Making better progress reading "Design for How People Learn", a book about teaching I bought last week. I need to suggest it to people in the office; it has some very approachable material for writing online courses ( Read more... )

My friend John was nice enough to give me the second card on his membership at the Museum of Flight. This weekend, on short notice, they had A-10s and F-18s showing up. We never saw the F-18s, but we managed to see the A-10s before they headed out.


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Two pages of note:

An Index to Creationist Claims (systematically demolishing the arguments Creationism uses against evolution)

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters

Not sure what I can say that he hasn't already said ( Read more... )

So instead of our normal gaming tonight, we all went to a reading/writing program for iamnikchick's daughter. All of the kids got up on stage and read something that they had written ( Read more... )

I don't even know what to write under this topic, but i see it all the time.

Case in point, last night in WOW, some loser kid saying "no one cares about history." Huh?

Anyone want to throw me a bone as to why some people feel that being undereducated is a good thing?

Ganked from Slashdot.

http://paulgraham.com/hs.html

This falls into that category of "Education, why our current system doesn't work all that well."