In this blog post I would like to walk through my thoughts about how the nature of remote teaching will have to change my curriculum and instructional design. I would like to cover the same basic concepts: namely photo-editing and game design introducing elementary programming procedures. Starting...
When teaching coding I like to start each lesson, or punctuate a lesson with a “live coding” session where we go over possible approaches to a problem, and I can introduce programming concepts such as variables, loops, or functions. So, as luck would have it, I had very few videos to...
when leaders make decisions, the consequences actually can be wide-ranging. The failure by leaders, they point out, “can lead to devastating results,” such as firing the wrong person, backing a cause that fails, or—like Gladwell—supporting an idea that later is shown to be false. ...
Dr. Stanley Coren, a noted psychologist and dog expert, recently wrote a column about thedoodle craze. His take on the popularity of these “designer mutts” that are all some other breed crossed with a poodle, is that people believe all poodle-cross pups to be “hypoallergenic,” or “ha...
S: Take a career aptitude test because “career aptitude test” is mentioned again and again, and there is a career aptitude test example, and a chart showing the test results. Q2: How many paragraphs cover the key advi...
Their thinking was what the cognitive psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer likes to call "fast and frugal." They simply took a look at that statue and some part of their brain did a series of instant calculations, and before any kind of conscious thought took place, they felt something, just like ...
Psychologist David Dunning explains it bluntly: “An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel.” It’s filled with information — all the “life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches” — our brain indiscriminately uses ...
often perform better on tasks which tap into their social propensities. Consistent with this idea is the fact that chicks also have a preference for approaching a point-light stimulus moving in a more biologically natural way, i.e., like a walking hen, than the same lights randomly moving, ...