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Simple Activities to Improve Your Child's Listening Skills
Good listening skills are essential for school success. If your child’s listening skills could use sharpening try these three easy, quick, and fun activities. These games can be played in a 10-20 minute period of time and will help your young child become a better listener! ...
The Arts in Education: Essential or Not?
Every time I scan the news I see another article about cutting the arts from education. It saddens me. Deeply. I know that budget cuts are very real and that there are no easy decisions or answers. Here's the thing: to me, the timing could not be...
How to Make an Easy Fine Motor Activity for Your Young Child
Here is a great activity for eye-hand coordination, as well as strengthening finger muscles. Make your own lacing cards to help strengthen your child’s finger muscles. You will need: Poster board A hole puncher Some packages of new, long shoelaces Directions: Cut some eight...
Preparing for College Applications – As Early as Middle School and Younger
Pleased to introduce a guest blogger this week: Janis Daly. Janis is our director of sponsorship sales, and mom to 2 teen boys. Her oldest is nearing the end of his college admissions process. Janis has some insight, that they gained during the college application journey, to share with families that are...
Let's Talk About Homework Hassles
Homework. Amazing how one word can enduce so much stress for parents and kids alike, isn't it? We get many questions from parents on the topic of homework. How do I get my child to do their homework without tears? My son won't let me quiz him on his spelling...
What Fine Motor Skills Does Your Child Need for School Success?
Fine Motor Skills require the use of the smaller muscle groups like the hands, fingers, toes, and lips. Young children need to develop these skills for school success. Cutting, printing, coloring, pasting, writing stories, and speaking clearly are necessary to complete grade level work. Your child should be...
Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Ripping Personally Owned DVDs for iPhone or iPod Viewing: Legal and Technical Perspectives
This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. This is my second post in a series I'm sharing on "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" this week. If you have questions about this post I'll be glad to answer them via comments here. The advent of digital encoding technologies has...
Tethered iPhone Internet Access with iPhoneModem (Jailbreak required)
This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. I've agreed to share a series of blog posts here on "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" this week. Hope you find this series helpful! If you have questions about this post I'll be glad to answer them via comments here....
Secret iPhone Agreement (now public) and Apple User Ethics
Thanks to the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and, ironically, the successful development of an iPhone application by NASA (bound by the Freedom of Information Act) the secret iPhone Developer agreement is now public. (PDF) EFF summarizes the key highlights of the agreement: Ban on Public Statements [by developers] App Store...
Platforms for idea sharing are essential (even family learning blogs)
Hopefully, by the time my 6th grader gets out of high school, his teachers will be using a web-based learning management system (LMS) like Moodle to receive and track student assignments. There are LOTS of reasons a LMS can make life easier for both teachers and students. A big one...
Oklahoma City Podcasting Club – March 2010 Meeting Notes
These are my notes from the March 10, 2010 Oklahoma City Podcasting Club meeting, led by Chad Henderson. Chad's podcast is Elmocast. The OKC Podcasting Club started in January 2010, tonight is the third meeting. It meets the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm at the The Oklahoma...
A professor who takes laptop banning too far
Are students in your school allowed to bring their own laptops? Some teachers not only oppose the idea of students working on laptops, they also stage dramatic in-class performances to intimidate students (even at college) from bringing their laptops to class. Hat tip to Berlin Fang for sharing this video. Berlin...
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Race to the Top Competition Inspires much needed Education Reform
Think this is a bad time to become a teacher? Think again. America is seeing an unprecedented amount of energy being put into nationwide education reform. Through President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment act, billions of dollars are being poured into our public schools in an attempt to revamp and...
My Teacher, My Hero Hits the Red Carpet
On Tuesday, October 20th, “My Teacher, My Hero” hit the red carpet at the 2009 Angel Ball. In it’s the sixth go-around, the Angel Ball drew a number of celebrities, attending to show support for Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research and to participate in a night of entertainment and...
My Teacher, My Hero: Honoring the Teachers that Have Changed Our Lives
My Teacher, My Hero today announced the launch of MyTeacherMyHero.com, its new user-generated video sharing website that allows users to share stories with the rest of the world about teachers that have changed their lives. MyTeacherMyHero.com is the first web site dedicated to allowing anyone with an internet connection to...
Along with its updated design that offers ease of navigation with a contemporary style, the new MAT@USC Master of Arts in Teaching website has several new features to offer prospective and current students. Included in these new features is a virtual tour of the MAT@USC program. The tour takes you from...
