Using Research to Predict Great Teachers →
It’s like Moneyball for teachers.
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And I want to be able to argue on my show that Obama’s stimulus created zero jobs.
Doonesbury continues exploring information silos with its “myFacts” series.
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The Open Textbook Challenge
Each year US college students spend about $1,000 on textbooks.
The Saylor Foundation wants to change this by providing free and open textbooks that can be used throughout an undergraduate education.
To do so they’ve launched the Open Textbook Challenge and offer $20,000 prizes to authors who create Creative Commons licensed textbooks in topics ranging from art history to business management to mechanical engineering.
For authors, the next round of grants and prizes closes May 31. Information about submitting material is here.
For students, petition your professors (and schools) to start using these materials.
Image: Screenshot from Elementary Linear Algebra (PDF) from Open Textbook Challenge winner Kenneth Kuttler of Brigham Young University.
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The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover connections that, even if obvious, seem to escape detection. Imagination begins with intuition, not intellect.
— Iconic designer and legendary curmudgeon Paul Rand on the role of the imagination. (via curiositycounts)
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It’s not ‘content then design’, or ‘content or design’. It’s ‘content and design’.
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Honeywell goes after Nest Learning Thermostat for patent infringement | The Verge →
If you can patent the use of complete sentences while programming something our patent system is fucking broken.
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Filmmaker Temujin Doran, of The Art of Protest and Market Maketh Man fame, on how politicians use historical revisionism as a tool for campaigning.
