Room to Read
january 2012 by amy
"the world change starts with educated children"
books
charity
education
literacy
january 2012 by amy
The New Inquiry - The History of Dialogue: Other People's Papers
june 2011 by amy
This is a dialogue between Teach, an adjunct philosophy instructor at a public university in New York, and Cheat, who has authored over 100 papers for pay.
academia
education
june 2011 by amy
Hackety Hack!
december 2010 by amy
Simple on-ramp to Ruby. RT @hackernewsbot Want to learn programming?
ruby
education
programming
from twitter_favs
december 2010 by amy
Teachers as Makers - O'Reilly Radar
december 2010 by amy
.@dalepd tells how hands-on learning can help teach writing Important #education insight. #DIY informs any subject
#education
#DIY
education
DIY
from twitter
december 2010 by amy
President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters - Slashdot
december 2010 by amy
President Obama to appear on Mythbusters tonight: #science #education
#science
#education
science
education
from twitter
december 2010 by amy
The New York Times > Log In
november 2010 by amy
Useful perspective: "Bring back boredom." Early part of the article not as good as the later. #education #neuroscience
#neuroscience
#education
neuroscience
education
from twitter
november 2010 by amy
The New York Times > Log In
november 2010 by amy
Singapore math takes it more slowly: concrete, pictorial, abstract. Interesting #education approach
#education
education
from twitter
november 2010 by amy
About Startl | Startl
september 2010 by amy
"We founded Startl to pave the way for cool new digital media learning products to move from idea to funding and into learners’ hands. We’re working outside the established systems in a public-private partnership to break new ground in the education market and help to launch the next generation of digital tools for learning. "
education
technology
september 2010 by amy
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Inside the Brain of a Five-Year-Old
september 2010 by amy
Claudia Hammond investigates the latest research into the working of the five year old brain, and asks whether the latest developments in neuroscience might have an application in the classroom.
neuroscience
education
cognition
september 2010 by amy
Human Connectome Project |
september 2010 by amy
The Human Connectome Project - v. cool: data, workflows, derived data and visualizations available "to freely download"
neuroscience
education
visualizations
september 2010 by amy
The Big Picture: What are we making in school? - O'Reilly Radar
august 2010 by amy
Love the concept of "thinkering" - learning by tinkering and making. #education
#education
education
from twitter
august 2010 by amy
Waiting for Superman | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
august 2010 by amy
Steve Jurvetson speaks highly of the movie Waiting for Superman. Looks like a must see #education
#education
education
from twitter
august 2010 by amy
YouTube - JOHN CLEESE WCF
august 2010 by amy
RT @newsycombinator: Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity. (via @jlanzone)
videos
cognition
creativity
education
from twitter_favs
august 2010 by amy
Google Code University - Google Code
march 2010 by amy
This website provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes.
The Courses section contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas:
AJAX Programming
Algorithms
Distributed Systems
Web Security
Languages
programming
tutorials
google
development
education
The Courses section contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas:
AJAX Programming
Algorithms
Distributed Systems
Web Security
Languages
march 2010 by amy
E-textbooks: The New Best-sellers - Knowledge@Wharton
march 2010 by amy
E-textbooks: The New Best-sellers - good look at their impact on the educational sector #ebooks #education
#ebooks
#education
ebooks
education
from twitter_favs
march 2010 by amy
CourseWiki - cs448b - Data Visualization
october 2009 by amy
Stanford course in data visualization
education
statistics
datamining
visualizations
from delicious
october 2009 by amy
Givology: About
october 2009 by amy
Givology partners with leading grassroots non-profit organizations, local communities, and schools to sponsor education grants and innovative community-based education projects. Through our website, you can support these initiatives and scholarships.
charity
education
world
from delicious
october 2009 by amy
Next Test - Value of $125,000-a-Year Teachers - NYTimes.com
june 2009 by amy
interesting experiment
education
society
june 2009 by amy
College funding bill passed with anti-P2P provisions intact
august 2008 by amy
The Senate and House have voted to reauthorize the Higher Education Act and approved controversial new provisions that will require universities to provide students with access to commercial music downloading services and implement traffic filtering technologies in order to deter peer-to-peer filesharing. The bill now goes to President Bush, who is expected to sign it into law.
education
politics
law
music
p2p
ack
august 2008 by amy
Richard Felder's Education-Related Publications
may 2008 by amy
list of resources on teaching tips
education
tips
may 2008 by amy
Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - music: Andras Schiff on Beethoven
february 2008 by amy
The lectures given by Andras Schiff on Beethoven's piano sonatas in May were electrifying - and sold out. Now you can listen to them all here.
audio
education
music
podcast
february 2008 by amy
Pharyngula: The state of Texas
january 2008 by amy
Steven Schafersman is the president of Texas Citizens for Science, and he sent along a status report for Texas — it's not all bad news, and of course it's always good to see a strong, active organization defending science in the state. I've put the full
texas
science
education
january 2008 by amy
Remarks of Bill Gates — The Harvard University Gazette
september 2007 by amy
Harvard Commencement speech from 2007
activism
philanthropy
academia
education
philosophy
september 2007 by amy
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