Welch Bets Education Will Thrive Online
According to the Wall Street Journal former GE CEO, Jack Welch, is paying $2 million for a 12% share in the Chancellor university System LLC, which will convert the formerly bankrupt Meyer University of Cleveland into Chancellor University. Chancellor University aims to exploit a rising interest in online education by...
USC Goes Beyond Text with its Innovative Online Graduate Education Program
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apophenia
Speaking about Privacy and Publicity
Yesterday I gave the opening keynote at SXSW to over 5000 people (OMG, that room was huuuuuuuge). My talk was about privacy and publicity and I spent a lot of time pushing back against the notion that “privacy is dead.” In some ways, the talk is a call...
Empowering Parents & Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape
The FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the important topic of empowering parents and protecting youth in an era of an evolving media landscape. John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, and I took the opportunity to respond to the NOI on behalf of the Youth and Media Policy Working Group...
ChatRoulette, from my perspective
I’ve been following ChatRoulette for a while now but haven’t been comfortable talking about it publicly. For one, it’s a hugely controversial site, one that is prompting yet-another moral panic about youth engagement online. And I hate having the role of respondent to public uproar. (I know...
Sarita Yardi has been doing a lot of thinking about ChatRoulette these days and I wanted to share a short essay she wrote to explain ChatRoulette to the uninitiated. I think that this is a fantastic introduction for those who aren’t familiar with the site. (And I’ll follow...
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Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America"
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed this. More and more, rural queer youth are building out networks of other queer rural youth, helping generate a......
O'DonnellWeb
Can we trade Texas to Mexico for a lifetime supply of tacos?
The state is a fracking embarrassment to the entire country. After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to...
Wanna get into college? Be interesting.
This is absolutely not news to any reader here, but apparently it is possible to get into a top college without the AP classes, 99th percentile SAT, president of the honor society, and other cookie cutter accomplishments of the typical high achieving high school student. That is good news, because...
Traffic reporter fail in Fredericksburg
95 South was even more of a parking lot than normal today. I heard the traffic report on two local radio station at around 5:15 PM – 5:25 PM. The stations were 93.3 (WFLS) and 104.5. Both traffic reporters reported that all lanes were open on 95 S near Fredericksburg,...
Since I mentioned his sister’s birthday last month I should probably point out that he turned 16 yesterday. He spent the day fencing, followed by dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings, and cake and presents at home. He got the board game Axis & Allies (why yes, I did pick it...
Last night we ran into Petsmart. After I paid (with a check card) I realized that they did not give me the sale price on one of the products that I purchased. I was overcharged by $2. When I pointed this out to the cashier she called for a price...
New Flash: A Killer Whale kills somebody
I took this picture back in November on our trip to FL. I think it is Dawn Brancheau, the women that was killed by an Orca at Sea World yesterday. My caption is definitely less funny now than it was 3 months ago – but I have this thing about...
GlobalHigherEd
As our readers likely know, the Bologna Process was launched in 1999 with the objective of constructing the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by 2010. One increasingly important aspect of the evolution of the Bologna Process is its ‘external’ (aka ‘global’) dimension. To cut a...
Budapest-Vienna Declaration on the European Higher Education Area
Budapest-Vienna Declaration on the European Higher Education Area March 12, 2010 1. We, the Ministers responsible for higher education in the countries participating in the Bologna Process, met in Budapest and Vienna on March 11 and 12, 2010 to launch the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), as envisaged in the Bologna Declaration...
Deliberations and background documentation are blossoming this week given that the Bologna Ministerial Anniversary Conference 2010 will be held 11-12 March in Budapest and Vienna, and the Second Global Bologna Policy Forum will be held on 12 March in Vienna. As most of our readers know, the Bologna Process was...
This week marks the launch of the EU’s EUROPE 2020: A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. As noted in EurActiv (‘Brussels unveils 2020 economic roadmap for Europe‘) on 3 March: The EU’s new strategy for sustainable growth and jobs, called ‘Europe 2020′, comes in the midst of the...
Further to our recent entry ‘Euro-Asia university cooperation as a means to enrich academic quality‘, Prof. Dr. Supachai Yavaprabhas kindly alerted us to the existence of three insightful videos (see below) that address the issue of regionalism and higher education in Southeast Asia. These videos were used as a resource...
