Unit conversion in Google search is very cool. Type in “1Kg in pounds” and automatically get “1Kg = 2.2 lbs” (or something like this.) If you didn’t know, now you do.
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Jan 04
Cell Phones in the Classroom?
I’ve not used cell phones in the classroom much. (I did use cell phones in an outdoor water quality mapping project for middle school students, which worked like a charm.) But it seems way past time to talk about why this is so. Kids are cell phone natives, and most professional people today are, too. …
Dec 29
How's YOUR writing?
Facebook released data this week about how people write online (well, on Facebook.) The stats are interesting, but not very: young people talk about themselves and school more, and (editorializing) are less careful about what they say or how they say it… The real interest for me was the tool they used for gathering this …
Dec 16
Galileoscope imaging contest
NDeRC’s ASTRO collaboration has 30 Galileoscopes available for classroom use. Below is repeated a post to an astronomy program listserve from Ardis Herrold, a teacher I worked with in the NOAO/NASA Spitzer Teachers observing program. The time is quite short for two upcoming categories (ending Jan 21, 2011), but there are other, later categories, and …
Dec 14
Predictive Modeling Isn't Magic – Technology Review
Predictive Modeling Isn’t Magic – Technology Review. Here’s an interview with someone who does predictive modeling for a living. During the interview he discusses agent modeling, which models systems by creating a story in which agents interact in relatively simple ways with their neighbors and instructing a computer to calculate the net effect of many …
Dec 10
Images from CAFG at Saint Joe
The images in this slide show were taken from the Cloning a Fluorescent Gene activity at Saint Joe High. (Who knows how that image of a larger life form got in there:) Enjoy.
Dec 10
Democratizing the genome
Democratizing The Genome – Melanie Swan – H+ Summit @ Harvard View more presentations from Humanity+. My daughter Liz sent me a link to this presentation. It’s a nice illustration of the age that’s coming…that’s here. Get your data on.
Dec 09
Supercomputing 2010
Happy national computer science week. That we haven’t heard about it, or don’t much care, is some sign that computing isn’t much on our minds, at least not in popular culture or in the culture of K-12 education. My own antennae have been tuned to the need to develop computational science and engineering literacy first …
Dec 08
Data visualization: the story of global health and wealth
Data visualization is a really big deal. It always was, but the amount of data available is increasing at an accelerating pace, and thus the need for tools to represent and illuminate data is also growing ever faster. Some of those tools involve story-telling, where meaning is communicated. Some of them involve visualization technologies, in …