Charles Severance: Why Program?
Charles Severance‘s Python for Everybody is “the most popular programming course in the world, since 2014.” The course is completely free – and re-useable and… Read More »Charles Severance: Why Program?
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Recommendation: Better Explained with Kalid Azad
I recently came across Kalid Azad’s Better Explained, and recommend that you check it out. It’s a fantastic resource in itself, and has lots of… Read More »Recommendation: Better Explained with Kalid Azad
Resource recommendation: online card-sorting game maker from Flippity
Flippity.net has a load of clever templates that turn Googlesheets into various educational things. We’ve just used the “Manipulatives” template to make this card-sorting game… Read More »Resource recommendation: online card-sorting game maker from Flippity
Seth Godin on good teachers
Here’s the secret, I think: teaching is empathy.If you have a bad teacher, who is strict for no reason, who says “there will be a… Read More »Seth Godin on good teachers
Podcast recommendation: Econtalk – Andy Matuschak on Why Books Don’t Work
This is a fantastic interview that takes Andy Matuschak‘s controversially titled essay as a springboard for a not-really-controversial but fascinating discussion of teaching, learning and… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Econtalk – Andy Matuschak on Why Books Don’t Work
Machine. Ecosystem. (8) – classrooms as complex adaptive systems
Planning is essential in education, but it’s easy to fall into the habit of treating your session plan or presentation as a set of inputs… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (8) – classrooms as complex adaptive systems
Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
… producing books with ease on Gutenberg’s press did not fully unleash text. Real literacy also required a long list of innovations and techniques that… Read More »Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
Learning between the lines
You can’t ever just teach one thing. Whether we like it or not there’s always other stuff going on: we’re teaching what we think of our students,… Read More »Learning between the lines
“How do I take these thoroughbreds and turn them into a team?”
Getting a team together? Start building it before you’re even in the room. Kathy Delaney-Smith is the coach of the Harvard woman’s basketball team… A… Read More »“How do I take these thoroughbreds and turn them into a team?”
Learning
Here’s a theory of learning: A person**… meets something new… has some kind of interaction with it… and is changed in some way. I think… Read More »Learning