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Monthly archives: November 2010
Dr. Tae — Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning
Dr. Tae — Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning from Dr. Tae on Vimeo.
Via TechDirt: What If We Gave Toddlers An ‘F’ In Walking?
theodp writes "To improve math and science education, Physics prof Dr. Yung Tae Kim thinks professors and teachers should take a page from skateboarding. ‘The persistence and the dedication needed in skateboarding — that’s what we need to be teaching,’ explains Kim. ‘No one says to a toddler, ‘You have ten weeks to walk, and if you can’t, you get an F and you’re not allowed to try to walk anymore.’ It’s absurd, right? But the same thing is true with math and science education. If you want to learn trig or calculus, it’s set at such a pace in schools that it guarantees that only the absolutely best students will learn it.’ Kim says it’s possible to ‘polish the turd’ of high school and college education, and lays out his plan for doing so in Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning (YouTube: parts 1-2-3), a video drawn from a farewell talk he gave to his Northwestern students. There’s more on The Way of Dr. Tae at DrTae.org and PhysicsOfSkateboarding.com."
Janice Diner on Facebook Beyond The Wall
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EU Video Game Industry 2010
A good report on EU’s video game industry. Born digital, Grown digital: the European Videogames industry (2010) [PDF]. By G. De Prato, C. Feijóo, D. Nepelski, M. Bogdanowicz, J.P. Simon:
Abstract: This report reflects the findings of the JRC-IPTS study on the Video games Industry, with a focus on two specific activities: online and mobile video games. The report starts by introducing the technologies, their characteristics, market diffusion and barriers to take up, and their potential economic impact, before moving to an analysis of their contribution to the competitiveness of the European ICT industry.
The research is based on internal and external expertise, literature reviews and desk research, several workshops and syntheses of the current state of the knowledge. The results were reviewed by experts and in dedicated workshops. The report concludes that the general expectations for the next years foresee a speeded up migration of contents and services to digital, in a scenario of rapidly increasing convergence of digital technologies and integration of media services taking advantage of improved and permanent network connections. The role of the so-called creative content industry is expected to increase accordingly. Communication services and media industry will co-evolve on the playground of the Internet of services, along with a product to service transformation of the software market in general. In this general context the Video games Software industry plays and is expected to play a major role. The games industry may become a major driver of the development of networks as it has been in the past for the development of computer hardware.
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Social Media Sobriety Test from TDA_Boulder on Vimeo.
If you mix your drinks with your tweets or facebooking. This is a must for you. BTW I am perfectly sober now.