For the past eight months, I have worked with a number of elementary and middle school teachers on the interdisciplinary opportunities found within digitally fabricating objects. Digital fabrication, for those unfamiliar with this unique process, involves creating a digital design that is then produced in a physical form. With ISTE 2010 in a few …
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for: ‘June, 2010’
Researching Milkshakes
I earmarked this passage as one to throw out when the edubloggers triumphantly danced upon higher education and its focus on methodology and testing. Upon reflection, I think that it could go both ways. (Thanks for the provocative book, LD. You can see where my mind is at!)
When McDonald’s wanted to improve sales of its …
The Key to Gold in Them There Hills: Laggards?
I admit that I made it to page 436 in Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations before I said, “No more.” The book chronicles nearly 50 years of innovation research, and it contains the studies and references to back it up (58 pages of research articles, books, reports, and studies). It is an extremely readable book, …
Dan on Dan: Storytelling
Dan Willingham resonates with me and my line of thinking. It has something to do with the way that he can frame cognitive psychobabble in layperson speak that clearly explains teaching, learning, memory, and the human mind. Plus, Willingham is a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia, and his Wahoo-roots make him alright in …
The Khan Academy
Dean Shareski wrote what I consider a thought provoking post on The Khan Academy, a website that provides instructional YouTube videos in domains that range from math to science for students who are young and old. The Khan Academy is the brain child of Sal Khan, an MIT and Harvard-trained engineer/business man, who originally …
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