Purdue University is banning streaming services in lecture halls

Purdue University is banning streaming services in lecture halls

Students planning to catch up on “Game of Thrones” during class at Purdue University will have to find new ways to entertain themselves.   When students return from spring break Monday, they will find access to Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Pandora and other streaming services blocked in academic buildings on the West Lafayette, Ind., campus if…

For surgical residents, learning comes easier when stress is removed

For surgical residents, learning comes easier when stress is removed

University of Houston and Methodist Hospital researchers are reporting in Scientific Reports that the best way to train surgeons is to remove the stress of residency programs and make surgery a hobby. Under relaxed conditions outside a formal educational setting, 15 first-year medical students, who aspired one day to become surgeons, mastered microsurgical suturing and…

Learning hard things

Learning hard things

In the real world, there’s no textbook or curriculum. There’s no way to practice. There’s no source of continuous feedback. There are no teachers — it’s just you and whoever you can convince to help you. So how do you learn something no one can teach you? How do you become a world-class expert on something few…

{Edchat} Creating lessons by learning From ‘PAC-MAN.’

{Edchat} Creating lessons by learning From ‘PAC-MAN.’

The implication here — also evidenced by the return of vinyl records and high-quality turntables — is of a kind of back-to-basics approach and even an emotional pining for the technology of yesteryear. The message for entrepreneurs? Those looking to build or expand their software products and businesses might want to take note. Source: Developing…

Work not done

Work not done

Could be… That you don’t know what needs to be done. That you don’t know how to do what needs to be done. That you’re afraid to do what needs to be done. Source: Seth’s Blog: The work not yet done Never stop learning.

A look at mastery based learning

A look at mastery based learning

Few middle schoolers are as clued in to their mathematical strengths and weakness as Moheeb Kaied. Now a seventh grader at Brooklyn’s Middle School 442, he can easily rattle off his computational profile. “Let’s see,” he said one morning this spring. “I can find the area and perimeter of a polygon. I can solve mathematical…