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I’ve been playing around with cognitive disfluency in slide design for my class lately, trying to solve a conundrum. The problem is this — we know from research that reading materials that introduce “desirable difficulties” (such as presenting information in a difficult to read font) are recalled better than reading materials with a cleaner, more Continue reading
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From A. N. Whitehead’s An Introduction to Mathematics, a brilliant early reflection on what we now see as a System 1/System 2 problem: “It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise Continue reading
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From Obama’s 2012 campaign blog. I am glad to see them standing up for what they accomplished here instead of running from it. This is truly something that the administration should be proud of. guardian: Photograph: Brian J. Clark/AP Two women share historic kiss at US Navy ship’s return For the first time since the Continue reading
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utnereader: The New York City crime rate famously plummeted in the mid-1990s under the watch of police chief William Bratton, who introduced a computerized mapping system called CompStat to help cops track crime hot spots. He later took the system to Los Angeles, where once again crime plunged. CompStat is now used nationwide, reports Miller-McCune, Continue reading
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I don’t think you can call it remediation anymore when 1/3 of your students require it. At some point the problem is not the students or the high schools, but that we’ve built a higher education system based on false assumptions about who our students are and what they have when they get here. Our Continue reading
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From Klein’s The student debt crisis in one chart (article here) Continue reading
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Inequality and economic growth. From the IMF, which I hope is using this to rethink its approach… Continue reading
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Leisure Leaf-Diving with fam unit, on a fine New England autumn weekend. Continue reading
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EdCamp Keene 2011 T-Shirts. Thanks Tim & Nicole, they look great! Continue reading
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Minutes after I read Winer’s “everyone should run their own webserver” piece, I get this. I think sometimes we’re crazy people, driving old cars we repair ourselves, telling people how easy and cheap it is to maintain that 1993 Diesel BMW with the Fryolator oil-burning mod and the homemade solar charger. I’m actually really sick Continue reading
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