Tweeting about Phoenix’s Chicago, Chicago’s Phoenix, and other matters
Over the last several months we’ve been experimenting with GlobalHigherEd’s Twitter service http://twitter.com/globalhighered. Uncertainty at first has morphed into considerable happiness with the nature of this communications medium. It is complimentary to the GlobalHigherEd weblog in that is serves as an archive of URLs (e.g., to key reports, news stories,...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Great animation: “The Chesnut Tree”
Wonderful film from 2007, by Hyun-min Lee. I found it on PBS World this weekend, and then found a YouTube version. Watch it with your young children. Filed under: animation, Cartoons, children, Video and film Tagged: animation, Cartoons, children, film, Hyun-min Lee, Mothers, The Chesnut Tree ...
How will you celebrate James Madison’s birthday? What happened to James Madison Week at JMU
James Madison's birthday is March 16! Americans should do more to commemorate his birth, and here's why....
Warming and science denialists stuck with political egg on their predictions
If they are honorable people, they wish they could take it back. John Hinderaker at Powerline, November 23, 2009: At the end of 2008, the scientists at East Anglia predicted that 2009 would be one of the warmest years on record: On December 30, climate scientists from the UK Met Office and...
Typewriter of the moment: Helen Keller
Caption from the American Foundation for the Blind: “This photograph, taken in their home, shows Helen and Polly in front of two large windows. The light is bright outside, and the curtains on the windows are pulled back. Helen is sitting at her typewriter, describing something with...
Quote of the moment: Bertrand Russell, on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, 64 years prescient
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell, The Triumph of Stupidity in Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell’s American Essays, 1931-1935 (Routledge, 1998), p. 28 With these words Russell stated, in 1935, a phenomenon observed and chronicled by Justin Kruger...
OK Go – copyright, industry change, culture and technology, and great music
You’re internet and culture savvy — you probably already know all about this stuff. OK Go’s music appeals to many. The appeal convinced a major record label, Capitol/EMI, to sign the band to a deal. OK Go worked hard to promote the music of the band, including videos. Capitol looked at...
elearnspace
I’ve been making this point for several years: You are who you know. As the study details, what we reveal about ourselves in Facebook (or similar SNS) profiles is not as critical as mining the profiles of people we list as “friends”. I may be quite discrete in our privacy...
Creation and innovation are key elements in education. Research is concerned with discovering new schemes of connectedness between entities and evaluating the validity of those connections. No where does informal research, innovation, creating, and personal agency find a greater nexus point than in the work of entrepreneurs. I’ve owned several...
Roughly everything we do online is content of some sort. Each click can be captured. Each thought expressed in digital format serves as a future connection point. The trails we leave may not have much value today, but when someone decides to analyze trails left through a data mining tool,...
Learning powered by technology
The National Education Technology Plan (.pdf) reads like a somewhat random mix of concepts that have been discussed in various blogs and forums over the last decade: connected learning, 21st century skills, data-driven improvement, learning networks, life-wide learning, etc. Nothing new here. What is new, however, is the organization publishing...
Summary: Collapsing to Connections
I’ve posted a rough summary of my talk at TEDxNYED on my connectivism site: Collapsing to Connections...
Social Media Conference: Dave Snowden
TEKRI is hosting a conference on Making Sense of Social Media in Education, Government, and the Enterprise, April 25-26 in Edmonton. Dave Snowden is our keynote speaker. We are issuing a call for presentations. Deadline is March 21. The conference will run two days – Sunday is a social media bootcamp:...
FactCheckED.org
Franking is the privilege that allows members of Congress to send official mail for free, using their signature instead of normal postage....
Topical Lesson: Oil Exaggerations
Ever notice how political speeches and ads always mention “the worst,” “the best,” “the largest,” “the most”? It’s effective to use superlatives, but it isn’t always accurate. For instance, President Barack Obama has said that “we import more oil today than ever before” – but do we? How can you...
Ever notice how political speeches and ads always mention “the worst,” “the best,” “the largest,” “the most”? It’s effective to use superlatives, but it isn’t always accurate. For instance, President Barack Obama has said that “we import more oil today than ever before” – but do we? How can you...
New Lesson: Seeing is Believing
You’ve heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but which words? What are the images we see daily – in magazines, on billboards, on TV – really trying to tell us? Pictures and other visual elements can pack a lot of rhetorical punch, enhancing verbal arguments or making...
