Author: John Walker
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Dr. Bror Saxberg – TEDxSF – Demystifying the Human Mind
Always interesting to think about why we are and what we are about.
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How I Teach Computer Programming
I disagree that the points in the article below, from Eduptopia, are indeed a way to radically transform how we teach computer programming. Why? I do many of these things and always have. JANUARY 25, 2013 Photo credit: bionicteaching via flickr Today, there is a grassroots movement for teaching programming languages to kids. Some…
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Data Could Change Teaching
Andrianes Pinantoan, who is employed by Australian online school OpenColleges (formerly Cengage Education), wrote up a good summary of learning analytics for Edudemic. Pinantoan wrote: According to Educause (PDF), learning analytics is “the use of data and models to predict student progress and performance, and the ability to act on that information”. It differs from…
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How Smart is Portland About Innovations in Learning?
I was researching innovations in education and found a review of Portland and Innovations in Learning by Tom Vander Ark and Sarah Cargill on Getting Smart. It was an interesting piece of what is going on in the pockets, while little appears in the main stream of many Districts and Schools. Frankly, with the the changes…