Most people remember HAL, the AI embedded in the spaceship of 2001, a Space Odyssey. This movie debuted twelve years later and showed how AI could be a force of evil. Few who saw it will forget the creepy voice of HAL (notably one letter apiece short of IBM alphabetically). I probably...
To give you a sense of how your poems might look, and to hopefully give you much room to improve upon, here are two of my worst attempts at this exercise (for humor's sake, it's best to read these aloud in the sincerest voice you can muster): Boom story Simple reason hides the o...
Two articles: Time to Push the Ed Reform Pendulum Sideways by Harry Keller and The Teacher’s Voice Is Missing by Bonnie Bracey Sutton Is ‘Technology Expert’ an Oxymoron? by Harry Keller In Learning Design, Pedagogy First, Medium Second by Tom Preskett Administrators Don’t Have Time to Kee...
We create institutions that can counter the power and land and money, and can give the powerless a voice, as in trade unions, as well as the power of the government to regulate, with the SEC. To tame, to regulate, to control this new form of economic tyranny. The solution, to fulfill...
The camera zeroed in on a girl with fairytale blond hair and blue half-moons beneath her eyes, just the kind of child they’d televise to get you to open up your wallet. “Claire Nealon,” the reporter’s voiceover said, “is waiting for a heart.” Boo hoo, I thought. Everyone...
As Dr. Alloway says on her web site, “Cutting-edge research has shown that working memory—the ability to store and manipulate information—is the most important learning skill a child can have. Working memory is the foundation of good grades and a successful life beyond the classroom. ...
we forget that measurability is a primitive gauge and that we really don’t know how to measure the higher order variables in writing such as the importance of one’s genuine voice in developing writing skills and the value of courage in exploring new forms of expression. Overreliance on com...