Rethinking Education
Nicely presented video by Dr. Michael Wesch Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at KSU.
Physics, Math and Tech Toys
Great photos from Dan Meyer. It is really interesting to see how he made the images. The quote below the images is from Dan’s comments to the blog post.
I shot the video from a Flip cam mounted to a tripod. I exported the video at 15 fps (I think) to jpg images, which I imported into Photoshop, where I masked out everything but the basketballs and the birds in each frame. In the final frame, I also included myself chasing the ball.
That’s it. These skills are difficult at first but they become very very easy. I realize hardware and software are expensive but I highly recommend the Adobe Creative Suite to math teachers. An ability to use Photoshop and AfterEffects to manipulate images and video has made a much better math teacher out of me. It’s made the job more fun also.
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
I used the category “All Your Base Are Belong To US” in my previous post, so here is a youtube video that gives quite a thorough explanation of the meme:
Moms Panicking about the Apocalypse
Lots of folks are at the very least somewhat uncomfortable in our wired world. These feelings of discomfort are really apparent when people start to think about the future and in particular their children’s future. This NYT article and the articles it references (from BrainChild, from Babble) at the same time yearn for and fear a more simple future.
"Hello world!"
Parenting my two girls has given me the opportunity to revisit life from a new perspective. Since I am still me, this is admittedly a tech/math/science geek’s perspective.