New Lesson: Building a Better Argument
Whether it’s an ad for burger chains, the closing scene of a “Law & Order” spinoff, a discussion with the parents about your social life or a coach disputing a close call, arguments are an inescapable part of our lives. In this lesson, students will learn to create good arguments...
New Lesson: Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy
If you weigh the same as a duck, then, logically, you’re made of wood and must be a witch. Or so goes the reasoning of Monty Python’s Sir Bedevere. Obviously something has gone wrong with the knight’s reasoning – and by the end of this lesson, you’ll know exactly what...
Empowered High Schools
New Book on Advanced Placement Efficacy
Last week, Ed Week put out an important article on the efficacy of Advanced Programs across the country. I think that this is a study that merits a close look. If you have an early copy, please give us your review. I know that we are strong advocates of AP...
We will be presenting at this week’s NASSP Convention in Phoenix. We have a number of readers from around the country. If you’re there, please stop by and say hello. This will likely be our last major presentation for the school year. We have a few more webinars to...
Illinois Statewide NCLB Conference
I started my morning off by giving this morning’s keynote address at the Illinois NCLB Conference. It was a great time and our work earned some wonderfully positive feedback. It is such a blessing to be midst of such a large group of professionals who are so deeply...
Empowered High School Model Level 5 from Illinois Principals Association on Vimeo....
Empowered High School Model Level 3 - “Summative Assessments” from Illinois Principals Association on Vimeo....
Empowered High School Model Level 4 - “Formative Assessments” from Illinois Principals Association on Vimeo....
The Student Affairs Collaborative
We sure had a great week in #SAChat! If you missed any of it, catch up on all great chats here!...
TuesTally: Which statements best describe your use of Twitter?
If you cannot view this poll click here. And here are the results from the last poll....
One recent thread on the Twitter #sachat has related to the quest for something called “In Box Zero.” Out of sheer desperation for some motivation to get my e-mail life under control, I posted a challenge to readers and participants of the #sachat to see if we could motivate each...
Career Decision Making: Where Do I Go From Here? – #SACHAT Recap
How do you know when it is time to move on from your current job? Is it better stay even if you're not happy? When should I start thinking about getting my terminal degree... and do I even need it? These are just some of the topics of this...
TuesTally: How many e-mails are currently in your In Box?
If you cannot view this poll click here. And here are the results from the last poll....
Oshkosh Placement Exchange – Day 2
I’m writing this from the Oshkosh Placement Exchange. It’s day 2 here, and a bit calmer than yesterday. Yesterday was a live showing of “The All RA Floor” and it was intense. A little overwhelming when you walk in and there’s not a bare inch of wall space left uncovered...
OUPblog
Back To Engua Foo: An Excerpt From China Marine
An excerpt from China Marine....
Friday Procrastination: Link Love
What Rebecca has been reading....
China Marine: A Son’s Perspective
John Sledge reflects on his father's book....
The Oxford Companion to the Book
Taking a look at how the ebook format compares and contrasts with various book formats throughout history....
Role – Podictionary Word of the Day
The podictionary word of the week is "role."...
The Lives of the Pennine Miners
Geoff Coyle tells us about the lives of the miners who worked in the Pennines....
MBA Admissions Blog by MBA Game Plan
No More PowerPoint Presentation for Chicago Booth Applicants?
A new BusinessWeek article investigates how some schools are breaking with tradition and exploring new approaches to the MBA admissions process. Some business schools now accept the GRE in addition to the GMAT, while others are replacing traditional written essays with audio and video responses. The whole article is interestig, but...
HBS 2+2 Program Application Deadline is June 15, 2010
Earlier this week Harvard Business School has announced this year’s application deadline for the HBS 2+2 Program: June 15, 2010. Note that this is a couple of week’s earlier than last year’s deadline. On the HBS Admissions blog, Dee Leopold wrote: This is a special message to college students who have been...
Business School Get More Aggressive in Helping Grads Find Jobs
Recently the Yale Daily News featured an article titled “SOM Alumni Network Matures,” which discusses how Yale SOM students today benefit from the wide variety of Yale alumni across industries. This is not insignificant, since the school has only been around since 1976. What’s most impressive in the article is the...
Additional Things to Think About in Round 3
Last week we wrote about some important things to consider when deciding whether or not to apply to business school in Round Three, today we look at a couple of other factors to consider when planning your Round Three admissions strategy. Another key consideration is that not all MBA programs are...
