Author: John Walker
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Building a More Modern Course
I came across this article Building An App In 45 Minutes With Meteor By Sacha Greif and I can’t help but wonder about using it in a class this year. Why not? Indeed. Please read the original post, much better conversation, links, serendipitous continuity. I have captured the article below as I want to use…
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Open Badges: 2014 Goal for Professional Development
My goal this year is to leverage ‘Open Badges’ at the high school level to demonstrate where a student may acquire a skill. This update in. The NYTimes post was too old so I include a more relevant piece from yesterday on GettingSmart, one caution on all of this is that this process is just…
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Immersion: A People-Centric View of your Email Life
What is Immersion? It has been almost two decades since the beginning of the web. This means that the web is no longer just a technology of the present, but also, a record of our past. Email, one of the original forms of social media, is even older than the web and contains a detailed…
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How Little Math Americans Actually Use at Work
From The Atlantic, not that blue-collar workers generally do more advanced math than their white-collar counterparts. I am not suggesting all of CTE is targeted at blue-collar jobs anymore; however, it is interesting that those students often think that math is less important to them. Remember sitting through high school math class while the teacher…