The defense rests.
If you're this tired, where do you get the energy to blow up the pillow?
If you're this tired, where do you get the energy to blow up the pillow?
If you're this tired, where do you get the energy to blow up the pillow?
If you're this tired, where do you get the energy to blow up the pillow?
My thoughts on the implications of the Demi Moore 911 call.
Apparently, the author of this glowing five-star review doesn't realize that the brand-name Ivy League schools have a horrible reputation for instruction. The classroom lectures are often led by assistants who may or may not have a knack for inspiration or explanation. The more famous and celebrated professors are involved in research projects and in a race to publish.
Maybe the true benefit of this iTunes U will be the incentive for those reclusive and absent professors to return to the classroom, at least for that one session that is televised.Yes, I will be a “utility in-fielder” for the next few days.
I’m speaking Thursday at the UCI Winter Workshop in Memphis, with a look at how we strategically employ social media at Alabama Power for storm communications.
I’ll close out January in Ft. Lauderdale at another industry gathering for Conferences Connect, to talk about that case study as a prelude to moving customer service into the mix.
Join me if you can…
Motivated students succeed, but since every student is different and every student has a different way to learn best, unless we can design an individual curriculum for each kid, the system won’t be optimized.
My kids go to the best public school in Sonoma County. I know that because I chose my house based on that research. But when Cole finishes his math problems in a quarter the time it takes anyone else in the class, his teacher has him insert a wait state by putting his head down on his desk. Conversely, when some other kid never quite gets the problem set finished, ever, well he/she never gets a rest and never masters the material, either.
The current system is unfair to both kids.
The only solution I can see is one teacher per student. And the only way something close to that is going to happen is through technology. And it’s coming.
This is from a very good Cringely column about why technology has not yet transformed education like "The Jetsons Generation" would have hoped.
He refers to children being put into a "wait state" -- which is the best description I've heard for that.
A Wait State is the temporary shutdown of a circuit, a chip, or a process to allow for other necessary pieces to catch up. When a computer program is functioning, the overall process only goes as fast as the slowest link. In many cases, it might be the speed or bandwidth of the internet connection. In others, it might be a program has a dialogue box open, and you have to click "Ok" for it to continue.
I hate to imagine how much of my childrens' school day is spent waiting for others -- and how much more they could be doing if they could read ahead, or explore, or feed their curiosity to keep those "wait state cycles" from becoming wait state waste.
No wonder homeschooling looks so attractive. The average child is really only thinking or processing for about 90-120 minutes a day, and a determined and motivated child could knock out an entire week's worth of "learning" within a single day.
Isaac Pigott // We all communicate.
Sometimes, I get paid for it.
My big thoughts are at Occam's Razr.
My little thoughts are at Twitter.
This is a good place for the
things that fall in between.