Navigating Financial Aid for Business School
Maybe the only thing more challenging than getting into business school is figure out how you will pay for the experience. Many say that borrowing money to pay for school is an “investment,” and not debt, but try telling that to the loan services when they send out the monthly...
Education Perspectives
As I said in my prior post, I’m nearly finished reading “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, by Diane Ravitch. From 1991 to 1993, Diane was Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in...
As many of you know, I am not a proponent of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). NCLB is punitive and mean-spirited, and it has little if any effect on student outcomes. NCLB forces schools to focus on math, reading and standardized testing while failing to address other subjects that students...
Career Education in a New Economy
Career and technical education (CTE) in Pennsylvania is in a state of change. Much of this change is being driven by the Department of Labor and Industry in an effort to stimulate growth and to focus dollars most effectively. CTE schools will be forced to re-focus their efforts toward programs...
The Power of Career Technical Education
As you know, I’m a big proponent of career and technical education. I’ve worked in it for over 34 years, and have seen and experienced the benefits of vocational education. People involved in career education will tell you that it does not have the recognition in society it deserves. Many...
The article in the newspaper about GM Corp. initiating cultural change is significant. It tells me that US corporations finally "get it"! The old top-down, heirarchical slow-moving american corporate culture is breaking down and being replaced by a customer-centered culture where plausible risk-taking is embraced. This is the change we...
I just watched a wonderful TED Talk by Italy Talgam. A former conductor, Mr. Talgam has reinvented himself as a conductor of people in business. While viewing it, I began thinking about the ultimate facilitators and leaders of the world, teachers! With good leadership skills, teachers can become masters of...
Borderland
The title of this post is taken from Chapter 2 of Krishnamurti’s Education and the Significance of Life, which I was reminded of while reading Larry Cuban’s blog about Great Teachers: For the past quarter-century, however, policymakers and politicians have chopped, grated, and mixed together the goals of schooling into a...
Central Falls – could be ANYWHERE
“Teaching really is not a job. I don’t teach; I’m a teacher. I’m a teacher. That’s who I am.” … but, obviously, it’s a hell of a long way from Wall Street: Mr. Dimon said he did not know whether he would have taken the $25 billion that the government lent...
Millot: Sound Decision or Censorship at TWIE (V)
-Marc Dean Millot: This last post is not about This Week in Education editor Alexander Russo’s decision to pull “Three Data Points. Unconnected Dots or a Warning” because Andrew Rotherham suggested a colleague at Scholastic should make it so. It’s simply a list of my reflections on reactions to this series. Thank...
Visit length: 4 hours 21 mins 20 secs. Go figure. Let’s hear from Diane Ravitch: When someday we trace back how large segments of our public school system were privatized and how so many millions of public dollars ended up in the pockets of high-flying speculators...
After noting the disappearance of Marc Dean Millot’s post from Alexander Russo’s TWIE (Scholastic Inc) blog, I got an email from Millot asking if I’d be interested in providing him with some blog space to explain what happened. I said OK, and he says he’ll submit something here in the...
ASCD SmartBrief
Opinion: Experts weigh in on the effects of school size
Advocates and educators offer their thoughts in this New York Times blog post in response to a plan approved Wednesday to "ri -More- ...
Educator: Schools should be teaching, not blocking, social media
Author and school-technology facilitator Steve Johnson believes that schools should no longer be blocking social media becaus -More- ...
Anti-bullying measure wins approval in Massachusetts Senate
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Technology enhances science-lab courses at Alabama high school
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School in NYC's Brooklyn finds success with restructured scheduling
A Brooklyn school is finding success with an alternative-scheduling model that has educators teaching just three classes each -More- Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 "The best single book on child development. I give copies to teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents." (Principal, PA) Clear descriptions and charts of children's development from ages...
Students benefit from on-campus television studio
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This Week In Education
Innovation: What SES Was Supposed To Look Like?
A few years ago at a conference a NYC DOE guy named Joel Rose came up and said hello and told me that he'd gotten hooked on The Wire via my early and incessant blogging about it. It was and is still one of the nicest things that anyone's ever...
Media: Team-Based National AP Coverage
Used to be that you could look for pretty much one byline if you wanted to follow AP's national education coverage. Feller, Sack, Toppo, Quaid -- I'm sure I'm missing a few. But that all seems to be gone now. Quaid is gone (or soon will be) on maternity leave...
