May 2013
8 posts
“He expects students to familiarize themselves with the information beforehand so...”
– Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught
““Imagine two students sitting next to one another, Mary and John. Mary has the...”
– Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught
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“If you look at what’s happening in the introductory classes, even at the best...”
– What Drives College Students to Learn? | MindShift
“Students have to be active in developing their knowledge,” says Hestenes. “They...”
– What Drives College Students to Learn? | MindShift
““I think what many students in their introductory physics courses do is they...”
– What Drives College Students to Learn? | MindShift
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“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
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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...
April 2013
11 posts
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“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
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“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
“You might also ask “What is reality?” Perhaps it’s not the nature of the object...”
– Inventing Abstraction at MOMA - The Huffington Post
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“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
“A master theoretician more often than a masterful poet, Mallarmé pushed...”
– Friday Pick: “The Poems In Verse,” By Stephane Mallarme « B O D Y
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“Time and time again, implementing my ideas has forced me to understand them...”
– Why I still program
“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
“even given radical differences between games that attempt veracity and those...”
– Little Big Metaphor: On the Promise of Video Games | Scrawled in Wax
“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
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March 2013
9 posts
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Watch(via Video: The Art of Creative Coding | Watch Off Book Online | PBS Video)
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“a problem tackled through correlations alone lends itself to a very different...”
– Imprisoned by Innovation - NYTimes.com
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“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...
“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
“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
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“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)
“As a mathematician, I had done nothing special, nothing unusual. It was an...”
– Devlin’s Angle: What is mathematical thinking?
“In many cases, the real value of being a mathematical thinker, both to the...”
– Devlin’s Angle: What is mathematical thinking?
“Mathematical thinking is a whole way of looking at things, of stripping them...”
– Devlin’s Angle: What is mathematical thinking?
February 2013
13 posts
4 tags
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“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)]
“Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times,” Ocean said to me as we...”
– Frank Ocean Can Fly - NYTimes.com
“They made use of every technique they could think of: for the ominous strings on...”
– Frank Ocean Can Fly - NYTimes.com
“They made use of every technique they could think of: for the ominous strings on...”
– Frank Ocean Can Fly - NYTimes.com
“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
“Memes have not yet found their Watson and Crick,” said Dawkins; “they even lack...”
– What Defines a Meme? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
“the three researchers set out to use the letters as a “test bed” for algorithms...”
– What Defines a Meme? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
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“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
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“The core purpose of a great lecturer is not primarily to transmit information…...”
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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)
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“the process of research is inseparable from the physical process of exploration...”
– The Library as a Map | Contents Magazine
(via Andrew Spittle)
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“Words and phrases are fundamental building blocks of language and culture, much...”
– The Origins of ‘Big Data’: An Etymological Detective Story - NYTimes.com
January 2013
10 posts
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“Amazon, as best I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements...”
– Amazon Q4 profits fall 45 percent.
(via Kottke)
“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
“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
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“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
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“This isn’t some standard polemic about “those stupid walled-garden...”
– The Web We Lost - Anil Dash
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“I am of the school of encouraging people toward their ultimate polymath...”
– Legacy Russell (via blackcontemporaryart)
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“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) 