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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 via the school system: “Compulsory schooling not only fails to achieve its egalitarian goal, but [...] During teaching, there is a fascinating (and unfortunately common) problem: Students are VERY reluctant to suggest an answer, for fear that they might be wrong. Salman Kahn, noticed this phenomenon after he started doing videos for his niece and nephew: (I’m paraphrasing) “The last thing they needed was for me to be there expecting an [...] I’ve just finished reading Phillip Greenspun’s experience report, Teaching Software Engineering, which details a project course in building Web Services. Even though I personally, hate the Web’s architecture (but that’s a rant for some other time), it still remains as THE most influentential and convenient place to showcase one’s work. It’s also convenient for shopping, [...] From Coding Horror: Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats I learned of a paper, The camel has two humps, which describes a test that allows teachers to differentiate students likely to do well studying computer science from those who will likely never ‘get it’. This paper sounds awfully similar to the physics conceptual test mentioned [...] 1 general always have a backup plan! ask questions that show you care about teaching want to connect with audience being in the same age groups helps build repor can connect better have common frame of reference students don’t age, can’t connect with long past events don’t appear stodgy Don’t let the faculty [...] Getting a Job at a State School Created Friday 04 November 2011 PUI (primarily undergraduate institute) many have balance of teaching and research 1 What is the appeal of a CalState? it’s in California the more teaching experience you can get, the better esp. if they are your own classes likes the [...] Carl Wieman (who won a Nobel for deepening our understanding of Bose-Einstein condensation) lays out some of the important findings and methodology in his talk “Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science“. In that talk he outlines some of the important responsibilies of expert tutors: Focus on the [...] I’ve recently absorbed American RadioWorks feature on “Tomorrow’s College“. Especially interesting was the program “Don’t Lecture Me, where the story of some physicists gathered data about the learning and understand of their students, only to discover that the traditional lecture model of a knowledgeable expert disseminating information to a passive audience is ineffective. Research [...] In the beginning, Apple Computer was a hobby in Job’s garage, advertised through computer hobby magazines. Dedicated hackers were busy building their community, and Apple was one of the hobby friendly architectures. Key here is the small, but critical, start-up costs: advertisement in a targeted venue. Can the same be done with education? That is, [...] I finished my reading of Mike Maloney’s Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver, partially to get an idea of how he got started in the business of bullion. He’s actually had several businesses throughout his life, including one where he designed “stereo amplification electronics were selected as one of five permanent exhibits at the [...] |
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