Have you ever taken a standardized test in your life that you thought properly measured the skill it was trying to test? Ever in your daily work found yourself thinking, “Wow! This job is just like that test I took in high school!”? Unless you make your living as a Mechanical Turk, probably not. Standardized [...]
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Blogged essays, twittering professors, personalized robotic tutors, and other technological pixie dust are all wonderful, but before asking what are the appropriate technologies for a better education system, we must understand when and how students learn. I’ve asked myself this question over the past few weeks and here’s what I’ve come up with. When I [...]
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Day 0: Do I Need to Wear Pants? When a group of researchers at ISI invited me to come climb a glacier with them, I had very little preconception of what that actually meant. I tend to be naive about challenges, thinking, “oh boy, that sounds like fun!” long before “wait, how am I actually [...]
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