Thompson: The Science of Teaching
Elizabeth Green’s excellent "Building a Better Teacher" addresses the three (or four-legged) stool required for improving instruction. Green recounts Doug Lemov’s "content-neutral" taxonomy for instruction, and Deborah Ball’s subject-specific tactics. (The Comer Project was not mentioned, but it has been equally scientific in teaching the same strategies since 1968.)Given the...
Turnarounds: Central Falls Not The Only Drama
Central Falls teachers aren't alone in already facing layoffs in response to low performance, notes the Facebook group Teachers Letters To Obama. Other examples that are being tracked include LA's Fremont HS (here) and Philadelphia's Vaux (here). There are probably others -- or will be soon. Let us know....
USDE: Civil Rights Reviews For 30+ Districts
Is this the much-delayed return of the USDE's Office of Civil Rights Enforcement or just a little distraction to help get us through the day? Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education NYT: As part of that effort, the department intends to open investigations known as compliance reviews...
Quote: Teachers Unions React Angrily
“I ripped the Obama sticker off of my truck." Houston Federation of Teachers official Zeph Capo reacting to Central Falls in the NYT...
Education Futures
Five secrets futurists don’t want you to know
Professional futurists continue to make outstanding contributions toward the development of understandings of the future, but is futures thought limited to this select group? Definitely not! With a do-it-yourself attitude, and leverage of the right resources, anybody can become an effective futurist. Here’s why: Nobody knows the future – don’t trust...
A Swedish approach to Invisible Learning: More at Hyper Island… (Thanks to @nickygrunfeld for sharing this video.)...
The value of invisible learning
In the past two months since the announcement of the Invisible Learning project, we have received a tremendous response in Twitter and the blogosphere. (Interestingly, most of the discussion originates from Latin America and Spain — and less from the United States and Canada.) Much of the recent conversation has...
Fab Lab: Build ‘almost anything’
“The Fab Lab program has strong connections with the technical outreach activities of a number of partner organizations, around the emerging possibility for ordinary people to not just learn about science and engineering but actually design machines and make measurements that are relevant to improving the quality of their lives.”...
Noel Sharkey on the inexorable rise of robots
From Silicon.com: In this video interview, Noel Sharkey, professor of robotics and AI at the University of Sheffield, discusses developments in robotics – from the proliferation of robots in Japan’s automotive industry to the stair-climbing dexterity of Honda’s Asimo robot and beyond. He also discusses ethical issues, and in which countries we...
Next Horizon Forum roundtable: Education and the Technological Singularity
An invitation to the next Horizon Forum meeting at the University of Minnesota: Education and the Technological Singularity January 27, 2010 11:30am – 1:30pm 250 Wulling Hall (U of M East Bank) At the next Horizon Forum, you are invited to join the discussion, moderated by Arthur Harkins and John Moravec, with special guests, as...
Mark it Right
Some time ago John Reed shot me a message suggesting a post on expletive no in Spanish. It’s an interesting topic and a good one to summarize. Which no are we talking about? “Hasta que no existan precios asequibles, no habrá vuelos comerciales a la luna.” Of course, all of us who speak...
A fellow translator and twitter friend, Celine, tweeted a link to a podcast on free and open source software for translators.Well, I had a listen and decided to subscribe. The podcast is Speaking of Translation and the hosts are Eve Bodeux and Corinne McKay. I don’t know them, but I’m glad...
Here are a few new additions to the Useful tab: I’ve added a link to the reference material section called Technical English Spanish vocabulary. It’s great for engineering specs and the like. There’s also a new category for tools with a word count site that works for PDF, HTML, XML, CSV, and...
James Reed has gotten a hold of a sizable English-Spanish dictionary of business, technological, and legal terminology. It’s a PDF, so everyone should be able to download it easily. Buy it here. It’s a 2,545 page dictionary by Jaime Aguirre, each page with four columns. This dictionary is not kidding! It’s now part...
by Anna Lamont Now I thought that bum bags (fanny packs) had gone out with the Ark, but lately I’ve seen all manner of reference to them by perturbed Americans who have come to realise that in Britian, ‘fanny pack’ is not something to be said in public (and...
The 411 on Business Networking – MIR discount!
It’s official. As of a few minutes ago, The 411 on Business Networking is available. I’m rather excited. So far, the feedback from my test readers is positive. They’re using words like “fun”, “easy to digest”, and “quick reference” to describe it. You guys are going to like it. About the most...