May 2013
8 posts
“He expects students to familiarize themselves with the information beforehand so...”
– Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught
May 9th
““Imagine two students sitting next to one another, Mary and John. Mary has the...”
– Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught
May 9th
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3 tags
May 9th
“If you look at what’s happening in the introductory classes, even at the best...”
– What Drives College Students to Learn? | MindShift
May 9th
“Students have to be active in developing their knowledge,” says Hestenes. “They...”
– What Drives College Students to Learn? | MindShift
May 9th
““I think what many students in their introductory physics courses do is they...”
– What Drives College Students to Learn? | MindShift
May 9th
1 tag
“he explains how imagination provides the lights and colors in a darkened world....”
– William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ at His Work - NYTimes.com
May 6th
1 tag
What Do You LOVE? (Outside of Journalism)
ona13suggestionbox: Description As journalists, we usually tell other people’s stories. But we want to hear stories about what our fellow journalists are interested in beyond their work. Where do you look for inspiration outside of news? Let’s step back and reflect on these passions. Let’s talk about what we love outside of the newsroom and how those interests can better inform our work. Read...
May 2nd
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April 2013
11 posts
1 tag
“Science is a philosophy, it’s questioning the world around you,” she said. “It’s...”
– Robots, biofuel, whiz kids at the White House Science Fair - The Washington Post
Apr 23rd
2 tags
“Heather Champ, who worked with me on Flickr, once said that “what you tolerate...”
– Perfect Strangers: The Generosities and the Pitfalls of Virtual Communities | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
Apr 19th
“You might also ask “What is reality?” Perhaps it’s not the nature of the object...”
– Inventing Abstraction at MOMA - The Huffington Post
Apr 17th
1 note
1 tag
“readers should not define reading as the act of divining an author’s intents....”
– Questions about The Fault in Our Stars (SPOILERS!) via Brigid Slipka from Snarkmarket Seminar week on Worldbuilding led by Matt Thompson
Apr 17th
1 note
“A master theoretician more often than a masterful poet, Mallarmé pushed...”
– Friday Pick: “The Poems In Verse,” By Stephane Mallarme « B O D Y
Apr 15th
2 tags
Apr 11th
“Time and time again, implementing my ideas has forced me to understand them...”
– Why I still program
Apr 10th
“By producing arenas in which players can act out stories and invent their own,...”
– Little Big Metaphor: On the Promise of Video Games | Scrawled in Wax
Apr 9th
“even given radical differences between games that attempt veracity and those...”
– Little Big Metaphor: On the Promise of Video Games | Scrawled in Wax
Apr 9th
“video games don’t try and recreate the world we know; they reference it in order...”
– Little Big Metaphor: On the Promise of Video Games | Scrawled in Wax
Apr 9th
2 tags
Apr 3rd
March 2013
9 posts
3 tags
WatchWatch
(via Video: The Art of Creative Coding | Watch Off Book Online | PBS Video)
Mar 26th
1 tag
“a problem tackled through correlations alone lends itself to a very different...”
– Imprisoned by Innovation - NYTimes.com
Mar 26th
1 tag
“To those who argue programming is an essential skill we should be teaching our...”
– Excerpt: “The potential of more people learning to code (I mean: script) is not that they change their careers and become developers. It’s about amplifying your current work with tools you build just for you. Less rote work, done more quickly, with more time spent solving creative problems and...
Mar 13th
6 notes
“definitive or delightful or interesting”
– http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-digital-editor-2013/273763/ Good, concise set of criteria for journalism
Mar 8th
“Pixar’s biggest competitive advantage now is its ability to use this math-driven...”
– Pixar’s Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love | The Verge
Mar 8th
1 tag
“Business people vote with their dollars, and are mostly trying to create...”
– What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years - Chris Dixon (via Cody Brown)
Mar 7th
“As a mathematician, I had done nothing special, nothing unusual. It was an...”
– Devlin’s Angle: What is mathematical thinking?
Mar 5th
“In many cases, the real value of being a mathematical thinker, both to the...”
– Devlin’s Angle: What is mathematical thinking?
Mar 5th
“Mathematical thinking is a whole way of looking at things, of stripping them...”
– Devlin’s Angle: What is mathematical thinking?
Mar 5th
February 2013
13 posts
4 tags
Feb 25th
1 note
2 tags
Feb 19th
“we are smarter in our differences than we ever could be when truth was a...”
– [Joho the Blog » 2b2k The public ombudsman (or Facts don’t work the way we want)]
Feb 17th
“Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times,” Ocean said to me as we...”
– Frank Ocean Can Fly - NYTimes.com
Feb 15th
“They made use of every technique they could think of: for the ominous strings on...”
– Frank Ocean Can Fly - NYTimes.com
Feb 15th
“They made use of every technique they could think of: for the ominous strings on...”
– Frank Ocean Can Fly - NYTimes.com
Feb 15th
“making sure employees are cross-trained so no one person knows only his or her...”
– Landmark family leave law doesn’t help millions of workers - The Washington Post
Feb 12th
“Memes have not yet found their Watson and Crick,” said Dawkins; “they even lack...”
– What Defines a Meme? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
Feb 10th
“the three researchers set out to use the letters as a “test bed” for algorithms...”
– What Defines a Meme? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
Feb 10th
1 tag
“With enough data and a good model, the system could be used to give early...”
– Researchers want to predict disasters by mining New York Times archives | The Verge
Feb 4th
2 tags
“The core purpose of a great lecturer is not primarily to transmit information…...”
–  notational: Richard Gunderman makes a case against the alleged death of the lecture as an education format. What he argues for instead is reminiscent of Alain de Botton’s notion of the secular sermon.  (via explore-blog) (via Robin Sloan on Snarkmarket)
Feb 3rd
175 notes
2 tags
“the process of research is inseparable from the physical process of exploration...”
– The Library as a Map | Contents Magazine (via Andrew Spittle)
Feb 2nd
1 tag
“Words and phrases are fundamental building blocks of language and culture, much...”
– The Origins of ‘Big Data’: An Etymological Detective Story - NYTimes.com
Feb 2nd
189 notes
January 2013
10 posts
1 tag
“Amazon, as best I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements...”
– Amazon Q4 profits fall 45 percent. (via Kottke)
Jan 30th
“Google and Facebook have taught me that content’s worth may not be intrinsic but...”
– Learning the true value of content from Aaron Swartz — BuzzMachine
Jan 14th
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“The costs of sticking with the default model in trust production are visible and...”
– Mounting costs for the default model of trust production in American newsrooms » Pressthink
Jan 9th
2 tags
Jan 7th
1 tag
Jan 7th
1 tag
“Typescripts that used to be cut, pasted and blue-penciled are spotlessly digital...”
– As Trash Goes, Authors’ Clutter In the Right Hands Is Very Bankable - WSJ.com via Jeremy Singer-Vine
Jan 6th
1 tag
“This isn’t some standard polemic about “those stupid walled-garden...”
– The Web We Lost - Anil Dash
Jan 6th
1 note
1 tag
“I am of the school of encouraging people toward their ultimate polymath...”
– Legacy Russell  (via blackcontemporaryart)
Jan 6th
492 notes
2 tags
“He is, on the contrary, seized by the conviction that science is beset by sloppy...”
– The Data Vigilante - Christopher Shea - The Atlantic (via Hilary Mason)
Jan 5th