Applications and Misapplications of Cognitive Psychology to Mathematics Education