Learn By Doing

A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education

Author: John Walker

  • 500 Free Courses from Great Universities

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    This just published from OpenCulture, I am looking forward to signing up for a number of these. During the past two days, our list of Free Online Movies has been getting some good exposure. And we’ve got no complaints. But while assembling the movie list, we were also busy putting together a list of 500…

  • Grad Student Wins Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge

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    "Scientists have long been criticized of their inability to communicate complex ideas adequately to the rest of society. Similar to his questions on PBS’ Scientific American Frontiers, actor Alan Alda wrote to the journal Science with a proposition called The Flame Challenge (PDF). Contestants would have to explain a flame to an eleven-year-old kid, and…

  • The Decline of STEM Education in the U.S.

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    From Teach.com comes this infographic highlighting the decline of STEM interest in the US. “If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation, if you want to make a difference in the life of a child, become a teacher. Your country needs you.” – President Obama, 2011 State of the Union…

  • Introducing Mozilla Webmaker make. learn. hack.

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    Building a generation of webmakers Mozilla Webmaker wants to help you make something amazing on the web. With TOOLS, PROJECTS and EVENTS that help you create, learn and connect. Our goal: move millions of people from using the web to actively making the web. Creating a new generation of webmakers, and a more web literate…

  • Reasons to Teach Computer Science to Every Student

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    Because when they are in court they can either look like they possess a High School education or not.  The judge got one, Oracle’s attorney didn’t even get the respect from Oracle’s programmers to explain how code works.  From Slashdot: "One month into the Oracle v Google trial, Judge William Alsup has revealed that he…