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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Elementary School, Watson!
An extract follows from This 8th Grade Exam From the 1930s Is Really Hard by Nikhil Swaminathan of Good Education. Earlier this week, Valerie Strauss over at The Washington Post‘s Answer Sheet blog posted an exam given to eighth grade … Continue reading
Teachers’ Education
Speed of Creativity reports a recent quote from US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: . . . Districts currently pay about $8 billion each year to teachers because they have masters’ degrees, even though there is little evidence teachers with … Continue reading
Trans Siberian Railway
Image via Wikipedia The mythical Trans Siberian Railway has always had an enormous fascination on me. A railway long 9,259 kilometres, which go through 7 time zones (seven!), and takes eight days to complete! Moscow-Vladivostok: virtual journey on Google Maps … Continue reading
Teaching in one-minute “snippets”?
Image via Wikipedia So, some days ago I posted a few tweets on a little negative gem, just published by Campus Technology. It’s an article titled “Teaching in one-minute snippets” to which I replied: “Micro-lecture 2/2: Teaching in 1-minute snippets … Continue reading
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Time travel, the Web and NCSA Mosaic
Image via Wikipedia That 12 November of 20 years ago was the day in which many ideas from hypertext research found a realistic down-to-earth version from Tim Berners-Lee, at the time an engineer at CERN, Europe’s center for nuclear research … Continue reading