Grading

Ugh. I spent too much time today and yesterday doing grading. I shouldn’t be this slow at it. Here’s the general process: Look at 5–10 submissions and note what are the most common errors. From this, a rubric can be…

Tricks of the Trade

Today, Howard Rheingold was searching for examples of clear posts in which to use as examples of online communication. One of the respondents identified a really good series set of descriptions answering the question, What is it like to have…

Transforming Heuristics

Many of the real problems in the world are NP. Things like Scheduling, Register Allocation, Routing packages, etc. In solving these really hard problems, we invent heuristics. Typically such heuristics are specific to the problem domain. For example, UPS might…

Public School, it is a Prison

How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State by Karen De Coster, has a few interesting links about how public schools act like prisons for both mind and body. A really well researched article on equality…