Explaining the square root of i in the most pleasant way – The Joy of Mathematics
Ok mathematics people, how is it?
My favorite line, “Just beat the Euler out of it…”
Stop educating students for jobs that won’t exist The robots are coming – and they may put your friendly neighborhood retail staffer out of work. Home-improvement superstore Lowe’s recently began employing robot sales assistants in some of its stores. The robots can answer questions in multiple languages and take customers directly to what they’re looking…
Source: Write an If-Then Adventure Story – Applied Digital Skills If you haven’t realized, I like interactive fiction (IF) and have written several posts on creating IF. Someone at Google likes is to because Google has created an entire lesson plan on creating IF in Google Slides. Although it is broken up into 4 lessons,…
Stuffy offices can halve cognitive scores The best way to tackle a tough task at work may be to crack a window and breathe deep. Compared with inhaling fresh air, gulping down the stale air found in conventional office buildings can stifle cognitive function by half, researchers report in Environmental Health Perspectives. The finding suggests…
OMG SPACE This project is only possible with the infinite scale of the web. To do this in print, one would have to sacrifice either distance or size in order to make it a feasible print job, which is why many textbooks unfortunately fail to illustrate the scale of the solar system accurately. All the…
So You Want to Drive Instruction With Digital Badges? Start With the Teachers While badging for students shows real promise, a partnership between the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and VIF International Education demonstrates that in the short run the best approach to scaling digital badging is not to focus on students, but on their teachers….
#LearningIs making | Learning with ‘e’s Learning where children create meaningful products, Nick said, is a more powerful way of learning, because they need to negotiate the problems and challenges as they develop their skills to make. This echoes the work of Seymour Papert who argued that the best kinds of learning occur when children…