Monthly Archives: January 2011

“People always assume that if someone doesn’t know something, it’s because they haven’t paid attention or haven’t yet figured it out,” Proctor says. “But ignorance also comes from people literally suppressing truth—or drowning it out—or trying to make it so … Continue reading →

We have felt a connection with Turtle River State Park since our common involvement in a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. The GF Herald had a nice feature on the women hired to provide educational experiences at the park.

If you like to read the history of tech businesses, here is an account outlining the history of Twitter. The history also links to a book promoting the “140 character” writing style. Hmm.. Notice the “history” required more than 140.

We were caught up in the OLPC project and bought one in the original buy one / give one deal. The program did appear to suffer from a sense of direction. First it was for developing countries and then a … Continue reading →

This online summary (note that it is itself a brief summary with an illustration) of a JEdPsych article by Clark, Nguyen & Sweller appears to demonstrate that when instructional materials with less text are comparied with a comparable lesson with … Continue reading →

People interested in science often have experiences in their childhood that predict their adult interests. There is reference to this in “Outliers”. I came across a Ted Talk that describes the same phenomenon on a personal level (when did the … Continue reading →