Category Archives: Education

Dawn Sanders Jordan: “Everything will be completely up from here”

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Karl

Daniel Rubin wrote about Dawn Sanders Jordan last week and I wanted to leave a post here, because someday I’m going to have to meet or write her. Go Dawn, Go!.

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Want to help grow empathy and fight self-centeredness?

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Karl

There have been more than a few reports outlining a decline of empathy, but did you know (or maybe forget that) reading literature can help you experience another person’s life through reading? A recent study found that it is true … Continue reading →

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Listen to Benjamin Herold’s report on Philadelphian HS students and college

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Karl

NewsWorks: Benjamin Herold for The Notebook and WHYY: “Fixing Philadelphia’s broken pipeline to college”. You can follow more of this report at The Philadephia Public School Notebook and take part in the comment thread there.

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“A manifesto for teaching computer science in the 21st century”

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Karl

John Naughton wrote a public set of proposals to Michael Gove, Britain’s MP, Secretary of State for Education, for rebooting its ICT curriculum and published it in The Guardian. It’s a good read. Even better, check out The Guardian’s profile … Continue reading →

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Charles Miller: “how mind-blowingly awesome that is?”

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Karl

We’ve come a long way from the 80s and the devices that so many of us started our journey as programmers Charles Miller notes in “Johnny and Jenny Can Code”: Today, if you’re a teenager with a Mac (insert some … Continue reading →

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Al Sweigart: “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Karl

Author of “Invent with Python”, Al Sweigart, makes the case for teaching programming skills while enabling children to accomplish something, like making a game, not as an end in and of itself, in “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”. … Continue reading →

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TOC 2012 Keynote To Watch: “Is SEO Killing America?”

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Karl

TOC 2012: Clay Johnson, “Is SEO Killing America?”: Related: Metafilter thread. The Information Diet

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Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Karl

Jonah Lehrer explains why it is not for reasons you may think. Belief, specifically your mindset, whether you believe you have a certain amount of intelligence and cannot do much to change it, or believe you can learn and improve … Continue reading →

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Randall Degges: “How I Learned to Program”

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Karl

Randall Degges has a great post on how he, and you, can get started programming: “How I Learned to Program”: Programming is, without a doubt, the most mentally rewarding thing I’ve ever done. Programming taught me that life should be … Continue reading →

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Is Programming The New High School Diploma?

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Karl

Daniel Markham makes the case for incorporating programming into what we consider literacy in his post “Programming is the new High School Diploma”. I’m not sure I’d go as far as he would, but this is not an idea to … Continue reading →

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