Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at …
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The answer to life, the universe, web development and usability
From Jeremy Keith’s Blogpost Caveat: If you’re looking for the more honest, truthful answer to pretty much any question on web design and usability, here it is: It depends. Exactly what me and my colleagues tell our students: the solutions we give them are a solution, not the solution. And even then they might need …
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The Birth of a Word
“MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son’s life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we …